The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-04-28
From the PHILADELPHIA Inquirer.
Sentence of Death on Arthur spring---His Gen.
eral Appearance, Speech, SC.

On Satur day morning few minutes before
O'Clock, Arthur Spring was brought up to Court
from prison, to receive sentence of death. He
was ushered into the room through large
crowd, who remained quiet as he passed. When
the doors were opened the rush was tremen-
dous, and there was n vast deal of elbowing de
spite the efforts of the officers to preserve order.
In few seconds every nook and corner of the
| Court room was closely packed by curious
crowd, who were anxious to witness another
public act of the dreadful drama.
BY the time the Judges had arrived and taken
their seats, every inch of standing room. within
and without the BAR and inside the railing, was
closely packed by the eager multitude. The
wretched prisoner, although the centre of the
general gaze, sat unmoved in the dock, and look
ed upon the immense crowd with real
sumed indifference. Spring looked WELL and
his face bore no trace of anxiety. Judge Doran,
the counsel for the prisoner, stood near the
dock, with his arm resting upon it. As soon as
silence could be obtained Mr.. Reed the District
Attorney, arose and addressed the Court.
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS SPEECH.
May it please your Honors-The prisoner at
the bar, Arthur Spring, the 21st of March,
being arraigned, pleaded not guilty to bill of
Indictment found by the Grand Jury charging
him with the murder of Ellen Lynch. On the
2ith of March, after patient trials he
found guilty Of murder in the first degree. For
sufficient reasons, to which 1 need allude, a
second trial was ordered on the application of
the prisoner. On the 2Sth of March that second
trial began, terminating in Il verdict by another
jury of guilty of murder of the first degree. No
part of my duty remains to be discharged but
to move your Honors for Judgment on that ver-
dict. l. therefore move the Court for judgment
of death npon Arthur Spring the elder, who
stands convicted of the murder of Ellen Lynch,
of the first degree.
After Mr.. Reed had concluded, Mr.. Doran
said :-"As counsel for the prisoner in the dock
hap Of vNir,ipr hot ho hoe had f,;r o,,I
partial trial, 1 know of no reason why judgment
of the law should not be pronounced against
him."
The prisoner was then directed to stand up,
and Judge Kelley said, ''Arthur Spring, have
you anything to say why the judgment of the
law should not be pronounced upon you ?"
The prisoner replied Il have. your Honors"
Spring then commenced statement which he
deigned Justification Of himself, but it fail
ed to create in the minds OF any who heard him
shadow of doubt of his guilt The prisoner
spoke in firm, strong voice, but with hurried
accent. His face was flushed, although he did
not appear to be laboring uader any unusual ex-
citement. His speech and his manner while de-
llVering 1t, impressed all who heard it with the
conviction that lie possessed most cruel and
fiendish disposition, and that after all hope
for his own life had fed he was still seeking to
drag down into felon's grave with him, the
reputation and even the life of his own offspring
death like silence prevailed during the time
the guilty man was speaking.
ARTHUR SPRINGS SPEECH.
Your Honors, had no act nor part in the
murder of Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. Lynch. L
willing to die for it at any moment; but before
die, call God to witness, that l had no part
in the murder. If you want me to tell what |
know about it, l will. here say that had no
hand in it. l know nothing about it. l never
had it in my thoughts. L not afraid TO die,
and show my death TO any one My son said he
rl,n .l,o
Lynch, and l told him that as l was known
there would be suspected of it. He told
he took the money. He said he went down
there and took bottle of brandy with
him. He told me he had killed the women. He
had first struck Mrs. Lynch when she was in
the back room. She got behind the settee, and
he had to wait until she came out before he
could finish her. lie told me he had gone into
the front room until she would come out. He
said that after he left there he went up to Thir-
teenth street. He went home to Maguires
about quarter to ten o'clock, to play dominoes
with the boys. After he came home to Magure's
he waited till all were abed, first going up stairs
and then coming down again, when he went
back again to Carroll's. [ say that [ did not
commit the murders, but | am willing TO die for
them. l am not afraid to show my face to any
man. l am not afraid to die-not afraid to ap-
pear before my God at any moment My son
, told me all about the murder of Mrs. Lynch and
Mrs. Shaw. These are my dying words, and
will say the the gallows. As for the
money, did not know anything about it did
not know the color of it, nor anything about it.
l never told Byrne where the money was; nor
did L say word to him about it. He came
down to prison, and brought three oranges.
He sat down and took out of his pocket a two
pound weight which l had never seen before,
and put it into my lap. He said that he found
it in Maguire's yard, back of the house. L told
him my son had taken it out of Ragan's shop to
throw it at his cousin, for he lighting with
him all the time, and L tookit from him and car
| ried it up to Maguire's, and then l pitched it
away into the yard.
The first time was at Maroney's store 1 got
pound of grapes, and gave him a S5 note He
said, take the grapes along and never mind the
money L wanted to buy him out, and he ask
ed SoOo for his place. The next time l was
| there was on Sunday night; and / got pound
OF grapes from Mrs Maroney, and gave her 81
gold piece. l took them home and gave them
TO Ragan's children. 1t was my son that told
me about the weight and the money also. When
got up the next morning after the murder, 1
found the two shirts on the table. My son told
me to put on one of the clean shirts; | did so,
and rolled up the dirty ones, and put them
der the table. One of them was the one had
got bloody in the fight with Carroll After break
fast my son went out, down to where he COM
mitted the murder. He came back and was at
home when the officers came One of them
said where is Arthur Spring? l said here
|. We took some ale at the bar, and rode off
| with them in cab When we were near the
place where Mrs. Lynch and Mrs. Shaw were