Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — Murder Will Out. [ARTICLE]

Murder Will Out.

The'devil takes vfery poor care of his servants, and there seems to be a sort of fatality about the discovery of great crimes which justifies the old saw that “murder will out.” For instance, Covert D. Bennett and Jennie R. Smith, lately tried in Jersey City for the murder of Jennie’s husband, could hardly have been convicted without tile evidence afforded by an eight-page letter written by Bennett to the woman while they were both in prison, the torn bits of which were picked out of the sink, where she had thrown them, by a halfcrazy old woman who was her cellmate, and given to the prosecuting attorney. It is unaccountable that any man in his senses would under such circumstances write a letter which, if discovered, would be Lis sure death warrant, and still more unaccountable that an intelligent woman, such as she showed herself to be on her examination, should fail to destroy such a document when received. But they did just those two things, and so unwittingly brought themselves to justice.