Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-07-29
MURDER IN New YORK. Saturday AFTERNOON

Robert Mcdonald a cotton broker OF Moohe'
pretty thoroughly ruined by drinking anu
other dissipation, encountered one Firgl j"
S.o,,art = woman of abandoned character
who had lived with him in Mobile, but hrou9n
fear of her life from his roughnesS ana threa''
when drunk. had fed from him recently u
New York. She left the saloon, and he lol-
1o,,od bar aIong the street to the corner OF
Canal St. and Broadway, endeavorihg u
induce her to return and live with him.
which she steadily refused, and on his max
inc h )stile movement with revolver, sue
fled towards the Brandreth House shriekIng
for help. just as she reached the doorstep
he shot her through the head. tie was IN
stantly arrested and disarmed, ne making
efforts to shoot either those who arrested MN
or himself. The woman was taken TO the nos
nital. but there was no prospect OF her sur
viving long He admitted that ne shot her-
The case being one of great atroclty and tne
act without any provocation or justltica-
ton. there is of course high probability
that in some way he will escape punishment
from the New York Courts. He may
oct a sentence of brief confinement in the
State prison but If he does, it is an even
chance that he will have a chance to get a.
way. as others have before him. Such bloody
deeds have become quite an every day affair
in New York City. The n. Y. Courier u
Enquirer asks why this is 50; and pertinent
ly answers. -
The only answer we can find is that atoo
wide spread sympathy for mardererS OF TINS
class on the one hand. and too lax
administration of the law against murderers
on the other, have induced such loose ideas
on murder, that violent men, on the first call
of passion, rus to its commission, confident
of public sympat ~, which, even II they
commit suicide, will ballow The act, ana
leave for them a sort Of martyrs memory,
or ii thev do not thus rid the world OF their
presence, confident that the Court will not
visit upon them tho punishment whIc' '7
law appoints.
In DO country in the world do muir rcss,
especially Of the class of which we are speak
ing. enjoy such an immunity from punish
asnt as in this In no country do they find
s., much sympathy, and as a natural conse-
quence, in no country does murderer OF this
character more abound.
THERE WAsa grand Firemens' Muster at
Detroit, July 9Th, for which twenty Engines
entered The engines played with 200 feet
Of hose and what nozzle they pleased.
The first prize on distance was won by
a first class Zimmerman engine of Battle
Creek, which played 2lI feet 10 inches and
burst her hose.
The first prize on quantity was won by
Button engine of Detroit which threw %
barrels in three minutes.
The first sweepstakes prize was taken by
small "Gooseneck" engine Of Ypsilanti
throwing 2Il feet, II inches. After the
trial was over, a large Button engine Of
Battle Creek with cylinders l21 inches in
diameter and II inch stroke, threw through
a Ala inch butt, "A barrels in three minutes
A first class LETTERS engine of Detroit, through
200 feet of hose threw 224 feet inches
The affair was very grand one, nearly
one thousand fremen being present, and en-
gines from the shops of almost every maker
in the United States