The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-09-18
A FIENp INCARNArE.

The Pioneer IL tie cath August pubIished
At Nappleonyille, Assumption Parish. La.
details the particulars u an unparalleled u =
y atrecIty. :. There are some crimes. saws
The Pioneer, which are % revolving and
oaious, that. IN respect or humsn nature, We
Sould desire = throw The manile 81 secrecy
over them. Such i the une We are obliged
70 chronicle In this issue - -
4 lew months ago Mr. Joseph r. Auc DIN
purchased the negro Aspasie, al Tie sale 81
Mr. ]. Astusuetielle's slaves. size exhibit,
cd much dissatisfaction Al first "a account ii
this change, but speedily assumed III extr-
rlor 81 calm contenimrGt under The Kind and
eonsldefate treatment nc her new master.
Under this placid surface. however, we're
cherished designs 81 inh4man i II place her
iar beiaW tie level ii lie brute creation.
Several days liter tie domestIcatton III A.
paste. Tie eldest son 81 Mr.. Ancn.n. boz Of
eight years. disappeared. AIR 4 long
search liz was LIQUID drowned III / well. Al
lev lays after this anofaer Guild was discoy-
cred, plunged head foremost III large water
jar. lie MS rescued barely in time ID ave
III lie, and when demonstrated alth for III.
earelessaess tnat . nearly proved fatal, tie
ehid replied that be tad been thrown into
tHe jar by aspa.le. TAis assertion was o.
sslnaiely dlscredited by bis parents, Who did
MT inF momen. consider lie possibility of
is truth.
But On the following lay this child Wa
found lying dead ii Ne corn bin, Nith liz
lace hprribiy mutilated. 4 dag with hi.
mouth biuudy was chained beside the bod,
u he little 5oY. and supprsng it to have
killed h.s son. Mr.. Aucoln hail il immedi-
atsly shot. Had lbe matilatiOn II tie cbilI,s
lace been more carefully examined, il would
hare been apparent that its mortal wound.
could MOI have been made bY the dog. teeth.
The death II both II These children III II hDr.
fible manner, attributed ii acrldent,
plunged tie parents into the depths nf grief.
and they Iamsnied what seemed 10 llen,
strangely terrible fatality.
0n Thursday morning while Mr.. Aucoin
Vas absent from the house, and bis good wife
was waking ID tie garden, she vas startled
by piercing efles from lie house, which lie
fecngnizsi - tile voice 81 her little babe.
nov the only child Ielt ID her. At tie lir-t
CRY, ihe mafher, rendered painfully .ensi
tive By her recent Affections, rushed back 10
the h0use. .Ai lite guur III The bel Chamber
she passed A.pasie, wllp was coming out.
Hafthg pat her, without stopping il VI.
change word, she vas soon az he side III
Tie BEL Id Which. but minute before. lie
had lad her sleeping infant. Tie spectacle
iaf met hrr eses mas horrible ole. There
~ ihe babe, 40 % shoftly previous vas re.
turning ~ mothers earesses. bathed ID is
own blood with il thfoai literally cut run
eaf 70 ear. Near 70 tho bed, al table, was
! large Kitchen knife, covered With blood
that bad just been msde Tie instrument ID
taat fearful tragedy.
III - instant The mothers mird. rendered
clearer b, the tornado II anguish that swept
Over II. eampfehended the full ,llIany sd
tie in.atspe lend who had made her Guild.
less. Ii 49, sspasie who had III, nattted
ne room, and VINO alone could have entered
il during her bflel absence il was Aspssis
whom III other child accused Or attempting
81 drown hin. and whose life was ihe saeri.
fee 81 BIZ words being UNDECIDED. In.idents.
triillng II themselves, bat links 81 ID non
CHAIN d damHEg evidence, crowded thick
and fast upDn the mother. mind. and liz
whole extent u Aspasie's yillany was ap-
parent TO her Attracted BIZ her shrIeks u
sngaish, tae neigbburs ran 10 tie house, and
alter learning The facts, 81 once arrested
Asp4sie and subjected her 10 close cross
examination. All first she denied every
Ming. esi finding Tie proof against her 10.
tvntestibles siss admitted with revolving
e5niflsin. bs three murders. and confessed