The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-10-26
Murder will Out.

Some months ago Welt kuowii music
teacher of Brooklyn was murdered on
the streets, snd robbed The affair has
been shrouded in mystery until the
arrest of VIM. Higgins, a New York
thief who has operated with gang in
Brooklyn. While confined in Jail Hig:
gins made d full confession of number
of crimes, and among the stories told
by him was the following:
You see,' said Higgins, Il was in the
Tombs in New York when that affair
happened, and I came out in the morn.
ing after the night on which it occurred.
I'd been taken in for fighting. Well, /
was coming over to Brooklyn on the
night of the day when l was released,
(tho night following the assault on Pa
normo,) and was coming over with one
of our chaps that we call 'Cockuey,' he's
an Epglishman. When we get togcth-
er-any of us-we generally tell each
other what sort of luck we'd had, and
says Cockncy to me:
aBy c., but we had narrow es-
cape last night With that in
Brooklyn"
What's that p said 1. +
'Oh,' says he, Cassidy and I, and
Scotty and O'Brien, came over here last
night On au expedition, {iiicsaing to rob
some house. } and wedidn't get q thing
So one of the fellows said, oh, lot us
so back
Cassidy said, Its sham, to go back
without anything
That's so,' said -.
another. ~
Here you are them said one of the
four. Let's go for this IL com
ing up, and see what he's got about
him ~" ip ana .0J sdl =
This said Higgins, 'is Just about
what Cockney told me, Cep, and then
he went on to say how they robbed
Panormo.. - n'slaqp =, ..,ss
One efshsa srsbbsa ai.A 81 tlis col col
lar and said iaa rough voice, ~ hat have
you got about yoa2 Come, pom up at
che arnc tiua king PsaoTHe
Aa soon as he frit he Was grnspsd ae
cried ont, or attempted 10 cry out fof
help, aud another of the four pulled out
a pistol and 'jabbed' him 10 the neck
with the muzzle, and said, .D---yohr
dirty soul, If you yell out again I'll blow
your brains out s-.u
Feeling the muEzle of the pistol at
his neck, Panormo stopped, and third
man proceeded ito go through him, and
was just on the point Of taking his gold
watch, when the man who pulled the
pistol on him (thinking Parormo would
not dare to cry out) rsplac, ID tho pistol
in his pocket. Seeing the pistol dis.
posed of, Panormo again cried out for
help, and that cry cost him his life, for,
with terrible cath, O'Brien struck him
on the temple with club; and as the
uniortuato victim was rceling backward
from the effect of the blow, he again
struck him oyer the left eye and fiat
along the iace TO the upper lip, and this
blow was the one which made the ter
rible wound, which was SO fully de!
scribed at the time.
Only two blows were struck, and the
man who was robbing him of his watch,
grabbed it, and seeing him ft!lsd and
bleeding, they all ran off, and reached
New York in different directions. This
is the story of the murder of Panormo,
as told by Higgins, who gives his iufor.
nation from 'Cockney,' who himself was
one ol :ho gang and took part IN the rob-
berry.
The weapon Pauormo Was struck with
is q club made Of hgnum vitae, and ex-
ceedingly heavy. 1t is fourteen inches
in length, and is what is known to the
police force as parade club 1t is a
size between pocket club and regular
locust.
The parties implicated In the murder
havo been arrested.
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