The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-05-29
Crime and RetributiOn.

CfiIne anu ketflDuLl0n.
In The course of ar article based upon
the text that murder will OUT" recent
English paper tells story of dissolule
young butcher, who lived with his widowed
mother, near Smithfeld Bars, some twelve
years ago.
''One night, inlamed by liquor and los
ses at gaming-table, he came home, and
looking in his mothers room, found her
a-leep. He had suspicion that the mon
ey with which the grazer was 10 be paid
was hidden somewhere in the room and,
creeping in lightly, he began to search The
drawers, but fonnd nothing but a steel,
blue apron and butchers knike With he
last in his hand he approached the bed
where his mother lay athep, and, beneath
the pillow caught sight OF a leather pouch
He reached out his hand, seized il, and
himself was seized.
The poor woman grasped him tightly by
the arm and screamed for help Not know
ing who was her assailani, she screamed
for her son-and that son alenced her cry
for ever With f2o in his possession, he
stole away from the house, hired boat a,
Billingsgate TO go 10 TiIbnry, prelendirg he
was going TO buy cattle at fair in Essex
The boat pushed off, and le was never
seeuagain.
sSRhen the murder was discovered, in
the course of the next day, SUSPICION was al
once excited that he had been hsr assassin
His wild course of hle and iretuent quar-
rels with his mother were we'll known
The brutal threats he had been h,ard to ut
ter, the desperate things he had been known
10 do, all assis ed in fixing the guilt OF the
murder upon him but search WIS made
for him in vain. He had been seento en-
:er the house at Smthfield Bars lie had
not been seen to leave it, but a persol an
swering TO his description had been oIserv-
ed at Billingsgate, and nothing fFlker
could be traced.
''Some people conjectured that he had
escaped 10 foreign parts others that he
had fallen into the river and been drowned !;
but nothing was known with certainty for
many years after.
"About eleven years after the murder,
two waterman named Smith and Gurrey,
were playing a shuttle board in tap rom,
( Quarrelling over the game, melted to fury
by The liquor they had drank, they began 0
accuse each other of crime.
"'Be careful, Mr. Quincy or I'll hang
you yetp
Hang me y retorts the other. There
be long cord and shon shrit Tor both 0
u.s.
g Il told thee no good would come of IL
that 10 murder the fellow would be saf
road 10 the gaIlows
50 sAnd told thee that sharing the none
and washing the boat was not a whit tn,
beuer'
"rhese angry words collected crowd Q
oilers who were drinking in a lap-room
and among them parish constable, VII
Immediately took both in custody.
/ ''On the examination of the prisoners
/ appeared that butcher, who took boa
with them on the night of The murder
boasted of the money he possessed, an,
that they agreed TO rob and murder him
and in this atlempi succeeded stahbin
the man, taking his money-which the
shared between them-and throwing III
body overheard.
'fOn their own confession they were cor
yic,ed, condemned. and executed at Maid
stone, and hanged in chains lille abov
Grayeeend.
s.None of the butchers relations kne,
I what had become of him until this happen
ed but the fact was then established iha
the murderer, in this efIortto eIude justic
had met barbarous death but that III
instruments Of his punishment were nc
allowed 10 escape; and also that by
strange and mysterious course of events
they betrayed themselves. and were brougt
to justice.