The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-11-06
Confession of a NurdefeSs.

We abridge the following from tho En-
pire of Sydney: Most people whose memo
ry carries them back for a quarter of CEN
tury, will remember the leading features of
an extraordinary crime which took place in
London, about the year 1897, and which ex.
cited in the public mind as great degree
of horror as any deed OF guilt ever commit
ed in the metropolis. allude TO the mur-
der by Greenacre OF Mrs Brown, woman
10 whom he was TO have been married on
The day following that on which he perpe
tra,ed the airocious offence for which he
Justly paid the penalty OF his worthless life.
Some of the circumstances were so horribly
grotesque. that no lapse Of years can eface
them from the memory of those who then
became acquainted with them. Greenacre,
it was proved al the trial, completely dis
membered the body OF the unfortunate Mrs.
Brown, and, after disposing OF the trunk
and limbs in various places, actually rode
about London in cabs and omnibuses, for
two or three days with the head under his
arm. wrapped in 81 TX handkerchief-tell
ing those friends and scquaintances who
happened TO inquire as TO the contents of
bundle he was SO careful of, that it vas on
ly a cabbage
OF the murderer himself. and of the par
ticulars of his trial and execution, | shall
here say nothing The circumstances which
! am about 10 relate has no further connec-
ton with him and his history, than that il
refers TO the Ultimate fate of the wretched
woman who was his paramour and accom-
plice, VINO assisted him, if not in the actual
murder, at least 10 conceal the evidence of
il, and who was 10 have shared the proceeds
ded to, became, il possible, an Object OF
greater execration than :he murderer him
self She was admitted Oh the trial 10 give
evidence against him, and by this rieans 10
preserve her worthless life for the fate which
befel her many years afterwards in the far
interior of this country. II will perhaps be
necessary TO explain that at the time of the
murder OF Mrs. Brown | was almost child,
that il was the first crime of horror With the
details of which had ever been acquain-
ed; and that the impression left on my
youthful mind was OF a vivid and painful
nature. In the year 1858 was residing in
remote part of this colony. did not reg
ularly follow my profession as rieans of
livelihood indeed, the population v as much
too scattered, and far TOO healthy, 10 induce
a medical man to remain there When,
however, accident or the usual acc ON pani-
ments of domestic life threw anything in nv
way, took advantage of It to help out an
otherwise not very liberal income, and by
this means became acquainted with the
dreadful crime alluded to twenty years after
it was committed
One morning before daybreak was arous-
ed from my sleep by a heavy kne ecking at
my bedroom window which looked out into
the verandah of my residence On inquiry
/ found was required "a. distance of sixty
miles, to attend a woman who bad been
thrown from her horse against tree The
messenger informed me that if m ade haste
and could save the patient, should be
handsomely rewarded, as she was very rich
having some thousands of cattle an stations
halfas big as England itself; that resh hor-
ses would meet Us, and that if r,de well,
we could do the distance ia some thing like
FIVE hours This arafuifous infor naa;o., h<,-