New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-06-17
ALs..on on Life and Death.

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- 60. "a, this case are tolerablv well
- -. cali .,,.,.;or o,,c. again 20 Them. be-.
,t....,.., ;,,,;,,.;c ;,..orest and .i,e sar-
-. - ,bo,. iocolc.te
- -. - ..,.- ,..,tt Of ,oi,-
-, -. l;o,, tr,o5 WHO ,yas horn i'm
III "a .,,o.roll lived 3, THAT Mace m
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g ...,o,, 500 ,..,,-,ent YER, little RELIGIOUS
,..-..,ie. w. dorbt whether his lost sheep
-, after bv professional shepherd
.,.....,l,oso ~ the Law, cot hold ofhim. When
'''''' lll h., ,..s arrested for a horse
- fl..,J ~, convicted op tb, te.
,l;.f and sent for five wears to
'i'"'"' ..-..,.. a. ,l.e irt,stioe
'he S'a'' -t..i ....,,. ,..t.-.l, .s
o. "'s iii ',r,.
~" -, ~. ,.o,,,, over tine
o'' 49, ;,,,,,ir.d and nj. iut.,
- uIohod ,,yoi insane sistersl In prison
a., ;,,;,,.,i., or lis sentence and
"' ''O,'' -. h.. conn, o,,, j., Sent l-l5
'"s,'''' o'' anil ,.i.,io, nm bs,o,
sun "'' '-o 80, st.,ot..d lbadl lin,
d l.-rrf. ftttltff \ no
o. ~ -'5t,,a.toI Me- was there more
10 80 saa,ond ,bsp t,is vet the law preferred
"a tho ~ whom he suc
soonted his arpeal. Tins refused
'o'''! ~ l. Eel, ,,,~l ,o,,s;,,..
he wandered aDouti "oin- "'.'N W."
su and living ia the hut of q poor black washer
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woman s"yih5 ''''''' "''
len and Supplied, save when aroused 10 insist that
- ,,,oh, IN ,,e, him, for his five vcars' hard
,r t,l t.
labor IN the Sthle lIlso"' A'"S TIC "'"''--''' 1919
Loa1 froc,rred by one of the blows he had re-
-. eli a., h,co,,,, o. so,.e,,s maniac
oeived IN prison. unlu ne became s"' axe 'N'''''
and starting of three miles south on the evening
al ,ho ,o,h of March 1el6 he entered the house
~ "'0 -" " -"
oi worthy farmer halneu JoAh u "l -'eS''J JUS
rs the family were retiring 20 rest. and with
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KNIFE ne carried s'iDuc" f'' P0's"''' --' '" -'
Van Nest and their son George so that thty ded
instantly Mrs Phebe Wvckoh mOitally. and q
. ., ,; ,l,,. all ,,,i
MI van AsuWe severely N"'i"o ''0' a." VIZ
terlng in their gore. an Afsdele oFcrpOWereo
- H.; g. O,. hons, ,,,ha,, he stole q
""" "o'0 %" ,o-,
horse from the stable hard py mouhted ann neu'
NVl,s tho, horse f,ileI he stole another and con-
t
tinued ms hi5ht OAul uilcs'eu HeN' "'! Wy F''1"
ors at "A place in Oswcco County forty miles OIL
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VI Oo"s0i ~ ""'N 49,.
excitement tnliol anu ttic tiillet i'l 'Ni~~''..''
,,.rc aronsed Lar-e numbers fastened 20 the
SCENE of bntebery. especially on the occasion O..
-, c,o.rsl of the victims. when the Reverend
on,,a,or held forth rs follows.
eff ever there was just rebuke upon the faselyso
called sympoihy OF ihe DAY, mere - d' , any ,i oh
he .lrt with which il was perpctraed and uness Dc
loves the aHrsoo more than his wAracfa ',.nl'' pr
c ~ ~ ,b', he that sheddeth mans blood by man ssa
Gs blood BE- s'ed, is right i nut Is reasonable !. tni'
so n Tel, tbe Lesrt and nerves the arm OF The
sssa..inl
But capital punishment J. sai 70 Os Mn, ~ cd
'ba, S,eh I. bqrbgroTs err,i ssr6gci Most
daring basphemy But all punishment T. Tor me 5000
OF ane ~. brd Se ha. been in the school Of
State Prison Tor hye year- and YET comes oat mr.
S'I" ;,s a. i,,. III ms snticsnsi punish
ment sprit il swskens hope in the wretch THAT hy
edroii oonH'sL law may pc pSi'eiiea' ana l-Io.a
W s !, ,ber bce eb1rse NAV be- In favor OF the
accused that by the erishs,s q 'aeae appeals shi
Be na'upur1 ana uy -.-s ~ ,lr .,cb n f,l.
syTp.thy a. IN. Ter the murderer !. almost certain
OF being acquitted u sa',i .r.. n,- 20 ,l,1, a..
ssntlensn win sey / aid right Batifhc succeeds snd
~srdsrs my whole family then II would De eo,oaI
pu nun W. 10 ,n,,i ~ l,ys of ther eouptr,
inyiol~te. and csG.e the murderer to be punished
such appeals were hardly needed to produce The
state of fee!ins desired. Vengeance vengeance
-speedy. certain. terrible-wos the general cry
A highly moral and religious mob were barely
prevented by stratagem from scizing the poo
wretch on his way 70 jail and tearing him to pieces
Ii there had been the least doubt entertained %
his being surely and quietly put 70 death, noihin
would have prevented their tearing him limb iron
limb.
HIS trial commenced ON the eith OF June follow
ing. Nobody supposed 1t could have any o'he
than the one result Ia hundreds Of such cases th
perpetrator has been sent 10 the galows with a
Itle ceremony AZ is employed in killing an ox.-
Bat Gov. Seward. with his partners Hon. Christie
pher Morgan and samuel Blatchiord ,Davi
Wright, Esq. was added by assignment Of th
Cour,), had volunteered 70 conduct the defence
GOV Seward having satisfied himself that the ac
cusea Was truly insane Freeman himself desires
no counsel, suggested 10 defence The Who'
County was bent on hanging hm ana