Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-09-30
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MURDER. The triel of Rob-
T. ~ the murder of his wife, came
y snpreme Court at Springfield
! inst. The solicitor general,
u the case, and produced wit
/. ~ testified to the following facts {:
: 10Th Sept. 1927, at sunset, the
Ecured 80 grains of opium, and
and shot, with which he loaded
r nroceeded to the house where
living, he having been separa-
! two years /; he had the night
= her. and on her refusing his
i've with him again, he threaten
On arriving at the house, he
! and his wife, who was stand
,elar door, fell down stairs. Her
'.rribly mangled, and fifteen shot
in her side, and she soon after
Bush was Immediately seized,
fare he had taken the opium.
meticks were forced down, and
disporged. The next morning,
F. Mon. he pleaded guilty, and said
aver have committed the crime
cen for rum. Bush manifested
Socking Indifference during his
a unmoved, even when the ver-
n was pronounced. Chief JUS
q sentenced him in the following
manner -
RUSH lin due course of the
Ion of the laws of the land, you
to suffer the penalty of a most
rhine committed under circum-
aggrayation rarely occurring in
christian country.
in its most simple form, is of so
nature, that there is scarcely a
enough to conceive its perpetra-
Il first being closed against all
ons and feelings which distin-
htural from the brutal, the civil
E savage, being. And when its
|be who is bound by natural or
ties to the perpetrator, the
bunity receive a shock, which,
isturbs the order of society, un-
Judgment, and almost deprives
its power to exercise that dis
h is necessary to an impartial
Evidence, and a candid judgment
X ct
character is the crime of which
Zen accused and convicted-of
pf her whom you promised, be-
cherish and protect-the COM
our life-the partner of your
ows-the mother ofyour young,
ldren, who by this rash deed
equences, are deprived of father
and who are left to bewail the
Pstructlon of one parent, and the
Il death of the other-thns enter
world fatherless and mother
a to all the evils of unguarded
b the remembrance of a mothers
eath, caused by a fathers ruth
haunt their young imaginations;
theirs ignominious punishment,
prospects of youth, and freeze
tide of Joy and hope which be-
Dir period of life, but which for
more to flow. Well may you
IN the contemplation of the ruin
fused, that you had a hell within
may you have been willing to
worlds to have exchanged condi-
be wife you have murdered. She
mt by your ferocious deed, to her
i, where, it is to be hoped, the
may need will be shewn her,
zen left to witness the desolation
oduced, until the slow but GER
nee Of the law has overtaken
Ps placed you on the verge Of
y to which she was untimely
year, you have been left to the
iltations of a prison. 1t is earn
that your heart has undergone q
at your eyes have been opened
wickedness of your life and
at least, beginning to look to g
lnd retribution as a reality and
nee and contrition as the only
that despair and misery which
ready begun to feel, and which
assuaged by divine mercy ope-
y a broken and contrite heart.
no cause to complain of the hu.
p which has pronounced YOU
I the first commission of YOU
puDllck sensation was too strong
pltted an impartial trial, the veal
Elapsed has restored sound judg.
nderstanding. You have had al
nce which our humane laws al.
Who are charged with crime
cen defended by able counsel
OOured for you as for a brother
cen tried by men who have fell
for a friend. No doubt theil
tween compassion and duty was
hey have judged rightly of your
cruel slaughter of your wife
and of the foulest sort. The
perceive in the deed nothing but
I'd revenge. They do not be.
Fot had deprived you of YOU
that your hand perverted and
They would willingly have saw
lcr their duty and their oaths
circumstances, you must sub.
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