Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-12-02
THE MURDEREss SENTENCED;

Sentence of death was pronounced on w GU
nesday, goth ult. by Judge STEPHEN, al the MAT
borough Court prince Georges County, MD
ryland, on negro girl Jndith, tne mu ;r,oreS'
Give and solemn manner. A profound silence
reioned in Court, when the Judge addressed
the youthful prisoner on the Nervousness OF her
crimes in the following pathetic strain:
"You have been indicted, tried, and iound
puilty of murder ofthe most cruel and agra
waited character; a murder attended oy ciTcu'n-
stances which shock every tender ana syH'pa-
thetic feeling of q human heart. IN the perpe-
traton of this enormous and dlaboHcai crime,
for which YOU are about TO suffer, and Tor which
Won will so soon have to account to your zoo,
no one palliatng or eXtenuating circumstance
is to be found A helpless, innocent, and I'M
offending child, towards whom: it might reason
ably be supposed you could not entertain even
one unkind feeling, you have consigned 10 an
untimely and premature grave; not even MS
tender years, his infantine and unsuspechng
confidence, were sufficient to arrest the execu-
tion of YOUR cruel and fiendlike purpose, or stay
your hand when about TO offer to him the deao,
| IL noison. By the commission OF this awful
| and inhuman act you have, let us nope, trans
lated him from world oftrouble to seat OF gio-
nv in the mansions of eternal rest, and gwen
to him the society of angels and of the saints in
| LIGHT He we have every reason to trust, Is
hapny. because he is gone from this sinful suo'u-
nary world before he was infected oy us wees
or stained by its polutions: and to the bleeding
hearts Of his weeping and disconsolate pareh's
whom he has left behind to mourn their lrrepa-
| rabe loss. this consideration should administer
the balm of comfort and consolation. No more
| tits true, can they meet him on this side OF tne
grave; no more can they bestow upon him the
| tender and endearing caresses OF parental
affection; but let them not mourn as nose
who have no hope-let them remember mat lor
these earthly blessings he has obtained IN ex-
change the happiness Of Heaven. But Tor you
poor unhappy sinner, but little hope OF thar Joy
and felicity can be entertained, unless that SNORT
| interval Of time which remains to you on tnls
side of the grave, should be unremittingly en-
ployed in making every atonement in your pow
er TO the violated laws of your offended God
II now only remains that | perform the palniu
and solemn duty, which your conviction has de,
volved upon me; painful and distressing,
can truly say, it is; for cold indeed must oe MS
heart. who can look upon so sad a spectacle
as YOU now present without sympathizng with
YOU in your awful situation. The sentence OF
the law is There the firmness of the Judge yield
ed. and in faltering tone he proceededJ that
Won be taken from hence to the place from
whence YOU came and from thence to the place
of execution, where you are to be hung by inc
neck until you are dead-and may the Lord Al
mighty have mercy upon you SOUL"
The girl, being sentenced to death in this case,
was of course not tried for the murder OF Inc
other children.