Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1839-02-28
O. Did you examine the hole in the t.Fdoy


the window next morning, it would just 90 thro'
without patch.
Says the same patch produced in court is the
same patch that Mr. Fisk handed to him.
PELEG FISK, Sworn
Says he thinks the patch produced in court is
the same he found on the morning of the Sd of
October, about foot and half from the win
dow.
The case was committed to the Jury at about
nine o'clock in the evening", by Chief Justice
Williams, IN terse and feeling charge; the
most important part of the testimony was repeat
ed, and presented in its true light TO the iury:-
the States Attorney discharged his arduous and
responsible duties to the satisfaction of all the
counsel for the prisoner, Messrs Garfield and
Roberts, won the regard of all present, by their
feeling and ingenious defence of the prisoner;
no effort was omitted on their part, in behalf of
the accused,-but the testimony was too clear
and explicit for their efforts to avail him gnilt of
the deepest die was shown throughout the whole
testimony. The jury after an absence of about
fifteen minutes, returned verdict of GUILTY.
SENTENCE.
;. HSHi"i'A = - <-pdVe $enSS-
DER A trial has been had by petit Jury, in
which you was ably and ingeniously defended by
learnedscounsel, and every thing urged in your
behalf which the law or testimony would warrant
That jury have declared you guilty In the opin-
ion and by the verdict of twenty-four iudicious
and disinterested freeholders, men who could
have other motive than to investigate the truth
and determine accordingly, you are convicted of
a most aggravated MURDER one attended with cir
cumstances, which strike the mind with horror,
and is calculated to alarm and carry terror wher-
ever it is heard of. 1t is unnecessary for me TO
recall to your mind the circumstances which
! hava Al coI in h 90,
up your feelings, by recital of the evidence of
your guilt 1t is sufficient TO say, that you stand
! before US convicted ofmurder and that the proof
of your crime is too strong to be resisted. 1t
mains for the court to award the last and the
highest penalty known to the law, and to pro-
nounce the sentence which consigns you to
! ignominious DEATH To award sentence which
sends fellow mortal into the presence of his
Maker and his Omniscient Judge is painful
and from the peiioin5h;ehot .Tasa 81 al Jahffi3t
excused could | consult my own feelings alone
but it is one which Minister of Justice | may
not and cannot decline A fellow being, stand
ing in near relation to you by affinity, has been
by your means, almost instantly deprived of life
and sent to her accounts and this done to crafty
a malignant and depraved disposition. 1t is nei-
Their excuse nor palllation of the offence that you
was dissatisfied with the manner, in which the
property of your father was managed. If you
was actuated by desire or wish to participate in
his property, or if you envious at the pros
perty of your father, your brother your sister,
in-aw, it is but another proof that avarice and
the love of money is the very root and source of
bitterness and evil.
We can give you no encouragement that the
prerogative of pardon will be exercised in your
behalf. Nothing was disclosed on the trial which
can justify you in entertaining any such hope
The crime g so and the 81 AZ
palling to forbid all hopes of your escaping the
punishment which most civilized nations have
appropriated to the crime. The sentence of the
law will limit the days of your continuance on
earth, and fix the period when you must appear
in the presence of your GoD, who cannot be de-
celyed as to your motives, thoughts, or actions
The victim of your crime, was hurried from this
world, with scarce an opportunity Of utterng
prayer or suppcation for mercy. You will
have time for reflection, for penitence, and con-
triton and if with a true and sincere faith
with humble and penitent sense of all your
transgressions, and of this most foul and aggra-
waited murder, you truly and sincerely repent and
cast yourself on the mercy of Con, you may
through the merits of the Redeemer attain for
gveness of your sins Guilty you are, you
may yet find mercy and pardon. In the prison
where you will remain from this to the day of
your execution, you will have time and opportu-
nifty for reflection. In silence and in solitude,
you can recall to your mind the events of your
life, your transgressons, and your crimes. Let
me beseech you to employ this time in deep and
sincere penitence and contrtion for all your past
offences. Should the voice Of blood cry to you
from the ground should your Imagination call
before you the image of the unfortunate being
you so cruelty murdered should the scenes of
guilt and misery render this silence and solitude
almost insupportable, and in the agony of a con-
victed and wounded conscience you shoNd be led
to exclaim with the guilty of old, "my punish
ment is greater than | can bear" Remember,
your Heavenly Father has declared, that they
who seek him in the way of his appointment shall
surely be found Of him; and that your Redeemer
declared to the penitent thief on the last day of
his existence, that he should be with him in Par
adise
Hearken to your sentence. The sentence of
the Law, which the court award is, that you be
taken from the bar to the prison from whence you
came and be there kept until Friday the eighth
day of February next, and on that day between
the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the
afternoon at place of execution to he selected
by the Sheriff, you be hanged by the neck until
+ you are dead, and may God Almighty have mer-
cy on your soul. (Sse ne1t page.)