Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1836-06-23

should be INDUCED, because its criminal code
Is the mildest Of any under the sun, and ought
therefore to be infedbly administered. Cir
cuEnstanfial evidenceyth the only evidence which
IN ninety nine cases out of hundred can
ever be procured, is now for the most part
condemned and the midnight murderer must
De seen IN the very act or he VIII escape
with lmpunity. In other cases of frequent
occurrence, the murderer is acquitted on the
score OF drunkenness as ifthe wretch who viii
fully changes himself into q. beast, by that
act releases himself from the responsibilities
of man. 81 s{'3 s"t ~
In other cases, of still more frequent oc-
currence, the murderer is acquitted on the
ground of insanity, and then suffered to 60
at large, perhaps, to commit new crimes. In
general, It may be said, that the moment
wretch commits, or is supposed to commit
murder, he becomes the hero of popular adj
miration. His likeness appears in the wind
ows of print shops; his dress features, ac-
tons and manner, are carefully described in
the public prints, as if he were some great
public benefactor; he is visited and won
dered at by thousands of curious amateurs !:
if he escapes the consequences of his crime,
he is hailed with shouts of victory /; and if
he perishes under the gallows, is innortali-
zed in a dying speech and confession, in
which he is represented as sanctified sin
ner, going directly to the enjoyment of eter-
nal rewards. Az " .el Nf' 5@3 e''&
That this growing sympathy in favor Of all
sorts of criminals, and this habit of making
their crimes, as it were, illustrious, by con-
ferring a. fictitious importance on the perpe-
traitors, are calculated to diminish our abhor-
renee of crime and encourage its commission,
will appear obvious to all those who look in
to their own hearts I'VE would therefore
respectfully take this opportunity Of remind
ing cur judges, jurors, and public prosecutors,
that though it may be better that ten guilty
may escape, than that one innocent one may
suffer, still this benefcent maxim may be
carried too far in its application, when it re-
quires positive proof Of guilt. A conscien-
| tious belief, founded on testimony, ought ia
satisfy the scruples ofany true lover Of F1s-
tice, whether the fact be positively proved OF
not. Let juries bear in mind, that when
through any feeling of morbid sensibility OF
from timorous fiinching from the perform.
ance of just and necessary duty, they suf
fer guilty person to escape, they are Justly
chargeable in the sight of God and man, with
a participation in all the crimes that person
may thereafter commit. IN. r. Courier.
| Another instance of iniquty in a Nunnerq.-
The Rev. MI Rice, Presbyterian minister
at Bardstown, Ky. states in the Western Prot.
estant of May 81 on respectable authority
that a young woman left the nunnery In
Washington county in the fall of 1913, alleg.
ing as her reason for SO doing, the improper
conduct of priest toward her. Her name is
Milly Mcpherson. Her father lives about
i five miles from Lebanon At first she return.
!. ed to her fathers house but in consequence
of the great dissatisfaction Of her.fanrily with
her, 0hey are Romanists) she left home and
went to the house of near neighbour, Mr.
Whitehead, an aged Baptist, minister She
appeared greatly distressed, Wept bitterly, anC
entreated Mr.. Whitehead not to let her be
taken from his house by force, saying tina
her life had been threatened. At her request
Mr.. Whitehead persuaded Mr.. Lloyd Ray, 6
magistrate, to 90 and hear Milly state on oatf
her reasons for leaving the nunnery. She
said, that she left the nunnery in consequence
of an attempt Of the priest Grew. MIR. Du Par.
.que) to seduce her, when she went into his
room on an errand. After remaining short
time at different houses in the neighborhood
she was missing, and since that time nothing
has been heard other. Her father, we are
told, knows nothing Of her, but supposes she
is dead. He has recently made his will, ir
which he has left her nothing. a2er}@a
i A Curiosity.-D Directly east Of the south
part of this city, and IN q right line with Di
vision, Liberty and Washington streets, there
is high bank from which sand and grave
are obtained for filling in streets and the large
meadow at the south of the city, which is nov
being filled and laid outsinto city lots. Thi.
bank at its highest part is estimated at 800 fee
high, above the level of Division and Liberty
streets, leading directly towards and termina
ting at its base. Two or three weeks since
there was an extensive slide or avalanche
from the top of the bank, while the workmer
were at dinner, carrying down about quar-
ter of an acre in surface, and propelling It te
within few rods, four or five, of the neares
houses Yesterday, about ten o'clock in the
morning, a stream of water gushed out of the
earth, near the top of the bank, only five OF
six feet below the surface of the land above
and immediately made its way down the de.
clivity, carrying in its course loose earth and
sand, depositing mud and discharging its wa.
tiers along Division and Liberty streets. The
water still continues to flow, and itsquantity
is said to increase. II descends nearly SO(
feet, with noise which may be heard at 9
distance Of half mile. The vein of water
which has thus obtained vent, is, probably
supplied from some reservoir among the hills
and high lands at the east ofthe city. ..
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% asa Il ra| MILLKDGEvrLLE, June 7th.,
l1 Indian Wars.-Our private advices from
Columbus inform Us that an express arrived
at Columbus on the Sd, from Fort Nice rary,
bringing the intelligence that the Crawford
Infantry, Capt. Carr, but commanded by Ma
jor Brown, consisting of 60 or 20 men, had a
| fight with the Indians on the same morning.
This company being informed that the In
dianS Ind canoes and intended crrsSinU the