Berkeley And Jefferson Intelligencer

On Sunday night the 18th ult. Mr. Phinchas Moody, of Somers, (Conn.) who had for some time previous been in a low, melancholy state of mind, was led to the horrid purpose of murdering his family and himself. After the family were asleep, he procured an axe with which he in the first place killed his wife and infant child about three months old. His wife was badly cut in several places; her arm on which probably the child lay, was cut almost entirely off, likely by the blow which dispatched the infant. He then went up in a chamber where slept a niece of his, about eight years of age, whom he mangled in a shocking manner. She had several gashes of the axe in different parts of her face neck and breast; three of her fingers cut entirely off and others partly. He then returned to the room where his wife was and left the axe, and went into a lower room and cut his own throat from ear to ear. He was about forty years of age The next morning the deed was discovered by a little lad who went to the house with an errand, who spread the alarm. The scene was enough to "harrow up the soul" of a stoic. A jury of inquest was immediately summoned who brought in a verdict, Wilful Murder!!

[Federal Spy.]