Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-11-12

The Murder in Philadelphia.
We had brief dispatch announcing
that Mr.. Richard Carter, President of the
Anthracite Bank had been shot at the
St. Lawrence Hotel in Philadelphia, by q
man named Thomas w. Smith. The
Press of that city gives the following par
uculars from which we extract:
"Carter and Smith were observed sitting
upon sofa in the corner of the parlor
fronting on Chestnut street. There was
nothing exciting in their manner, and the
casual observer would have supposed that
they were engaged in the most friendly
conversation: They occupied their seats
for considerable length of time, when
Smith drew from his pocket Colts re-
volyer. Both parties arose from their
seats, when Smith commenced firing upon
Carter. At the third fire Carter fell fatal
ly wounded, and Smith fired two more
loads into the body of the wounded man
while lying PROSTATE upon the floor. The
appearance of the dying man upon the
floor, in a pool of blood, and the GOODNESS
of the murderer, who quietly walked off,
and the terror which was depicted on eve
ry countenance in the room, was scene
most shocking. The wounded man died
in few moments.
On the examination of Smith before the
Mayor he said II acknowledge killed the
man: do not wish to deny it."
He said, in committing this act, he tho't,
under the circumstances, he had done his
religious duty-done justice between God
and man and to himself, and said he now
desired but one thing-to have woman sent
for Che did not say what woman, but it is
inferred that it was his wife, and then if
they would give him knife he would give
the world no more trouble about him.
There are number of rumors af1oat as
to the cause which led to the tragedy, and
from them we gather the following state
ment, which appears to be authentic =
About six months ago, Richard Carter
brought his ward, young lady then at
boarding school, in contact with Smith who
admired her, and after short courtship
married her. The pair lived happily to-
gether in this city for two or three months
after the marriage, when Smith discovered,
to his astonishment that his wife, whom
he looked upon as yirtuos and pure, was
about to become mother. This discov-
cry drove him almost to madness, and he
at once set to work to discover the author
of his shame and dishonor. He succeeded
in intercepting letters passing between his
wife and Garter in which it was made too
evident that Carter had been her seducer,
and that he had been made an instrument
to hide her shame.
The wife consenting, a separation look
place, and shortly afterwards, in months
from the time of her marriage, she gave
birth to a child. Smith consulted counsel,
and took measures to secure divorce, but
meeting Carter yesterday, wreaked his
vengence on the author of the trouble
Garter, we learn, was married man, and
was living with his wife in Tamaqua. He
was at one time in partnership with the
father of the woman that he is charged to
have seduced, and we hear that her ruin
caused her family the greatest distress, and
that they had taken measures to avenge
the alleged wrong.
Mr.. Smith states that in their con ,ersa-
tion at the Hotel, he asked Mr.. Carter TO
take some measures to blot out his the
prisoners disgrace, and that the deceased
told him it was no disgrace, and that he
himself intended to visit the prisoners sis
ter. This Smith considered as unendura-
BILE, and shot him upon the spot.
Mr.. Carter was an Englishman by birth,
and when be first came to Schuylkill coun-
ty, some years ago, began to work as a
miner. He saved money, and gradually
rose from his humble position ane became
at last q large property holder and a man
of influence. His wife, who is also Eng
Iish, is sorle ten years older than he was,
and they lave never had any children. A
few years ago he became acquainted with
Mr.. John McCauley, residing in Luzerne
county, whom he assisted in business. Mr..
McCauIey had young, intelligent and
handsome daughter, in whom Garter be-
came interested. and he had her placed in
at Wilmington, stopping frequent
ly at Philadelphia, his wife not being in
formed of his movements. At the school
Miss McCauley was understood to be bis
niece. 1t is presumed that guilty inter
course between them was going on all
this time. Mr.. Carter was about As years
of age.
Those best acquainted with Carter be-
lieve that, instead of wishing her to marry
Smith, he was opposed to it; that he was
himself sincerely attached to her; that he
wished to have her to himself, and that
he Monld have married her if It had hnen