Mrs. Ferguson lived some minutes after
they came in, but was speechless. She
died before the physicians reached her.
Upon examination of the body it was
found that a charge of powder and shot
had entered her abdomen and occasioned
her death.
Ferguson is understood to be a native
of Sandwich in this state. He has been
for some time past a journeyman hatter
in this town. His wife was Eliza Ann
Frothingham, a.'nalive of Portsmouth or
Newbury port. She was an industrious,
peaceable, amiable woman, and lias suf
fered much and long from her cmel hus
band, who has at last sent her, through
violence and blood, to that rest which,
with him, she knew not and could not
know. The murderer deliberately bund
led un his clothes, while his victim was
bleeding before him taunted her for
provoking his vengeance and fled, :
Wc understand from the last Albany A reus
that Furguson has been captured ir the woods
near Sanoornton, and conveyed to Portsmouth
jail.
murder oil Iong Island.
A correspondent of the Brooklyn News,
who dates from Sayville, (near Patch'
ogue) Suffolk county, informs us that a
laboring man residing at that place, by
the name of Samuel Johnson murdered
his wife late on Friday evening last. No
motive is assigned for the act. Johnson
was addicted to intemperance. The deed
was committed abont 11 o clock at night.
in the presence of the family, with a
ffun, and so fatal was the discharge that
the woman died in 18 or 20 minutes.
