Litchfield enquirer., 1833-06-13

I Idisposition--when it is proved before you
 that she was five times expelled from the
 Methodist church, and that she was all the time cOntFiving to be re-admitted by means of false certificates and her own forgeries-
 when you see all these things strongly before yOu-her character, her Vindictive feeling,
 her threats against and. personal enmity to
 MT. Avery, l ask you, gentlemen, whether
 you will not unhesitatingly say that, of all hu-
 man beings, the deceased was most likely to close her career by such an act. We will sat- 1 lsfy you that for twelve years the prisoner
 has been ZealOus. and faithful minister of
 the gospel; that he has moved from place to place as is customary with the ministry of this church that wherever he has bent his footsteps he has borne with him character
 most unimpeachable and unsullied. If I suc- 1 ceed in showing his character to be such as | 1 represent. it ought to be some protection to
 him. You will not so readily believe that
 such a man can be guilty of wickedness, so
 complicated and drea6fll. He stands before you charged with seduction, with using his
 holy office merely as a covering fur actions l the most corrupt, and lastly with the crime l of murder. But, gentlemen, if prove him to I be such man and her such woman as !
 have represented, the very existenceofthis vast |
 that he was aware of it, would be sufficient to I make any reasonable man doubt the possibil- ity of his having held any connection with such wretch.
 | l shall now touch lightly on the evidepce
 we expect to produce as to the actual move ments of Mr. Avery at the time of this trans
 action. We agree that he crossed the ferry, and say that he went to the coal mines-that
 he passed by them-that near Freeborn's
 house he saw man with gun, and boy
 aud that, after going some distance down the Island he came out into the main road near
 the Union Meeting House. Unfortunately
 for the prisoner, every effort to trace out the
 man and the boy have been unavailing. Be
 that as it may, the prisoner is not here to prove his innocence; it is for the government l to prove his guilt" -. MT. Avery's Acguittal.-This trial which. has occupied the attention of the Supreme
 Court for the last four weeks was submitted to the Jury on Saturday evening at half past 2 o'clock. It was closed for the prisoner by the Hon. Jeremiah Mason of Boston. and for the State by the Hon. Albert c. Greene, At torney General. Mr. Mason's defence of his client was ingenious, able and learned. and the Attorney Generals close on the part of the Government was equally so, and to our view more conclusive and impressive. 1t is due to the Attorney General to state that his man. agement of this important case, which has ex- cited the public mind to degree hitherto un- exampled inxhe judicial annals of our country. was characterized with the greatest fairness and liberaliiy towards the prisoner, and hdel' ity, iudgmen and eloquence in behalf of the State. The prisoner was ably defended and the Government as ably represented. At the conclusion off the argument the Chief Justice charged the Jury on the Law of the case with out adverting to the testimony at all. He de- clned going into the evidence, it being as he said, the province of the Jury to judge of the facts from their own recollection of the testi-
 mony. The facts they would determine from
 the testimony of the witnesses as they under l stood it. He remarked, that 1t too often hap; uasod ,,, Lo.. SruuTgeO the jury on the facts, that the yerdicts of the jury were but echoes of the opinion of the Judge.
 The Jury after being out sixteen hours, re-
 turned into Court at IF o'clock yesterday, and pronounced verdict ofNOT GUILTY.
 Thus has this case terminated, and we can not but hope the public will be satisfied with the result. Never was case presented to a jury requiring longer or more laborious in- vestigation; never has there heensone more fairly or fully investigated. In charity, in1 common humanity and justice to the Rev. E. K. Avery, the judgment of the community should harmonize with the verdict of the jury in pronouncing him Not Guiity.
 Mr. Avery was discharged by the Court and we learn he returned in the afternoon to
 his family in Bristol.-Pr Providence Jour.
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