The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1869-03-12

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fh'cogo Tribune, FED, 10.
MAINE.
A Desperate Effort to Abolish Cap
tai Punishment in the "pinc Ire
State Legislators Anxious /
Save the Neck Of Il Lus,fui Neer
e--Siekening Particulars OF III
Horrible Crimes--Aceount OF III
Efforts to Save Him from III
scsffold.
Correspondence of the n Y. ncrnl
AUGUSTA, Feb, l3 1869,
The matter of doing away viii
capital punishment has been The sb
eofbing topic Of interest in this Stat
during the past two months. Tn,
discussions and considerations Of III,
subject in i.s ysrious com me- n dahl,
and Objectionable features have no
been confined to the executive an.
Legislative departments, bu, tho pres
the pulpit, the ,yceums, and the Who'll,
community have manifested the deep
est interest ir the mst.sr For sew.
cral years IN succession there hav,
boon efforts mado 10 the Legislature
to do away with hanging and to pan
ish murderers only by imprisosmsnl
for life. This year, however, The At.
tempt has been more than usual,
vigorous, tia chief reason being thai
there is now confined IN the Thomas.
ton jail negro murderer, under scn
tencs Of death. and few ,on.cr-
hearted philaathropis,s are anxioa,
that be should escape the peaslty
tho law has prescribed for him.
The crime Of which the meer.
ehaum-coloie "a candidate for tho scat.
fold has been convicted was one Of
thu most sAsags, atsoeious asa ksoRs,
sicAcufog er Any ever conndtlsd ID
. civilized community and after tho
horrible particulars Of it have been
perused reader viii wonder If there
is a sane, law. abiding citisen on the
globe Wit eould conscicntiously say
that the 60 Immunity ought rot to pro,
test against tho existence Of such un .
ssfs and disrsputabls charscters.
Clifton Harris IL the name Of the
atrocious murderer, and he is as One
and hcalthy-lookiag a specimen Of a
dnrky as any that ever descended
from the ancient Ham.
The murder WAS committed IL 1897
---one of the most bitter and terrible
days Of New England winter, aud
so keen aud severe was the tempest.
so deep the snow and so badly drift
ed all the roads that II was ncarly a
week before the fact OF his crime = ~
Tho two old and inoffen-
sivo women who were his victims
were Mrs susannah X insley, a widow
aged about sixty four yeass and Miss
Polly Caswcll aged about sixty. sev.
Gu years, and both resided alone In .
secluded house ahou, two miles from
The town Of Auburn, at place call
ed Yonne's cotssge. Both Of The
~emcr carued nm smrlo livelihood,
by binding shoes for tho firm Of
Keith, Berry x 20, Of Aubusn, aud
their shsencc from work for several
days having been noticed by Mr..
X eth. he wont to the house 10 a.
certain the cause, aad II was then that
The murder YVES first discovered. ghc
scene which presented itself was
probably one Of the most siekcning
and revolving that can be imagined,
On the floor, near the door Of her
-leepineapartmon., was stretched tho
lifcless body of Polly Caswell, her
head and shoulders in one room and
her body and lower limbs in another
Tho body was partially covered with
a night dress. and on proceeding 10
take hid Of it ii was frozen stif asd
seemed to have been in that condi-
ton for several days. A brckea
chair, covered with blood, lay near
by, sfording evidence In itself that
il had been used in the murder Of
old Polly. Hardly bad this terrible
scene been realized before smother
still more terrible me. their gaze. In
tho bed, In small room, say ten feet
Vas the lifelcss and CHASTITY
body Of the widow Kinslsy, also fro.
rem stiff and lying, with hsr night
rlpthss on, 10 a pool OF eorgsaled
blood. Tho bedclothes wsrs Also
matted with blood, tho qsilt aad
feather tick torn, tho feathers scatter
I'd about. and everything Indicating
that terrible struggle for lie had
Iakcn place. The body of Mr.. KISS
ley was terribly eut and nangssd.
The jugular vein vas severed by .
deep cash on tho side Of the threat,
aud there we're also ssss o. ths leie
lswbone aud on tho len forehead, =
cash nearly six inches, in length in
the len Lex, asa scvsss bssisss on tho
lsft shonldsr, nst 70 nsxties Many
minor cuts sd hsuisss, and there
2.s also oessississ ssidssss hat a.
indecent outrage had bssn ssmniitsd
o. attempted. Nix Caswsil ~ ~.
csivsd severe blsws - ~ he'd ssA
iics, hsr sksA ~ ffasssssl. NJ isfs
vrist broker, hes waist I'D N shssl-
der bruised. There vss slso . vesad
over her right eye, . cat 90 hss lsh
arm sboss the chow. asd : s1t ~
her lett tuucklcs- A mors horrible
scene than appsAssd upon the dissov
ely Of the murder cannot bs surnised.
rAe bodlss, cut, bruised Aad mas
xisd 10 almost every part, covered
vish tlosd, the hsiv dsshessllea sad
hlosAy, The psihfsi oppression, Of
the soun,sssssss isdisssiag svss IA
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