The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-06
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implicated in the crime, are both in the hands OF
the criminal authorities. Edwln, tne younger, AZ
will be remembered, yielded himself into custody
ON Monday morning, and Charles attempted to fol-
low his example on the evening of the same day,
but Justice Osborn, the magistrate to whom he
made an offer of surrender, would not accept it,
and it was not until yesterday morning that he
could obtain legal custodian The circumstances
attending this achievement on his part are related
by himself and Mr.. William NJ. Belts, the gentle
man who advised him to surrender, follows:-
Mr.. Belts, who keeps hotel at Cutchogue, l.. l.,
is well acquainted with Charles Jefferd, who for
the past three or four weeks, has boarded at that
place, but during that time had twice come up to
the city to remain for day or two. He last left
Cutchogue on Thursday, in company with Mr..
Belts, for the purpose of viewing the Great Eastern
Having separated on their arrival here, Jefferd
was not seen again by MIR. Belts until Monday ev
ening, when he was found at the Union Hotel, in
Atlantic street, Brooklin, near the Ferry. On see
ing his FRIEND Jefferd remarked that he was in
formed by the newspapers of the suspicion that at
tached to him of having murdered Messrs. Walton
and Mathews, and that the police were searching
for him. He therefore wanted advice as to what
he should do. Mr.. Belts told him that the best
course an innocent person could take was to deliver
himself to magistrate, and the young man having
promised to do so, his adviser left the cars for
Cutchogue. He had not gone far on his journey
before he regretted that he had not placed Je1erd
in custody, and leaving the train at its first stop
ping place, he returned to the Union Hotel, Where
Jefferd was still remaining. Both Immediately
crossed over to the city, and reached the Tombs
about O'Clock in the evening, where, finding that
the Court was closed, Mr.. Belts suggested that it
would be well to go down to the Comptroller Oh
ice as he was acquainted with of the clerks
there and they might learn where either Justice
! Osborn or Welch could be found.
Here they were directed to the house of Justice
| Osborn, in Orchard street, whom they found at
| home. Their business was soon made known to
| him. but for some unexplained reason he did not
deem it necessary to send Jetferd to prison, but al
| lowed him to depart, telling him to call at the
| II IoG ~ ,lal
| and left for the Lafarge Honse, on Broadway,
where he remained all night, having registered
| himself on the notebook as George Jackson
He gave false name, he asserted, to avoid any I'M
| pleasant Interference on the part of the police In
| the morning he was faithful to his promise, APP
| pearng in court at an early hour He demanded
| an immediate examination, stating that he should
be able to establish his innocence, and regulating
| any connection with the murders. The magistrate
informed him that the case was in the hands OF the
| COZ oner, and that he was poweriess 10 grant MS
| request. He was, therefore, committed to prison.
In conversation with our reporter, Jeferd stated
that only one side OF the story, relating to the diff
| ficuties between Mr.. Walton, his mother, brother
| and himself had been given to the public. At the
| proper time, he said the whole truth would be re-
| vealed, and quite different complexion would be
given to the affair. He denied in the most emphat-
ic terms, ever having threatened to take Mr.. Wal
toms life, but admitted that no good feeling existed
between them. The discord in the family was
brought about, he stated, by the mother of Mr..
| Walton to whom the marriage of her son with his
mother had given great offence, and her machina.
| tions had resulted in the divorce suit. He also
| charged that Mr.. Walton endeavored to get him
out of the way, as to preclude him from giving
testimony, in behalf of his mother in the trial of
the cause, by surreptitiously sending him to sea-
| In relation to the murder, he reiterated that he
could easily prove his innocence. ...-
On Saturday night, to IL o'clock he said that he
| had been in company with some of his friends al
the johnson House, corner of Chambers street and
College place, engaged in card playing, and OF
leaving that place he went direct to Brooklyn, anc
to bed. The pistol with which the murders are
supposed to have been committed, nothing, hi
asserted like that which he sometimes carried. His
weapon had an ivory handle and was silver mount
ed, while that in possession of the Coroner wa
wooden handled and steelmounted. Moreover, HI
was of too excitabe temperament to have commit
ted an act deliberate that which had resulted
in the death of MIR. Walton. In opposition t.
Jefferd's statement with reference to his manner o
spending Saturday night, the police say that they
have traced his movements in another direction
and that persons who knew him well are ready Il
testify that at 10 o'clock on the night of the murde
he at a drinking place on the corner of Forty
first street and Sixth avenue which is resort TO
railroad conductors, and where he was perfect,
well known.
Coroner Jackman has received great many let
tiers from persons who volunteer to testify on tn
inquest, mainly upon the subject of the peculia
domestic relations of Mr.. and Mrs. Walton. On
or two state that they had good view of the mur
derer, and believe they should be able to identif
: | MIN. In some Oh the documents the most DaseleS
theories that could be invented with reference t
the occurrence are preached. As the stand
there appears to have been no light thrown upo
the circumstances which it involves. The public
however still look with increased anxiety to a Sc
luton of the mystery. The funeral of MIR. Walto
took place Yesterday, from st. Peters Church i
Twentieth street. 1t attracted a large crowd. Th
remains were inferred in Greenwood Cemetery.
CRUELTY TO SEAMEN-We are aware that the of
GERS of American merchantmen are convicted il
En- land of tv n M W
not before aware that they would dare to com
mence their brutalities before leaving an America
port.
Two gentlemen on Saturday, observed a saio
s swimming towards a pier head, pursued by sewers
persons in a ships boat. Before reaching the pel
y he was overtaken by the boat, seized and dragge
into it, when he was knocked down and beaten wit
a ropes end over his head and shoulders as hard
r vigorous limbs could apply it. The beating COZ
e tinued until the boat reached the side of the AM
, | liza, ship lying in the stream bound to Liverpool
- A rope was then dashed about the poor fellow, an
e he was hosted up the ships side. No sooner wt
Is he up to the rail than officer of the ship unde
l. stood to be the mate, seized him. hurled him to tn
# deck with great violence, and administered a mo-
, unmerciful beating. The gentlemen who witnesse
this exhibition of inhumany felt it to be their dut
II to inform the owner of the vessel of the manner
which the deck of his fine ship had been disgrace
The information communicated in quiet r
/ spectful manner, but was not graciously received
re the only reply vouchsafed being, "What have yo
J. to do with it?' 'What is it to me?" "They kno
= what they about, and responsible" Fai
ing of success in this quarter, they waited upon
i magistrate, who regretted, in consequence of tt
sufferers name being unknown, no process cou
issue. 1t is sckening enough to read of the detail
y ct cruelty that are revealed before the Liverpo
j. Police Courts, but the horror becomes intensht
5, when we know that corresponding deeds are doi
in our own harbor, and within stones throw
our wharves Is there really no remedy?-Charle
to" Mercury, J"ly2.
- MYSTERIOUS Music ON THE GULF SEoRE-Tl
!, mystic music sometimes heard at the mouth OF Il
# Passagoula river, on still night, is one of Il
# | wonders of our coast. 1t is not confined, howe
i err, to the Passagoula river, but has often be-
4 heard at other places. At the mouth of the Bayt
4 Cog del indie and other inlets, opening into Il
n Gulf along the coast of our own country, the Gu
n ious listener, lying idle in his boat with LITE
# oars when every other sound is hushed, may som
, times hear its strains coming apparently from
n meath the waters, like the soft notes of dsta
# Eolian harps. We have always supposed that ii
n | phenomenon, whatever its organ might be, natur
T or supernatural, was peculiar to our own coast.
, appears, however, from Sir Emerson Tenants
: cent work on Ceylon, something very like it
>, known at Battialloa,s in that island, and it is
o tributed to rather less poetcal and mysterious OF
!. gin-that it is peculiar species of shell fs
% They are said to be heard at night, and most d
:, tinctly when the moon is nearest the full. S
d Emersrn also says: "Sounds somewhat sim
% are heard under the water at some places Il
If Western coast of India, especially in the harbor
NJ Bomba. At Caldera, in Chill, musical cadenc
: are said to issue from the the landil
. place; they are described rising and falling full
q. four notes, resembling that of harp strings, al
- minglng like those at Battalloa till they produ
=, a musical discord of great sweetness and delicac
= The animals from whence they proceed have n
. been identified at either place. and the mystery r
mains unsolved. whether those at Battialloa a
"A given forth by fishes molusks. Mobile Herai
4 ENGLISH VIEW OF Mr.. SUMMERS SPEECH.-T
London Times closes a notice of Mr.. Sumner
r harangue recently delivered in the United Stat
e, Senate follows:
p, owe must, in the name of English abolitionis
"a at least protest against these foolish and yindict
10 harangues. Scarcely has the frenzy caused
Z John Browns outrage begun to die away than o
~ comes Mr.. Sumner with speech which will set t
e whole South in flame. We well believe tn
9, the prospects of the Republican party have be
h already damaged by it. Mr.. Sumner is one
10 that class of politicians who should be muzzled
n their friends. The man who can in personal irri
r bity forget the interests of great cause is
y worst enemy. Slavery existed on the Amerc
IN continent long before the Assembly of which n
"a Sumner is a member. On it depends or is suppos
m TO doponh. tho prosperity of balf tho Tnion;
al looms of Lancashire and Normandy, as well
70 those of Mr.. Summers own State, are supplied
nh slave-grown cotton, and hundreds of millions
d. Northern dollars vested in slave-worked pla
n tations. Slavery with its roots thus deep in t
soil, is not to be rooted up by any peevsh effort
h. rhetoric; and we may predict that the W
"a first gains victory for the of abolition W
;r be of very different temper to the Senator fro
Of Massachusetts,
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