Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1832-04-06

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yet one of the Jurors. by the name of Will
liam Wilson, who was mason, refused to con-
cur with his eleven brethren, expressly decla-
ring that he would not believe witnesses who
had violated their masonic obligations. The
jury were accordingly discharged. The mis-
cradle Adams has since been called to another
bar, where no mystic ties and no impious oaths
will screen him from an all-sseing eye.
Parkhurst Whitney, Noah Beach, Samuel
M Chubbuck, Timothy Shaw, and William
Miller. were also brought to trial. Whitney.
Beach and Miller were acquitted, the Jury
could nor agree as to Shaw and Chubbnck, and
, they were discharged. Norman Shepard and
Henry Maxwell were also tried and acquitted
the witness not remembering, on the trial facts
that they acknowledged they had sworn to be-
fore the grand jury, or remembering them in
such manner as rendered them nugatory.-
Nothing worthy of special notice occurred at
these trials beside what has been MENTIONED
After session of some weeks, Judge Nelson
adjourned his court, leaving the investigation
very much where Judge Marcy had left it,
1t was impossible to obtain convictions if ma
sons were on the jury. In other cases, witness
SEES absconded, or refused to answer, or answer
ed so equivocally that no reliance could be pla-
ced on their testimony. One of them. by the
name Of Murdoch, purposely absented himself
in neighboring county, until the trials were
over.
'During all these trials, OF which an account
has been given, beginning with tina CT Eli Ma,
Ither, the same corps of counsel appeared for
the defendants, indiscriminately. They were
lgentlemen of distinguished professional char
acter, who were not in the habit of bestowing
their services gratuitously. They spent mont S
| in this service, absent from their families and
their business The enormous expense which
must have been incurred in their employment
could not have been betrayed by the defend
ants in all cases, for they are known to be ut
terly unable to do so. Speculation. of course
has been ahoat. as to the source whence thcir
compensation was derived After the evil
dence which was given on one of the trials, of
duplication being made to a distant chapter to
contribute 10 the defence of the prosecuted ma
sons in the west of New York. and after the
Developments which have recently been made
of appropia ions by the Grand Lodge Of one
hundred dollars 10 Eli Bruce. and by the grand
Chaptsr of New York of one thousand dollars
for an indefinite charity. which has never been
accounted for or expla ned,-it is not YER
Irrational conclusion that the masonic body. a.
such. have furnished he means of defendin.
these criminals. 1t should be known, that III,
laws of New York make ample provision for
counsel tor those prisoners who are unable to
employ them.
! Immediately after the termination of the
last trials at Lockport, aforementioned, in A.
lprll, 1881, the statue, authorizing the appoint
ment of special counsel, expired by Its own
Limitation, and the majority of the Committee
of the assembly of New York, To which the
lsubject was referrdd. refused to recommend a
III. L.. r
indictments still undetermined. With the in
sufficient means of the county attorneys, who
are the public prosecutors, to contend against
such obstacles as are constantly interposed. and
with the general impression, that ali attempts
to obtain fair administration of Justice in
these cases. will be fruitless. it is presumed
that no further trials will be had. The sword
kof Justice has fallen pointless and blunted at the
feet of freemasonry.
''In may. 1881. Solomon C. Wright was
drought on trial on the indictment against him
4 for perjury. at the o tario General Sessions -
4 He had sworn that no suspicious carriage haG
| arrived at his House in September, in 1926
, and had denied other circumstances calculated
Ito identify the persons and the carriage con.
E veving Morgan. On his trial, it was abund'
antly shown that his testimony in these respects
was false. but the court held that'the material
e ~ ofthese facts, in the original case, was moi
a Sufficiently shown and he, too was acquitted
This is the last trial that has taken place, grow
ling out Of the abduction of William Nor,
lgan.
!. at is not inappropriate to the subject 81
: this report to state, that the five persons who
a have been convicted, either upon their owr
|confessiors, or upon the most conclusive proof
/. of participation in the forcible abduction o
: William Morgan.-to wit, Cheseoro, Sawyer
4 Lawson Bruce and Whitney,-remain in full
. standing and fellowship, as members of tn,
masonic order. and have not, in any way, beef
i proceeded against by the lodges or chapters.
e One of those under Indictment, Simeon B. Jew
h EFT, has heen elevated to high and distinguish
It ed honors in the fraternity, and notice Of tn
r fact has been publicly advertised In the news
J, papers of New York. Probably such an i'm
c ppdent defiance of the public authority has "a