Year: 1875

william Delaney the murderer OF Captain Lawrence,
OF the schooner Joseph Potts. will be hanged TO-
morrow in the courtyard Of the old Queens County
Court House and JAIL Al North Hampstead Long
Islands II scarcely necessary for the story Of the
crime or Delaney to bc rehearsed here The murder
OF Captain Lawrence is Of 50 Gate marked
ny such Of brutality and premedtation on
the part Of its doer and the memory Of kept so
vivid in the public mind by the sPecufatons
to the direction in which the murderer had gone,
that reader Of the newspapers have forgotten
its particulars The singular capture Of Delaney, tho
remarkable speed with which he was tried and con-
victed and his conduct the jail must also be fresh in
all minds


Delaney seems be man of thoroughly brutal IN
stincts He destitute sf education, out the ad
vantage of this to him IN repressng his evil
desires but in pointing how he might avoid pun
tshment when those had caused him 20 become
offender against the law. He is cunning fellow,
full OF deceptiveness; who would be likely,
while planning against another to lun his proposed
victim into feeling Of confidence, OF which he
would be startled by the grasp Of the aggressor his
throat or property. Since he has been In jail he has
exposed his character thoroughly; but, before h
well learned by his keepers, he gave them much
sroube and several times near escaping. He
has within few days accepted tho mnistrations OF
Fathers Acsherry and Sheridan and has appeared to
be penitent and prayerful But the statement which
he has written, and which Ia printed below seems
indicate that his mood Is Chrstianke he has
represented TO be his confessors and keepers The
following productions are probably the most remark
able that have issued from criminal for many years
paper Delaney calls his dying confession the other
anomalous rhyme-an imitation Of the ''come all
ye songs Irish criminals particularly Of the
tury used write, Of which, murderer given 10



hung"


pEIASRYis CONFESSION


was born In New Haven. Conn, on the 18th OF
Aprn 1851 and lived there till was four years old
and then my mother died and eft orphan, and
then my tatner and Ireland, and there lived
for ten months We went from there TO Melbourne,
Australia where lived Tor eight years Ny father
getting married, could not agree with my stepmother,
50 lett them to do for myself had money enough
10 buy pistol and knife and from Melbourne trav
eed to Geelong suffering for the want Of water terribly,
but managed ~ get there after three days hardshps
then paid my passage back again, and then went TO
San Diego, and went on board Boston ship, and
worked my passage to New York All | had TO do was
10 M md the baby, and when ! came New York the
captain gave $40, and around the
fashions, and then went cook Of New Haven
vessel plying between New Haven and Demerara
] made the voyage, and then went 70 London in
packet ship, which commenced my wild career. We
only fourteen days out when
tnized and tried TO take the ship and fought four dayg
but they captured The rngIeaders ard put them
three days We would not work, and the ship .
total wreck Work we would not till they were re-
leased and than lose his ship and passengers he
let them out We arrived In the river Thames and
20 anchor, and seventeen OF made exit
Liverpool aud two Of as shipped in National line
boat for New York We arrived here sale, only with
the exception Of bunged eye and split hp Then
arrived there safe and while 10 port The mate
had words which came 20 blows split his head open
with IRON Delaying pin and then went into the fore
castle the intention Of killing the first who tried
20 take They hosted the ensign upside down and
the police boat came alongside and was told what was
she matter and they came 70 pull me out, and fought
desperately, and they saw they could not capture


THEY DREW THKIR cUT1AssEs


and sooner than be run through surrendered. was
taken before the Council, tried and sentenced four
months In The chain gang. came out and went TO
beach combing and river piracy stayed that for
while and then joined man-ofvar and served my
time OF year only wishing while there that
tbo South and North come quarters l could cap
ture ber and make her second Alabama to fight for
the Southern Republic and then | shipped in a bark
loaded with silks and teas, bound for San Francisco
Five days out made plan TO capture the vessel and
Kill ali the officers and take her and the
Randwlch Islands, but had give away In the
forecastle, and the next time went TO the wheel
Knocked down and ironed hand and foot and put
the aseretl TIL come 20 port was turned over
abe police and confined in prison 70 trial for
nutiny. was IN Two months and made my escape,
with thirty-two pound ball and chain and got into
Eureka oregon, and then joined The United States
Twelfth regiment and stayed there pay day /
IN The stables and two of my chums come along and
took three Of the best horses and the River
Planet, and made our escape into the Digger Indian
country, deiyng any one that would undertake 70 cap
turc Then


wK TRAVELLED TO ROGUE RIVER


and there We stole twenty ton schooner and put 10
sea with her came down the coast about 500 miles
and then ran ashore LEFT her. There We quar-
relied among ourselves knives and pistols freely
used and after the fray We separated Them that vas
able went, and them that could stopped with tie
Indians. managed 70 reach Frisco, and shipped for
abe Chincha Islands 70 carry load Of guano Liver
pool We the passage after good deal OF hard
weather. and from Livepo0l went 10 Ireland and took
TOUR through the most principal part Of IL; then
10 New York, from New York 70 New Bedford,
and joined whale ship as boat seerer ana We went
around the Horn 70 the Sandwich Islands came 70
IN Honolulu. Then stole whale boat and sailed FOR
smother Island anc lived among the savages for eight
weeks and all the clothes wore a breech cloth.
made my escape in a sandal wood trader to
Sidney, and from there carried load 81 wool 70 New
York, and that ended my deep sailing went
40 Boston and then 70 Portsmouth, and there joined
coaster hsa quarrel With the mate and tnrowed
hIm from the deck 70 tbe dock and broke his collar
bone. They got q warrant, but by that time had
Joined the Marine corps. stayed three weeks and
one night the River Pisca,squa made nv way 10
Boston and then Philadelphia Then the captain
dying took vessel back Only or azhtng aod rais
tng hell could be master OF ane schooner as
ploughs the salt Then went Elizabethport
and back 70 Providence aud from Proyldebce 10 Bos
ton, and me and my chum Joined oyster vessel
bound 70 Toie's Point up ths Rappahannock. We put
into Hampton Roads; then we maize up plan 70 rob
her They always carry 5000 70 buy their cargo, and
when they went TO supper we burst 10 the safe and
escaped ashore We paid our passage 20 Boston and
lived like lighting cocks Then we shipped for Phlla-
delphia and back salem, and then 70 Fal
River and lived with the factory girls ike kngs Then
and while trading OF there had fifty pitched
battles Then got fall VI eighty two feet and nearly
killed myself and bad to TO the hospital, and ever
since that have been subject 70 hemorrhage Of the
lungs and never had the or myself since AMER
came ont Of hospital ioned my vessel again and vent
20 Philadelphia and fought the cook aud thumped The
life opt o. him eit ana joined the Clara Bell cook
and went from Philadelphia 10 Salem back Port
johnson Then vent mate Of the Clara Bell and had
falling out with the captain. was gong TO leave
Then shipped with Captain Lawrence 10 70 70 ston-
ington, and my intention 70 80 70 stonington and
leave him there but fortune did Dot favor me. We
only got as lar as Cow Bay when


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But they hang me, / don't care FOR nv revenge
VII BE- sweet have Tour brothers every over slx
feet and weighing 200 and all 0f them more des.
Ieratc than myself They have put out Of the way
seventeen Long Island buckWleat eaters and blood
viii only appease their anger. They don't bear The
name u Delaney, They bear = name that viii make
Tie buckwheat eaters quail Revenge IS nine


The two boys guilty OF Of the crimes for
they got much Or The spoils got myself I dld
hls money ~ tll Tuthff toa -. ava