Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

We learn from the New York papers that
the great number Of criminals now held in
the Tomb. are all as happy A. could be
expected, except Dutch Heinrich. who is
80 mad, " and Ro-enzweig, who has fever.
The report goes on The many men
charged with murder, who are confined on
the FIRST tier, have no complaints to make.
think of that y and laugh and chat uneon-
cernedly." Themurderer- were &c thought
ful '' for a time. after Stokes was convicted,
bat they soon recovered good spirits. They
are treated with great consideration By the
officials &c Four new bathrooms, for
their Use, "are nearly finished" Ohcial
politeness to murlerer- is something Won
derful. Ihe officer who arrested the last
murderer, Macgruder on Monday, gave an
/ illustration Of this The murderer had jus,
shot hi, victim with the greatest deiibera-
ton. and returned TO bis -upperwith the NE
most coolne>s. We are told that the officer.
/ instead Of arre-ting him at once allowed
him to lei-urely eat his supper. while Lock
wood was lying in agony on the floor
above" Buthanging is not wholly played
out ' in New York Foster. the &c car-hook
murderer. &c it seems. is to suffer the penalty
of the law. The court Of appeals has de-
cided against him. and the sentence pro-
nounced by the court viii be executed.
senator Patterson Of New Hampshire,
whose character for integrity has been very
/ high throughout New England, did not ap-
pear in an altogether favorable light, before
/ the Credit Mobilicr committee Oh Tuesday.
| A. evidence that be had owned mo- Credit
Mobilicr stock De produced two letters
/ written him by Oakes Ames last fall. re-
| lieying him Of the charge made in the sen
! atorial campaign IN New Hampshire, that
| he Patterson had owned such stock Ame-
I at his own request was placed on the stand.
1 He said that be had written these letters TO
oblge Mr. Patterson that while trey were
true on their facc-that Patter~on'~ name
did not appear on the books as an owner Of
the Mobilier stock-they We're not true in
spirit, a. Ame- had bought and carried the
stock with Patterson's money and had paid
Patters5n'> dividends on the same He
also testified that his original agreement
with Patterson was for Credit Mobilier
stock. He read from memorandum the
amount. and gave the date Of the purchase
by Patterson Of 30 shares, the date of pay
ment. the first diyidend.-about 3 POO
cash and 30 shares of L Mon Pacific Stock
the date Of the third cash dividend paid,
Of abou; $500; and then testified that
about year ago he made a final settlement
with Patterson. giving him about 100
shares Of Pacific stock Patterson could
not deny these statements, only re-iterating
that he thought he was dealing in Union
Pacific stock
\ meeting Of railroad men in New York
on Monday consummated the consolidation
Of the Harlem Extension and other roads, to
which allusion has heretofore been made in
our columns. The new combination viii
be known As The New York, Boston and
Montreal Railroad, and is $50 miles long,
extending from New York to Rutland. Vt.
The roads which form the combination are
the New York and Boston "a new road run
ing between the Hudson River and Harlem
roads,. the Putnam and DutchesS. the Dut-
chess and Columbia. and the Harlem Exten-
sion. The consolidation was effected under
the laws Of the State of New York. and the
whole route is now controlled by one cor
porate organization. 1t Is announced that
a number of branches have been projected
to important points on rival roads, and it is
expected that the main trunk line from New
York to Tarrytown will be the pa,sage-way
over which large portion Of the traffic Of
New England, the great West and the Can
adas will enter New York \ branch to
Peekskill will connect with the Erie road by
a suspension bridge over the Hudson, and
another branch to Brewsters' Will open con-
nection with the Boston, Hartford and Erie
roads When the various branches, the |
suspension bridges and the elevated rail /
way in New York City are completed pas
sengers from nearly every part of the United |
States and the Canadas can be landed with
out change Of cars in any part Of New York |
city. We fear that happy day will be in
the somewhat distant future.
WASHINGTON specials sav that an examlna-