Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-06-25

qull and satisfied heart, as he says OF him
self, he lay downto sleep. ..t
In the morning the whole town was In
excitement at the horrible deed. Beau
champs host suspected him, but his calm
demeanor died away all suspicion, and he
was allowed TO leave Frankfort without
molestation. AS he drew near home, his
wife, who had been anxiously awaiting his
return, saw him approach waving red
hag, which had been the token of success
agreed between them. She was full ofjoy
like himself, at the fulfilment of hel
just vengeance, as they thought it, and
they talked over all the details Of the crime
with fearful satisfaction.
Beauchamp was arrested, as he expect
ell to be, but contrary to his expectations,
he found that all his pains to destroy evil
dencc had been fruitless. Circumstances
those fatal neutrality-suspicious. too sure
witness, and where a link was wanting in
the chain of testimony, it was easily sup
piled by exaggeration or perjury. lie was
convicted on the 10Th Of May, 1926, and in
spite of the doubts of many eminent law
yers, who maintained that there was no ex-
isting law to punish murder, he was exc
cuted on the 18th of July following He
had i'll vain tried to throw the crime on
some other person, and to obtain pardon
from Gov. Desha, who, to be sure, had
pardoned his own son, twice convicted OF
murder anil robbery.
These details may seem like those of a
common murder, too common in these
days, unfortunately deriving their interest
only from a morbid craving for knowl-
edge of such horrors But there is deep
erreason why the atrocities of Beauchamp
and his wife stand forth in prominence in
the sad calender of crime. The feeling
which impelled them was an Unsuitable
finds some excuse in the greatness of their
victims guilt; while it is exalted above the
fury of the ordinary murder by the fanati.
cism which made them regard it as a duty
and by the tenderness of their love fol
each other. Nothing can be more touch
ing than the gentleness and reverence will
which everywhere in his confession, Beau
champ speaks of his wife, and she, in turn
seems to have felt the most enthusiastic af
lection for him. lie was her chevalier--
her champion, and the champion of injur
ed virtue every where; and in her steady re-
fusal to outlive him, she showed the con
stancy of Roman matron, and died as he
roically as Brutus' Portia, or the more ia
nous Lucretia.
After his conviction, she spent mucl
time with him, ana in the hope of dying to
gether, they both took poison, which, how
ever, proved Intellectual They were thei
carefully guarded, but in spite of this, oil
the morning OF his execution, they coDtriv
ell to stab themselves. Beauchamp wa,
not MORALLY wounded, but his wife lingcr'
only few hours after his execution. y.
he was carried to the gallows, too weak t.
sit on his coffin in the cart, according tc
the barbarous custom, he asked to be takcl
to his wife, then lying unconscious from
her wound. He laid his hand ON her face
and sought in vain to make her recogniz,
him; then bidding her the temlerest fare
well, and bowling to the ladies at the win
dows as he passed along the streets, he wen
on to the scaffold.