Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-04-02

= Is LII e i the murderer.
We have received a communities
ton, giving some of the particulars Of
the trial of Isaac Heller, alias Young.
who was condemned to suffer death.
at the late term of the Union Circui,
Court, but for want Of room must de-
fer it until next week. The follow
ing is the sentence pronounced upon
the murderer by His Honor, Judge
Bigger.
You, Isaac Heller, have been in
dicted and tried, for the murder of
lyour wife, Elizabeth Heller. At your
trial, you were zealously defended by
able and experienced counsel. A ju-
ry Of your country, after a patient
hearing and examination of all the
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re troublesome irri atoms which
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uTpnst advanaoi --..o.s. o.I3AlAu our an
swer is, that you know Of nothing.
The indictment is, that you did
with malice aforethought, and Of your
own wicked intent and purpose, felon-
ously kill, and murder the said Eliza
beth Heller. The jury have found u
general verdict Of guilty. The judg-
ment o: the court. upon this verdict,
must be a sentence Of death. This is
the most terrible punishment Of our
laws; and is on that. thus far, has
been but seldom inflicted, under the
humane administration of our laws.
If we could, consistently with the
duty we owe to the laws and the
country, avoid pronouncing this sem
tence, most gladly would we do it.
But, obligations of the most binding
and solemn character, forbid our
shrinking, in the smallest particular,
from the full discharge Of our duty.
1t is not the infe xible and sanguin-
larry character Of our laws that has
broug hit this fate upon you. 1t is
your unrestrained conduct. that set
lat defiance the justice OF your coun-
TRY. In the investigation of your
lease, we have not discovered any
thing to palliate or excuse the atroci-
Ity Of your crime. 1t appeared on
your trial, that not only your wife
her whom you had vowed to love and
|cherish--but also, your three infant
children were the victims of your un-
governed passions. And what ex-
cuse have you! and what excuse can
you have, for the commission of such
a crime! Were they enemies, from
whom you had any thing to fear, and
did it therefore become necessary to
destroy them! You could have moth
ing to fear from a defenceless and in
offensive woman, a Id her little chill
dren, that she had taught to call you
father. Was it your poor and neces-
sitous condition, that impelled you to
the act, expecting to realize some
benefit or relief from its commission?
They were poor and almost destitute,
through your Incidence and negli-
gence. Was it because you dared
not encounter the shame and degre-
dation of seeing them supported under
the charity of our laws providing for
the sustenance OF the poor! That
would not have carried with it a
thousandth part of the ignominy and
public adherence that attach to the
crime which you have committed. Al
return to Industrious habits would on
the one hand have enabled you to a
void the humiliation of seeing youri
family supported from the public
bounty; and on the other, would have
saved you from the horrible conse-
luences Of the crime to which you
suffered yourself to be impelled, by
yielding to your own evil passions.
Your counsel, as is usual, when all
ordinary defences fail, set up that of
insanity. All the testimony you had
70 offer on that subject was permitted
% 60 to the jury, with instructions
rom the court, to give you the full
benefit Of 1t in the investigation Of
your case. The jury were Of op;n-
on that you failed to establish your
insanity. That Your mind has in
some respects lost its proper balance,
;annot for a moment be doubted
But, that you are capabIe of discern