Aram

Eugene, a_ self-taught scholar whose unhappy fate has been made the subject of a ballad by Hood and a romance by Lord Lytton, born in Yorkshire, England, in 1704. In 1734 he opened a school at Knaresborough. About 1745 a shoemaker of that place, Daniel Clarke, was suddenly mi ing under suspicious circumstances; and no light was thrown on the matter till 13 years afterward, when an expre ion dropped by one Richard Houseman respecting the discovery of a skeleton supposed to be Clarke’s, caused him to be taken into custody. From his confe ion an order was i ued for the apprehension of Aram, who had long quitted Yorkshire, and was at the time acting as asher at the grammar school at Lynn. He was brought to trial on Aug. 3, 1759, at York, where, notwithstanding an able and eloquent defense which he made before the court, he was convicted of the murder of Clarke, sentenced to death, and executed.