The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-05-11
CITY OF LANCASTER:


'eu susan RusSel WAS klueo Dy ner lover,
Edward H. Avery, on board the steamship
Yankee Blade, on her passage from New
York to Panama. He was ardently at
tached to her, and jealous Of the attention
she received from the cabin passengers
Avery is only &c years of age, a native of
Springfield, Massachusetts, of respectable
parentage, and highly intelligent. He be-
came acquainted with the female, who was
frail, but young and handsome, at Worces-
ter, Mass, and proposed to take her to
California. She consented, and they en-
gagged passage on the Yankee Blade, as
brother and sister, he agreeing to work his
passage out She was furnished, through
the kindness of the captain, with berth in
the seeo@d cabin, with another female. This
removed her considerably from the pres
ence Of her lover, who worked ON the for
ward deck; and she, taking advantage of
her position, began to firt with the young
men on board, which, when the knowel-
edge thereof came to the ears of Avery, rem
dered flan exceedingly jealous, and finally
he acted in such manner as to induce
those who saw him to believe he was de-
ranged. The Panama Star thus narrates
the tragedy thatensued:
''On the 18th of February, at about
O'Clock in the evening, the passengers were
alarmed by shrieks from a female voice,
which proved to be Susanna Russell, who
ran about the after-deck, crying my broth
or has killed mel and falling upon the deck
in FIVE minutes she was corpse. She had
. been but a few minutes previous to that sit
ting in the cabin, ,cngagedin lively conver-
sation with one of the passengers, when Ay-
cry called hero deck. Onapproaching her,
he drew from belt in his side tcri-inch
bowie knife, with which he stabbed her in
the right breast, severing one of the large
arteries, the knife passing through her back.
Immediately after committing this dread
full deed he snapped pistol twice at his own
breast but finding it would not go off, he
drew razor from his pocket, with which he
cut a deep and severe cash in his throat,
then rushing forward to where she had fall
en- and the passengers and others began to
collect, he cried, Stand back, gentlemen
stand back, I did it, then fslling beside the
dead body, he wept over it, and kissed the
marble cheeks, saying, 1 loved that girl,
but you cabin passengers done this.
''This was the most heart-rending scene
the writer ever witnessed. There lay the
poor, mangled body of the unfortunate girl;
over her bent her equally unfortunate
though guilty lover, uttering the most la
mentablc expressions of his fervent attach
ment to her, while the blood came stream
ing from his throat. Every one expected
to see him momentarily expire; he did not
die, however, as the surgeon succeeded in
sewing up his wound, and he is now nearly
recovered. He had a preliminary examin-
alton before the American Consul at Rio
Janeiro, who ordered him on to San Fran
cisco for trial. Since the sad occurrence he
has become quito patient, and awaits his
trial with considerable fortitude. The poor
fellow has mother living in Norwich CO.,
upon whom this blow will fall very heavily,
when she learns the particulars of the sad
affair.""