The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1854-12-27
Murder.


mon Pleas Court in Shelby county. Judge
MErcALF presiding. The testimony is re-
ported in full in the Shelby Democrat, A.
NJ. HoLLABAUGH editor, and shows the
most horrid ahd fendish treatment on the
part Of ARTS, which resulted in the death
Of EMMA ARTS his daughter. ARTS re-
refused any counsel for himself, and would
not have any DISCRIMINATION of wit
nesses, He showed the most obstinate
and sullen determination to meet the fatal
account rendered Tor his awful deeds heed
lessly and reeklessly refusing any aid for
an investigation further than elected on the
part of the prosecution. After care
ful and touching charge TO the jury in the
able aud decisive language of Judge
METCALF, the jury retired and after due
deliberation returned verdict of guilty of
murder in the first degree. The Judge
then proceeded to pronounce the sentence
in language not only solemnly beautiful, but
burningty impressive and eloquent, which
must have stirred heart of stone, though
crimsoned with the blood of thousand
victims. The sentence reads as follows
--H0ncOck Courier.
Convicted, as you have been. of the
highest crime known to the laws Of Ohio,
the penalty eff that crime must 6e exacted;
and however revolving it may be to the
firer feelings ofour humanity, the painful
duty of pronouncipg the sentence of the
law must be performed. And as that pen
atty is death, it becomes you to reflect up
on the enormity Of your crime, in order that
your guilty soul may be startled by the
bloody specter. AMI may be driven to
plead for that mercy which seasons JUS
tce at the bar of Him who is able to
save to the uttermost all that call upon
Him.
In the economy of infinite wisdom chill
dren are committed to their parents in Or
der that they may receive that tender care
and culture, which develop the inherent
wealth of the immortal spirit, and give to
the character in its formation new beau.
ties and new virtues. The parent to whom
is committed this precious portion Of God IS
heritage, is but hisinstrument lor the ac-
complishmant of that object.
But you have disturbed and thwarted
the economy of uature;-you have cut
the thread Of life before it was half spun out
you have crushed the flower of beiug in
the bud; yon have betrayed the trust re-
posed in you; you have broken the golden
bowl of life at the fountain; you have mar
red the image of the Almighty in the per
son ofyour child; you have sent to fnal
account an immortal soul, committed to
your keeping that it might be reared and
fitted for It's Masters use; you have proved
traitor to God, and monster 70 your owl
flesh and blood. Here you can only give
up your life to the law in expiation of your
great crime. How fearful--how terrible
your responsibility that life which is tt
come! admonish you TO prepare for the
dread summons which is to harry you into
the presence Of the Almighty.
Be not for one moment Iuled to sleep, OF
blinded to your eternal Interests, by any
hope of mercy here. As you have killed
without mercy, SO without mercy you mus
die. As your stony heart yielded not to 'h'
pleadings of your child, SO the fountains
of human pity are to you dried up forever
At the bar of the Almighty you must NEE
the victim Of your cruelty face to face.
would not frigh,en you with the terror!
of death; but would, if possible, conjur'
into your presence the ghost of your mur
dered child. | would have it scream per
petually into your ears Gods vengeance OF
the murderer, in order that the fends of re-
morse and terror may seize your guilty sou
and compel you to plead for mercy at thu
bar Of God before His ear is also shut a
Igainst you
| Go then hence back to your cell, and ther'
Danish from your mind all thought of earth
with its hopes ami Establishments. From
this moment they are denied you. There
fore in the silent watches of that SECLUDED
!, dwelling, with no eye to behold you but ths
of the Invisible, PROSTATE yourself in hi
presence, aud pray that you may be saved
from the pengs Of the second death. ".
ii now remains only that pronounce t
you the sentence of the law. which is this
That you be taken hence to the prison
d whence YOU came, there 10 remain until Fri
day. 2sllay Of February, A. d 1855. an
from thence ON thatdsy to the place of e1
ecution, where. between the hours Of to
O'Clock in the morning. and O'clock in ih
evening Of said day, you be hung by tn
neck until you are dead, andmay God bav
mercy On you" 81
FAcILlrArINe A VERDtcr The Austal
. aus have an original way Of getting q wei
diet from q chung" Jury. The iofema
: comes into court and says the jury cannS
agree unanimously, but that majority haV
( ja..r.ad u,haF.unon ihr eoun sal .ia hath al.