The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-04-06

Boston, Saturday, L. NJ
Mr. Clifford, counsel for the commonwealth |
closed his eloquent argument at 5 o'clock, and
Chief Justice Shaw remarked 10 the prisoner
if he had any thing more to say before he |
charged them on the features of the case, he |
had liberty to say it.
The prisoner arose and addressed the jury
in afew words, He commenced in rather
confused manner, without addressing directly
the bench, orjury Hesspoke rather ironicai-
" of his counsel, and censured them for not |
bringing up all the proof of his innocence that |
he had placed in their hands. He said my
counsel have pressed me to keep calm my
very calmness has been made to bear against
me. But my trust has been in my God and
my own innocence. In regard to money I
must say word. The money paid to Dr.
P on the afternoon of Friday, Nov 23d, had
saved up from time to tme and kept in
trunk in my house in cambridge. But unfor
tunately, no one ever saw me take it out. In
regard to the Civis letter, he said l call my
God to witness that if it were the last hours
of my life, l believe that l never wrote that
letter. Since the trial commenced, letter
has been received from this very Civis by one
of my counsel. Ifthis person has any spark of
humanity l call upon him to come forward
A notice to this effect has been put in The pa
pers. Prof w. having said this sat down.
A deep impression was made upon the jury,
court and spectators by the solemn earnest
ness exhibited.
Chief Justice Shaw then rose to deliver his
charge to the jury, remarking that he had
thought proper to continue the proceedings as
far as to deliver his charge in the case to them,
because the nature of the principles develop
ed in the proceedings were such as would not
require him to occupy their attention any
longer.
In the evening the court assembled. In a
bout minutes Prof W. came in charge of
the constables, and took his seat in the dock.
His appearance was unchanged, except Sc
rious deiectedness, which was apparent in the
contraction of the muscles about the mouth.
The clerk of the jury came in five minutes af-
ter The clerk of the court then said, address
ing the jury:
Mr.. Foreman-have you agreed upon your
verdict Mr.. Byron, foreman of the jury bow
ed assent The clerk then said: John W.
Webster hold up your right hand, The pris-
oner rose and looked steadily and intently up
on the foreman of the jury.
The clerk said: Mr.. Foreman, look upon
the prisoner Prisoner look upon the jury
Prof w. still maintaining his fixed and intense
look upon the jury.
! What do you say, Mr. Foreman, is the pri-
; soner at the bar guilty or not guilty.
G U UILTY was the solemn response.
The hand of the prisoner, which had hith-
erto been held erect, fell to the bar in front o.
him with dead sound, as if he had lost all
r muscular action, and his head dropped upor
his breast His limbs seemed to give evi
dence of falling He then closed his eyelid'
and dropped his head down. An.awful ane
: unbroken silence ensued during which thu
court jury and spectators seemed to be ab
: sorbed in their own reflections Chief Jus
: tice Shaw broke the awful silence and sus
j.. pense by dismissing the jury with voice wllt
with emotion Soon after the order was 81
d ven that the prisoner be remanded.