The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1864-01-09
DIR NEW ENGLAND LETTER.


ARISES IN 4 REFoRMAToRY INSTITUTION
RFcRulTINc-NEW ENGLAND SANITARY FAIR
THE pEENAN AND KING MLL-THE WEATHER.
VARIOUS NEW ENGLAND ITEMS.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
BosToy. Mass. December %, 1868
The arrival of the FalGn at New York yestfrtay
without prize, for wonder) admonlshes me 70
nrenare nv hebdomadal contribution to The NEW
SourH, else my paper may be stopped, and thus
be brought to grief, for assure you IHE NEW
SOUTH is always welcome visitor to me, and to
all New Englanders who have friends in the De-
partment of the South. Ihear many compliments
to yourself, Mr.. Editor, upon the spicy, neWsy
character of your little charge which is just what
IS needed in such Department, tor entertainment
.o,1 for convenience. But l don't know that L
need to write this all the way from Boston, and
So having briefly shown that 1 am sensible at
least on one point; will go on to other topics.
Tbe ,Traat event of the past month i'll all New
Fnclond has been the Maiden Bank murder and
rohberv. which have before merely alluded to.
Tbn laiast nreyious event in the whole word, that
7 am aware, Of which had any parallel to 1t, was
the murder and robbery of the porter to the brit-
ish Linnea Companys Bank, in Edinburgh, 81
years ago, described by Henry Cockburn IN the
Memorials of his Time" and the perpetrator OF
that bloody crime never was discovered. In that
instance the murder and robbery were effected IN
tho street. after dark but within n few rods OF
sentinels ON their beats and the murderer got
some four or FIVE thousand pounds. The Maiden
crime was committed in the middle OF the day, IN
n bank building which is directly IN the heart OF
The village and young Converse, the Preslaents
son, was shot through the head, without a;lyIEih
- haor ~
passers-by Only $4,000 was obtained: There
Is as vet ne clue to the murderer. Skllful detec-
tives ere at work on the affair, with no results
whatever. Several parties have been under sus-
picion. and one an ex-convict. whose wife resides
IN Maiden was kept Under strict surveillance LOT
n time. till it was decided that he could not be
the guilty man. Rumor has been busy about the
matter, and has made the Detectives almost ON
nipresent. announcing the arrest OF the murderer
nv the same man in as many as dozen different
Iiaces all over New England at the same time
IThe Maiden peopls think the guilty man is still
in their midst. and that the truth may be devei.
oned but the proverb that "murder will out
is not always supported by the facts, as witness
the Edinburgh affair above alluded to, and to
come nearer home, the Parker Murder, at Man.
chester n. H. nearly twenty years ago, the per-
petrator Of which has never been discovered.
Another exciting topic, emanating from here
abouts which is talked and written of all over the
country, is q recent exposure of abuses at the
House of Reformation for juvenile offenders, a
Suffolk County institution, located at Deer Island
in Boston harbor, of which one Peyson, formerly
Sheriff of Essex county, and who recently re-
placed another man in his present position, is
Superintendent The judges of the Boston
Police Court and the Judge of Probate are by law
the inspectors of Prisons for the county OF sutf-
ok and is their duty to visit all places of con-
fnement therin, at least twice year, and report
thereon to the Board of Aldermen. They are all
gentlemen eminent for their personal mte@rty \:
Il annears that they presented one of their half
YEARLY reports to the Board of Aldermen in July
last and in it made some severe structures upon
the House of Reformation, caused by the death
of one boy and the Gripping of two Others for
life the result, as they alleged, of gross careless.
ness. or extreme cruelty on the part of officers Of
thn institution STRANGE to say: the report never