The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-02-19

skill. though not for anatomical
purposes. Finally three witness
ses, dentists, testified that the
mlneTa! teeth were those made
for DIR. Parkman three years be-
fore. A mould of The doctors Jaw
was made at the time, and it.
was produced, and shown to be
so peculiar that no accidental
conformity of the teeth to the
jaw could possibly account for
the adaptation. This clinched the
evidence against the prisoner.
The murder of Samuel Adams.
a printer in New York, by John
&. Colt, teacher of book-keep
ing, and brother of the late Col.
Samuel Colt. of revolver fame, is
another example. AS in the case
OF Prot. Webster, the motive was
to get nd OF an importunate cred
ltor. The scene OF the murder
was the building on Broadway
and Chambers street. now occu.
pied by Delmonico, the restaura
tenr.
John G. Colt occupied a room
in this building for his business.
One September morning in 1911
Adams, who was printing for
him a work Oh bookkeeping, cal
led for $50 or SO due him, and
was not seen again alive. Inqni
ries were made by his family. and
1t was ascertained that he was
last seen going into Colts apart
ments, in Chambers street. On
the day OF Adams disappearance,
suspicious noises We're heard in
Colts room. The body finally
came boxed directed to a gentle
man in st. Louis, by way of New
Orleans, and was traced back to
New York to Colt, and he was
arrested.
Colts stoGy was that Adams
and he had Il dispute as to the
correctness of the bill presented,
and that the latter called him a
liar. WHICH he resented by slap
ping him in the face. 4 scutffe Ell
sued ; Adams seized him by the
throat and Colt, in self-defence,
caught up, Ratchet lying near
by, and staack him on the fore
head, killing him. Efe went ont of
his ronill and locked the door.
hurrying to the City Hotel,
where his brother, Samuel Colt,
was staying, intending to tell
him his his secret and take, his
ADVICE. Samqel Colt, who was in
the harroom with some friends,
told his brother to go up to his
room and that he wonld join him
in few minutes. The prisoner
waited, and his brother not com
ing, he went back to the room in
Chambers street. The body lay
there covered with blood. He took
a large box, crammed the body
into 1t, wrapped in. piece of can
vas, tying up the legs close to
the tlupk, and then scattered
salt and sawdust over all. He
washed Off the marks of blood on
the wall and floor, and smeared
them with ink to hide their ira
ces. He stayed in the loom until
late at night, and then returned,
to his lodgings in Monroe street.
Next morning he nailed up the
box, sent for Il carm..n, and had
it put on board the steamer Kal
maZoo, lying at the foot of Mai
den lane.
Colt was convicted of wilful
, murder, and was sentenced to ae
hanged. On the day fixed 70. the
hanging he stabbed himself in
the heart.
A remarkable murder trial in
RoSton, in many respects like
that OF Professor Webster, but
resulting in the acquittal of the
prisoner, was that of Leavitt
Alley, who was accused of killing
Abijah Ellis. Some workmen
near the Cambridge gas works
discovered two barrels contain
ing the mutIlated body floating
in the Charles river. They were
! packed with horse manure and
shaving, and in one of the barrels
a piece of brown. paper was found
with the aame of Mr.. Schouler,
a billiard table maker. 1t WAS
shown that Leavitt Alley, tsam
ster, was in the habit of remov
ing these shavings to his stable
Following the clue to the stable
1t was found that dry manure
heap had been disturbed and
blood was found Oh some boards
near by.
1t was proved that on the pre-.
vious morning Alley started from
his stable with four barrels, ant
a teamstel, in jumping from /.
wagon, had ascertained that two
of them were heavy. Two of th'
barrels We're not SatiStactoIil'