The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-08


return TO her duties ne the wife of Carson and for
spke Smyth. This she refused to co, considering
nc self the lawful wife of Lieutenant SmYth Car
son cent Tor his wIle, and enreaed her to live WITH
him. which she refused to DO. Smyth, returning
ordered him cut of the house smyth discharged
the contents OF pis ol in Calsons lace he lived u
few minutes. Smyth was subsequently, tired and
convicted Great eAor were made to obtain
paI don for him, but Governor Snyder vas uumove
lis death warrant was sPned. Smyth Yves execute {
on the SPOT now known as Logan square.
WILLIAM GROSS
was executed February T. 1928, for tho murder OF a
woman OF bad r.pute by the name of KezIah STOW,
with whom he had been livin" uuOn tenn of intl-
macy The murder was committed in a hous2 o ill
fame keptby Keziah in CurIant alley. jut after hr
bucher-kniie, previously whetted by Gross IOr the
purpose The execution took place in the old jail,
Sixth ana Walnut
JAMES MORAN
was hung on Friday. May 10, 1887, at Cherry H
near where the Eastern Penetenhary is now located
Moran was born in Southampton, England, of poor
but respectable parents. In early life he shipped
saIor from Liverpool upon an American vessel
ton he tell in company with a Spauiard named
Estevan Garcia, man OF very bad character, who
j. du ed hlm 10 ship aboard OF the schooner William
Wirt, at out to ser sail 10 X janet o The schooner
ed from Boston about the latter end of Septem-
b r. 1886. During the trip Moran and the Spanlard
mu dered Captain smith and le mate, whose name
was W ard. Care was XII led on board Of the ship.
ana o1an was placed in custody, brought to this
country ana tried before the Unl'ed States Circuit
I tourt judges 8adwin and Hopkinson upon the
bench Throughout h's tnal he proved himself one
OF Tie ECst hardened OF wreches.
CHARLES LANGFELDT
was executed October 20, 1S48 1or the murder of
Mrs. Rademacher, on Thursday night Marcn 23
Creams and screams we're heard issuing from the
house, old number 80, N. Fourth street. below
Cherry, two doors from the Third Lutheran
Church Mr.. Koellner, who occupied the third
story, hearing the went TO Mrs Rademacher's
room, and found Mrs. Rademacher murdered lying
on The floor de uged with blood: TIE body was
horribly mutIated. Whle her hu ,ba. d was terribly
veIed.
Suspicion attached to q German named Langfed.
who had served four years IN the HenltentarY for
the robbery OF the Lutheran church, and also a
hardware sore. ne was convicted mainly on the
testimony OF Mrs Radomacher. He had been re-
lea'ed from PRISON on the 7th inst and had obtained
employment at a shoemaker shop: His fellow work.
man mis- cd a kni.e from his workbench, which was
sH ON to as identical with the one found in the
chamber. He missed from his room ON that
particular night eleven to three Returning after
that hour IN his stocking feet Ho was tried and
found guilty. lie protested his innocenc. to the
last
TaE SKUPINsKI BROTHERS
ON Friday evening, January 30, 1852 two little
pr!s ere playing upon the ice, near l. z. Morris s.
iron foundry, on the Della ware river, Kensing gton
hole observed in the ice. Upon examination
thee cloth bags we're found. There were some men
WORKING near at hand who examined tine contents
One contained the head, stomach, entratls, and
tins BIS; another The arms and uunkj the third had
1t proved TO be the body of young Jacob Lehman,
aGed seventeen years, son of German peddler,
missing since The 6th OF January previous.
On Wednesday, the 18th OF February, two Poles
nan ed Matthias and Blase Skupinski we're arrested
1t was proved they had vaca ed house in which
they lived very suddenly. Articles known to have
BELONGED 10 young Lehman we're found in their pos
session Alter tul investigator hey We're com.
mltted,
deied the boy Tor the sake oil the jew ery he had will
HIM for III. purpose OF selling 1t The jewelrY was
worth abou, $500 lew months afterwards they
weIc hung, but moi on the same day
ARTHUR SPRING
On FRIDAY morning, March H. 1863 two sister
named HoTora Shaw and Ellen Lynch residing il
Federal street, above Seventh were found dead a
their home. Ellen was in her night-clothes anC
lying upon her lace in puddle Of blood. which hat
| come from her mouth. Her hands were lacerateC
| with knIte, her head mangled by Dlow from {
Her sister, Mrs Shaw, lay in the sam, room in he
oroInary DRESS, with horrid cash in her rIgh
| check and deep stab in her breast. There wer
| forty y-one wounds on the boly OF Mrs. Lynch anC
seventeen on the Lody of Mrs. Shaw.
Alihur spring, an Old convict aud an Irishman
! 1ouId In his room mad blood upon them. He wa
aIIe ted and convlc ed on the testmons OF his son
| lac CIgh cen years d who related the confession
| his iaher made to HIM several days previous Il
tie mul Ger. opring refused to plead guilty, but &C
|
tho Ict had been rendered of murder i'll the frs
dege ee he thl eatened to XII his the first oppoi
| tUlity lie had
DIVINE to a legal informalitv the verdict of gui t.
was set Ge, and spring was granted new trta
! ApTi 4, on the same day Cape and Emmos wer
| refused Great difficulty experienced in gettin
| a jury who had not formed en- opn on, After ,hre
days trial the verdict was IeafiiTmed, whereupon h
| ubialterngly IN Court accused his son.
Spring was suspected of several murders. tru
| bill accusing him of the murder of Mr. Rink, VIII
kept toy shop under the old Nat Onal Theatre, wa
found by the Grand Jury. He tried to comm
suicide by sleeping with tobacco under his arm-pIr
but without success. He was executed June II
| 1868, with his last words duplicating has son, an
! declaring his own innocence.
| THOMAS j ARMSTRONG.
This case is OF such recent occurrence that th
| particulars are familiar to all readers. Arm
strong murdered man named Robert Crawford
in The early part of November, 1860 and drove W t
tie body from the lower part of the city to 81
John street, where the murdered man was see
| by one who was passing. The previous good chaI
| aoter OF Armstrong was a strong point IN his aVol
but German who was discovered by District A
tCTneI Mann, late IN the tTlal of the cas- ceerl
identified the prisoner. He was convicted Januar
20, 1861 and sentenced to be executed February 2I
1861. The penaly OF the CT ime was carried oU
in The following month.
REnYdaP nf the naeyfno Eav,oiI.,