Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-10-17
Murder Will Out.

Some months ago well known music
teacher of Brooklyn was murdered on
the streets, and robbed. The affair has
been shrouded in mystery until the ar
rest of VIM. Higgins, New York thief
who has operated with gang in Brook
lyn. While confined in Jail Higgins made
full confession of a number of crimes,
and among the stories told by him was
the following
"You see," said Higgins, 81 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, 1
was coming over to Brooklyn on the night
of the day when I was released, (the
night following the assault on Panormo,)
and was coming over with one of our
chaps that we call 'Cockney,' he's an
Englishman. When we get together
any of us we generally tell each other
what sort of luck we'd had, and says
Cockney to me:
"By G., but we had a narrow escape
last night with that t--in Brooklyn. "
What's that ?" said I.
."Oh," says he, Cassidy and I, and
Scotty and O'Brien, came over here last
night on an expedition, (meaning to rob
some house., and we didn't get thing.
So one of the fellows said, "Oh, let us
60 back"
Cassidy said, "lts shame to go back
without anything.
"That's so," said -.
"Well, let's lay for somebody" said
another.
"Here you are, ther," said one of the
four. "Let's 60 for this -- COM
ing up, and see what he's got about
him."
"This," said Higgins, lis just about
what Cockney told me, Cap" and then
he went on to say how they robbed
Panormo.
One of them grabbe1 him by the col
lar and said in rough voice, What
have you got about you? Come, pony
upl' at the same time shaking Panormo.
AS soon as he felt he was graspcd he
cried ont, or attempted to cry out for
help, and another of the four pulled out
pistol and "jabbed" him in the neck
with the muzzle, and said, Cd
dirty soul, if you yell out again I'll blow
your brains out.
Feeling the muzzle of the pistol at his
neck, Panormo stopped, and third
man proceeded "to 60 through him"
and was just on the point of taking his
gold watch, when the man who pulled
the pistol on him thinking Panormo
would not dare to cry OUT replaced the
pistol in his pocket. Seeing the pistol
disposed of, Panormo again cried out for
help, and that cry cost him his life, for,
with terrible oath, O'Brien struck him
on the temple with club, and as the
unfortunate victim was ree!ing back
ward from the effect of the blow, he
again struck him over the left eye and
fiat along the face to the upper lip, and
this blow was the one which made the
terrible 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 felled and
bleeding, they all ran off, and reached
New York in differ lent directions. This
is the story OF the murder of Panormo,
as told by Higgins, who gives his infor-
nation from Cockncy," who himself
was one of the gang and took part in the
robbery.
The weapon Panormo was struck with
is club made of lignum 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
have been arrested.
A USE FOR OLD MUSLIN.-There is no
economy in using old muslin where it can