Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-04-11
INDIANAPOLIS. APRIL N. 1850.

INDIANAPOLIS. APRIL II, 1850.
MOTHERS LovE-We do not know when we
were more affected, than Saturday last. at seeing
an aged widow, apparently about sixty years Of age
who came in the stage from Loganspor, and who
had travelled four hundred miles alone bringing
with her the petition of Judge Chamberlain, and the
Associate Judges Of the Porter Circuit Court, with
large number of the citizens of Porter county in this
State, and also large number uf the citizens of
Du Page county, Illinois, (he county in which the
old lady resides) to Gov. Wright for the pardon of
her son, now in the State Prison, who in the
spring Of the year 1S45 in the Porter Circuit Court
sentenced TO years Imprisonment in the State
Prison for larceny, having served already two years
and more.
The son in prison is the father of two children,
now dependent upon their mother, and this grand
mother for support who represented by the pel-
tiOncrs be poor. This old lady has made two trips
from Illinois alone TO Indiana, and il from her
story corroborated by Judge Chamberlain, that,
amidst all her troubles. she has despared; that
at the end of year from his Imprisonment she en-
deavored TO obtain the aid of the court for bis par
don; this failed. At the end of the second year.
true to mothers lore, she again started, and has
pardon of her
We wished at the moment, that we had the power
to hand the pardon to this aged and del -ced female,
and we would have felt sorewhat indignant at the
Governor (as much respect we have for hm) II he
had refused pardon the of this old lady, But
must confess that when the Governor take
this old lady his house. and keep her the Sab
bath, Monday morning accompany her to the cars,
and hand the pardon to her for her son, and the
glad tear start in the widows eye, glad in
our hearts, that Wright the Governor of Iudi-
ana; and though he may have erred in thus acting
(Which do not believe) it the
right side. No father, brother sister, could have
shown the deep solicude. did this mother for heI
son, and believe with all our heart, that the
sweetest word in the English vocabulary is mother.
SINGULAR AcQUITTAL.-An exciting trial recently
: took place in Shelby county, Ky in which the de-
fendant acquitted, nesr u Judge by
the newspapers on the pour plea that The testimony
of ruined woman altogether insufficient to es
tabIish fact, or corroborate circumstances. In
demning The jury, the Louisville Democrat give,
these particulars Mchuson was clearly guilty
Of the crime of seducing the wife OF friend, an(
then persuading her to poison her husband who wal
In the way of their guilty practices Never were
more revolving aggravaiions about case. Mitch
uson was the family physician and sanity ex
horter in the church to which the woman belonged
The proof of guilt clear. There Mitch
usOn's letters persuading the ruined woman to th
deed, quoting scripture to her it safe
''lf any one sin, we have an advocate with the Fa
tber.'' He also showed her, that By this deed sI
could not be lost forever, according 10 the doctrin
of the perseverance of the saints" The womal
made the experiment to do the deed-ber heart fail
ed her. She confessed wnen she had only begun
Her testimony was full and minute. The jury ha
the letters but Miichuson was cleared The Lou
isville Journal says-"About two years ago, it seem
that physician, named Mitchuson, a Baptist exhori
er, was engaged in criminal intercourse with Mrs
Guthrie. They were members of the same church
and Mitchuson Mrs. Guthrie's family physician
After the seduction, the guilty pair made arrange
ments for removing the restrictions upon their in
tercourse. Mitchuson to furnish Mrs. Guthri
with poison for putting Guthrie into the "unsee
world" and to give his wife the sleep that know
no waking, and the survivors were, "like kindre
drops, to minge into one" We know of nothing bel
ter cOlcuoted to bring jury trial into dsrepute thai
the result Of Miichusons Ifurors cannot be in
duced the cold-bl oded. deliberate prison
er, who, under the garb Of religious exorer and th
confidential relations of family physician, first Sc
duces a mans wife, and then induces her 10 admin
lister poison her husband. justice is farce. and lav
paltry, idle song