The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-06-30
MORGAN TRIALS.

The last of the trials for the abduction OF
NV:ii;-.-- Aavrsan now pending at Lockport.
New York The following, from The Albany
EUening Journal, is the only account we have
yet received of their progress
We learn from Lockport, that the trial of
Ezekiel Jewett had not terminated on the 9Th
inst. The accustomed difficulty was experience
ed IN obtaining testimony. The lips of Mason
&c witnesses were either sealed, or opened to IT.
ter rank perjuries. erasmus Turner the man
who assisted in preparing the Fort for Morgans
reception, land aohO acas recently appointed 10
take the census for Niagara countu y refused
to answer three questions, for which the Court
promptly imposed fine of $3.50, and ordered
him imprisoned 80 days for each contempt.
John Jackson, who went to the Magazine with
Giddens, while Morgan was in it, has non
mn rtcord0' for every question. Bruce and
Whitney refused to be sworn, whereupon the
Court added 80 days to the imprisonment of
each and imposed a fine of $3.50 upon Whit
ney. These fines are nothing. The Grand
Chapter pays them. The witness Jackson has
counsel, with whom he retires and consults be.
fore answering questions.
Jewett, it is believed, will be acquitted, while
his guilt will be apparent to the most skeptical
The Special Counsel, we anticipated, proves
to be wholly incompetent for the discharge Of
shO iOSpOHciOiC uutleS WHICH nave De6n
cast upon him. Judge Marcy, thus far, holds
the scales ofjustice with an infexible and i'm
partial hand The duties Of public prosecutor
fall principally upon Gen Whiting, the District
Attorney OF Ontario county. who has, from the
commencement of these a-duous trials been
faithful and unshrinking officer.
Col Jewett, the person indicted, was the
keeper of the Fort at Niagara at the time Nor
gan was placed there.
Since the above was prepared we learn that
Jewett was acquitted, all the important witness
es summoned on the part of the government re-
fusing to testify on the occasion.
CRIMINAL CALENDAR. The convictions be-
town last week, were as follows:
Moses Gill, guilty by verdict of assault and
to pay fine of 500 and 10
costs.
Owen Clafiin, for larceny, guilty by verdict,
sentenced to .hree months hard labor in the
House of Correction.
Joseph Palmer, for assault and battery, gull
~ by verdict-fne $40, and ordered to recog-
nize in the sum of $780, with two securities in
the sum of 500 each to keep the peace one
year.
James Green, (black) for larceny, guilty by
verdict-sentenccd to months confinement to
hard labor in the House of Correction.
Oliver Temple, for assault and battery, gull
~ by 'erdict-fned So and costs.
Holland Stone, for larceny, guilty by COMES
sion-sentenced to the House of Correction 3
months.
Amasa Capron, for larceny, guilty by con-
tesslon-sentenced to confinement in the COM
mon gaol for three months.
"THE TRAVELLING CABINET" BY the last
accounts from the South, we learn that Gen.
jackson has taken an +" electionsering Journey"
to the Western States, Secretary Van Buren,
had taken trip to Virginia, the Post Master
General has just arrived in Philadelphia, and
Secretary Eaton was in the New York hab.
lands, for the purpose, as was supposed, of OK.
ercising the Cadets, at West Point, in English
Grammar; leaving the Secretary of the Treas
ury and the thinking Secretary" to sustain
the whole weight of the government on their
shoulders. We wait with some anxiety TO sec
ifthe Jackson papers will advertise the Gener.
al and his cabinet, as TunaaoGys as they did
john Quincy Adams. when he was under the
necessity of visiting his former residcnc, at
Quincy, to transact business accustomed by The
death of his father.