The Diamond state., 1855-07-20
Gel&talI News.


TIE MuRpEl Sp SmcIDE Mt ST.
Lops.-FMila' hrficyiavs.It has all
ready been br,onn lentioned bytelegraph
that a young mas namcd +. r Blessing,
had murdered his{mferat ST Louis, and
thcn put an endN his own existence,
under very distreding circumstances. The
ST Louis Republican, of the llth inst /,
has the following particulars -
The name Of unfortunate girl was
Emily Blessing, ySio having no parents,
was left to the guardianship of her broth
ers, aud manchester, who lives in this
city. We do moi profess to be strictly
accurate, but ard.informed that she was
placed in conk pt in this city, from
which place she frtquently escaped, and
gave such evidences of dissolute life as
to render her rclafyes exceedingly unhap-
py. Young Biz na, her brother, was
particularly laffecfJ BY her behavior, and
for some time pregops to The dreadful oe-
currence, seemed NJ times low spirited.
On the afternoon \ the fatal day, he got
il buggy and pEoceu&ed to a house on Fourth
street, well know - bad repute, and
there saw his 50 b he prevailed
upon to take - lIm. His man
ner is represented q n1sing beer quiet,
and exhibiting no Sjgn of thesterible res
olutiOu he had es kptly conceived in his
heart.
( The brother an sister left that house
together. 1t is s6own that he went up
the Bellefontaine IEoad with her and re-
turned without Jer. He came back to
his hotei near dusk, where he was Joined,
we arc told, by hi brother and brother-in
law, with whom / spent the evening in
bis own room, thB little dreaming Of abe
dreadful act he Rtdcommitted. His con-
duct, in fact, pTlared rather gay, and
he sent for a botlb of champagne. which
was drank In to meantime he occupied
himself in writipl a letter. After an hour
or SO spent they ftit, and in the morning
he was found aqgpse. The fact of his
having taken hiybster out with him, and
returning withouI her, and his we'll known
sensitive nature created suspicion that
he had killed hcJ well as himself, and
accordingly sear4 was made in the direc-
ton which they Jad gone, and yesterday
morning the boz Of Emily Blessing, his
sister, was fearn13scar the Watkins road,
in the woods, aTbut seven miles from the
city. She had o. a pink muslin dress
and straw bonjct, and there were two
bullet holes throj Oh her head, one pene-
trating above tha tight temple, and the
other Just below lIc cheek bone, the ball
passing out through the left ear
Upon the corg3br's investigation il was
proved, by thr4 witnesses, that on the
evening in quesl ln five successive pistol
shots were heardl There was fence near
by, and close examination Of the road
led to the belief |hat lie had hitched his
horse and taken thcr distance of some
thirty yards in be woods, where he per-
Uhfy be scc0dl la f5T rrorrf -trru'rlcr' srrtr
she saw his purposes too late, and resis-
ting, some Of tho barrels missed. The
conclusion is clear to our mind, from his
subsequent conduct, that he intended kill
ling not only her, but himself there, but
his weapon was exhausted in sacrificing
his sister, aud he was compelled to return
to the city without putting his fatal res
olution, in regard TO his OVID life, into eff
feet. Certain it is, that few hours af-
tarward, with his own hand, his soul was
released from all earthly trouble, and sent
into that wo-ldf where the spirit of his
sister had just preceded him.
Mr.. Blessing was q young man, only
about % years If age, an engineer on the
river, and was >Hnch esteemed by every
one who knew ham; and his sister was but
a few years his junior.