Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-10-01

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The ST. Paul Roneev, Of Isst Satur-
day, the god inst, relates the following ::
Thursday sftcrroon : mas came to
the jail in this city, andinqu.red tor the
Sheriff, and on being told that he was
coufined to his bed on account OF his
late accident,) he went away, but re-
turned again before dark, and nnding
Deputy Sheriff Miller, be told him he
was charged with the commission OF .
murder some six years ago ~ Virginia,
and that since then he had been wan
derer. and desired to deliver himself
up, and to have a notice Of his detention
forwarded to the officers Of the law in
Virginia. After having An interview
with the Sheriff, bis request was CON-
Piled with, and the Sheriff wrote yester
day to Virginia, notifying the proper
officers. He came into town with
small Red River cart, drawn by yoke
of small steers, which together with his
gun, he desired the Sheriff to sell to the
best advantage, that he might have the
proceeds to pay his board, in case he
was not sent Tor, and for his defence In
case he should be tried 10 Virginia for
the offence acknowledged to have been
committed.
BY favor Of the Sheriff, we had an IN
,erview with the prisoner yesterday.
He is about FIVE feet eight inches u
height, weighs about one hundred and
forty pounds, dark, sallow complexion,
black eyes ard black whiske1s and
moustache, and is dressed like lumber
man. lie said his name was Samuel
Stanley, and that he is charged with
numbering Mr.. Peyton, in Gable coun-
ty, Virginia. He tacitly confessed the
homicide, in stating that it was caused
by his having discovered Peyton IN
criminal connection with his wife, and
by saying that he did not think bis
punishment would not exceed a short
term in the peni,cntiary. he declined
to give us any particulars Of the affair.
He stated that he had worked on the
Black and Chippewa rivers in Wiscon-
sin, and had been in Minnesota three
years, although he was native OF Ohio,
and had a residence there when the
murder took place. He had worked in
Lower Sank Rapids, on the Red River,
at Pemblna, and in other places. With
out manifesting much contrl,ion for the
crime, or fear of punishment, he i'm,
agined, wherever he lived, that every
body looked upon him as a murderer
The elements even whispered it in his
ears, when he had abandoned the society
of men and lived alone in the depths Of
the forest. Consequently, he has had no
abiding place for six years, but has
roamed through the country from Texas
to Minnesota, suffering, as he says, ''mort
than hundred Deaths" At last, al
most worn out, be came to the conclus
ion to deliver himself up, that after the
sentence of the law had been executed
he might again live among his friends
or make home where he would be IN
disturbed by its terrors.
The tale of this wandering is strange
and interesting-so strange that it oc
cured to US tn at his mind was not sound
but we could detect no evidence o
mental alteration, and nothing in hi
conduct that could not be reconcied, il
view of the awful crime he had com
mitted.
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