Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-04-01
The Wife Murder.
From the st. Louis Republican

FROM the ST Louis Republican.
We gave Yesterday the principal features of the
confession OF George H. Lamb to the strangula-
tion and drowning of his wife Sarah 6. Lamb
on the 18th December last in the Mississippi ri w.
er, a short distance below this city And we
gave, last Monday 4 long account of the circum
stances which led to the suspicion that caused
his arrest. The whole story shows a deprayity
In the planning and cool drliberatiop in the
execution of the awful deed, which challenges
the records Of crime to produce anything more
horrible
Mr.. Clark T Lamb, brother of the accused
who arrived here Wednesday in company with
M hI strain, lawyer OF Mendota-yesterday morn
1ng visited the prisoner. The latter stated he had
mlsrepresented the facts in saying two men we =
with him in the yawl. lie embarked about d u, K
Win his wife and no one else. The remainder
Oh ms narrative was similar to that published by
us yesterday.
IL appears that Lamb confessed his guilt to his
lawyer, Mr. Strain, before leaving Mendoza and
ever since his arrest he has borne himself as
though he could not keep a secret which was the
cause OF so much misery to him. He seems to be
aware that he is going to die, and has expressed
S,S eeslre 10 oe visited by clergy daily. He says
life Is burden, and he will willingly submit to
the punishment of the law, only wishing time
enough TO prepare his soul to meet its nal Judge
Coroner Kennedy, having occasion to be at Ca
TondeIet yesterday, made early inquiry as to
whether yawl or skif had been seen drifting
by there and learned that sometime before Christ,
mas three men were seen to get out of skiff
above Carondslet, one of them with a bundle in
his hand, and, after showing the boat into the
stream, Chamber up the bank and walk hastily
away little boy afterward recovered the skiff
and II Is now in the possession of German liv-
Ing at Carondelet. This would seem to verify
Lambs first statement
Yesterday afternoon the prisoner was taken be.
fore Justice Herckenrath, by virtue of a warrant
issued on the atidevt Of Jacob Stafford his fa-
ther-ln law. There was examination how
ever, and there may not be for two or three days
yet Lamb is now in Jail
ne dhdavlt relates that @ on or about the 18th
day OF December, 1857, in the city and county of
81 Louis, and State of Missouri, one George III
Lamb did wilfully, deliberately and premedi-
tatedly Kill and murder one Sarah s. Lamb. the
said Sarah :. Lamb then and there being the
wife OF him, the said George III. Lamb, by ma Iii
clously, wilfully, preIneditatedly and forcibly
holding the head of her, the said Sarah s. Lamb,
under the surface of the water of the Mississippi
river until she, the said Sarah ). Lamb died by
strangulation and drowning and then by tying
to the person of her, the said Sarah S Lamb
stone or heavy weight, and sinking the body of
her, the said Sarah ). Lamb, in the waters of the
aforesaid river, thereby then and there wilfully,
deliberately, premediatedly and maliciously
causing the death Of her, the said Sarah 3 Lamb
by strangulation and drowning, as aforesaid
contrary to the statute in such cases made and
provided, and against the peace and dignity of
the State