Smyrna times., 1857-05-27

stances and given conditions of crime, any two
men will act precisely alike; but under differ
ent circumstances and conditions, no two men
the thief has the same desire to conceal, but
less ability than the person from whom the
person is stolen When the owner misses it,
he will, (gOing according to the above theory
aud not being possessed of enough detective
ability to accommodate himself to circumstan-
ces,) entirely overshoot the mark. He will
look for the stolen property exactly where the
thief was not sufficiently versed in human ma
ture to put it, if he wished to avoid being de-
tected by some one whose mental organization
was as nearly as possible the same as his own.
But this may lead to the recovery of the pro-
perty not, however, on account of the owners
skill as detector but because of the thief's lack
of knowledge of human nature. Sometimes an
old lady looses her spectoces by getting them
above her forehead, and forgetting where they
are! Now, in this simple case, no one, except
a SkHLfuI detector, would think of looking on
her head for them, for she is, herself, ranSack-
ing the whole house to find them; and yet,
there they are
One other Illustration of the science of de-
lection, and we will leave it for the pre- tsent -
Suppose there are dozen men in pond swim
ming; they have stript off their clothing and
left it in pile on the bank they go out of the
water and dress, one at a time; /; when all have
dressed, one, OIL placing his hand in his pocket,
misses his purse Now, be knows that it is
either on the ground where his clothing lay, or
it is in the pocket of one of his comrades-sto.
len. After awhile, he becomes convinced that
1t is not on the ground: he knows it is in the
possession of some one of his companions, who
are all with him looking for it. Now, to ascer-
tain the thief, how does he act! Why, being
acquainted with their mental organizations, he
slyly watches their actions while they are pre-
tending to aid him in looking for it on the
ground. At length he sees one who is anxious
very enthusiastically anriOus-to find 1t!
lie knows, from the fellows mental organiza-
tlon, that he is feigning all this, and is entirely
OUerstePPing the mark! In his endeavors to
which will attract suspicion He now charges
him with the theft-searches him-recovers his
purse! Or, again, he notices that fellow
whose faculties are of another order, is edging
by degrees away from his comrades; his hand
ever and anon is placed on his pocket; he casts
furtive glances,-that's the thief!
But it is not our intention to write treatise
on the subject of the crime which is violation
of the regulations OF meum et tuum. This
faculty of SecretiUeneSs lies at the foundation
of. the most profound and mysterious crimes
Its operations are displayed in cases of pre-
med;tated murder. That which we call "mor.
al depravty," "deformity of human nature"
"horribIe depths of crimlnaliy," &C., results
from the action of this Secretire organ of the
human mind
Now, we do not pretend that we have here
made any grand, transcendant discovery in the
realm OF mysteries. But we make the above
remarks in order to prepare the mind of the
reader for the theory which we are about to
delineate in regard to very mysterious affair,
the solution of which is at this time battling the
detective skill of the most profound searchers
into mysteries. The affair alluded to is the re-
cent singular case Of supposed murder of IL
young woman near Newburg, on the Hudson
river Having all the time in view the above
stated theory of detection, and the action of an
organ of the human mind, its various conditions
and effects, we intend to devote the remainder
of our space to a stripping Of the mystery from
this case. II will be seen that we undertake
to prove that nO murder has been committed !
And we intend to present probable and rea-
sonable statement of what we believe to be the
cause, the manner, and the time of the death oi
the victim, together with an exposition of the
construction of the circumstances that have
then thrown around the case:
We will commence with a statement of the
known fGcts. On the morning of the Both o
April last, laborer in the employ of farmer
near Newburg, N. Y, on going into newly
plowed field, discovered the body of young
aud very beautiful woman near the stone wal
which separates the field from the road. She
was lying in the field; was dressed IN pecu
liar manner as if her clothing had been prepared
for corpse her eyes were closed everything
about her was arranged with studied care
everything indicates premeditation and plan
ming but her skull is found to be fractured, anC
her neck bears evidence Of strangulation; Their
was nothing, however, to Indicate a struggle
She was lying on her, back with her hands cross
ed on her breast. One of her CATERS was de
lached from her foot, while the other remained
everything indicated that she had been care
fully dressed after death. The spot where sh
} was found was lonely part Of The road, skirt
ed on the opposite side by thick woods.
A cOrOner's jury is summoned; the body
identified by many persons as the body Of Mis-
J Bloom, young lady who at 8 O'Clock the nigh
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