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IMfi.F:o:n t!ie N. 0. P.ciyuno, July 2*.|dIlA MUKDKHKK S AKRKST.ols,Under this caption in our paper ofii-Tuesday we briefly noticed the arrest otsieone VVilev Freeman, for the murder oloi-his wife. Tne particulars \ic received athtoo an late hour on the previous eveningriarto give them in full. They were yester11iidday “crowded out,” louse a technicaldiephrase, hy news from Mexico, Texas,VVScc. They are of an extraordinary char*inactor, and inasmuch as they show thaisithe Omnisc ient eye is ever on the murira-derer, thev point a moral on which it issiP-well to relied.IdFreeman is about forty-eight years ofwIdago; his countenance bespeaks shrewd-tlt;Jliness and intelligence, and it also plainlyati lls of a mind harrowed up with feelingsj'IIIi)of intense agony and bitter, biting remorse. He whs raised in Edgefield, S.toCarolina, and was married at the early»eage of twenty-one or twenty-two years.nirHis wife he had known from early infancyIT—they went to school together and010together participated in the village sports.aitTheir union seemed to be such a one asnjrwould insure perpetual happiness—undytyaing love. The poet says—n.ij“ But hippy they, tho luppiisl nf ihoir kind,afiWhom gentle slurb unite, dud in one la’o Their hearts, their fortunei and lho*r beings■ re1 1ldblend.*llBut, alas ! though early association andII»esimilarity of tastes and ages would seemftin !to have combined to render .Mr. Freemanc:d ;and his wife blissful and happy, feeling*wid |apparently at war with nature ro.se up andlaL‘- lt;.-undo them miserable. After having livedeilytogether tor some twenty-two years, and j„Jr.after having given lo the world eleven1iiLchildren, the marriage vow, mutually tailken. was broken, and the parties whoViIIIpledged themselves to live and love toahgether ir, sickness and in health—throughlOgood and evil tortune—became severed, iwildisunited.i*111Freeman, it appears, became (he sottish ,ic11slave of intemperance, and, as a nccessa- iIkI*iry cons* quencc, failed to discharge thcjSdw
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Farmers Gazette and Cheraw Advertiser
Cheraw, South Carolina, US
Tue, Aug 02, 1842
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