The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-03-27
FOSTER HUNG.


William Foster, the murderer of Avery
D. Putnam, was hung in New York on
last Friday. If ever an example was re-
quired, to deter murderous rufHans, and
make human life in any degree safe, it
was in the case of Foster. And yet q tre-
and law. Even professed Ministers of
the Gospel, in their mistaken kindness,
-interceded for the criminal.
We reproduce from the New York
World brief history of the murder:
"It was on Thursday, April 81, 1871,
that the citizens of New York were great
ly excited by the report that early the
foregoing evening quiet and respecta-
BILE citizen named Avery d. Putnam had
been murderously assaulted in the largest
thoroughfare in the city, and was then
living at the point of death. The circum-
stances of the outrage were so brutal
and atrocious that thrill of horror ran
through the community, and people be
gan to believe in earnest that human life
was no where safe from the attacks of
ruffians, and to demand of the authori-
ties the condign punishment of the man
who had been guilty of this awful deed,
should he be found. The circumstances
of the case were these: At about 9 o. clock
on the evening referred to, Mr.. Putnam,
escorting two ladies, Nine. Duval and her
daughter, .Mabelle Virginie, aged about
fifteen years, entered a Broadway car at
the corner of Clinton place and Universi-
ty place, intending to go to the Church
of the Advent, in Forty-sixth street.
When the car was near the Gilsey House.
Mr. Putnam called the attention of Miss
Duval to the illuminated clock on the
building, and the young lady left her
seat and approached the front door of
the car, and sat down by it, saying that
the clock was so high that she could not
see it while sitting there. Thereupon
Nine Duval crossed the car and took a
seat next to her daughter, and noticed
on the front platform there were two
men, the driver and another, the former
of whom called the attention of the lat
ter to Miss Duval, and both of them
turned towards her, making grimaces,
and acting otherwise in an annoying and
ruffianly manner Miss Duval just at
that time remarked, ''Oh, ma, there are
some rude men on the platform" and
her mother said, "Come away" when the
door was opened by a man who put his
face into the car and made a sort of
clucking noise with his lips. Nine. Du-
val shut the door again, and again it was
opened, and then Mr.. Putnam rose,
walked towards the front door, closed it,
and stood with his back against it. This
action seemed to put the man on the
platform in great rage; he again opened
the door angrily, and Mr.. Putnam said
to him, "what does this mean2 These
ladies are in my care, and will not allow
them to be insulted." He then went out
on the platform, stood there for a few
minutes, and re-entered the car, in the
meantime having told the man to behave
himself and act like a gentleman. The
man came into the car again and then
attempted to sit down beside Miss Duval,
when her mother arose and objected, and
to her remonstrance the man replied,
What is it to your and in other ways
acted in such a manner that Mr.. Putnam
saw that he was grossly intoxicated, and
turning his back upon him let him laugh
and gibe, ell ewing that the ladies would
take no further notice of him, seeing the
condition which he was in. Still the
rufian continued his interference, and
asked Mr.. Putnam how far up town he
was going, saying that 81 shall go as fa1
up as you do, and when you getr out
will give you hell" Shortly afterwards
he again went to the front platform, leav-
ing the door open, which Mr.. Putnam
again closed. After this there was no
trouble until, between Forty-fifth and
Forty-sixth streets, the conductor was
requested to stop the car, out of which
Miss Duval stepped first being followed
by Mr.. Putnam. At this moment a man
rushed from the forepart of the car, and
lust as Mr.. Putnam was about to alight,
struck him two heavy blows on the head
He fell like log, and his assailant ran
rapidly away The car-bell was rung and
the driver whipped up his horses; the
two ladies were left standing in the
street in which lay the moribund man.
A crowd gathered around and Mr.. Put
nam was lifted up and taken to neigh
boring drug-shop, where he soon after
wards expired"