Poisoned.
--On Saturday night last, a white man named Thomas Sacres, a resident of Caroline county, was poisoned by a negro man named Nelson, slave to Mr. Thos. Hackett, and died that night. The negro fellow has since made his escape, and may possibly be lurking about this city.We learn from a gentleman from Caroline yesterday afternoon, that the negro slave Nelson a had been arrested and committed to jail — that he confessed to having administered the poison — and that he declared he had been hired to commit the dead by a white man and a white woman, who had agreed to pay him $10 to perform the horrid crime.
On Monday last a post mortem examination of the dead body was made, and the stomach taken out and sent to this city to be analyzed by a competent chemist. That the most deadly poison will be discovered, there seems to be no doubt.
