Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-28
TIE HIGHER CIVILIZATION.
PIOUS HYPOCRISY AND
SANITY sCOUNDRELISAE.
Cheerful Condition OrPurifaH-
dom for Two Months.
ATRoCIbUs MURDER or WOMAN AT CORNWALL
LANDING, NJ
Cornwall correspondence, July 22d, Of the New


ATRocIpUs MURDER or A WOMAN AT CORNWALL
LANDING, NY.
| Cornwall correspondence, July 22d, Of the New.
burgh JournRl.l
| An irish woman named Mrs. Blake, 8
widow with two children, occupying q
! part Of small house near the plaster
| mill and within & stones throw Of Corn
wall landing, was yesterday found dead
near the road side, a few rods below the
brewery, and within four or five hundred
feet Of her own dwelling. From the
stains Of blood in the road and between
/ the road and where the body was found,
the conclusion is irresistible that the
woman had been murdered on the high
way and her body thrown down the bank
and among the bushes where it yester-
day vas accidentally discovered by Gill
bert Ward in passing by the spot,
Immediately on receipt of the intel
ligenee Dyer Brewster, Esq, q justice of
the peace, proceeded to impanel a jury
TO investigate the circumstances of her
death. Frem what we could learn from
brief visit to the place of the murder,
it appears that Mrs. Blake was last seen
alone ON Monday evening about nine
O'clock that at that time she called at
the door of Mrs. Burtes, occupying q
part OF the same dwelling with the de-
ceased, and in response TO the invitation
OF Mrs. Burtes to come in and sit down,
she stated that she could not; that she
must go to bed, as she had to be up early
to attend TO her work. Mrs. Burtes then
heard her enter her apartment, and
heard her walking around the room after
-ske bad entered. shortly after this she
heard some one approaching Mrs.
nj 4 ~ u
the door open. From this time TO the
finding Of the body ali is mystery.
Drs. Ely, of Newburg, and Heron, of
Cornwall, were summoned by the acting
coroner to make the examination of the
body. This was done last night, and to-
day the doctors are to give their testi-
mony, when the investigation will be
further continued by the coroner and
Jury. Nothing so far has been learned
that would throw light upon who the
guilty party can be. The only motive
that the public can assign for the foul act,
is based on the report that the deceased
was enciente. This, we learn, was es-
tablished by the post mortem exREnina-
ton of last evening, and that the woman
was about six months gone. 1t is be-
lieved that her seducer, to get rid of his
responsibility in the matter, enticed her
from her room when she was about re-
tfring for the night, and, having got her
in his power, proceeded deliberately to
execute his purpose. Her head was lit-
erslly pounded to pieces. From the
wounds inflicted, it is inferred that the
weapon used was either club or a stone.
From the Hartford Times, July 2oI
A few years since, Mr.. Morgan mar
ried a daughter of the late William Kel-
lOgg, Esq. of East Hartford, and the
lady was very much attached to him.
They have two bright children now liv-
ing. Mr. Morgan in the meantime was
promoted rapidly in the navy, was
finally appointed commander of large
war ship, and his prospects in life were
most hat'ering. While his ship was
lying at the Washington navy yard a
year or more since, he became attached to
a Miss Wroe, an only daughter, and Of
a highly respectable family Of Wash
ington-her father being a man of
wealth. Strange as it may seem,
and shocking as the fact was to his
friends and relatives here, be married
Miss. WrOe. She is now about TO
become a mother. There are two or
three facts that make this case aggrava-
ting. Last spring Miss WrOe, who had
been the wife Of Morgan for nearly a
year, came to Hartford TO see Mrs. Nor
gan and ascertain personally withregsrd
to her marriage. She had an interview
with her, saw her children, and learnt
all the facts. She went back to her
fathers in Washington. Soon after
Morgan came on and said he had sepa
rated from his second wife forever, or
had given her up, and that henceforth
his errors, he should cling TO
his first and only legitimate wife. Mrs.
Morgan received him only as q wife who
loved her husband could receive him
and she was quite happy. He re-
mained with her a short lime, less than
a month, when one morning he eOOlly
informed her that he did not love her.
He then left her and went back TO Wash
ingtOn, or TO Georgetown, within few
miles of Washington. Mrs. Morgan's
immediate relatives then took steps to
have him arrested. Mr.. Wroe, the
father of the second wife, sends on
letter signed by r. D. Hubbard, state
attorney, and dated Hartford, June l,
1867, informing him that Morgan was
never married to Miss Kellogg, but lived
with her illegitimately for eight years.
This letter is q forgery. Whether Mr..
will take any steps with regard
to this forgery, we are not informed. We
have seen the letter.