The New York Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1873, Page 5

1 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. THE INDIAN FOE, Conduct of the Campaign Against the Modocs, FAILURE OF Tit CAVALRY SCOUT, Threatening Attitude of the Neigh- boring Tribes. ANOTHER TERRIBLE MASSACRE. Thirteen Citizens Butchered by Osages and Cheyennes in Kansas, STORY OF AN EYE-WITNESS. Four Hundred Indians on the Warpath. DEPREDATIONS IN NEBRASKA. A Lively War Against Apaches in Arizona. the San Francisco, April 23, 1873. No further news has been received to-night about the Modoc war. A despatch from Port- land, Oregon, to-night says that the Indians on the Upper Columbia, Snake and Lewis Bivers are well posted on Modoc affairs, and are indulging extravagantly in WAR PAINT AND WAR DANCES. Their conduct is menacing. The troops in Eastern Oregon will probably prevent or punish any overt act. THE APACHE WAR IN ARIZONA. In Sonora the troops are making a vigorous waragainst the Apaches from Arizona, and expect to diminish the number of depreda- tions materially, Scar-faced Charley Not Killed—Evidence that the Indians Abandoned Their Position Hastily. J SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, 1873. ‘The regular courier from the front arrived at ‘Yreka this morning. Some of the volunteers who escorted Eugene Hovey’s remains to town had a ‘talk with Fairchild, and ascertained that SOAR-FACED CHARLEY WAS NOT KILLED, the body supposed tobe his being that of Shack Nasty Frank. Schonchin was not killed by Mr. Meacham, but only wounded in the breast. He was killed by a shell, and the whole of his body below the breast torn to pieces. Another young Modoc named Watchnatate was recognized among the dead. “The shell that killed Schonchin and others was picked up by Watchnatate before it ex- ploded. From the way things looked in the cave the finding of ammunition, provisions and other articles, it was evident that HE INDIANS LEFT IN A HURRY, no doubt supposing that their stronghold would be blown up. The tracks of at least seven Indians Bave been seen between Fairchild’s place and Lower Klamath Lake. Many persons are of the opinion that small parties of Modocs will raid ‘round the country to obtain good horses, while a sufficient number will remain in the lava beds to keep the soldiers busy there. Failure of the Cavalry Scout—No In- dians Encountered—Modoc Sympathiz- ers and the War. AT THE FRONT, April 20—4 P. M. The cavalry have returned. They failed to dis- cover any signs of an Indian trail. Dr. Cabaneso has returned from the lava beds. He reports that twosquaws have been captured. An old squaw was brought in yesterday and shown Schonchin’s head, and she said it was his head. Colonel Perry travelied about eighty miles, making A CIRCUIT OF THE LAVA BEDS. He saw no Indians. The Warm Spring Indians will soon be on the trail of the rambling Modocs Who bothered the troops to-night. Dr. Cabaneso was along the line auring the day ofthe fight, and says he counted twelve warriors gain, How many were buried no one knows. Modocs were seen to-day from the lookeut at the signal station. MODOCS INTERRUPTING COMMUNICATION. Mr. Ticknor started to-day with the express for Linkville, but he saw a party of Indians and had to turn back. Two Modocs are supposed to have Deen killed in the fights of yesterday. MODOC SYMPATHIZERS. There is much speculation im regard to the Modecs gaining aid from other tribes. 1t is possi- ‘ble that all the tribes except the Warm Spring {adians sympathize with Captain Jack, but they are satisficd that to aid him means extermination. THE PITT RIVER INDIANS will not be likely to join Jack unless he forces them. They are a miserable set, and have become so de- moralized over the many severe chastisements by General Crook that they have lost ali courage to ght the whites. The Snake Creeks about Fall River are. a mean set and really belong tothe Pi-Utes. THE SNAKES AND PI-UTRS, whe roam about Goose Lake and turther north, are vicious customers, Although belonging to some northern reservation in Idaho and Oregon, they are constantly prowling around the section com- prising Goose Lake, Chewean and other valleys im Eastern Oregon, Northern Nevada and Southern Tdaho. The Shastas scarcely number half a dozen warriors. They have always been bitter enemies of the Modocs. THE ACOTT VALLEY AND KLAMATH RIVER INDIANS, aithough sought for aii, have never shown the Yeast disposition to take stock in Captain Jack’s crusade, The Indians hereabout and throughout Scott Valley are well posted on the movements of “ue Modocs. SIGNAL FIRES have been reported on some of the hills in Scott Valley, but whether they are signals of the Modocs or net it is not Known. Indian Depredations in Nebraska CHEYENNE, W. T., April 23, 1873. Alotter from Sidnav Neb,, dated the 22d, says that apxteen Indians aasned into Moore's nera and | stole thirty head of horses and mules. Mr. Moore and fifty mounted men, with Captain Hanley in command, have started in pursuit. ANOTHER TERRIBLE MASSACRE. yemnes end Osages Plundering and Scalping in Kansas—Thirteen Citizens Tomahawked—A War Against the Set. tlers Commenced—Horrible Affair at Medicine Lodge Creek, LEAVENWORTH, Kansas, April 23, 1873. Intelligence of more Indian depredations have just deen recetved from Arkansas City. The follow- ing statement of the outrages are made under oath, before a notary, by a settler named William Shampson. He says:— In company with John Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell, William Falkington, Joseph Falkington, of Macoupin county, Ii, I arrived on April 11 at Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas, about fifteen miles from the Indian Territory line, where I went to look for claims. While I was about @ quarter of a mile from camp three or four hundred Indians came from the direction of the creek and surrounded the rest of the party, who were in camp. I heard the report of guna and saw THE INDIANS USE THEIR TOMAHAWKS on my comrades, The Indians who came to me took away my gun, pistols, vest, pants and money, and gave me a blanket. I have not seen my com- Trades since, and think all were killed. I arrived at Caldwell April 14, and heard that nine other persons were killed about the time our camp was taken.” THE REPORT CORROBORATED. Captain Darling, chief of the surveying party in that region, arrived this evening, and corroborates the report of the Medicine Lodge outrages. He charges the crime to the Osages and Cheyennes, These bands were filteen miles beyond their reser- vation boundary. Surveying operations have been suspended, and the surveyors have withdrawn from the Indian country until the government affords protection, CHEYENNES AND OSAGES ON THE WARPATH. Notwithstanding the letters of Superinten a | Hoag and despatches of Governor Osborne t % York papers to the contrary, the Cheyenne: .d Osages are away from their reservations, driv ag away stock, and plundering and killing settlers in ‘southwestern Kansas, THE SETTLERS WILL ORGANIZE AND FIGHT before leaving their:claims. The Indians threaten to drive them away from Medicine Lodge tiis Summer, Advice to Surveyors from Headquarters in the Saddle. WASHINGTON, April 23, 1873, General Pope, commanding the Department of the Missouri, writing to the War Department with reference to the recent murder of surveyors in the Indian Territory, says:—“If surveying or other parties sent eut by the government into this region will report te me, by letter or otherwise, while they are going out for what time and purpose I will always take measures to make them secure. If the present surveying parties will call on the commanding oMicers at Forts Dodge, Supply or Larned, which posts are nearest to the region where their work is to be done, sufficient escort will be turntshed them.’’ General Pope thinks it probable, from the fact that the bodies of the surveyors are said to have been fonnd bursd, that they were murdered by white horse thieves or other desperadoes with mo- tives of plunder. THE WEATHER. WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasuInGTox, D, C., April 24—1 A. M, Probabilities, The barometer continues to rise on Thursday over the entire country east of the Mississippi; jor the South Atlantic States, southwesterly winds veer te brisk northwest, with fall- ing temperature and generally cloudy weather; increasing uortherly winds prevail in the Southwest and in the Mississippi Valley; for the Lake region generally rising barometer, clear weather and northerly winds; for New England and the Middle States, northerly winds, partly cloudy and clearing weather and continued low temperature. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The tollowing record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding aay of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, Heravp Building :— 1872, 1873. 1872. 1873. 3 A.M. 87 38 P.M. +538 58 6 A.M.. 87 «6 P.M. 50 61 9 A. M 42 9P.M. 47 45 12 M.. 44 47 12 P.M. 4 44 Average temperature yesterday. oe 443g Average temperature for corresponding ‘date last year..... THE WRECKED ATLANTIO, Nothing Doing at Prospect=The Weather too Stormy for Diving Operations. Hauirax, N.8., April 23, 1873, The steamer Lackawanna and schooner Meteor, of the New Yerk Coast Wrecking Company, with diving apparatus and material, arrived here to-day and proceeded to Prospect. ‘The latest news from Prospect shows that, not- withstanding the fine weather of the last few days, the swell at the wreck has been too great for the divers to werk, and nothing has been dene to re- cover bodies er goods, Captain Sheridan's schooner and two wrecking schooners from New York are op Prospect, waiting @ favorable chance for diving. Captain Williams is at the wreck. Mr. Penuel, of the White Star New York agency, left for New York this merning. A ORAZY SAILOR SHOOTS HIMSELF. New HAVEN, April 23, 1873, while in the barroom connected with a sailor's boarding house, kept by Daniel Gunn, on the cor- ner of Warren and West Water street, shot himself in the head with a pistol and died immediately. The deceased was believed to have been laboring under a fit of temporary insanity, as he had given ample evidence of it for the past two days. Just before shooting himself he pointed the pistol at a man lying on @ leunge and asked a gentieman if the man had not lived long enough, and mani te & negative reply, imme- diately shot himself, He has served several years as steward on the Messrs. Armstrong’s brig Right Away, and had sailing. He is supposed to belong to Elizabeth- port, N. J. BASE EMPLOYMENT FOR A POCKET KNIFE, CuicaGgo, DL., April 23, 1873, Aman, supposed to be Christian Jehnson, en- tered a coal office on West Adams street this after- noon and quietly asked the clerk to lend hima knife for a momenf. The clerk handed the man his pocket knife, which the man took, opened one blade and drew it fe nd across his throat, cutting it trom ear to ear. le died almost iustantly, THE HORSE SHOE SHOALS, PHILADELPHIA, April 23, 1873, The board, consisting of General J. C. Woodruff, General H. 8. Wright, General John Newton, Col- onel J. D. Kurtz and Colonel W. P. Craighilh Unitea States Army, ia in seesion in his city, regarding the condition of the obstructions at Horse Shoe Shoals, Delaware River. been left behind on the vessel's ; RICHMOND SWITCH SLAUGHTER. The Testimony at the Official Investigation— Statements by the Conductor and Others on the Ill-Fated Train—Horrors,of the Acci- dent—The Bridge and Mill Dam— Tuspection No Security—The Inquiry Closed with ‘De- cision Reserved.” PROVIDENCE, R. [., April 23, 1873. The oMetal investigation into the disaster at Richmond Switch, before Henry Staples, Esq., Railroad Commissioner for this State, was com- menaced to-day. THE TESTIMONY. Orrin 8, Gardiner testified —Have been conductor on the New York, Boston and Providence road for the past eighteen years; generally run a boat train; was on the train on Saturday last; we had an engine, tender, three flats of crates, one second class, three first class and one smoking car; had an accident that morning at Richmond Switch; so far as I know seven oodies have been recovered; think twelve or fifteen persons were injured; three flats, a second class car and two first class cars were destroyed; at the time ot the accident I was about four feet from the front door o1 the rear car; we were running at the usual rate of speed; my first movement was to show a red signal to the rear train; then went forward and Jound a mixed up mess; the morning was misty and dark; it must have been about 3:40 o’clock; three cars were on the track, and one end of one seemed to be over the bank; did not see flat cars; should judge they were bottom up under the water; don’t know that I saw any of the train men until they came with the injured men; four of us were uninjured; the fire spread very rapidly; one car was telescoped; judge that the fire caught in a sec- ond class car; how I cannot say, but a deck hand showed me his shoe and said it BURNED FROM THE FIRE IN THE STOVE; got an axe from the wellroom at the station, also @ coal hod to bale water; used the axe on the side of a car to cut a man out; did not succeed because the flames drove me away; Mr..Brown, the through baggage master, was at work rescuing passengers, and came near being burned; he got out several; have been over this bridge in daylight within a short time; all the employés and myself worked hard to get the passengers out. WALKER 8 MONROK, brakeman and lookout for baggage on the steam- boat train, said he was in the rear smoking car the time of the accident; saw Mr, Gardiner tbrown into the air im the car; he shouted, “\vhere is the red light?’ I told him, and he asked, Where is the white light?’ Mr. Gardiner handed mearedlight and Mr. Dunham a white light; I iuinped off, ran back and aignalied the ; mail train and the wrecking train; went ack to Richmond Switch; went to a house near by to get the wounded something to eut; got tea, bread aud cake and carried them to some of the wounded; went te the wrecking train for mattresses and pillows {or the hurt eens and carrie? ‘em to them; saw Mr. Gardiner doin; ell he ald; he seemed to be everywhere doing all Lust Was possible. Frederick Beales, brakeman, testified similarly to the above. THOMAS SPRAGUE, CONDUCTOR, of the night mail vrain, testified as tollows:—Was on my train on Saturday last; stopped some filty rods from the wrecked train by signal light; saw Mr. Gardiner, who wished ine to run back to Ston- ington and get Mr. Matthews, uhe superintendent’ doctors and such help as I could; I went back an first went to Mr. Matthews’ house; Mr. Matthews said, “Get Drs. Stanton and Hyde; he told me to tell Mr. Prouty, the agent, to get all the help he could; when 1 left my engine J ordered the engineer to run to Westerly and tell the watchman there to get what doctors he could; at Stonington we got help, took the engine and a passenger car by thews’ orders and by the time the doctors got to- gether we had a train made up; on this train we had mattresses, pillows, timbers, &c.; we must have had fiity or sixty employés on the wrecking train; we went immediately to the scene of the accident. John N. Shay, engineer of the night mail train, corroborated the testimony of Mr. Sprague, Virgil O, Hudson, house surgeon at the Rhode Island Hospital, testified:—Ten persons were brought to the hospital about two o’cieck Satur- day afternoon from the disaster at Richmond Switch; tour were brought on mattresses, and the other six were able to walk into the hospital with slight help; judge from their appearance that everything had been done for their ceméort that could be; two others have been brought in since; we now have seven of the wounded in the how pital; five have been seen: Lewis B. Smith, Joseptr stead, John Keough and Lyman Copeland, passengers, testified thatthe Superintendent, conductor and employés did all they could for the passengers. ‘THE SUPERINTENDENT'S INSPECTION ORDERS. A. S, Matthews, Superintendent of the Stoning- ton Railroad, testidled :—Gave orders to the bridge- men to examine the bridges and report to me when anything is out of order; my instructions are tosend men over the read every day, includii Sundays; they go over it with a handcar, and anything is wrong they fix it, if possible, er report at once; never knew Of any instance where these orders were disobeyed; think there is more water in the stream than ever beiore; this bridge was fifteen feet between the walls at the water line and sixteen feet open; the stone foundation was good; the bridge was probably built in 1834 or 1835, When the road was first built; always cen- sidered the mason work tobe very substantial, and that it would resist anything within the bounds of reason; the wood bgt Was composed of hard pine stringers, two rail timbers, 8x16 inches, bolted together under each, over a span of sixteen feet between the walis; ne recent repairs have been needed, to my Knowledge; have been to Richmond Switch since the accident; the stone- work is washed out, being umdermined; the mill dam has probably been built Miteen years; there never Was any trouble befere at this bridge frem the rush of water; the only alteration I should make in this bridge would be that called tor by the experience gained from this acci- dent; had it not been fer this accident I would build a similar bridge over a like stream: I think the woodwork had been there three or four years; there is not usuaily a strong current in the stream; the country about the pond is flat; tie pond ows back a long way; since the accident I have run an tron rod down eight feet and struck stone at the fallen abutments; HOW THE BRIDGE WAS EXAMINED. William F. Dewey, repairer of bridges on the Stonington Railroad, along the whole line frem Stonington to Providence, testified as toilows:. Examined the peas at Richmond Switch a fort- night ago particularly; found the bridge sate as far as stone, Wood and iron could be, in my opinion; gave acilose, rigid examination; no re- airs Were required; went over and under the ridge; there was from one to two ieet of water and not much Of a current; saw no more water in the stream when I made the examination than usual; the woodwork has been on the bridge ter three or four years; I rebuilt the bridge at that time irom new stock, and it was theroughly re- built; should bulid another bridge in the same manner if it were not for this accident; the chasm ‘was some sixty feet across, and the whule founda- tion of the bridge tell in. STATEMENT OF THE MILLDAM OWNER, George N. Ennis, sworn, testified :—Am owner of the mill and dam; built them in 1858; it1s leased property now; there was no greater quantity of water inthe pond this Spring than formeriy; the dam was built with stone wall on the back side; dug to a hard pau for the feundation; the wali is four feet thick at bottom, tapering te two feet at top; primed it with boards on the lower side to stop breaks; backed them with dirt fifty teet at bottem and twenty at tep, with drive way; rip-rapped the wall on the water side to protect the dam when the wind blew; the mill gate was left wide open and the wheel gagged; was about | the dam nearly every day; saw the dain a few days This morning a man named Charles C, Brown, | before the accident; it seemed to be all right; the break was in the west end, in what I thought was the strongest part of the dam; the pond was about forty acres in cxtent, of an average depth of six fect; never had a break in the dam beiore; have no doubt some person started the water by dredging a ditch across the dam. James C. Kenyen, miller, testified :—Ran the mill where the accident occurred; the water in the pond on Friday and Saturday was about the same as usual; left the millon Friday about hall past five o'clock; lett the mil! gate open and censidered everything perfectly safe; there were no unusual rains lately; irequently leave the mill gate open; never saw any leaks in the dam; have been there two years and never heard of any-leaks; the pond was drawn down about eight iuches on Friday; feei sure that the dam was tampered with, J.B, Gardner, Assistant Superintendent, testi- fled—Sent the wounded to the hospital on Satur- day by erder of the Superintendent; they are cared for there at the expense ot the road. Peleg D. Tucker, carriage maker in the mill buildings, testified :—There is nothing,in the flow of water different from former years; examined the dani and fume Friday afternoon, when there w: about the same amount of water in the pond as usual; considered the railroad bridge a large bridge for the stream, BABCOCK, THE SWITCHMAN, George F. Babcock, switchman at Richmond, t@- tifled:—The switeh ts about fifty reds from tie bridge, where the accident was; crossed the ral- road bridge Friday night about six o'clock, ald nothing unusual attracted my attentien, aid assed back over the drive way of the dam jst fore seven o’cléck Friday evening; the waer was running out of half of the waste gate. WAS THE MILLDAM SAFE Y Harr Lamphear, manufacturer, was sworn nd testified :—Never saw this dam until after theac- cident; have since visited {t and looked it ger thoroughly ; the part that remains scems to hive been properly built and of suMctent strength; should say the railroad bridge was three times as wide as was necessary to mumodate the water of the stream; have had a great deal of experience with dams and nearly lost several before I found what trouble was; I have learned not to allow the water to ‘rise above frost line when the ground is set- ting in Spring, as before the ground thoreughly settles it 18 porous and the water easily finds a passage through it; this may not have been the cause of the break, butif it was not I cannot think what else to attribute it to, as the portion of the dam that remains is certainly anor strong. ‘The investigation was then closed. The result of the inquiry will be reported at the May session of the General Assembly. One of the bodies from the disaster, now at the undertaker’s, on which was found cards bearing the name of “Mr. Fleming,” has been identified as that of Mark Faby, who was en route from Brook- lyn to his friends in Central Falls, The other bodies Rave not been identified, ‘The report that a child’s skull had been found is A HORRIBLE MURDER. peaienasiareediicmenesertiass Massachusetts Bidding Fair to Gain the Murder Premium. peal SUAS Achy A Wife Coolly Shot by Her Drunken Husband in Edgeworth—Details of the Tragedy— The Murderer Takes to the Woods, but Is Subsequently Secured— Verdict of the Coroner’s Jury Against Him, Boston, April 23, 1873. This morning, just before eight o’ciock, Mark Boethby, a man of some thirty-seven years of age, living near the depot of the Boston and Maine Railroad in Edgeworth, a village of Malden, while in a drunken frenzy shot his wile through the heart and then fled to the adjacent woods. The particu- lars of this terrible tragedy with its surroundings andthe previous history of the participants are these. Some twenty years ago John Walch and his wife Sarah, ef Lancashire, England, came to this country, and for a while located in Providence, R. L, from which place they subsequently re- moved to Malden, While living there the war broke out, and Walch enlisted in the Thirty-third Massachusetts regiment, and with that organiza- tion participated in several battles, His health be- coming undermined, he was discharged, and sub- sequently he went to Lancashire, thinking a voyage across the ocean would do him good. Tnis hope was not realized, as he died in his native village, and his wife obtained a pension, which she drew quarterly up to the 4th of last December, on which day she married MARK BOOTHBY. This map was born in Buxton, Me., and was thirty-seven years eld, seventeen years the junior of the aeceased wife, who was fiity-four years old. He lived in Buxton a few years, but removed to Palmyra when a mere boy, and that was his home until a few years since, when he came to Massa- chusetts, He was by trade a carpenter, but had also followed a seafaring life in the merchant ser- vice for several years, besides which he had been in both branches of the United States service, the army and the navy. HE HAS TWO WIVES, 80 itis alleged by the neighbors, now living, from one of whom, however, he obtained a bill ef divorce. Three of his children live in Boston, as does also his divorced wife. His relatives were all much op- posed to his marriage with tne Walch woman, but it is said that property considerations led him to marry her, despite their protestation. Ever since his marriage the couple have lived unhappily, and the chief blame is charged upom him. He is said to be of a morose, ugly disposition, fre- quently abusing his wife ana her two children, while liquor increased this disposition to an aggra- vated degree. It is reported that he has made frequent threats of shooting his wife and also to marry the little girl, but nothing is teld of any oc- currence of this kind previous to yesterday. He was Grunk then and, being at work in the dock- yard making some whicelbarrows for a@ Malden maw, took @ notion to destroy them for no other Purpose, it seems, than to spite or aggravate his wife. le split the sides up with an axe and, piling the débris near the house, set. them on fire. Fearing the house n, his wife went eut and dashed a pail of on the fire, and said to him, ‘Mack, don’t do so.” He sprang at her with frenzy, caught her br ee throat, choked her,.and declared he would M1 her. Mary, Who was standing near by, screamed “Murder !’’ and, fearing the neighbors would be alarmed, he desisted, and, turning to the little girl, said, “God damn you, yeu little b—nh, I'll skoot you for this.” He continued drinking durin; the day, and was drunk when he went to bed ans also when he got up this morning. MRS. BOOTHBY HAS A SON who is employed in a stere in Boston. His name is George H, Walch, and his age is nearly seventeen years. When he returned home last night his mother teld him ot her troubles, and he said such things to allay her fears as he could; but 1t was not without fear that he left his home this morning to go to his dafly toil, and before three hours had passed away he heard the horrible news that his mother had been murdered. As soon as Boothby had eaten his breakfast he started out for more rum. He did not have to go far, for aiew rods away lives a man named Campbell, who keeps a low groggery, and to this place Mack directed ls steps. His wife, actuated by a purpose to keep him from drinking if possible, soon followed, and succeeded, after some words—some of which, perhaps, were not very pleasant— in inducing him to return home, and they left the place together. She entered the house first and he soon afterwards, and he, taking up the cat, began to play with and tease it in a pleasant manner. Soon, however. the cat sprang out of his arms and ran away, and he directed the little girl Mary to cateh it for him, which she did. The ani- mal ae frightened, and this exasperated him, ame SEIZING AN OLD MUSKET which he kept loaded, he declared he was going to shoot it. His wife thereupon remarked, “Why, Mack, you don’t want to shoot the cat; she never aid you uny harm.’ And Mary, whose favorite the cat was, also expostulated quite warmly, Nis ae Boothby, turning to the latter, exclaimed, “Well, then, damn you, I'll shoot you,” and raised the gun and aimed it at her, With motherly instinct Mrs. Boothby sprang to- wards him, seized the gun and diverted the aim from her daughter, when, with the ferocity of a beast, with his great, staring eyes gloating upon her, he turned quickly, TOOK HASTY AIM AT HIS WIFE, AND FIRED. She threw up her arms, gasped out spasmod- ically, “Oh, my heart!” and, staggering backwara, fell and instantly ae The gun was loaded with two or three pistol slugs, somewhat larger than buckshot. the charge entered the leit breast not more than a quarter of an inch above the ah ie making a@ ghastly orifice, trom which the blood poured in copious streams over the prostrate form of the woman, saturating the clothing and standing in great pools on the floor, The slugs went entirely through the body, one of them ledging in the mortar of the partition wall and another hanging just inside the skin at the back, The instant the horrible tragedy was committed the murderer, betore his expiring victim had scarcely ceased to breathe, threw his gua down and spatciing his coat put his arm into one sieeve, sprang out of the door and RAN FOR THE WOODS, Sot a word was spoken by him. Not a look did he give behind. He ran rapidiy to the highway leading toward Mediord down which he travelled fora short distance, glancing Geant, down at hig clothes te see if there were blood stains, and then took to the woods. Travelling thence to the house of his sister, in Wakefleld, aid afterwards, by her advice, giving himself up to the authorities, Boothby & man of thirty- seven, Oi 1 he looks older; stands five feet seven inches high; is stout built, with extremely byoad, heavy shoulders ; has an abundance of thick, black hair; wears a heavy mustache and chin whis- kers, separated fn the middle, both slightly gray; hus @ large, staring eye ; looks dowaward, and nas agort of “STANG-DOG APPEARANCE.” The clothes he wore were @ pair of dark, mixed Tanta; white shirt, no vest, black sack coat and a gouch hat. The only witness of the dreadful crime was the Iktie gir! Mary Walch. She stood horrified for a noment, looking first at her mother and then at the murderer, and it was not till he had got some way that she recovered sufficiently to rm. She then ran to the door and reame for help, and, no one appearing to hear ie she ran te the nearest neighbors and inco- erently told her story, which was listened to with Imost actual disbelief at first. When they were brought to realize what had happened THE ORY OF “MURDER WAS RAISED, Acrowd quickly collected, The news spread like wildfire. The excitement in the little village of Edgeworth, the scene of the tragedy, is intense. All day crowds of men, wemen and children Peis gathered Ce Nga ey ag By them even young. is, showing a morbi curlosttyynelther de fe " nor becoming in insisting upon removing the sheet which covered the breasts of the unfortunate woman as she lay u the floor of the narrow Cops 80 as to view the horrible ghastly rent in her bosom. An inquest was held this afternoon resulting in the unavoidable verdict that the woman came to her death at the handg of her husband. SCANDALOUS, Hoax Ames, Alley, Hooper and Judge Underwood’s Little Rake. A United States Judge Confis- } cator and Purchaser. MODEL MASSACHUSETTS M. C.’S. Iago’s Mobilier Ring No. 2 Broken and Exposed. The Vultures Grab a Virginia Es- tate Worth $75,000. LEGAL DECISION. The Supreme Court of Virginia Declares the Transactions Fraudulent. Compromising Testimony Taken in Alexandria. RicuMonD, Va., April 23, 1873, ‘The Supreme Court of Appeals have rendered a decision to-day in the case of Underwood vs. MeVeigh, being an appeal trom the judgment ef the Corperation Court of Alexandria directing a writ to issue ejecting Judge Underwood, of the United States District Court, from the possession of a handsome and very valuable residence im the city of Alexandria, purchased by him at a confiscation sale ordered by himself in 1864, Mr. McVeigh proved in the Corporation Court that a cerrupt ring, con- sisting of Oakes Ames, John B. Alley, Samuel Hooper and Underwood & Son, organized to cause the confiscation proceedings to be instituted against his property, McVeigh having left Alexan- dria and came to Richmond during the late war, and combined to purchase McVeigh’s property at mere nominal prices. The jury, composed in part of republicans, rendered a verdict unequivocally sustaining the allegations of fraud on the part of Underwood and his coadjutors, whereupon the Court ordered its writ ef ejectment to issue. Underwood appealed trom this decision, and en technical points brought the case under review by the Supreme Court of the State. THE RING RULED ovr. ‘That tribunal te-day fully affirmed the decision of the lower Court, and declared, in its opinion, that Underwoo@’s con@uct in the matter had been such as to shock the moral sense of every honest man. The effect of the decision will be torestore McVeigh his property, valued at about thirty thousand dol- lars, with mesne profits and rent for nine years. MeVeigh’s counsel, having made this a test case, will now apply to the Corporation Court of Alexan- dria for writs of ejectments against several other parties, coniederates of Underwood, who hold other pieces of valuable property acquired in the same way. ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR IMPEACHMENT. It is said that Underwood contemplates carrying the case to the Supreme Court of the United States. MeVeigh’s counse) are rather gratified at this course, as the case will go there with the entire record of fraud undenied, which would justify the impeachment and trial of Underwood by the United States Senate. HISTORY OF THE CASE, eee = A second, though an old, Crédit Mobilier case, in which Oakes Ames, John B. Alley, Samucl Hooper and John C, Underwood figure as prictpais, has been before the Court of Appeals of this State, and” & more scandalous transaction can scarcely be found on record. In 1861 Mr. William N. McVeigh, of Alexandria, in this State, who was president of a pank and over sixty years of age, sought and obtained permission from the United States military offictals then in possession of that city to go to his family in Cul- pepper county. ‘This permission was readily granted, because Mr. McVeigh was a non-com- batant by reason of his age. He left in Alexandria property in real estate, including his residence, vaiued at $75,000, and consisting chiefly of ware- houses and commission houses on the wharf, Soon after the formation of the loyal State of Virginia, with the capital at Alexandria, John ©. Under- wood was appointed United States District Judge for the State. At the same time Oakes Ames, John B. Ailey and Samuel Hooper were members of Congress from Massachusetts. It occurred to these patriots, in conjunction with Underweod, that McVeigh's property would be a nice little thing to get hold of without paying for it; and, with this in- tention, they accordingly FORMED A RING, Underwood, being the District Judge, was made the tool, and for his share, which was McVeigh’s residence, he confiscated the whole property, and, without more ado, took possession of the house and went to live in it before even the ordinary legal forms were complied with. Two gentle- men with whom McVeigh had had business trans- actions for a long period, residing in Baltimore and Boston, hearing of this outrage, came to Alexan- dria, and in order, if possible, to prevent it, obtained jndgments against the rop- erty to the amount of $7,000, nder these judgments the property was sold, and the Hon, Hoax Ames himself and the Hon, John B, Alley bid in the whole property, worth $70,000, for the sum of : SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, In this way they had acquired a doable title to the property, which had previously been divided among them, first under the confiscation by Under- wood and afterwards by its sale under execution. At the close of the war Mr. McVeigh, who had in- curred none of the pains or penalties of confisca- tion by the part he had taken in the war, entered suit to recever his property. obtained by its pres- ent owners in such arraudulent and fllegal man- ner. The case was carried by the corporation to the Supreme Court, where a decision was rendered setting aside the outrageous proceedings of AMES, ALLEY, UNDERWOOD & 00., which said :—‘A diferent result would be a blot on our jurisprudence and civilization. We cannot hesitate to doubt en the subject; it would be con- trary to the first principies of the social compact and of the right of the administration of justice. ‘The judgment is reversed.” The confiscation scheme thus being disposed of Ames, Alley, Un- derwood & Co, then held McVeigh’s property pur- chased under such monstrous and ignominious circumstances, as the appended evidence will show. The case was next carried before the Circuit Court of Alexandria, where a decision in McVeigh’s favor was rendered, but Ames, Alley, Underwood & Co. having obtained a TITLE AT LAW, and the deeds of the property being regularly re- corded and filled in their names, were now deter- mined to put Mr. McVeigh te all the troubie and expense in their power beiore he in could come into the possession of what is his own by law. They appealed to the highest tribunal of this State. Mr. McVeigh in the meantime was barely abie to realize a subsistence for himself and tumily by a retail business in this city. EVIDENCE IN THE SUrr. The following are the revelations made in the form o1 the evidence above referred to:— John 0, Balderson, being duly sworn, said—I reside tm in the city of Baltimo: ‘Yiand, and am a merchant doing business thei meinber of the firm of Bal- derson, Ward & 0. known Mr. McVeigh person- ally about six vears; Mr. Amex I first inet in the Spring of 1864; Mr. Alley I have known for ten years; ae @ mem- ber of the firm of Halderson, Ward Co., and as agent tor Francis Dane & Co., Kimball, Robinson & Co., te last SF ine Maca ig et ae aa it ete certain not claims agatna 1 Alexandria, of which firm Mr, Me: ih went with these claims to Alex. andriay learned. that Mr. Mc ‘eigh was in Richmond, or somewhere in Virginia beyond our lines ; time in the Spring or Summer of 1368; 1 ter in the hands of Mr. Be vised us subseguently that judgments tereupon, ‘and. that. iwsued a ‘that he had obtained inet the property of MoVelgh ors netee ay ng (urther was done ‘about theus until learned THE PROPERW MAD EEX SRIRRD by the United States Marsh: Aid was adverdised ty bo sold thereunder? upon hencieg at hee I started for Washin; and ment of the sal called Mr. in ‘relation to if in the ‘month of January and. Ee eo eg ‘went to Alexand: w Mr. Boach, who advised that the Confises that the Mr. ~ ation act hot apply im the case; that decree of fiscation J Sip ae eeats Pat atand et attate sae it; not ag 1 ‘estate, and could not be sus- ined ; alter the lapse of « f having letwned att could’ net obtain "a vostwonement of the | arrived there after us. 5 Parties interested, upon to Wi to sale, I communicated with the which Mr. Dane and Mr, Robinson came ts arriving there on the morning of Aprild, #4 the nen day we ad 22 itacviow with Judie Underwi company with Mr. Beach; the Judie refuse, the sale, but intimated ra ment about our clatin dwelling-house for his wi hat we might make an arrange. said he wanted to buys and if he be _ Chaser at the sale, he for one ‘would be willing to, ‘oaty fifty per cent. of his proportion of our judgments; he oy. formed us that Mr. I.E Chittenden, who was ested teres in a steamship cempany, would be Ikely to purchase wharf property, but would not bid_on the dwellime houses, and advised us to see Mr. Chittenden; in the at Sereoce of the same day, afler the above named inter- iow, WE MET MR. ALLEY ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Mr, Robinson informed him (Mr. Alley) that the sale was to take place the next day; Mr. Alley advised us to buy the property if it was not sold too high, with a view to our claims under the judgments and attachments; ning Robinson and myselt went to Mr. Cnitten- den’s honse, informed him that Judge Underwood had intimated that he (Mr, Chittenden) might perhaps buy the whart prope: Mr. Chittenden ‘said he might buy it, provided ‘that he could yet it at a price which’ he would consider equivalent. to a fair rent for a few years; that he bad no confidence in the title tobe derived under the confi ion sale; that it would be well for us to see Mr, Thom: lyde, who would arrive in Washington im the mo:n and was largely interested in the steamship corporation ; {t was suggested to Mr. Chittenden that there would be no time ne morning to see and talk with Mr. Clyde, us the sale was advertused to take place at ten o'clock, upon which he said he would write Judge Underwood, asking him to postpone the sale until he could get there ; he ac ‘sat down and wrote a note and gave it to son, addressed to Judge Underwood. Next the parties met at Alexandria Courthouse, Mi, ALLKY AND MR. OAKES AMES BEING ON nOARD, the boat on which i met with Mr. Clyde. Mr. Chittenden Messrs. Dane and Robinson and myselt bad an imterview with Mr. Chittenden and Mr. Clyde in the courthouse, the sale haying been postponed, At this interview Mr, Clyde refused to purchase under the Aule, or to buy on judgments, oF) as he exprewed It, to have anything to do with it: the sale took place at 12 o'clock, (noon); the property wasin seventeen different lots; the attachments 1m our favor were issued only seven or cight of them, and as these were separately oftered for sale I gave notice to the b; standers of the attachments against them held by ui the sale occurred on Monday, the lth day of April, 1864 the deputy ducted the sale denied the valldity of our claims against the property as against proceedings under the Confiscation act: @ pol Droperty covered by our attachments was ju a Mr. Eldridge; atior the sale we all Feturned to ington; I did not see Mr. Ames or Mr. Alley at the learned at Washiugton that Mr. Eldridge had pure the property tor Mr. Ames, and I was afterwards tol Mr. Aile; that he interested in the, pur- chase | with {nis was on the evening sale in the lobby ot Representatives; the next morn— ing, Robinson, Dane and myselt had an interview. with Mr. Ames and Mr. Alley at the Washington House, In Washington; Mr. Alley, Proposed that we should go in by coul property to the goveriment, and there ‘we shouid be able to realize on our interest: we accede to this proposition at the suggestion of Mr. Alley and Mr. Ames, they becoming security in accordance with the laws of Virginia ; the property was advertised to be sold by the sheriff under our judgiments; we all then returned ome. Early in May 1 went again to Washington; T was there loined by Dane, Robinson and f. Battingtens tree resident of the Asiatic Bank; we then sold our $4 ments to Mr. Alley for the full amounts, less , that being the estimated proportion of a prior attachment resting pen. the prop: fay 10, 1864, the day erty; on the morning of on which this sale under oi tachinents was ce, in Mr, Beach’s office in Alexan- grin, we executed the assignments of our judgments to John B. Alley, Oakes Ames, Samuel Hooper and William A, Duncan; the sale was advertised (according to the best of my Knowledge and belief) to take place at twelve o'clock, but did not in take place until about two o'clock’ P. M., though T heard of no announcement made of & postponement; after the necessary papers were all prepared we went trom the office of Mr, Beach to the market house, where the sale was to take and was made: prior to the sale Mr. Alley insist we should not bid against him, Tonly recollect the fol- lowing named persons being present at the sale, viz. : Mr. Robinson, Mr. L-arriugton aad myself, My. Beach (our attorney’, Mr. Alley, Mr. Duncan, Walter Penn (auction- cer at the previous sale), the sheriff, two or three others, whom | did not Know; the property sias mostly bid in by Mr. Alley: I made some bids at his suggestion, and he would bid over me; I think Mr Duncan mude one or two bids; MR. ALLEY MANAGED THE BIDDING, In the settlement of our sale others we received Mr. for | four thousand | dollars at sixty dave, Mr. Alley's draft on his Rouse In Boston ior, the, balance of the sum due, less Mr. Duncan's payment to him of $1,515, which he, Mr. Alley, paid over to us; Loverbeard Mr. Alley and Mr. Duncan agree to proportionately share the risk of @ note to be given by Judge Underwood tor his proportion of the purchase; im conversation with Mr. Alley, at which he msisted, as T have before expressed, that’ we should not bid against him, his language was, ‘We hav- ing purchased your judgments you ure not (or will not) olng to bid against us; this 1s as nearly as T can recol- ject it. @ Who was William A. Duncan, to whom youhave above referred? A. He way at that time Deputy United States Marshal, Q. Did he not buy any of Mr. McVeigh's property at the confiscation sale of whilch you have above spoken? A. Lunderstood lim at the tiny: to be interested in the pur- chase of the property, and the nouse adjacent to Mr, eVeigh’s residence was allotted to him. UNDERWOOD'R CONDUCT. Q. Who was the Judge Underwood to whom you above refer? A. He was at the tune Judge ot the United States District Court for the State of Virginia, under whose de- crees the coufiscation sales aforesaid had been made. Q. You staic iu answer to the third question above that “Judge Underwood said he wanted to buy a dwel- ling house for Ms wite (at the confiscation sales then about to be made),”” and that If he became the purchaser at the sale he would be willing to pay fifty per cent of his Proportion of our judgments, and you state near the end of your sald answer that you “overheard Mr, Alley and Mr. Duncan agree to” proportionately share the Tisk of a note to be Kivew by Judge Underwood for his Proportion of the purchase” did of not the sald Judge nderwood, or some one for him, purchase a dwelling, house for himself or Mra. Unde: at said conflsca: Alley and 0 tion sales; amd, 1! so, what had the said note, the risk of which was shared by Alley and Duncan, to do wath the matter? A. some one did buy the house tormerly occu- pied by Mr. McVeigh tor Mra. Underwood at the ise tion sale, and I have bees intormed Judge U: ‘ood and his family have continued to occupy tl Lu about that tine soul present; subsequent toene con jon sale, whem we sold oar 1 8 Ames ané othe: nd the tettiemente were to be im a le by them, I heard the conversation spoken that they (Alley and Dunean) were to share the risk of a note to be given them by Judge Underwood for his in- terest in our judgments, Q. At the attachment sales who bid in the said dwell- ® last mentioned, and at what price! A. Johm it aboutthirteen hundred dollars, but Ihave a certified copy of a deed frem the sheriff ot Alexandria county to Maria G. Underwood. Q. What was the real value of that house and lot at me? A. Tshould think from twenty to twenty-five jollars. Q Who bid in the adjacent house above spok- en of, which had been allote™, as you have above stated, to William A. Duncan? A. John B. Alley bid in that property at the attachment sales. Tt had been alloted to William A. Duncan under the arrangement as to the confiscation sales; T have since seen a certifled copy of adeed of the Sheriff of Alexandria county conveying, the attachment tte to William A. Duncan and John Underwood jointly. @ WHO WAS JOUN UNDERWOOD? A. I have been intormed that he was at that time United States Murshal of the disirict of Virginia. Q. What price did said house bring at suid attachment sale, and what was its real value?” A. It sold for $70), and [should think it was worth from $10,000 to $12,000. Were there any warehouses old at said attachment sales; and if so, to whom were they knocked down, and ‘at what prices, and what was their real value? A. There were three Warehouses and wharves, which were knocked down to Mt. Alley for about three thousand dollars for the whole ; [should estimate them to be worth at least ten thousand dollars each; I think one of them was knocked down to Mr, Alley at about one thonsand eight hundred and titty dollars, and the other two sold together tor one thousand one ‘hundred; I have since seen a certilied copy of a deed fror the Sheriff of Alex: ia county to dohn B. Alley, of Massachusetts, of the one from the Sheriff to ¢ other tw . What other property of Mr. McVeigh's wag sold at said attachment sales, aid at what prices and to whom was it k 1 downt A. There were several other dwelling houses sold at prices ranging from thirty-three dollars to about seven hundred or eight hundred dollars each; [ do not know their real value; they were knocked down to Mr. Alley. Q. Was Alley the only real bidder at the said attach- ment len? je Was, ise, and. You have stated, in answer to the third ques tion ‘above, that ' the sald attachment sales were advert to take place at twelve o'clock, M., jact did not tuke place until 2 o'clock, B. Mt. on the day of sale, and that you heard no an? n ment made of a postponement. Why was the post- ponement made? A. It was made to enable Mr. Beach to prepare the papers by which we assigned our judg- iment claims to Jolin B. Alley, Oakes Ames, Duncan, &e aps we went to the t Q.—Was any bell rang, or any. pi that the sale was then to take place, so as to give persons who might wish to make bona side bid: oppor. unity to purchase the property? A. There was uo bell rung to atiract a er the auctioneer merely stated to those who accompanied him trom Mr. Beach's office, that the sale would then take place; no effort was nado to gather a crowd of bidders; there was hardly even a form of a sale. USINESS” M. C.'8 a8 THE “RING.” Q. What were John B. Alley, Oakes Ames and Samnet Hooper at that time? A. By, were at that time Mem- bers of Congress trom the State of Massuctusetts, Q. Were or not the persons ‘interested in the attach- ment sales the same persons interested in the confisca- tion sales? A, They we: IP the anme “ring.” the coufiscation sales on the . Were you present f A. Twas, Q—Was ‘anything said on that oceasion of the attacn- ment liens oi said property? A. notice publicly atthe time and place of sale that our attachment liens covered a large portion of this property, and as each 1ece of property was put up for sale I announced pub- ficis it whs covered by our attachments: those. lots not mbraced in our attachments of course I said nothing bout. Q“What did the property embraced im these attach- ments bring at the attachment sales and confiscation sales together? to twenty thousand t the attachinent sale, worth at that time. AI 8G. What was sald, proper should think from $70,000 to YACHTING NOTES, Yacht Clio, Messrs, Asten, Pratt and Bathurs, from New York, put into Boyle’s Docks, opposite Whitestone, yesterday forenoon to paint bottom. The Pavonia Yackt Club, of Jersey City, has elected the following officers for the ensuing year:—Commodore, —— Kremeyer; Vice Commo- dore, John L, Cleary; Rear Commodore, Theodore Brumenauer; Secretary, Joseph Humphreys; Cor- Secretary, Aaron Pope; Treasnrer, Henry B “Pearson rer, Edward A. Davis. The newly elected Commodore was presented with @ handsome (ee badge by Vice Commodore Cleary, who delivered an approp! address on behalf ot the Club. This Club obtained its charter during the recent session of the New Jersey Legislature. A FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. Nogwicu, Unt., Aprii 23, 1873. At half-past twelve o'clock to-day the boiler in the foundry of Messrs. Merritt & Burgay, in Main street, exploded with terrific force, instantly kil!l- ing the engineer, Hance Stevenson, and the fre man, Allen McLeed. It is supposed the former wae 01 on the boller, as he was blown high into tho aie ‘A_ portion of the bollet, W balfa ton, Was hurled seme twenty-five yar other a the building oppo sR ange ta waste ——_—————————————