Life and Confession of Ann Walters, the Female Murderess!!: Also the Execution of Enos G. Dudley, at Haverhill, N. H., May 23, 1849. To Which Is Added the Confession of Mary Runkle, Who Was Executed for Murder.Anonymous
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Life and Confession of Ann Walters, the Female Murderess!!: Also the Execution of Enos G. Dudley, at Haverhill, N. H., May 23, 1849. To Which Is Added the Confession of Mary Runkle, Who Was Executed for Murder.
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Dudley, Enos G., -1849; Runkle, Mary; Walters, Ann Smith, 1812-1844
He remarked that he intended to have revised and corrected what he
had written--that some things had better been omitted--that there was
some things in it which would please some, and which others would be
sorry to see. I replied that the essential thing was, that they should
be true, and he said yes. During the whole interview he was entirely
composed, except when he spoke of the little pittance that he could
leave for his children, when he was considerably moved, and wished me
to say to his brother to take care and not be too selfish with them. I
carried away the writing without examining it or knowing its contents,
till all was over with Enos G. Dudley for this world, and he had gone
before that God to whose final judgment he, with so much apparent
confidence appealed. The greater part of the book is made up of Mr.
Dudley’s account of the trial and his comments upon the testimony--and
so much is here given as appears to have been written the morning
before the execution.
C. R. MORRISON.
* * * * *
May 23, 1849.
I am not the first innocent victim that has wrongfully been hurried
from this to another world, through the prejudice of public opinion.
I am only one among the many that have been thrown from existence on
a charge of guess work and false supposition, and the falsehood that
always attends supposition, where prejudice dethrones and becomes the
master of the government. There is not much trouble in gaining victory
against the innocent, however falsely charged. The charge against me
has been perfectly false, falsely sustained by false testimony. Yet,
although I am just about to be hurled from time to eternity, a curse
forbidden both by the New and Old Testament, Deut. 17, ii, viii.
&c.--yet I am innocent of the charge--innocently convicted, innocently
sent into the presence of that God who knows every thought, even of the
human heart, thank God, too, that there is nothing hid, and that my
final sentence is not to be passed by the base rabble of false witness,
nor the base conjecture of supposition.
At that bar I stand an innocent man, and I hope all who have lent their
acts or voice in favor of such an achievement will not hide under the
witnesses, but remember they are accountable for lending their aid or
voice in favor of a course that is repugnant to the Scriptures. These
are given us for our guide, and they that lend their influence in
favor of a law repugnant to the Scriptures, inasmuch as they deny the
requirements of the Bible, disown the truth therein contained, deny
them as their rule and guide and assent to take the life they cannot
give.
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