Excerpt from Life and Confession of Sophia Hamilton, Who Was Tried, Condemned and Sentenced to Be Hung, at Montreal, L. C., On the 22d of January, 1845: For the Perpetration of the Most Shocking Murders and Daring Robberies Perhaps Recorded in the Annals of Crime

Richard Jones, the father of the principal subject of this narrative, was the only son of a wealthy nobleman residing m Bristol, England, he had in the early part of his life received a classical education. But in consequence of the death of his mother, he of course got an uncontrolled career, which 'con tinned too long, until at length he became a disgust to his kind and loving father, whose admonitions be disregarded and whose precepts he trampled upon. At the age of twenty-four, he was a perfect sot, regardless of the kind counsel of his rela tives; and at length his character became so disreputable that he was accused of almost every outrage perpetrated in the neighborhood in which he belonged. This preyed so much upon his aged father that he became ill, and it is thought by many it shortened his life.' Richard had then attained the age of twenty-five, and seemed so deeply afflicted by the death of his father, that he promised amendment of conduct, so that his uncle took him as partner at the druggist business; but this was to no effect, for in a short time he sought every species of vice and wickedness, which the depravity of human nature could suggest. His uncle and he dissolved, and as he had considerable of the money that his father beqiieathed to him, he soon found company to suit his purpose, and became en amored of a woman of. Low character, who succeeded in making a union with him, and after spending considerable of the money, and seeing the funds likely to be exhausted, im mediately scraped up their effects, as she possessed a little property of her own. -they then resolved, like many others.

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