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CONFESSION OF ALBERT ]. TRRELL.-The
Boston Star states that Tirrel has heretofore
confessed that he murdered Mrs. BlcKFoRD.
The circumstances are thus given by that
journal:


When officers Whipple and Joseph w. An
| drews went TO Weymouth in search OF Tirrell,
| on the day after the murder, they saw and con-


versed with his wife. Officer Whipple spoke


to her, and first telling. her that she could an


swer the question he was about to put or not,
and that it would be testimony which could
not be used against her husband, he then ask
ed if her husband told her anything with re-
gard TO the crime with which he was charged
She replied that he did, and that he confessed
that lie murdered Mrs. Becktordl Upon being
asked how he appeared, she replied that she
could not describe his looks-they were unlike
anything she ever saw in man; and that she
could not describe her own emotion when he
admitted the dreadful truth. This is substan-
tally the statement of facts, and it is due to
the public that they should know them. We
understand also that there was much proof
other than that brought into the trial, but which
parties probably avoided letting be known, that
they might not be called on testify. Another
singular fact, we understand, connected with
the case Is, ndL one Vi lllB COIOHeT |Tuy Stdleu
TO officer Gustavus Andrews, that whoever
did the murder cut his hand, and advised him
to examine TirrelPs hand when he found him
in New Orleans-and when officers Whippe
and Andrews were seeking him in Weymouth,
man informed them that he had seen Tirrel,
coming from his fathers house, and he had a
rag bound around one or more Of his fingers.
Such is the story of the officers themselves
We are further informed, that the jury who
acquitted him, are Of the opinion, all of them,
that Tirrell committed the murder, but did not
consider the testimony such as to warrant
verdict Of guilty, under the law and their
oahs.


Ii is also stated in some of the papers, that
the tears coursed down the cheeks Of Tirrell
when the verdict was rendered. This was
positively not sos His eye was unmostened,
and he was, seemingly, the least moved of any
one Of that excited audience. When he reach
ed the prison again, however, ne did shed
tears, probably because he had again TO enter
his 'cell, when he presumed that his acquit al
would give him his freedom once more.