Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-08-31
grey powder, which, as s he held it
up to the light, looked like black

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: lead
wv puld you be able to swear t
the bottle if you saw it"
It 'Cer rtailny ] should
+ BY what mark or tokenfP
/ The name Of Valpy CT Wulpy wa
e cast into it-that is the name tha
if was in the glass itself
j. Is this it?'
lit isl swear most positively
: A letter was also read which ha
been taken from Bourdon's pocket
1t was much creased, aud proved t
: be in the handwriting Of Mis-. Armi
tage. 1t consisted of a severe re
buke at the young mans Presump
3 ton in seeking to address binlsel
to her daughter; which ins plent in
) gratitude the writer SAID she woule
Hnever, while she lived, eithHr forge
or forgive. The last sentence wa:
strongly underlined, in different ink
! from that used by the writer Of the
i. letter.
| The surgeon deposed to t E cause
| of DEATH 1t had been brought on
by the action of iodine, viii eh, adj
4 ministered in certain quantities., pro-
duced symptoms as of rapid atrophy,
such as had appeared in Mrs. Arml-
tage. The glass bottle found in the
recess, contained iodine in a pulver-
lied state.
| deposed that on entering the Ii
brary on the previous event Ing. I
overheard young Mr.. Bourdoh, al-
dressing his mother, say; NOV that
lit is done past recall, l vii not
shrink from any consequences, be
they what they may!'
This was the substance of tn E evil
dence adduced; and the magi4 4trate
at once committed Alfred Boqrdon'
to Chelmsford Jail, to take his trI Ial at
the next assize, for 'wilful murdd r.
A coroner's inquisition,1a few days
after, also returned n veT'lict OF will
ful murder r against him on the same
evidence.
About hn hour after his commi ttal,
and just previous to the nrriva OF
the vehicle which was to convey him
to the Cd unity Jail, Alfred Bour rdon
requested an interview with me. i
very reluctantly consented, but
steeled as | was against him, CO onld
not help feeling dreadfnlIy shocked at
the change which SO brief an inter-
val had wrought upon him. 1t had
done the work of years. Despair FL
black, utter despair, was written in
every linaament Of his expressl ve
countenance. Il
4 have requested to see you, Sd id
the unhappy .culprit, rather than pr
Curteis, because he, | know, is b blt-I
terly prejndiced against me. But
gou will not refuse, think, the 50 ol-I
emn request of dying man-lor a.
dying man / feel myself to be- /
however long or short the interva |
which stands between me and the
scaffold. 1t is not with childish |
hope that any assertion of mine ca an
avail before the tribunal OF the lazy
against the evidence addueed this
day, that !, with all the solemnity
beftting man whose day are num-
bereaa. declare to you that ] am
wholly ignorant Of the crime laid to
my charge. l have no such. expec7 1
tation; seek only that you, In pity
of my youth and untimely fate
should convey to her whom | have
madly presumed to worship, this
message: alfred Bourbon was mad,
but not blood-guilty; and of the
crime laid to his charge he is asin-
nocent as an unborn child
The pure ard unholy passion, I
young man, said !, somewhat starr
tied by his impressive manner, how
ever presumptuous, as far as social
considerations are concerned, it might
be, by which you affect to be IN
spired, is utterly inconsistent with
the cruel, dassardly crime OF which |
such damning evidence has an hour
since been given -
Say no more, sir, Interrupted
Bourbon, sinking back in his seat
and bnrying his face in his hands; 1T
were "a bootless errand, she cohld not
in II ye face of that evidence, believe
my unsupported assertion. ltwere
as we'll, perhaps, she did not. And
yet, sir, it is hard to be trampled In
to a felon's grave, loaded with the