The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

HADLOCK--THE MURDERER.

Extract of a letter from Penobscot, Oct. 7.

" I send you some particulars concerning the taking of the murderer, Hadlock. One of his neighbours on going to his house, on some business with his son, saw the old man there ; but before he could muster a party to take him, he went off in a fishing schooner, belonging to his son-in-law, one Manchester--upon which a party mustered, and went on board two fishing schooners, about twelve of the party boarded her, when Manchester swore that his father was not there, and that they might depend upon it, by all that was sacred. Some of them believed him, among whom was one Jacob Read, who stepped below to warm his fingers. As he was sitting by the fire, heard a gun snap--and turning round saw Hadlock, in the cabin, with a gun presented towards the men on deck, who were to the number of ten or eleven, all in a cluster. Had the gun been discharged at the time Hadlock pulled the trigger, it is probable he would have killed and wounded as many as five or six, as the gun proved to have been loaded with two balls, and eighteen buck-shot. As soon as Read saw him, he sprang, and seized the gun, which Hadlock immediately gave up, but catched a bayonet which he had near him, and stabbed Read in four or five places--two of them very badly--the worst wound is in the belly, where the bayonet went in so far as to bring out a part of the caul : but I believe he will recover from them : I saw him, and had the account I now send you, from his own mouth. After Hadlock was secured, he would foam at the mouth, and d--n his gun for not going off, as he said he should have made a d---'d fine shot among them, if it had not missed fire; and that he should have died in peace,if he had killed about a dozen of them." [To do justice to the persons who detected the above biped, we have inserted the preceding, tho we are averse to publishing accounts which cast a shade on even the dark side of human nature, and tend to depreciate the character of MAN.]