Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-05-06
me Canaan chIla murder.

The trial of Mrs. Brown for the murder
of Angeline Stewart, which has been in
progress for some days at Hudson, New
York, was concluded on Saturday last.
The jury retired about 6 pm, and after
an absence Of eighteen hours returned to
court and announced that they had
agreed. The prisoner evinced great ex-
citement when the jury came into court,
and it is supposed that she was under the
influence Of morphine, which drug she
has been in the habit of taking in large
quantities. Before the foreman gave the
verdict mot Guilty" hardly breath
disturbed the stiffness of the COURTROOM,
but as sosn as it was announced a muir
mur Of appreciation was heard, which was
quickly suppressed. Her counsel Mr..
Andrews) then rose from his seat and
advanced toward her, extending his hand,
giving her a hearty greeting. She greeted
him in return, and in low tones, said I:
II did not expect this; l thought sure /
should be sent to prison for at least ten
years." She was then discharged from
custody. Previous to leaving the city
for Chatham, she made an extraordinary
statement She stated. in person, to the
local editor of the Hudson Star, that
previous to his death by hanging, Joseph
Brown wrote confession in the French
language, in which, as he himself in
formed her, the name of the real MUIR
derer of Angeline Stewart was made
known. The contents of this confession
she, and the real murderer, and Brown,
were bound by solemn oath, mutually
taken, not to make public, unless it was
necessary to do so to save her own life,
or unless she was acquitted. Mrs.
Brown said she took the oath at her hus-
bands command In answer to q question
put to her as to what Brown said to her
as he was led out of the cell on the morn
ing of the execution, Mrs. Brown replied:
"Hs again cautioned me to be true to
my oath" Mrs. B. also said that her
husband instigated the preparation of
the murder, and that was the reason why
he did not make confession before he
died or on his trial, being satisfied that
he would be found guilty of being an
accessory before the fact, and having
made an oath Of secrecy with the real
murderer never to disclose the crime, he
had kept that oath inviolate. These
facts, Mrs. Brown says, her husband told
her, as well as the import of the oonfes-
sion; but she could not read French,
aud therefore did not know what the
details therein contained were. She
remarked that if she had been convicted
and sent to the State prison, she never
would have told Of the confession. But
she felt it her duty, now that she was
clear, and her innocense established, to
disclose such facts as would place the
murderer in the same position as she has
occupied 80 long When asked what had
become of the confession referred to, she
stated that she placed it in the possession
OF her mother, Mrs. Lydia Fox, few
days before her trial closed, and that it
was taken by her TO West CRANKY, Conn,
for translation, when it would be sent
back to District Attorney John ".
Longley. She says that the plan for the
murder Of the child was concocted at
Dayton, Ohio, as she learned from Brown,
and that Brown assigned the work of
killing the child to hired assassin, the
two to share equally the 1900 policies
of insurance on the child's life.