CONFESSION
O f A M u r D E r Z r
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The Boston Sun issued an extra on Fri.
day, containing a full confession by An
drew Howard, who was executed at Dover,
IN. H. on the 9th inst, for the murder of
Miss Phebe Hanson, at Rochester, on the
18th of September, and, as is the case in
nine-tenhs of the murders committed, rum,
acoursed alcohol, seems to have actuated
Howard to the commission of the horrid
crime. Avarce was an accomplice in the
act, but rum, the tyrant, which holds in its
mighty grasp the control of mems actions,
intellect, passions, and sentiments, was the
prime mover. The advocates of temper
anoe do not exaggerate when they say that
more crime and misery can be traced di-
rectly to this destroyer, than TO all other
sources put together. The proof is before
US, and we are daily seeing added to the
evidence of this assertion, mass after mass
Of testimony. But to the confession


'On the morning Of the 10Th Of Septem-
Der, l843, feeling half crazy from the e(-
fects of drinking great deal Of rum the
day before, determined that ! would get
Jacobs money that day, and knowing that
il was the day of general muster at Bar
rington, and that all the people in Mendea-
borough would be away from home, sup
posed could do it without being found
out.


took my gun and bottle of liquor, and
started for Jacob Hanson's, distant from me
about ten miles. | started from my house
early in the morning, and leaving the main
road, travelled through the woods and on
the cross roads, lest ] should be seen by
some one who knew me. ! was conscious
that ! was about TO commit an unlawful
ant; that | was about to take away the life
of feeble and unofending woman, who
had never injured me in any way, but had
frequently acted the part Of kind mother
towards me, and oftentimes | was on the
point of abandoning the idea of numbering
her, and returning home, when the cursed
thought Of the large sum of money
which Phebe had with her, and the ease
with which could obtain it, rushed into
my already half crazed brain, impelled me
to commit crime, the perpetration oI
which should have shrunk from in my So
Der moments with horror.


After having wandered through the field.
and woods, and cross roads, and having
parlaken freely ofthe contents Of the bottl,
with which,lhad provided myself previ
ously to leaving home, Tarrived at th'
house Of JccnA Hp,,opa!.,tween eleven anc