Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1842-07-12

IDgtOn mad crossed the stream ana renamed
the night with them. That Mr. Rumey, the
deputy sheriff had also remained the night. but
that he had come from farther up, on the same
side They followed on the trail, and found
that there was trackilr farther up, most
likely Mr. Rumley's. They continued on the
track tall they arrived In town. Being informed
by Mr. Drill the gunsmith, that DIR. Rivngton
had taken Buckhorn's rifle out with him, they
Immediately procured warrant for his appre-
hension They found hun employed in count
Ing the identical money which had been taken
from the unfortunate Silyersght.
James Buckhorn : testimony in full cor
roboration of the proceedings He mentioned,
in addition that be examined the lock and barrel
of his rife, on finding it laying near the murder
ed man, and discovered that 1t had certainly
been discharged but a short time before
The gunsmth deposed his having given the
rifle 10 the prisoner on his offering To carry It
out 10 jimmy Buckhorn, and that 1t had been
discharged since
Mr.. Drill said Lawyer Blandley, who was
counsel for o. hero, you mention having given
the gun TO DIR. Rivington; did you also give
him bullet that would fit the bore:'
did not
Did he exhibit any anxiety to obtain the
weapon: again asked the lawyer.
BY no means replied the gunsmith 8 con-
sidcrcd at the time that the Doctors offer was
one Of mere kindness; and he had previously
mentioned that he was going out that way to
visit his patients
The bore of this rifle, Mr. Drill, continued
the sagaclous lawyer, : Is very small | pre-
sumo that YOU are familiar with the size and
qualities Of all that are owned on the road out
to Mr. Buckhorn's l. there any house at which
DIR. Riyngton could have stopped, and procured
a ball OF sufficient smallness:'
IL - 40 I..n
carries eighty-seven or eight to the pound, and
one of his bullets, with thick patch, would suit
Buckhorn's pretty well This is the only one
any where near the size
The attorney for the people, here asked the
witness another question
For what purpose, sir, did the prisoner go
into your shop. on the morning of the sixteenth
of December,
/ was employed in repairing pair Of pistols
ior him, and fitting a bullet mould for them.
lie came in, believe, to inquire if they were
finished
Please to note that answer gentlemen of the
jury said the prosecuting attorney Mr.
Drill, you may stand aside
/ Samuel CochTane was next called He was
one of the young men who had returned with
the body of Silversight On his way back, and
about one hundred yards from the place where
/ the murder was committed, he found a copper
flask, (which was shown to him, and he dent-
fed it, ) the letters C. r., NJ ID being cut upon
one of It's sides apparently with knife. There
was but one more witness on the part OF the peO-
pie. Mr.. Lawton. the magistrate before whom
the unfortunate prisoner had been examined.
lie testified as 20 the facts when were deposed
before him, together with the acknowledged
OF DIR. Riyingt N, that he had been IN company
with Mr. Silversight sc. But may pass
overthese circumstances, as the reader Is already
acquainted with them.
The prisoner now put on his defence :;
and all that talent and ingenuity could devise,
was done by his skillul counsel The witnesses
were cross-examned; but their answers were
uniformly the same A large number of re-
Specialize persons forward to testify to the
excellence of our heros general character,
but their evidence was rendered unnecessary
By the attorney for the people admitting, in I'M
cqulyocal terms that previous to the horrid oc-
currence It had been exemplary in a high de-
gree At length, wcaried by his exertions, and
distressed at their result, Mr. Blandley dscon-
tinucd his Nominations he had one more weapon
to try IN behalf of his chent-the powerful one
of eloquence; and 1t used by master of
the art, but, alas, was used in vain. He dwelt
much on the fact that his unfortunate client had
wished his route to be traIcd from the village,
and that Buckhorn had started for that purpose,
when the disastrous snow-storm had occurred
and took away the only hope he had of proving
his innocence He cited many cases TO the
Jury IN which circumstances, even stronger than
these, had been talsIfed when their victim
murdered BY the laws, slumberng IN his
grave. He appealed to them as parents to
know if they would believe, that n son, who had
been so filial, whose character was previously
without stain or blemish, could suddenly turn
aside from the path of rectitude and honor, To
commit such an atrocious crime: But it were
useless to recapltulate the arguments that were
made use of on this interesting occason-they
were Intellectual. The attorney for the prose-
cution summed up very briefly. He assured
the jury that the evidence so clear IN It's
nature, so concatenated, so incontroyerlbe as
to amount to moral certainty. Near the body
OF the murdered man, powder-iask, such as
eastern people generally use, had been found,
with the initials of the prisoners name and med
zeal degree engraved upon it-C. II. VI. D.
Charles Rvington, Doctor of Medicine. The
trail is pursued, and it leads them to the house
of Mr. Wentworth where they arrived on the
evening of the bloody deed, and remained all
night They continue the trail, tall at last
they find him, with greedy eyes, bending over
the plumber he had torn from his gray-haired
victim such continued he, Is rapid out
line of the facts; and deeply as | deplore the
wretched Young mans guilt, yet, believing him
guilty. It Is nv sacred duty to display ms enor-
mitv-but farther than the mperOus call oil
Justice requires, | viii not-cannot 60.
The charge of the Judge, who was evidently
very much affected. occupied but few minutes
and the Jury retired to make up the verdict. We
have already told the reader that the prisoner
was pale in consequence of sickness, produced
by his exposed situation in prison, but the ap-