The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-12-10
ST. LOUIS, (U. L.)
7LAY INTELLICENcE.


The Unifcd States Us. George Orniiiard.
On Friday the esd ult;mo, the trial of
George Druillard for the a!ledged murder of
Antoine Bissonnette, came on before the
court OF Oyer and Termiuer, held for the
district of st. Louis: The hon.J b. &. Luz
cas- presiding judge, and the hon. Auguste
Chouteau associate justice-John Scott, ESQ
Attorney general, prosecuted, and Edward
Hampstead, WIZ. e. Carr and Rufus Eas-
ton. Esquires, were counsel for the prisoner
The facts were briefly these: Mr.. Ma
nuel Lisa and the. prisoner had embarked
In the spring Of 1907 goods and merchan-
die, which, with their outfits and equip
ments, amounted to S 10000, as AN adventure
on trading and hunting voyage up to the
sources of the Missouri river They had
enlisted the deceased as n hand for the term
OF three years lie had engaged to do duty,
not only as u hunter, but also expressly CO.
venanted by articles of agreement, to obey
'thc command of his patrons, to mount guard,
To give Them timely notice Of every thing
that might prove injurious to their inter-
est and not to leave their service on any
'pretext whatever"
The party arrived at the mouth of the
Usage river, about 20 miles up the MIS-
souri, on the 18th of May 1907, and when a
gain putting off it was discovered that the
deceased ives missing-Mr. Lisa, the com
mauder of the party directed them to call
him, but he made no answer: Lisa then
said to Dpuillard, $50 and bring him, DEAD
OR ALIVE Druillard with one of the hands
started to the woods, and Lisa with two o.
theirs to the river Au Marie. two leagues be-
low. in pursuit of him. Druillard returned
in about half anhour, and said he had woua-
ded the deceased, and was Sorry for it. Four
men were sent to bring him to the boat The
bullet penetrated his back near one of his
shoulders.
The counsel for the prisoner commended
that the crime would only amount to man
siaghter, in case it had not been proved that
TIE deceased committed felony. The de-
sertion from voyage so peculiarly in,por-
tant to the prisoner and hazardous in its ma
ture, and refusal on the part of the de-
ceased to be taken, was a sufficient provo
cation to doaway the least possible presump-
tion OF malice, propehse, OH the part of the
prisoner MIR. Hampstead read variety of
law cases in point tossupport this position.
MIR. Easton, took an extensive view Of
the law and the testimony-of the impor-
lance OF such expeditions up the Missouri
that the success of those enterprises depend
ed entirely on the fidelity of the hands, and
that if treachery be suffered with impunity,
all commerce with that rich country would
be frustrated forever. He pourtrayed with
the liveliest animation, the persevering and
unshaken' fidelity of the prisoner in ascend
ing the Missouri with the intrepid 8, brave
captains Lewis and Clark, over the snowy
and rocky mountains to the Pacific ocean.
That with them he braved the unparalleled
hardships OF desert and bowling wilder
ness, and though brought to gnaw the foot
of dog, yet he scorned TO desert The
force pt his arguments carried conviction to
the minds ofthe Jury and audience that the
defence of HIS client was founded on a lust
and lega, basis.
The Attorney general commended that the
desertion OF the deceased, and carrying off
the articles of equipment was only breach
ef trust in him-tlta. the killing was perpe-
tratNi through express malice, and that it
was murder in the fullest and most strict
sense of the term. He cited i, Hawkins,
121-122-la4, and concluded by an ingeni-
GUS argument in support of the prosecution,
and of the Indictment for murder.
The jury retired from the bar. and in a.
bout IS minutes returned verdict of NOT
GUILTY. '+
At such time as this, when every man seems
disposed TO put his whiskers upon the war estab-
Gsiment, who could dream that Mr. Randolph
was trihing with serious face yet it was even
Mr. Randolph wishes to pass for the psftic,l-
lar friend ofthe people, and to make them believe
so, he calls for tpe publication of the secret do
cuments. He desired, it seems, that all the world
should know the private opinions of gen. Arm
strong and Mr. Pinkney, respecting the occult
views of the French and English governments
1t was not enough that the repre- sentatyes ofthc
people should be made acquainted herewith
but all the old tories in the country must under
stand all ahy,t it. If general Armstrong should
be incsrcerated at Paris for his freedom of re.
mark, or Mr.. Pinkney, for the same fault, should
be conducted 20 the tower of London, what was
THAT to Mr.. Randolph If, from the publication
of their private sentiments, they should fall vic.
TINS to the vengeance of European ministers,
how could that effect a representative of the peo-
ple loliing at his and counting the genius of
invective Some men might imagine, with res.
pect to general Armstrong, that there is lark
ing spirit of hostility especially when we re-
fleet that the general once wrote a certain pam
phet which bore with some severity on Mr.
Randolph but remembering the astonishing
magnanimity of the latter we throw far from us
an Imp,itation so odious. To be sure, here have
been suspicious arising from gossipping story
fabricated concerning Mr.. Madison, that Mr..
Randolph can smuse himself with furious gusts
Of spleen, yet can hardly conceive that he
would asSa indirectly the welfare OF ministers a.
broad, particularly when, if fame be no brazen H.
ar, be was ambitious to become one Of the diplo-
matte corps himself. Monitor
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N M Il. WI. L. WEBB, di,ninistyatoy of Ben.