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discussion here took place between the counsel for
prisoner and the District Attorney the former contend.
ing the question VIII ch brought this answer was un-
courteous and improper.
The CouRr overruled the objection
Examination eontinurd.-Ha agreed to pay $3.50 to
ounsel; call myself responsible tor the amount: /
gave my note to Mr.. Gordon gave bond and
Bovine or Mr. Sandford on the subject
Mr. SASDyoRD. who had stated 10 his opening. that he
was assigned by the court to defend the prisoner with
ont fee ind said he thought the question of the
District Attorney very uncoureous as he had distinctly
stated that he assigned and had interest in the
matter, which the fact.
ALEXANDER RoBB sworn-Is acquainted with VIM.
Menze have known him Tor eight ten years. his GEN
eral moral character Is bad.
Cross sramined.-Has heard Mr. Dowie, store keeper
IN Andes, say he swore against his handwriting;
never heard else sganst his moral character
belongs to the down rent association.
DAsrEL NoRrHaur was recalled by defence, and exa.
mined for the purpose Of showing that he had been
gagged in most of the transactions ndians that he
had been in command many occasions, &c. In this
they fully succeeded.
| The evidence for defence here closed
The court adjourned to meet tomorrow at o'clock
when the summing up will take place.
Sentence OF Big Thunder.
Annexed is the sentence passed upon DR.. Bough-
ton by Judge Edmonds at Hudson, on Tuesday
We published exclusively the result Of the trial in
yesterdays HeraM:-
JUDGES SENTENCE
Smith A. Boughton, you have been arragned
VI
almost Of your own selection, have found you gull.
y OF the charge You have had very fair trial The
been spent in subecng their opinions to the
scrutiny and you have yourself afforded the best evil
dence that they were ennentiy impartial You have
defence. You have been defended by able counsel
You have been surrounded by numerous friends and
every item Of evidence which you or they deemed ma
era to your defence, have been allowed to lay be-
fore the jury. You have been. Notwithstanding, con-
victed, and il only remains for the court pass
though
it is presented to us robbery. is in fact high
treason, rebellion against your government, armed
Until you came among them, the tenantry the
Manor were in outward department at least whatever
serving people, yourself suffering of the evils Of
the tenurss of which you complained you came here
your operations within lawful and peaceable bounds.
you would doubtless have encountered, end perhaps
to whom the evils Of those tennres are az uppsrsn as
they were to you. But such was not your purpose.
You came accompanied b. = band Of armed and dis.
the execution Of the laws. A man of education you
well understood your duty to country, yet when
you admitted that you knew to be wrong. yet you
avowed your intention to persist in your Of
resistance because thus alone you could your end
Possessed of species of popular eloquence you made
your appeals to the interest OF the tenants by holding
the prospect exemption from the pay
| of rent. To the more lawless and depraved among
them held up by means OF the DISCUSSES which you
the first to introduce among them the hope Of i'm
punty for any crimes they might commit You thus
enlisted in your service several hundred men whom you
publicly paraded in different parts OF the county armed
and disguised And publicly notified them to meet
you the appointed day. armed and equipped to resist
the Sheriff in the discharge Of his duty When that o.
line of his duty yon placed yourself at the head OF your
armed band, and with pistols cooked swords drawn
avowed that you had thus met to resist him. and that
intended to do SO even to the shedding of blood. You
held him close prisoner for several hours You
rounded him with your armed associates, and finally,
with pistol presented to his breast you compelled
him to surrender to you the legal process which
his duty and his purpose execute Not content then
to discharge him, but most fully to manifest your
tempt of the law and its process kept him pr
until in his presence and thot OF the multitude
you had assembled there you burned the papers
OF which you had thus robbed him. You afterwards,
surrounded in the same manner publicly avowed that
and they thus armed III order to resist the
Sheriff and his in any attempt to arrest you for
he crime had committed And you Carried cut your
purpose by calling your associates stand by
when he came TO arrest you by cau,ing yourself to be
rescued from his custody and by yourself presenting
| Under the impulse which you have thus given and in
imitation of your example, peaceabe inhabitants have
been torn down arms laid wasc-the laws forcibly
sisted and the officers Of justice fred upon
while wl, a IN the dlscaarse Of their ofhcIs duty
vaed by the reekessness with which you have persisted
in pressing upon the court and jury testimony
which you know to be false You been the leader
the active usgator the principal fomenter OF all th
disturbances ou have made yourself example Of dis
order and violence, and you have caused many errng
and msg uided follow l., ruin ana the
urbance OF the public peace You therefore,
dered it necessary that the should you be
warning example Of the certain auences of such
conduct your misguided followers aud all others
may learn om your fate the important lesson that order
must be maintained the laws must be enforced. Deeply
as we may feel fer the ruin waich you have brought
upon yourseif and those connected With you. duty
teaches us that iorbearance towards you now when
such forbearance towards you heretofore has only led
you on to acts OF more aggravated outrage, would be
cruelty to the ignorant whom you have
and to the community which nave deeply injured
You are therefore, TO be Withdrawn for the residue OF
your life from the society whose peace you have SO
only disturbed and whose laws you have violently
aud SO frequently violated In the confident hope that
from the example of your fall all may learn the sautary
lesson that the supremacy fhe laws must and will be
maintained The sentence Of the Court that you be
confined in the state prison in the county Of Clinton at
| hard labor, for the term Of your natural life.
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