Show I The Crime of Eugene Eug-ene Aram Arain T THE LIE murder committed by Eugene Eugen e Aram and perpetuated In Hoods Hood's s ballad The Tire Dream of ot l Eugene Aram Anon and Bulwer Lytton's romance Eugene Eugen e Aram was was remarkable not only o on n account of the time unusual attainments o othe of 01 f the he criminal who was one of the lead lag Ing linguists of his 1118 ils time but also be because because cause ause of or the fact that no evidence o of ot f the tire murder was adduced for for fourteen years after time after the crime was was' committed Eugene Aram Arum was a self taught t genius He he had flad received only a scanty education from his iris pa parents but by hy dint of or tIme the the most persevering energy energy en ergy he secured an excellent knowl knowledge knowledge edge of mathematics and an extensive e acquaintance with Latin and Ore irei n awell a AI s well as with the Hebrew and C hII hi lean lang lang- languages He ta taught Latin and writIng writIng writ writ- Ing brg at a n school In London and anti was wa s wards afterwards el employed lo ed as usher and a as assistant to Rev nev Anthony Hinton at His boarding school In Middlesex x In 1744 iron Aram murdered Daniel DanIe l Lar Clarke ke and then successfully ly concealed con con- cea e all traces of his crime until l the accidental discovery ry of a skeleton fourteen years later Inter led to the bc con elusion that a murder had been corn corn- In spite of the the- fact that it was later Inter found that the skeleton n was wu s not that of Clarke Aram was apprehended on suspicion tried a at t York In 1759 1750 and found guilty on evi evl evidence dence supported by by t the e testimony o ohis of f his own wife Although ti his counsel counse l fought the time case through through- o on every conceivable con con- uble ce ground after atter conviction Aram Arum admitted the Justice of ot his sentence sen tent tence and endeavored ed to commit suicide sui an cide by opening an nn artery In his arm ann with a razor But despite his weakened weakened weak ened condition h he was taken hiken to th the e Hallows In York where he was hanged his body being later hung In chains In Inthe Inthe the forest of Knaresborough na During a n portion of the fourteen V years between the murder and Its discovery dis dig covery Aram was employed as assist assist- assistant ant to Mr Hinton who frequently observed observed ob ob- observed served that whenever er Aram Arum saw a R aM M worm n nr on r In f tn In i tha tL uw walks of ot the garden he Ire carefully removed removed removed re re- re- re moved It to a n secure position where It could not possibly be stepped upon When the murder of Clarke was discovered discovered dis dis- dis covered and Aram convicted It occurred occurred occurred oc oc- oc- oc to Mrs Hinton Flinton that the murderer murderer mur mur- derer had evidently supposed that he could atone for fur his crime by preserving preservIng ing lug the lives of animals and that by frequently showing mercy and tenderness tenderness tender fender ness to the lower Jower forms of life Ufe the tire killing of a ml man n would either elther be obliterated obliterated ob ob- ob or his guilt considerably lessen less less- en ened d. d V At length Mr Hinton discovered J th that t his assistant was was' a tine thief for tor hearing some persons In the garden early one morning the h head hend ad master Immediately Investigated but found only a sack full of potatoes which had been abandoned upon his approach Thinking that he had a sufficient clew to detect the thief Mr Hinton caused the sack and its contents to b be exhibited ex ex- ex- ex In the neighborhood and one of the villagers magers claimed the sack ass as s his lito own n h ho hi n it to Aram who boarded at his house On this Information Aram Ann was dismissed dismissed dis din missed particularly as an examination examina examina- Ion tion of locker at the school dIsclosed dis disclosed dis disclosed closed evidence of ot ninny many petty thefts which had been going on over o a long period of time In conducting his own defense durIng during dur dur- ing lag his trial for tor murder Aram made madea a skillful attack on the f fallibility of ot circumstantial evidence In general and the conclusions to be drawn from the discovery of human bones In particular partite ular ullar quoting several Instances where bones had been found In caves es and attempting to prove that the skeleton In SL St Roberts Robert's cave was probably that of nt some hermit who had tal taken en up his abode there hit There appears to be little doubt that Aram murdered Clarke for he practically pracH- pracH cally admitted It yet no less an tin authority authority au au- au than Bulwer r Lytton was of ot the opinion that he was guilty only of ot rob rob- bery Aram was convicted principally on the evidence of ot his wife who appears appears ap ap- ap pears to have been a most peculiar person for tor after the execution of of- her husband she not only continued to live JIve at Knaresborough but visited the forest every day and picked up the bones as ag they dropped one by one from her husbands husband's body while the time children assisted In her support by taking strangers to vl view w the tire tree where their fa fathers father's hers her's remains had boon hung S a by the Wheeler Syndicate |