Litchfield enquirer., 1829-06-11

"IAy tHOS0 'WuO IUuuISeu this fatal CT
 TOT, that the law was over them, and tha
 they must submit to it. That for this req. son, and having this object in view. in. court were bound to make him, Bruce. ar awful example of the consequences of act. ing upon the principle upon which he and his associates had perpetrated the offence of which he had been convicted. They were further called to the discharge of thi,
 painful duty, by consideration of the oC
 ficial station which Bruce held at the very moment, and of his having perverted that
 station, to purposes, which it was his spe.
 cal duty to prevent. After most now.
 erful appeal to the feelings of Bruce. which
 melted the hearts of all who heard it, the Judge announced the sentence of the cour,
 to be that ''sYou, Eli Bruce, be confined
 ln close and secure custody, in the com.
 mon Jail of the county of Ontario, for the
 term ot two years and four months.''
 We have not pretended to give the chaste and digniied language of Judge tloweli' nor to give more than portion ot hls sentiments; and we are certain that we have not expressed them with the point and precision with which they are deliv- cred.
 on Wednesday morning, the second day of the sitting of the court, MT. Spencer. the special Commissioner, moved the court that they should immediately proceed to the trial of ohm Whitney, Gen. Matthews. one ofthe counsel for the defendant, urged delay on the ground that his associate counsel MT. Griffin, was absent in pursuit of an important witness, and was expected to arrive in the course of the day. Mir. Spencer contended that this was no reason for delay, that there were sheriffs and con- stables enough, &c.-The court however, agreed to wait until afternoon, upon the as- snrance that an important witness for the defendant was then expected. Meanwhile. a civil cause was brought on for trial. which occupied the court the whole day. Thurs day morning MT. Spencer renewed his mo- ton for an immediate trialof John Whit ney and James, Gillis. An affidavit was now produced on the part of Gillis. of the n'atsriality ofa witness, wbo had been sub- poenaed the day before, and who was ab- sent, and further delay wassolicited. The special commissioner immediately sent for the absent witness of the defendant, and undertook to have him in court by two o'clock, at which time it was arranged the trial should commences, if inc witness ar- rived. Another civil cause intervened. aaiRd 1t Ras not until ebonf 2 o,clork in the of the Jury commenced.- Whitney was present, but Gillis was absent. A mass of testimony was introduced on the part of the people, which occupied the court and jury the residue of the day, and until the the evening of the next day, the 22d.--On the morning of the 2Sd, the testimony on the part of the defendants was commenced, and continued until dinner time.
 Among the witnesses produced by the defendants, was Eli Bruce, who testified that on the evening of the 18th of Septem- Der, 1926, he was first apprised that Will jam Morgan was coming on from Canan- daigua, on the ridge rad. He was told by Burrage Smith and another person then living at Lockport. Some six or eight days previous to this, he had been inform ed by gentleman from Batavia, that Nor gan was willing to go away from Miller, and the witness was requested to assist in his removal, which he declined. He, however, had been requested by another person, to prepare cell for Morgan, in the jail at Lockport, in contemplation of Morgan's being carried across from Batavia to Lock- port, and thence to Niagara. Smith and the person who came with him, told wit- ness that Morgan had come voluntarily and was willing to go into Canada; they said he came peaceably, and wanted witness to assist in getting him on. Witness declined at first, but finally agreed to do so, and be- tween 9 and 10 o'clock went to the house of Solomon c. Wright, living on the ridge road three miles north of Lockport, where
 he found the carriage and got into it.-
 William Morgan, or person called Mor-
 gan, was in it, one Hague, who is now dead,
 and himself, and no others were in the car riage. It was driven by person of his acquaintance. There were several persons
 at Wright's who did not belong to the house, and on his way there, he met some strangers on foot going towards Lockport He never saw Lawson, until he saw hin here in jail. He did not see Whitney. ana did not know him. He afterwards statet that he saw Whitney at the installation a Lewiston. @
 He went in the carriage from Wright to Lewiston, where another carriage an' horses were procured the same passen : gers got into that carriage and drove to thu ferry near the Fort. On their way the,