Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-09-01

out nOlDlnS was zone TIL tue next morn
ing, when wagon was sent out and th
bodies conveyed to Rolla. What prompt
ed this extraordinary tragedy does no
appear.
From our foreign files to the 18th, W
f, supply the following additional intelli-
, gence:
Wilmer and Smiths European Time
thus refers TO recent criminal develop
ments in England:
"Great crimes are the painful charac
teristic feature ofour day. At Ramsgate
on the 10Th, man named Forward
murdered his wife and daughter by shoot
ing them through the head with pistol
He had been separated from his wife fol
years, presented himself Unexpectedly
and in a friends house committed the
horrid deed. When given into custody
he declared that he had murdered three
children the preceding day, in London
but the truth of this statement is open to
doubt. Three children were undoubtedly
poisoned by man whose name is said to
be Southey, in a coffee house in the
neighborhood of Holborn, but whether
Forward and Southey are two distinct
persons, or one and the same person, is
at present matter of conjecture. The
mystery, if it be one, will be speedily
solved. 1t may be mentioned here that
the professional murderess Of infant child
rem, named Winsor, whose habiiual vii
lainy has so astonished the country, and
who was left for execution at the Exeter
Assizes, has been reprieved not, it is to
be hoped, with view of sparing her vile
existence, but simply to ascertain whether
the last trial, in which she was found
guilty, was conducted with due form of
law. On the occasion of toe first indict
ment preferred against her at the spring
assizes, the case broke down on techni
cal informality, and it has now to be ass
certained whether she could be legally
put on her trial second time for the
murder or murders which were OF
brought distinctly home on the first trial.
About her guilt there is not the least
moral doubt but Court of Error will
have to decide the point raised, and this
decision cannot be arrived at until after
next Micbaelmas term. The disclosures
of wholesale infantcide which the doings
of this wretch have brought to light have
flooded the newspapers with articles and
letters, and from these we learn that the
cine is much more general all over the
country than people had reason to be-
lieve"
CHAMP FURGUsoN.-The trial of this
fend has been going on at Nashville for
several weeks. The evidence thus far
obtained reveals a succession Of brutal,
cowardIy and wanton murders committed
by him, the like of which we have never
heard of. Here is a specimen from the
proceedings of last Wednesday:
ESTHER Ann Frogg, witness for the
prosecution, testified as follows Am the
window Of WIN. Frog. He was killed
the first day of November, 1861, eight
miles above Albany, in Clinton county,
Kentucky. Champ Furguson came in
to the honse and said, "How dye" /
asked him TO have chair. He said he
hadn't time. asked him to have some
apples. He said be bad been eating ap-
pies; what be wanted was Mr.. Frogg.-
Said He is in bed very sick Fur.
guson walked to the bed and asked
are you, Mr.. Frogg" My husband re-
pled->I am very sick, l bad the measles,
and have had relapse Furguson said
Il reckon you caught the measles at
Camp Dick Robinson Frogg told him
he never was there. Ferguson shot him
with pistol, | started out OF the house
and just as | got out, / heard another
shot. My husband never spoke after the
first shot, nor did hear Furguson say
anything after the first shot. went some
Twelve yards from the house remaining
about fifteen minutes, then Furguson
was starting towards his horse. When |
got back, my husband was lying dead in
he bed. He was shot twice, once under
he left breast, and once in the right side. :
When Ferguson came Jack Mace and
ny little child, five months old. in its
'radle, were present George Bragbe
nd Vest Gwinn were with Ferguson.
They staid in the road and did nothing,
ut went off with him. / was raised near
Furguson, and had known him all my Q
lie. My husband was never at Camp c
Dick Robinson" e