New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-11
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
Seduction and Abduction Case Mt Canandai-
gua-ConvIction of the offender under the
Statute of ISfS.
CArAspaIeu.. SUNDAY, Nay 5. lsy

gua-ConvIction of the Offender under The
Statute of IS4S.
Corresponds nee Of The Tribune.
CArAspAIGcA Sunday, May s. 1850
DEAR SIR: No, TO minister 10 public taste, Al
ready too much vi,iated by portion Of the press
bat to congratulate you and yoar readers, that
semblance Of Justice has oyertaken Of the mora
pests that infest society," in both country and city
do presume TO offer for your columns a brief no
tee Of trial had for seduction, &c at this plac'
during the past week.
The parties were The People vs.. c. d. CGrTeH
ter, till recently Conductor on the Auburn and
Rochester Railroad arrsigned Tor seducing the
daughter OF respectable farmer OF this County
named Louisa NJ. Sawyer and for abductlng bel
from her fathers donicil and conveying her u
parts unknown.
CARPENTER is a married man, aged 20 years, hay'
ing wife and three children in Rochester; while
his victim was FIVE years younger and residing a.
her fathers house in Manchester, Ontario County
Some eighteen months since. the parties met Tor
the 6rst time on the cars and from that period for
ward have been spproximating as fast as might
be. the terrible finale OF their unlawful and wholly
evil relation the one being now desolate and
ruined outcast, and the other manacled felon,
wearing the garb Of a convict, and forever tainted
with that uoral miasn which shall make him an
oifense 10 the pure ia heart, wherever he may go.
A strange 10 atuaton seems TO have seized upon
the victim of the seducers wies in this case. Re
putably born, reared with much care, educated at
the beat schools of the land, endowed with more
than ordinary mind, with prospects OF the most 10
viting nature, urging her on every hand 10 life OF
virtue and consequent honOr-she yet became the
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him to TIE last. Notwithstanding consequences TO
herself TO her friends and the known prohigacy OF
her companion in vice, and the probability that she
would, when despoiled Of those charms winch had
invited destruction TO her embrace, be cast aside
as odious to him who had destroyed her, as was
her conduct in the eyes Of heaven. Strange that
one 30 intelligent so full OF hope, and by whom the
eyes Of her aged parents were made to glow with
renewed luster as they witnessed her full devel-
oprnent ia maidenly oveliness and purity, should
abandon the me mories Of the past the hopes OF the
future and consgn her all by one fatal plunge, into
an abyss from which there Is no resurrecton-and
for such object
Her seducer had no visible insignia OF loneliness
about him especially in Court and In the prison
er's box none which should have won the alice
tons OF female ape. With a neck like bullock,
and a Z" forehead viilanousy low, bis whole exte
ri0r and demeanor repulsve In the extreme );
and "still the wonder grew" that such being
could ever have won the heart OF vlrtuous grl-
Or been found in charge OF a means OF conveyance,
where the refined and decent are presumed to be
under the protection Of those who can appreciate
refinement and decency. The fellow has evidently
been wide OF his sphere all bis life long, and now
for the frat time is in circumstances akin to MS
intellect and moral sense.
After a trial which occupied the most Of two
DAYS and which was managed with much ability
by both sides-Alva Worden assisting the District
a. II fnp ~ 10
being found guilty si er short consultation
Of the Jury the prisoner was arraigned tor SEN
tence and asked by the Court if he had any thing
TO offer why that duty should not then be per
formed Without much hesitation, he essayed to
make something OF q speech in extenuation! The
amount Of which was, that after the hdson had
continued some time between the parties and be-
come a matter Of public notorlety, some oil the
friends Of the girl advised both him aud her TO leave
the country together to this he objected; another
sutton subsequently proposed marriage TO the ie.
male. which she declined the parents urged the
suit she sill refused and then CARPEsTER steps
in like delivering angel and rescues her from the
prosecutions Of her parents and the opportunities
Of an unwecope lover! They retired 10 an OBJ
scure part oil the country, where they remained
secreted some four months.
"And this syour Justification !" said Judge Sibley
10 the prisoner. The protection you gave her
was that extended by the wolf to the lamb So
lame an apology but aggrava tes your offence, and
the attempt TO hide your iniquty has but made
il more manifest and strocous in the eyes of men,"
The rascal was sentenced to Auburn for two
years. but bad he not been nearly insensible to the
brce OF truth, and words fifty spoken" he might
well have begged for eongstIon OF bis time in a
dungeon could he thereby have avoided the lava
food Of invective and righteous indignation with
which the Court pronounced the sentence OF the
law. TWAS torrent of hot shot, unfortunately in
the prisoners case falling upon calous and bomb
prooftarget bat nevertheless, not wholly lost as
numerous sympathisers, accessories by example,
and fellows Of like proclivities were within range
ofths avenging battery, and saw it's power, and
learned to dread its efficiency.
Judge Sbey is none the less a star in ermine
than he has long been at the bar Of the County and
State, and it does hearty hster of vice good, to
see with what an JUNCTION he disposes of the soph-
stres Of pettiiogging as well as OF the enemies of
wholesome law and good order in society. Villsiny
has little to hope Tor at his hands, and it will be
day Of rejoicing in the land when ali OF our tribu
mails shall look upon the echer and the lbertine
with as little favor as this class Of offenders find be-
fore an Ontario County Court. y.