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DEATH OF AN ALLEGED PARRICIDE-CRcUMsTAN-
TIAL EvIDENCE.-About seven years ago man
named Stewart, accompanied by his son. then young
left his home in Dorchester Mary land for the west
and in the neghboIhood OF that city the body Of


the father found shortly after, in open 6ed. He
had been shot, and his skull cut and broken with
sharp heavy instrument Suspicion at last fell upon the
the murderer. By the will of his father he
made sole heir 1t proved that he had purchased
hatchct in Baltmore that he afterwards sold the hatchet
auction store in that city; that had bloolstans
upon it, that his pantaloons stained with Blood that
which he taken to be examined aud that in his trunk
were found two large pistols one Of them discharged,
and the ball of the other when extracted found to
be of exactly the weight with the taken from


impressed the public mind with the belief that he the
murdere Of his father But the crime of such
awful dye that the jury hestated to convict him mere
~ Icumsantia evidence however strong, ami
dered a verdict of murder in the second degree. The
verdict recorded and sentence to the full al
lowed by law imposed on the prisoner eighteen years


the penentiary His health had been failing for two
years. and last Saturday he died. having previously
taken Of the communion His last words that he
innocent of the death of his father that he had
hand in it. and ignorant OF every thing


atlDg to lit This is most extraordinary case. The pri
previous to death had sought religious instruction,
and seemed to he understandngly impressed with the
truths of religion With his last feeble BREATH after
participating in the most solemn religious observance,
when standing, as he knew, the very brink Of that
eternity where no lie could avail hmwhere he must
for all his acts and words and where he could
be affected by the good ill opinion of his fellow
men, he most soemny protested his innocence. Against
evidence complete and conclusive was ever made
out establishing his guilt beyond all doubt in the minds
the Courtha expressed its surprise the verdict Of
the jury-and of all who heard the t,ia What shall we
things alone say. The whole is awful tragedy
Buffalo .adu., July 25.