Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-22

had, two or three days previously, read in i tlie London papers an account oi the trial there of two seamen for piracy, and of the confession of one of them, after having re- ceived sentence of death, of having been concerned in piracy on the west coast of Africa, on which occasion the whole crew had been murdered and the vessel sunk. l From the description given in this &C., connt of the unfortunate ship, of the place where. and the time when the tragedy had that the vessel spoken of was the Miaerra, and that the mystery in which her fate had been so long shrouded, was at length dis pelisd.
 In his confession the doomed wretch sta- ted als" that the captain of the pirate ship, whose person he strictly described, was, he had reason to believe, in Britain, d. | though he knew not where.
 From regard to the feelings Of the friends l and relations or yuuug E~aada!e. MT. Ec- l clesford had not mentioned to them his suspicious of the fate of the latter, thinking that the doing so would only given need less pain.
 The story of the locke,, however, had ! given new turn to the affair, and such one as determined Mr' Ecc!esford to follow out certain suspicious which it had exci- ted. He, in short, suspected and very strongly, that Mrs. Evandale's inmate was no other than the murderer of her son, the murderer of Margaret Evandale's brother, and of Mary Walters lover-the captain of the pirate by which the Mlnerra had been plundered and sunk.
 l Under this suspicion he refused, mildly indeed, hat determnedly, to give up the locket which Miss Walters had put in his hands, although without assigning any reason for his conduct, which he said would shortly be explained.
 On the day following Captain Stanley, to whom the circumstance of the detention of the locket by Mir Ecclesford had been mentioned, suddenly disappeared and was | no where to be seen or heard of
 l Ten days after, the apprehension in Liv- erpool. by couple of Bow-street officers, of noted pirate captain who had commit ted some dreadful murder, was announced in the papers. This captain was Stanley. He was subsequently, brought to trial, when the dispositions of his companions in guilt, who had been previously executed, ard other evidence which had been mustered against him including the locket, the stron- gest of all, secured his conviction, and he suffered at the usual place of execution in London, for criminals of lis description
 It remains only to he added that this re- suit, this retribu,ive justice, had been brought about by the activity of Mir. Ec- cesfcrd, who, immediately after obtaining possession of the locket, put himself in correspondence with the office in Bow. street, when the case was promptly taken up, and as we have seen, efficiently follow ed out
 On Miss Evandale the effect of this un- fortunate affair was, for time, sufficiently distressing but in escaping the dreadful fate of being united to the murderer of her brother, she found consolation which am- ply compensated the temporary pain of disappointed attachment, which though ar- d'nt, had not, perhaps, been very deeply seated. And her good sense taught her to appreciate the kind Providence which iad saved her from so unhappy conneAion.