Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1855-08-18

happiness, determined to take his life.
On making the accusation, he denied it
in the most forcible and pathetic manner,
bearing his bosom to Poterfeld, telling
him to shoot, if he deemed him base
enough TO perpetrate such deed, that
his honor was dearer to him than his life,
&c. He desisted, feeling that the man
had been wronged. Thus the matter
remained for several weeks, when such
evidences Of Ned Buntline's guilt, and
his wife's unfaithfulness reached him, as
no longer to leave him in doubt. He
sought him again with the same purpose
as before. Ned having learned his in
tcntion, fed from him, in the direction
Of the Sulphur Spring, near the city.
Porterfeld fred several times, but with
out effect. After running some distance,
Ned fell down, and whilst on the ground,
he turned and shot Porterfield through
the head. He was near him, and fell
dead by his side. Ned Immediately re-
turned to the city, gave himself up to
the authorities, was tried, but acquitted
on the ground of self-defence.
The citizens were in rage. lie had
wronged and killed one of the most re-
spected of their number. On leaving
the court room, several shots were fired
Immediately at him; he fed to the City
Hotel amid the shouts of his pursuers.
He reached the third story and locked
himself into room The door was fore
cd open, when he jumped from the win
dow on to the ground below. Stunned
and crippled by the fall, he was easily
taken. A large number of citizens con-
Quoted him to the street bordering on
the Cumberland river, and hung him to
one of the bars across the awning posts
The moment he swung off, the rope
broke. Another was procured, and as
they were about tying it around his neck
he made the most pathetic appeal tC
them to spare his life, asking for an OPP
portunity to explain himself, asserting
his innocence, and telling them it was .
shame, and cowardly, for 50 many to take
the life of one dcfenceless man, without
affording him an opportunity of defence.
Meanwhile, the authorities of the city
came to his rescue, and he was placed in
the county Jail for protection. After re-
naming there for three months, the pub
lie feeling somewhat abatcd he was pri-
vately conveyed some distance down the
river, when a steamer took him to Pitts
burg, Pa, the residence of his father.
Being at Nashville when these events
occurred, We have given them briefly,
but in accordance with the best of our
recollectiens.
| Spending the summer and autumn in
in Europe two years since, we became
intimate in the family of Dir. Bateman,
distinguished surgeon and physician,
at No. 6, Islington Green, London. =
Whilst there we often heard thenA speak
of a beautiful and accomplished lady from
New York, Mrs. b., who, with her
beautiful boy, had spent much time with
them, and to whom they appeared very
much attached. On leaving London,
we were requested to bear package Of
letters to Mrs b. We complied, and
found her to be all that she had been re-
presented, and the daughter of one of the
first citizens of New York. On learn
ing her history,we found IL to be full Of
romantic, but painful interest.
She had been the wife of Judson, ALA,
Ned Buntline, and he was the father Of
her noble boy, born whilst he was enga-
ged at the Astor Place Riots--he having
been some weeks previously expelled by
the family from her fathers house, where
for two years, she had suffered every in
dignity and wrong, and abuse, from a
heaven abandoned wretch, noble heart
ed woman ever endured and lived.
BY securing the influence and co-ope-
ration of an officer in the army, a Lieu
tenant Potter, and by writing beautiful
letters and beautiful poetry, and by as
scrting the attack in Nashville was by a
band Of gamblers, whom he had expos
ed in his paper, and by skillfully manag-
ing the affair, he succeeded in marrying
the lovely and talented Miss b. After
their marriage, and while in a State Of
intoxication, he would often recount to
her incidents and scenes in his own his
tory, and amongst the rest true version
of the Nashville tragedy, together with
others, frightful enough to chill her
blood.
After leaving Nashville, he spent some
time in st. Louis, whittier he was follow
ed by Mrs. Porterfeld. Whilst there,
they were, between them, the means Of
two persons being shot, he in the mean
while, having married her, and one OF
two other women. Mrs. b. obtained a
divorce from him during his trial in the
Astor Place Riot case, and before his
conviction assuming her patcrnai name.
Soon after his pardon from the peni-
tertiary, he married respectable widow
lady, at Hoboken, the owner of some
property. After wantonly squanderine
all her effects, even to her beautiful cot
tage home, he abandoned her, went To
Boston and married another woman.-
Last summer, having some difficulty with
negro man, he deliberately shot him.
though the wound did not prove mortal.
He escaped punishment by making it ap-
pear the negro was the aggressor.
After Mr.. John Wilson with