Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-09-25

CAla.) Mil, of the nth, contains an account
of a most terrible and atrocious case OF poison
ing, in that county, By a negro woman. The
annals Of crime will hardly show a more exten,
sive and diabolical piece ofvillainy. We extract
the following from the Nail:
II seems that German, or Hungarian whose
name our informant had forgotten, was on mil
matt. terms with negro wom1n. the property
Of old Mr.. Thomas FraZell. one of the earliest
SELLERS Of Pike This man had once been IN the
nmDlov or Mr.. F., and was familiar with his
Dr.IoiS.s Some time since, lac mad been tie
tected in gambling with Mr.. F.s negroes, ana
Mr. z had instituted a prosecution against MN
On Saturday evening, 18th inst, he was see;i III
conversation with the negro woman alluded TO,
al the well. although be had received orders from
Mr.. Frazell never to come about his premises.
On Sunday there were some MiFty-setsH per
sons dining nj Mr. EraZclrs house, Of whom
about thirty were visitors from the neighbor-
hood. All these became sick soon alter eating
vomiting violently, and the cook being arrest
ed Immediately. on suspicion Of poisoning, at
once proceeded 10 state as follows: She said that
tile white man above referred to, while at the
well. had given her vial containing arsenic,
which he hud instructed her to mingle with
'sthc meal, the milk, the butter, and the coffee
He was particularly DESTROYS that it should go
into ccsry article of food, because old Ar. Fra
zell was in delicate health, and generally ate
very spaTingly. The negro woman SAYS She
followed the instructions of her lover tn the let
tur--who, by the way, added to his instructions
the remark, that ''after the old man had taken
that, lie would hardly prosecute him in that
case"
The poison was administered, as We have
seen, but too successfully The whole assem-
blage of persons were put under its influence;
and at the last accounts sir had died from IFS
effects Old Mr.. FrazGll died about sunset on
Sunday, the day Of the poisoning. His over
sccr's wife and two children; Mrs. Cloud. a
widowed daughter OF Mr.. F.; and Mr.. F.'s grand
daughter died the next day. Several others
were lying in a critical condition, and doubtless
there will be victims of this awful tiendish
crime.
Mr.. Jack Frazel. son of the old man, happen
cd to be out Of meal, on the day of the poison
ing, and sent to his fathers and borrowed
buShel. All who pnrtook of this, including
brother who had declined to eat at his fathers
having comein after some Of the company had
got sick, we're more or less affected
After we had written the above orr inform.
mt, Mr.. j. N. johnson, of Pike, called on us
again, and gave us the name Of the prisoner
which is COmiska. Mr.. J. further states that
the infuriated people of the ncighborhood have
burnt the negro woman, and will perform the
same service for Comiska on next Monday. In
the meantime he is safely lodged in Jail at Troy.
He neither denies nor admits anything.
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TIE SUPPOSED MASSACRE on BoNnp TuE Nv.
BIOS CooPER.-The Havana correspondents of the
Charleston Courier gives the following interest
ng particulars of the affair:
1.-The brig Black Squat, Bryant, of Philadel
ihia, arrived from that port 9th instant, reports
whilst crossing the Great Bahama Bank on I'd
INST, she saw and took ON board boat. with |
liree men, who gave their names as Peter Will |
Jams, "a Ercnchman,) Abraham Cox "a ncgro)
nd Thomas Fahey, Ian Irshu an who stated
hcy had been wrecked in the brig Albion Coo |
,er, Of Portland, and were the sole survivors. |
shortly after they were taken OH board the |
Slack Squat, Fahey went TO Captain Bryant and |
tated that the Albion Cooper had not been
sreckeIl but that Williams and Cox had mnr
ercd her Captain, Daniel II. Humphrey, the /
hief and second mate, and one seaman, and
brown their bodies overheard, then set fire to
he Albion Cooper, and left her in the boat
his took place on the 2Sth August ult
Immediately on arriving ut this port Captain
sryant went to the Consulate, stated the above
and the three men were at once
rrested and placed in prison. The utmost
raise is due to Captain Bryant for his conduct I
n this occasion. by pretending TO pity the /
hree men rs shipwreckcd sailors, he kept them
n good humor until they arrived in this harbor,
rhen their unexpected arrest took them quite
" surprise. The three men had two watches, !
ONE money and clothes, supposed to have be
Onged to the murdered captain and mate, all off
which have been handed to the United States
consul The Albion Cooper was bound from
Portland (where she belongcd) TO Gardens, with
cargo of lumber; and Captain Barton, Of the
jnrque Cornelia, of New York, who arrived 9TH
instant, reports having seen on the previous
Thursday evening, the remains OF the Alhlon
Cooper, Orange Key bearing 5. w, distant
miles -