New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register

THE MURDER OF WHIPPLE. The Albany papers have disappointed us this morning, in regard to the further development of facts respecting the assassination of Mr. Whipple. We spoke yesterday of the arrest of a man calling himself Joseph Orton. He has been fully committed, under a strong presumption of guilt. The Governor, moreover, has offered a reward of $500 for the detection of the murderer. Orton has been employed for the last six or eight months as a laborer on the farm on which Mr. Whipple's family reside. He is about 30 years of age, was born in West-Chester county, but for a number of years has resided in Kentucky and Ohio, a part of the time in the vicinity of Cincinnati. While under examination, after much contradictory evidence, he refused to make further answers without obtaining the aid of counsel. John Van Ness Yates, Esq. was sent for, who after some private conversation with the prisoner, refused to defend him. It seems that this man lived with Mr. Whipple—and it appears, upon examining Mrs. Whipple, that she had had suspicions of his intentions, or, if our information is correct, the prisoner had expressed to her his determination to kill her husband, which sanguinary intention her fears prevented her from developing.

It is stated by persons from Albany, with whom we have conversed, that sometime in the course of week before last, Mr. Whipple being absent to this city, whence he was expected to return to Albany on Saturday, Mrs. W. went down to Forbes' Hotel, where her husband was in the habit of stopping as he landed from the boat, and wrote him a letter, cautioning him not to come home after dark, as she feared he would be murdered, having seen suspicious persons lurking about the premises; and on her examination on Saturday, it is said she confessed that Orton had urged her to give her husband arsenic, declaring that if she did not, he would shoot him. One of the morning papers says O. finally confessed that his name was not the one he went by, and that his parents were respectable, and lived in Duchess county, and not in Ohio: and he wrote to them to employ Elisha Williams, Esq. to defend him. Such is the information and we give it as we received it.—N. Y. Com. Adv.

The Albany Argus states, that since Orton has been committed for trial, "the circumstantial proof against him has been strengthened rather than diminished; but that however criminal Mrs. Whipple's conduct may have been in other respects, no proof exists, after two examinations, of a participation on her part in the murder."

The verbal reports upon this subject increase in horror. About two months since, a Mr. Van Rensselaer died under singular circumstances, at Mr. Whipple's house, where Strang had then for some time been living. Mr. Whipple had been previously indisposed, and Strang, (or Orton) had been sent for an emetic to give him; but as he felt better before Strang returned with the medicine, it was not taken. When Mr. Van Rensselaer, (a relative of Mrs. W.) sickened, he thought an emetic would do him good, and took the dose which had been procured for Whipple. He died in great agony, very suddenly, and it was then supposed that the wrong medicine was given him. We are told that his body was to have been taken up and examined on Wednesday. [N. Y. Com.]