Canton Weekly Register

Murder and Fraud.

Alonzo and Amasy Chapin formerly of the firm of Filley & Chapin, large boot manufacturers of this city, and Wm. Kissane, of the firm of Smith & Kissane, pork packers, and Jas. Chandler of Covington, were arrested yesterday, about 12 o'clock, by G. A. Jones, U. S. Marshal for Ohio and S. B. Hayman, U. S. Deputy Marshal, assisted by constables E. Ewan, T. Curd, L. Harris, R. Black, and Snow.feld Bunker and Redding, of the city police, and Esq. Marchant, and taken to Columbus, on charge of being implicated in one of the most damnable crimes, if true, that we have ever had to record.—

Some time in last January, Capt. Cummings, brother-in-law of the Chapins, purchased the steamer Martha Washington, and put her in the New Orleans trade.

On her first trip the Chapins made very heavy shipments on her of what purported to be boots and shoes. It is now said that Capt. Cummings and the Chapins had effected an insurance on the boat and shipments on her, amounting to $125,000, and that the boxes supposed to contain boots and shoes, were filled with rubbish of no value whatever, and that the boat was set on fire and wholly destroyed with a view to recover this immense insurance. Capt. Cummings is now, we learn, in New Orleans, and measures have been taken for his immediate arrest, if it has not already been done. It will be remembered that sixteen persons were lost by the burning of the boat, and we learn that the parties arrested are now charged with murder as well as fraud. Kissane and Chandler are also charged with being parties to the attempted fraud.—[Cin. Com.