Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-06-20

connection could not have added to the
untiring zeal, the 'laborious and honorable
efforts, the exertion Of professional talents.
the thrilling and soul subduing eloquence
with which you have been defended. The
jury were literally Of your own selection,
you was not captious and troublesome 10
making that selection, but you did II with
prudence and discretion, and not a juror
was elected but IN accordance with your
own feelings. The counsel for the State
conducted the cause with benignIty and
merey,-bui with those talents for which
they are distinguished. and that firmness
from which men Of virtue and ol honor
they dear not relax Your triers. the ia
rors. have 10 the most patient and endur
ing manner submitted TO almost unexamp
led privations and confinement for the pc
Rod of nearly eight days, until some or
one Of them at least sunk under the pres
IRE Of his confinement and his feelings, &
by their fixed, solemn and patient atten-
lion to every word and suggestion. must
bave given yon the assurance that they
desired not your blood, but ardently and
leryently desired TO find you innocent, il
that innocence could be found even IN
the negative virtue Of ruined and dis
tracted mind; and as to the Court it may
not become mr 10 speak-but think N
view of that bar, before which you must
shortly appear. can say for my bfethren
and myself, that we have endeavored So
to regulate and control the trial, as to Sc
cure to you all the advantages that the
fair and impartial administration Of justice
can extend TO the deceased.
The final and fatal result has been re-
cOrled, and that record speaks while mind
and memory and judicial records last, and
will continue TO speak you GUILTY
GUILTY, GUILTY. the murder OF
Mary W. Hamilton, in manner and form
a. you stood charged by the Grand Jury
of the county.
find ,oho was Mary w. Hamilton?
Was she your enemyp Had she done
you wrongP Was it her CRIME that beau
ty had spread her charmes and smiled
forth IN all the loveliness of virtue, in eve
Try feature of her countenance, in the deli
cacy and elegance OF her form. in the
chaste and winning manners OF her life?
And was it because you could not make
such prize your own, that you resolved
IN the madness of your heart, she should
never live TO bless another man and make
him happy-as she had made the former
and lamented husband oil her first and
earliest loveP But press the inquiry no
further. You say you loved her-and yet
mysterious love you seized the unsus
pectlng moment Of her kind attentions,
when sickness feigned, or real, we frae
the former, drew her, at your request
with kind attentions TO your chamber to
administer to your comfort; you seized
that moment TO plant the fatal DAGGER IN
her bosom -perpetrated the horrid Deed
She lived to say" Oh mother, mother,
screamed, screamed, ---you did not come ana
Ctoagh has killed me because 1 tcO,tid no,
marry him 1 could not molher-I co,iLa
not, you knotc Il must die, must die!
But iorbear-i desire not TO extract the
dae ger from her bosom and plant 1t IN
your own. know our blood will not
tone for hers.-But | have SAID this much
that you may see and feel we have Just
adherence OF your crime, and to baAlsh
from your bosom all hope of favorable
interference by the Court, with that de
partment OF the government, 10 which /:
iooSeo paraoninS power. Danish then
we intreat you, from your mind every hope
u superintendent out at once the faint
est ray Of hope that may penetrate into
the darkest recesses Of your cell, and pre
pare to meet your God!-The blood you
shed was precious blood, but infinitely
infinitely more precious is that blood which
was shed on Calvary; and on that and that
alone we commend you to look for pardon
and eternal life.
1t remalns only for US to pronounce The
sentence Of the Law-and il Is considered
and adjudged that you De taken from
hence TO the prison Of this county from
whence you came, and there be kept IN
close and secure custody until FRIDAY The
2oh day o. Juty neat, bet,ceea The hours o,
l o'clock M the nl0rauig and 8 o'clock u,
The afternoon, and be taken TO The place O,
Pa6dc eTecuttOn and there be hanged bu
ne neck anti you are dead, and n.av the
almighty God hare mercy on, your soul