The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-03-10


Yesterday, at little after | o'clock, the
jury which retired with the case on Thurs
day afternoon, came into court with ver-
dict Of equity" against DR.. George A. Gar
diner.
Mr.. Brady, of counsel for the defence,
then addressed few words to the Judge, not
loud enough to be distinctly heard in the
body of the court.
The defendant, being in court, was then
ordered by the Judge to stand up, which he
did, and received his sentence in the follow.
ing words:
"You have been convicted by jury of
your country Of the crime of false swearing,
touching the expenditure of public money,
aud in support of claim against the United
States. Perjury, in its nature and general
sense, strikes at the root of all the securities
which society is bound to extend to and main
tain around the citizen. The particular Of
fence charged upon you, and upon which the
jury have passed, whether considered in re-
fererence to the complicated plot by which
It's objects were consummated, or to the
amount OF money obtained from the Treasury
on the award of the commissioners appointed
to decide upon claims under the treaty with
Mexico of February, 1913, is one Of unusual
enormity.
''To address such observations, as must
seem TO every man who knows the circum-
stances that surround you, to person of your
conceded ability would be useless or vain;
useless if they have arisen in your own mind,
vain if they have not From your fate others
should learn that no plan, howeve remote its
origin, with whatever forecast laid, however
stealthly and adroitly pursued for years and
at length executed, with whatever success for
atime attended, can be so cunniDgy devised
as to escape detection. The unexampled in.
genuity exhibited in the network spread cut
on this trial, and the fact that it has been en-
posed at the last stage, ought not to fail of q
beneficial effect in convincing all men that
if they will trample on laws, human and d.
vine, they shall suffer for it.
"The sentence Of the court is, that you suf.
fer in the penitentiary for the District Of CO.
lumbia imprisonment and labor for the period
of ten years."
A bill Of exceptions, as we understand, of
about thirty in number, were taken, to be tried
before the circuit court at its coming term
This would have delayed, under any circum.
stances, the commitment of the prisoner to
the penitentary till after the rising of the
court.
After receiving his sentence, DR.. Gardiner
was taken into the custody of the deputy mar
shall for safe keeping in Jail. He had arrived
there bot very little time before he was at.
tackled by severe spasms and vomiting, in
ducing the suspicion that he had poisoned
himself; but this is not yet positively known
Three or four physicians were Immediately
sent for, who quickly responded 20 the call,
and every attention was paid the unhappy
man. Alta quarter past three o'clock p. NJ.
he died. A coroner's jury was collected in
the course of the evening, but no verdict can
be rendered until a satisfactory post moriena
examination shall have been had. We pre-
sumo there will be verdict early to-day.
Besides the indictment for false swearing
on which the deceased had been convicted,
two other bills had been found against him
for forgery Naiiond! Intel.