Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-07

The TRIAL OF GREEN AT TRoY.-After twelve days
devoted to the examination of testimony, and its ex
position by COUNSEL the trial of Green has terminated
the verdict of guilty, and the sentence of the high
est penalty Of the law passed upon the accused.
The crime Of which the prisoner has been convict
ed was of singular atrocity. Both the murderer
and his victim were young-he OF some twenty-one |
twenty-five years Of age of wealth, Of respecta-
BILE position, and of education-she, his newly
welded wife, girl of but eighteeh years of age, |
without fortune or position in society but of good
character, and of attractions which won him to mar
riage. The crime committed in the first week of
the honey moon, the young husband sitting by the
bedside of his newly married wife, and administering
to her arsenic in her food her medicine and in the
cooling draughts with which she sought to assuay
her burning thrst-continung to dose her and nurse
her with poison, persistngly and reorselessy till
she died and with malignity which seemed to fresh
en- with the suferings of his victim and that was
exhibited, after the consummaton of his crime, in
merciess exultation and brutality of demeanor that
became powerful evidence against him. Yet as if
the murder of young, innocent and unprotected GIRL
by the husband, to whose love she had but few days
before been consecrated through such cruel tortures
by such cowardice and malgnancy, were not suffi-
ciently revolving, it seems that horror is lent
the tragedy by the suspicion that the mother of the
brutal young man had instigated him to the deed.
The Albany Atlas, from which we derive this state
ment, adds
! 1.-The trial of a crime Of this magnitude excited
deep interest, beyond the neighborhood of its
preparation. Day after day the Court House
crowded with an audience painfully intent on the pro-
gress of the cause and anxious to its events The
responsibility and wealth of the prisoner, the infu-
ence of his family the ability of his COUNSEL the I'M
certainty which the testimony, when partially render
ed left the legal proof of guilt, and the know
ledge of the reluctance Of the law 10 convict seemed
at one stage of the to have inspired appre
hension in the public mind that the prisoner might
CAPE Yet at the close of this hardly contested trial,
and the full development of that accumulated weight
of evidence with which the District Attorney had pre-
pared to sustain the indictments and after the Attor-
ney General Van Buren, had closed the side of the
people, in a speech of singular legal ability and a
high order Of eloquence-there but one sentiment
ON the part of the court, the jury and the pnblie. III
was known long before the hour of the re-assemblng
of the court, that the jury had agreed their YER
dict-though what the verdict was, was not permitted
to be revealed; yet, (says correspondent of the Ar
gus) ''upon the re-asscmbling of the court, per
suaded all that the prisoner ought and would b
convicted that the verdict when rendered. fell upoI
!. the immense audience, prisoner and ell, without ex
citing any apparent sensation
The accused, who had exhibited throughout the tri
al amidst the recital of the sufferings of his wife
and of the circumstances that proved him her murder
err the utmost apathy of demeanor, listened to the f
nal sentence of the law with the same apparent indi
q ference