Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-05-30
TIE SENTENCE OF yosaN ygcCAFFIsH

TIE SENTENCE OF JOEHN MCCARTHY
| For the murder of BRIDGET MCCAFFRY, his rje,
! bY JUDGE WHIfoN.
! TKEroRrED GEOGRAPHICALLY }. b JILsUS THE
TELEGRAPn
| On the coming in of the Court on Friday af-
tcrnoon, the Court inquired of the District Attor-
new if he had any motion to make in the case of
the State rs. McCatlry. The District Attorney
said that he wished the prisoner brought into
Court for the purpose OF making motion in his
case. The prisoner was then brought into Court.
| The District Attorney then arose and said ''May
it please your Honor, the Jury having by their
verdict found John McCatlry guilty of murder in
the first degree, it becomes my duty to move that
he now receive from the Court the Judgment and
sentence of the law"
BY THE CoURT--AddrcSSing himself to the
| PriSoHer--Thc motion which was made in this
cause for new trial having been considered by
the Court has been oyerrulcd and also the sub
! scquent motion which vas made for an arrest of
! Judgment. No new motion having been intcrro-
scd, there remains to be performed but one more
duty BY the Court. | ask you now, Prisoner,
what have YOU to say why the sentence of the
law should not be pronounced against you p
The prisoner was silent. Have you anything
to say why the sentence of the law should not
De pronounced against You? Prsoner--No.l
/ ~ ttt NbtI - otII IIpN dbOuk ~ perform DN
! far the most painful act of my Judicial life Be
fore performing it, wish to say what have to
say to you not as Judge, but as a friend. as a
fellow traveller to the common retrbu,ion You
have been proceeded against by the Grand Jury
of this county, who have found Bill of Indct
mcnt against You for wilful murder. The In
dlctment which they found against you, has been
presented 10 this Court; and after the lapse Of
few months, the Petit Jury has been empannel-
ed to try You. Previous to this, however. coun-
sci was assigned you, who have eXcrtCd them
selves in your behalf with great skill and credit
to themselves, and fidelity to YOU And at the
present term of the Court the Jury have been
empauuclcd 10 try you; and after careful hea-
ring have returned into Court a verdict of muir
der in the first degree against you. This YER
dict which has been rendered, has been 10 me a
source OF great anxiety, for the reason that mo-
/ ton has been made for new trial. have look.
ed at it with the most careful attention. | have
/ looked at It with deep anxiety, and upon such
/ examination am inclined to think the verdict was
right. The evidence which was introduced by
The prosecution against You under the indictment,
/ was overwhelming; the conclusion to which the
Jury arrived was inevitable. The evidence
against you was circumstantial, mainly so at
,,">' aud that fact was dwell upon by your
CT"',N~s with great earnest; and it was also al
'uueu - %! the Court, but the circumstances
We're 80 many and 50 direct and com inciag, as to
leave no doubt upon the minds of the Court of
your guilt. By our law, the crime, with yrhich
you stand convicted, is the ony one thar is nnn
ishable with death. Agains, the murderer the
lawhas attached the greatest penalty known 10
criminal Jurisprudence. The universal oninon
and sanction Of all ages he's induced our lSaj>Ia-
ture 20 put this law upon the statute book and
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allowed 10 be taken for the highest offence which
i; is considered in the power Of man to infic; up
on his fellow man.
OF this offence you stand convicted But in
your case there are other circumstances which
stamp it with peculiar atrocity; your victim was
your wife, she was woman, and a woman too
which You had promised to love and respect
but according to the evidence, instead of loving
and protecting her, YOU have inbrued you hands
in her blood and hurried her into eternity. And
not only that, but the circumstances under which