departwithin injury of tAken compaby com.munication Railroad RICHARd P. -The death of Richard' MexiP. Robinson has elicited a very remarkable dis- -closure. A man, named Henry Wilson, living in East 21st street, N. Y., states that present in Furlong's store, the corner and at o'clock at Nassau streets, 8 on the evening Helen Jewett was murdered, and there saw Richard P. Robinson. Robinson had on a cloak, muffled around him, very full in size, and of a dark olive. brown color. Wilson says during the 'trial he could not summon courage enough to come for- ward and testify to this fact. But he does now, it is presumed, to ease his conscience. To appreciate fully the value of this eleventh- hour testimony, it should be remembered that Robinson's acquittal was result, mainly, of rupthis man Furlong, the grocer, who stated that Robinson was in the store near the time it was alleged he was in Helen Jewett's chamber, annoyanand that on that evening he wore a blue frock the garment which was found in the yard of 42 Thomas (and supposed to have. concealed the hatchet) was a black cloak. Rosina Townsend, the keeper of the house. it will also be remembered o testified that when boRobinson asked for admission to Helen's cham. ber, on the fatal evening, he was muffled in 2 black cloak the very "cloak which correspondent of. the Express saw in Fur- the seem to be proved : Robinson's guilt; thus 2d. of long's store. Two facts therefore would a cide by jumping into the sea from a vessel bound serlected, some time after the trial, committed sui- Furlong's perjury. (Furlong, it will be recol- to Havana. makIt is nearly twenty years since these events took place, but those who are, familiar with the proceedings in court will remember that consid- reerable inquiry was made "for the third person who was in the store on the evening in questioni He was advertised for in the public journals of that day, and a tolerably good description of his person was published, in order that ho might be discovered. His failure to come forward at the guntime was alluded to as something significant, by a the counsel for the prosecution. his So, then, this person n who so mysteriously dis- appeared at a time when his bu- man probability, would have changed the, ver-. of acquittal into ono of "conviction, comes supdict forward now, after a lapso of nineteen years, and the startles the community with statements, which, that invaluable at that time, serve only to start afresh new suspicions touching the efforts that made by Robinson's friends, to keep certain ugly were luis testimony out of the way.
