The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-01
THE TRAGEDY IN ALEX-AslNS1DssnssEA.
Additional Particulars.

| A double tragedy Of a shocking nature
which occurred In Alexandria, Va, on So:
arday last was briefly noticed yesterday
The Alexandria papers Of Monday evening
bring us fuller details of the sad affair
The account opens with the accident by
: which Miss Laura Schafer lost her life. II
says:
She had been dressing for the evening
in her own room, in the third story Of her
fathers residence, on Fairfax street, her
grandmother, Mrs. Ballenger, lady OF
some eighty years, being in the room with
her. In her fathers room, I'D joining hers,
stood large bureau, in a draw Of which
she kept her handkerchief, and, having
completed her toilet. she took the kerosene
oil lamp she had been using in her hand
and went into that room for one, leaving
her grandmother in her own chamber. She
had hardly reached the centre of her
fathers room before she heard the lamp
crack, and was instantly aware that she
was covered with the burning fluid. She
Immediately threw the lamp from her to
the hearth, and ran down stairs screaming
piteously for help.
"Mr. Phillips, her brother-in-law, who
was sitting at the front-dcor steps, hearing
her cries, rushed into the house, and saw her
rapidly descending the stairs enveloped in
flames that extended far above her head.
She reached the bottom-of the steps about
the same time that he did and her mother,
who had.-aTso7be startled by her cries,
and had met her there, was endeavcring
Intellectually to extinguish the flames when
he arrived. As COON as she saw him she
turned from her mother, and beseechingl y
implored him 10 save her. He at once threw
off his coat, and wrapping it around her,
soon succeeded in subduing the fiery ele-
ment but, alas not until it, had accom-
plishcd is nideous work. Her grandmother,
with blanket, Quenched the fire in Mr..
Schafer's room, and in all probability had
the young lady, in her fright, not have gone
down stairs, would also have extinguished
| the flames which surrounded her.
! DIR. Lewis, who was at once sent for,
in short time arrived, and every expedi-
ent that science could suggest or art apply
that might possibly prevent or. hinder the
/ approach of death was resorted to, but in
vain, for nearly the whole surface Of her
body was severely burned, and in some
I
the following morning shortly after II
o'clock she was relieved of her sufferings.
| About three hours after her death, or
about 2 o'clock, Mr.. Charles Tennesson,
son of Mr.. Samuel Tennesson, young gen.
tleman well and favorably known in the
community, who, rumor says, was engaged
to be married TO the deceased, and who had
| been her constant companion for years
! she refusing to have other company-and
who was at her bedside when she died,
sent from the residence of his father for q
friend, Mr.. Henry Green, to come and see
! him, and when Mr.. Green arrived pro-
posed to walk with him to Mr.. Schafer's
| house. Mr.. Green consented, and the two
walked down ON the way to Mr.. Schafer's re-
sidence, up which they proceeded as far as
| the gate leading into the wholesale liquor
! store of Downham 4 Green, of which firm
| his friend was a member. At this gate Mr..
Tennesson stepped, and proposed to 60 into
the store, but Mr.. Green not having the key
to the back door, told him to wait there UNI
| til he went around and obtained entrance
through the front door, on King street. He
agreed to this, and was soon admitted. A
short time after entering the store he said
he believed he would take drink, and Mr..
Green having drawn him what he desired,
and handed it to him as he stood i'll the
middle Of the store, he drank it, giving as
q toast: Here's to You and tod save
u.s." Mr.. Green took the empty tumbler,
and whilst carrying it back to the water
stand was startled by the report of pistol
and, turning, saw Mr.. Tennesson fall hea-
Willy to the 1iOor. He had deliberately drawn
J Il Ill f,a, l. -
pocket, and with his right hand placed jts
muzzle to his right temple and pulled the
trigger. The ball entered the cavity Of his
skull, and lodged upon the opposite side.
''Surgical assistance was summoned at
once, but the wounded man was beyond the
reach of the assistance to be afforded by
| earthly doctors. He was taken home,
where he'eSpireaa at twenty minutes pass
o'clock this evening, never having recovere
his consciousness since the intliction Of hi
wound.
"This truly melancholy affair was tn
subject Of general conversation yesterda
and to-day, and feeling illusions were mad
80 it yesterday in some Of the churches
The parents of the young couple receiy
the sympathy of the entire community.
Shortly after Mr.. Tenneson shot him
self yesterday, Mr.. James Wood, a youn
friend Of his, and who had been in to loo
at him as he lay upon the floor, tainted atte
coming out on the street, and falling upol
the pavement, gave rise among the larg
crowd collected in the neighborhood to
rumor that another catastrophe had hap
pencd. He, however, after the lapse OF al
hour, and the administration Of the prope
rpEtoratiycS recovered -
This is the most lamentable affair whicl
has occurred in Alexandria since the Inc
morable 18th of November, 1855, whel
seven Of the best citizens of the town wer
buried by the fall Of the wall Of the sam
building in which young Tenneson came t
his death. The parties are well known
have large circles Of friends, and the mourn
ing for the untimely events is widespread
while the excitement is universal. Nothing
else is talked Of in Alexandria.
HEAVY SENTENCES OF REVENUE De
FRAuDERs.-In Philadelphia, Monday, Am,
brose Kahoe, VIM. NJ. Cooper, I. L. Coward
| Gaorra Hammond William Rice and Iosanl