New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-20
The Remains of Murdered wife Discovered

The Remains of a Murdered Wife Discovered
The st. Louis Republican Of the 18th gives the
following sequel to one of the most extraordinary
tragedies ever heard Of. 1t sounds like the very
romance of crime and its inevitable discovery and
punishment:
Towards the end Of November, 1858, Sarah, the
wife Of Geo. II. Lamb, left the residence Of her
father Mr.. Stafford, in Hamilton county, H., IN
company with her husband, ostensibly to 90 to
Memphis. Two or three weeks afterwards. Lamp
Sarah had taken sick in Memphis and died there.
The next day he left and went to MENDOZA, Lee
county where he had been engaged in keeping
hotel and where only short time subsequently he
married an interesting girl Of that place. On hear
ing of this sudden marriage, Mr. Stafford began TO
be suspicious of the fate OF his daughter and VIII
ting to Memphis he ascertaned that she had never
| been in that city. Meantime Mr.. 8. met a man
! named Sawyer in Mendoza who told him that he
had seen Lamb in st. Louis at the time he professed
to have been in Memphis, and gave him other in.
formation which tended to increase the probablll-
4 ties Of foul play.
The anxious parent hastened to this city, and
after some labor found out that her soninlaw had
been here, and had attempted to poison Sarah al
4 with strychnine at the Aston Honse, on Franklin
| Avenue With this information Mr.. Stafford had
gained another strong link in the chain of suspicious
Circumstances sufficient to justify Lambs arrest.
Accordingly Captain Lee, Of THIS city, went up %
few days after his arrival the accused made free
voluntary full and pentent confession to his father
in-law in which he stated that one evening he had
induced Sarah to 90 down the Mississippi in skif,
and when little below Tucker Island had stran.
gled her by holding her head under water, and had
afterwards attached o large stone to her neck by
means of a rope, and dropped her below the sur
face Lamb was tried on that confession, and the
other circumstances connected with his arrival and
stay in this city, found guilty and hanged for his
most diabolical crime. On the trial it was denied
that the prisoners confession should be received
evidence, and most powerful point in the defens
was the body not having been found.
Such are the main features in this most remark
able case, perhaps not altogether forgotten by thu
public.
!, Friday, at the identical spot named by Lamb a
, the place where the murder was committed. tn
body Of woman. without head, was found, cor
responding as near as possible, with the desefip
! ton of the murdered victim. The decapation wa
probably the effect Of the rope with the slone 81
taehed, and by the appearance OF the n9ay te
clear that ii must have remained In the WATER . .
quite long enough to justify the strong
! that it must be the corpse OF the unioreolae -
# Lamb. zoftar an appeaI to
u Lamb, it will be remembered, alter an appea. -
: the Supreme Court, was hangee. -----
IN a., nun ,reAcK OF MuRDERERs.-The slcKsnnfg
"a wing of wednesday says:
~ y..s understand that the brother Of Mr.. A. d
,trarson who was murdered by some unknown per
o. ans short time SINCE at Diamond Bend, received
n ? disnateh Yesterday to the effect thai two mel
!. had been seen at Bayou Sara in a skiH resembling
i that which was stolen from Warson's boat on thu
!. night the murder committed, and that 1t con
a tanned boxes of goods bearing the deceased
i, name. A party was to leave Immediately to cap
IS ture them.