Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-12-08

State.
| FIFTY DOLLARS FOR MURDER
Chicago paper says that William Cor
bet has confessed the murder of Michat
Maloney at Cicero, III. 1t appears tha
a man named Williams, who lives j
Cicero, and who had on one or more oC
casions had difficulty with Maloney, hire
three men, Corbett, Fleming and Kenne
dy, to murder him. They proceeded t
the place, and all three had weapons
They arranged themselves in such orde
that when Corbett shot him the other
could repeat the shots in case he was no
killed. The one shot, however, kilet
him. The price paid for this murde
was fifty dollars, sixteen dollars and sixty
six cents each. 1t is alleged that Elem
ing is an escaped prisoner from Botany
Bay, and has committed murder before
Corbett and Fleming are to be hung
Dec. Is.
EXECUTION OF KERcHNER AT Bur,
FALo.-Agreeably to the sentence tn,
Court, Kercbner, the murderer, was ex,
ecuted in Buffalo on Friday. The Ex-
press says great crowd of people con-
gregated at an early hour about the Jail
but all view Of the execution was preclu-
ded by covering the yard with canvass,
The prisoner slept well, ate with his u.s.
ual good appetite, and showed a total
want of feeling as the hour approached,
proclaiming his innocence to the very
last. He even INDUCED in jokes to the
very last. While being robed in the
black gown and cap he remarked to the
attendants: az you ever saw a Dutch
man die game you will see one now
Looking at the gown he said he would
pass for priest now, and requested that
he might have his uudershirt unbuttoned
and be assisted to chew of tobacco
On the scaffold he made quite a lengthy
and rambling speech, in which he said he
had been visited by Catholic priest who
told him that he could not 90 to Heaven
if he remained Protestant, but he re-
piled that he would not change his relis~
ion. When all arrangements had been
he said "You must watch
his brave Dutchman here, how he died.
The last words he said were 6 | never
he'd tear 1 would rot change places
With Bishop Til When the we'd
Timon' was but half pronounced the drop
ell, and be was launched into eternity.
TERRIBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE
dispatch received about the middle Of
he past week stated that whole family
od been murdered noap I;',ls F~Ils, !
New York, consisting of Daniel Walrodt,
lis wife and daughter, Josephine, aged
bout twelve years. The apparent de-
erIion ofthe premises aroused suspicion
nd late on Tuesday afternoon the neigh,
'ors set about the examination. In the
lining room behind the stove, the little
.irl was found dead, with her throat cut
rom ear 20 ear in re middle Of the
DOM was the mother sisaiarly murdered
nd the floor covered with blood. To a
wood house chamber the body Of the ia
her, the murderer and suicide, was found.
gun was fastened TO one of the stand
rds of the bench, with string leading
rom the trigger grasped tightly in his
and. The fearful wound in the bead,
Shere the murderous lead had passed .
Trough the temples, tearing out and scat.
sring the brain, bore their own evidence
{ the manner of his death. No cause
Their than oftemporary insanity can be
ssigned for this fearful deed. Mr.. W.
as always borne an honest, upright char.
cter in the community in which be liv-
d, was known as kind and loving hus-
and, an affectionate father and good
itizen. From the evidence before the
Try it seems that he has had some troub-
, concerning farm he had purchased,
nd this had tended TO produce melan-
holy, but was not regarded by his family
r friends as anything serious.
ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. 3. In the case
Bramaghim, indicted for the murder
f Phillips, the Attorney General gave
n opinion that The defense had establish
d justifiable homicide, and Judge Ingalls,
,erefore instructed the jury to find
erdict of not guilty.
In the case of Bridget Mccarthy, in
icted for the murder of her husband by
olson, on trial last week in Troy the ju.
: Saturday night returned verdict of
OF guilty.
There was another case of murder in
[erkimer County, at Jacksonburg, near
title Falls, Friday. The victim was a