The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-06-04

L "a -. oeaofe Suatlco LANES, OF Heur1co,s on tn
, = inst, on the charge Of feloniousiy assaultinI
ma wounding Joseph r Crouch. With Z hoe 81
src iesn uit, from the effect of which wound Mr.
.loucn oied on the 9th ult We append the sub
sauce OF the evidences prepared by : friend in ou
NJ rnl ncn = ne doubt correct:
:~ -; EnzaDeth Woodson daughter Of the de
ceaseD sworn.-On Saturday. the I7tb AZ NAV
my istneI informed me that he supposed Emitf
was ABOUT to take . trip ~ he had sent him the
Keys Of tne corn-house On that day nv father
req tne stock tor Mr. smith. and was again enga.
ged in feeding, when Smith returned ahout nine
o'clock that night When INV father came 10 the
house from the barn, he said TO me. 81 am late
smith has come. and as he saw me- AZ he paased
through the barn yard, I waited supposipe he
would come aud get the keys; bat be failed to do
So. Early the next morning my father came to
my room before / had completed nv toilet And
said, Bette, Smith has not sent for the keys. and
none of the stock have been fed--what had I bet
Yer DOR IrepEed-"Pa, would send the KEYS bv
William, and ask him if he did not intend feeding
"a replied, IF do that, he win whip the negro
ior you Know he will never allow servant 10 car
y MN q message, and will 60 and feed MYSELF
=. "a ief. my room. and in . few moments heard
MIN can from the yard, "Smith, don't ride my mule
unsil ne has been fed i-Smith say don't ride nv
mute until ne has been fed. In short time after
the servants cried out Miss Bette Mr. Smith il
killing master" instantly ran to the corn house.
ana iound my father lying prostrate bleeding and,
IS 1 thought, hfeless, on the corn cobs and Smith
standing Just inside the corn-house door with a
isge noe In MS hands, seemingly quite calm, and
IF you rise viii strike you again" said. "Oh'
mr smith, how could you have served nv father
sof To which Smith replied, because do not
intend to take things" The servants on the farm
appearing afraid to approach to render assistance,
1, though at the cost of much pain said to Smith.
.'Will you not assist me to get nv father to the
nouse! He replied, Il will; !" and did assist me
VI. Inomas Garnett, nj saw Mr. Crouch
IN about two hours after the occurrence and found
nun suiierng with sick stomach and partially sen.
slble-the degree of sensibiity varied from day to
day until Friday, when state of coma came on.
which continued TO deepen till death found the
wound, on examination, to be about two inches in
length, penetrating both tables of the skull and
splitting the skull for five inches more The
wound was inflicted with sharp edred tool and
no doubt caused his death
Thomas ii. Garrett sworn.-On the morning of
the occurrence I received a note from Smith.
which being produced, read nearly as follows:
gu WIN please send for my family as cannot go.
Crouen having this morning so provoked me that
gave him tap that has put him to bed for some
time am familiar with Smiths hand writing and
have no doubt the note alluded to was written nv
him visited Smith at his house. and he stated TO
me tnat Crouch struck at him two or three times
with hoe-that he defended himself by wariing
Oft the blows with pitchfork, and that he then
picked up a hoe and gave Crouch a blow with it
in self defence.
Joseph G. Mettert, sworn-After arreatinr
Smith said to him that was sorry the affair had
happened-it was q sad affair. Smith replied "I
am net in the least sorry and if 1t were TO occur
again would do the same thing" After reach.
Ing Richmond Smith told me he had given the blow
in self defence-that Crouch struck at him two or
three times with hoe-that he could, with all ease,
have prevented his doing him any injury but
wished to show him (Crouchl what sort of wea.
pom hoe was to use against q man, and that he
was not sorry for the act
DIR. John NJ Garnett, sworn-I have known
Smith for ten years and employed him rs an over
seer for two years, when 1 first came to the coun-
ty. regarded him as an honest, Industrious, So
Der man, though possessed of very bad temper
He was sour and short in his manners and have
repeatedly warned him against the consequences
of giving way to his passions which look upon as
the cause of all his difficulties In life. In conse-
quence of his rudeness to my wife / had to dis
charge him from my employment
Al this stage of the proceedings the examina.
ton, on motion of the counsel for the Defence was
continued until Friday next to enable them TO get
witnesses.
Examination for Murder. - Peter Crutchfield
charged with severely beating his wife Mary, ou
the 9th of A pril, while i'll with pneumonia and
thereby Fastening her death, set to the bar OF
the county court of Henrico yesterday, to undergo
an examination on the charge. After hearing the
evidence, and part of the argument of counsel
the examination was adjourned till this morning at
lV cioch.. CTutcuueiQ reSiQHQ on oregon Hill,
where his wife died of pneumonia on the 18th OF
April -
Needs Ahent;on.-Some of the carts engaged in
hauling dirt along Main street, between i2th and
18th, yesterday afternoon, littering the car.
rage way very much by waste of dirt.
The relaring heat of Summer brings with it pecu.
liar tendency 10 disease. The Liver becomes torpid
the Blood fevered, Indigestion springs up, disocli-
IN fOJF Gv,~l
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SPANISH MIXTURE; its purifying and cooling ipfiu-
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nervousness will atonce commend it the very best
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SHOCKING MURDER.-We have mentioned the
burning of the house of Jacob Friend, near St.
Josephs, Mo-, ON Wednesday night, with himself,
wife and five children. A correspondent of the
st. Louis Republican says:
The cabin contained but one room, about six.
teen feet square, with two doors, window and
fire place. The window and the fireplace were
in the opposite ends, and the two doors in the
opposite sides On on either side of the win-
dow, with their feet toward the doors, had
stood the beds in which the fAmly slept. From
where the beds stood, egress was easy and con-
yenient through the window and the doors. 1t
was hardly possible, then, that seven persons--a
u
girl of 16 and three small children-could have
been burned from fire originating in the place
There were two many ways of escape. Nor, for
the same reason, could they have been burned TO
de ath if fire had been communicated to any part
the building The conclusion, then, before any
any examination, was that murder, most foul and
unnatural, had been busy with his bloody knife,
before the pyre was ignited
This conclusion was confirmed by silent eyf.
dences which lay around. There in the corner,
q III ball ou1 tharn
inst in front of the fire place, was another; and
large one with the smallest elasped in its arms,
and the rest clustered near. These were evident.
ly the mother and children those near the fire
place, the father and son. BY one Of the latter
was large knife, and by the other, . three.
pronged pitchfork with points extremely sharpen
ed, and the barrel Of gun and In front OF the
house q revolver was found. The jury Of inquest
are now sitting. They have arrived at no further
conclusion as yet, than that u was horrible mu..
der.
FATAL AccIDESr-The Bangor (Me) Wing
states that on Monday evening Iast, four persons,
two gentlemen and tive ladies, who were enjoying
themselves at an evening party In bloomfield. took
boat and started for . sail They allowed the
boat to take It's course, without noticing that
they were rapidly being drawn towards the falls.
Some persons the shore seeing their DANGER no.
tilted them Of il, when their excitement became
intense. One couple sprang ont and were saved.
The other couple, young gentleman and lady who
were TO have been married in few weeks-also
sprang out and were carried 70 jam Of logs at
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