New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-18

her night dresses and got INTO peu III Inc no3nne
NIGHT dress had become dry where 1t had been washed
She folded il up and put it into the drawer Her three
NIGHT dresses were examined by Mr.. Foley, Pohce'Su
and she believes also by MI Parsons the
medical attendant Of the family She . bug sodUS
the dress up to the light day or two afterwaiu she
found the stains still visible She secreted tne
dress moving 1t from place to place ana sne a
finder into the kitchen CRATE II was about hve or h
DAYS after the cbilds death that she burned the
dress On the Saturday morning. having cleaned tne
razor, she took an opportunity OF replacing ~ unop,
served in the case in the wardrobe. She distracted
her nghdress from the clothes basket when the house
maid went TO fetch glass OF wafer (Ins ~ may pe
remembered. exactly confirms Inc evidence vi tnc
housemaid Mrs. Rogers-formeriy Cox-as gwen AZ
the examination at Trowbridge.) The stained garment
found in the boilerho had no connection whatever
with the deed"
All this, remember by girl Of l6, who chad no Ill
will against the little boy except as one OF the children
of mother whom she detested; apparently nursing her
slowly burning sullen female spite until 1t grew into
this deed of hell Thinking Of it, and Of the wretched
apologies for it with which We have been nausea'ed
which her as the ideal Of of Miss Brad
don's herones tortared into exceptional madness by
perfectly apocryphal hlusage, and then "ciutchihg
wildly at the sword of Justice beseeching it to smite
her" q quote from memory, one almost longs ior
halter to help her out of this planet where she has
clearly used up her chances of development into some
thing human knowing, too. how powerless JACK
Ketcb is in effecting improvement.
After Miss Constance Kent comes the as deviishy-
selfish Forward, alias Southey, billiard'marker,
gambler begging -letterwrter impostor. shark and
scamp in general and laterly quintriplo murderer,
first of his three Children begotten in adultery, then
of his poor wife and little girl, abandoned for eight
years. This villain is held and greedy cared for by
the Ramsgate authorities, as if he were something
precious something of which inscriptions London
would willingly ROB them; is evidently ambitious OF
metropolitan notoriety; he writes letters to the cor
oner and jury now engaged the inquest on the
triple murder setting forth the advisability OF his
being allowed to verbally state the facts of the case
for the furherance of truth and justice"-n Other
words he wants TO figure before London audience, in
which desire he'll hardly be gratiied. About him ]
have couple of anecdotes highly Characteristic of the
man. communicated by friend. An acquaintance Of
my informant living near Putney was four weeks age
summoned to speak with gentleman who wanted "a
see him Immediately ON urgent private business. On
entering the roomi where his visitor waited, be
found welldressed man who opened the
conversation by saying that be had come to
borrow IS! The householder, who had never seen or
struck By the mans that he felt half inclined to
produce the money However. as the applicant went
on with his story he soon developed into the unmis
taxable professional imposfor After delivering long
TRADE against society," in which he kened himself to
Socrates and other great who had not been apprc
ciated by generation unworthy Of them he reiterated
his request On being asked TO leave the room. he did
so with sort Of mock dignity worthy Of Wkie Col.
lnss Capt. Wragge.
Sir" he said Il win do you the justice TO admit
that If had been in your position, aud You in NINE
should have acted toward you exactly as you
| have toward me; but have known persons who
would have acted on higher principles than either
Of us ~ About the same time Southey called on an
other gentleman in the neighborhood and. before
wanted the same inconsidcrable trife Of 81 To get
lid Of him shilling was rendered. which he pocketcd
with the noble remark; This sum, sir Is too nsignf.
cant to be accepted by me gift shall regard ii
as loan only" There is little doubt that the scoundrel
believed himself to be the hero he enactng. and
that his murders but the corroary Of his bdeous
sedecepon and egotism. Nearly all villains set out
by cheating themselves and attempt disqualification
by sort of plea. however wretched and they all
arraign society Of injustice toward them
On these cases (Which are naturally no, yet dismissed
from the public memory fresh ones, aforesaid
We have sundry wiie.murders. Of the usual brutal
lowerclass order nfanticides. parricide and
matricide. Also another murder of girl by her lover
in the country. And Major De We're the martinez and
sharp" military officer is hardly buried before an
other soldier has initiated the crime Of his assassin IN
shooting his sergeant at Plymouthbearing the char
aeter, too, Of quiet man. and having two good con
duct stripes" Whatever the Army and Navy Clul
may say swear about it, the general impression il
that military tyranny lies at the root Of such oenses
men don't wilfully sacrifice their own lives for III,
pleasure of destroying others without proy0cation
have heard that the health Of Curre the murderer
De We're. has been openly drank by the soldiers o
same regiments and that the officers are afraid Of III,
example spreading An application for the mans re
moval from Maidstone to the Central Criminal Court
here, has lust been made by Earl de Grey and Rpon
Secretary at War. with the object of insuring hi.
speedieI trial and condemnation His lordship thought
that il would contribute to the maintenance Of good
order AID military discipline if the prisoner were in
dcted Immediately" and Of course gained his appca
ton.
Then. too, TO complete my catalogue Of horrors q
man died OF starvation in the street. two more have
been buried alive in a sewer, and railway collision
has occurred at Coney Hatch on the Great Northern
line involving the manning Of half a hundred persons
And so much for week of London casualties" ]
willingly turn to such stray topics Of other character
the barTcnness OF the time affords.
Died, the other day. at Isleworth, a London suburb
Thomas Halliburton better known both sides of the
Atlantic by the prefix Of Judge and Sam Slick
the ClockInaker." You know all about him. and / am
not going TO write his obituary he had his ability his
shrewdness his humor above all his capacity for look
ing at hesunny side Of common albeit his Yankee.
isms were TO those Of Lowell and Holmes as the coarse
caricaure brutalities of Gilroy or Rawlanison com.
with