The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-26
Sentence OF Seven Muraerers An New Orleans.
FOUR TO BANGED-TwO TO THE STATE PRISON
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FOR LIFE, AND ONE FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS.
III. Fhst district Court room wss On Saturday morn.
Ing crowoed with spectators drawn hher BY the unu.
were TO hear The dread sentence the laws they had
fesrfu]Iy outraged Seven men-an neatly dressed,
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En- and seemingly lees concerned than any other persons
in the room Il was awful and the crowd painy showed
that they felt 1t to be 10 look upon that Of pris
and consider that four OF them were awaiting
for %
{ his life. The only man who really looked the muir.
se1 Of ..ss
In his countenance Costello, nero lad in appearance,
with nsss nss mild ~ blue ss.
thin nose. the next in repulsveness Of aspect but
the thought Of his youth in connection with the hoid
murder he had perpetrsted, might have had something
to do with the feeling inspired BY his presence Shields
small, stout built man, was not bad TO look st, though
Kennedy looked least the murd eror Of al the crowd
. fns, manly young fellow with honest intelligent
murderer. These tho four awaiting sentence OF
death Patrick Hagserty, who aided Callighan In thu
rest and had good Oountsnsnos johnson, who shot
Spelman, and Scott, who killed his wife, were botk
Judss Robertson called Csilashsn, Shields Kennedy,
and Costello successfully to their feet and asked them
they .S assns t. aH nss .Soa =: 3
new trial. which the Judge told him It would be inn
possible TO grant TEE others had nothing to say THIS
Judge the sentence OF the law by appropriate and
solemn remarks, concluding his address Is follows
Bow far better would It been for you, Calaghan,
you gave the deadly sabs to have rejected the fear
full consequences OF the CRIME you we're about to per-
ment which bas surely overtahen you'll BIT you SEEM
ed possessed by hell born spirit Of cestruction and
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four, aye five victims, till two of them died, and yo
And you, Shields, with drawn and deadly weapon,
for some snoisn spirit Of srose 70 provoke an
had failed. Gil reaa v0ur
prosches, and declined your challenges and retired
II % % s
after blow win your hnife,, when his hand was not
upon your head, You must die IS murderer -
And you, Kepn.dy Tor the fancied insult Of msrs
BY the evil properties Of liquor armed YOURSELF sought
him out, and notwithstanding the sntrea;es Of your
and STABBED Sm 10 d.asa though he .a q escape
from you. Ah 1t would have been far better had YOU
sIove to drag you from that scene Of trouble Had YOU
heailened to her. you would not a. now, have caused
10 an ssd
her gray haira to 60 down In sorrow TO the grave.
And last Of ALL you Costello unfortunate young man.
you have neither insult injury to offer In extsnua
lion of your crime You slew in an atrocious manner
old estimable officer Of the Law, while In the dis
and with fatisry kindness warned JON ds:st from
your riotous disturbance dsregarded the old mans
as sa
abetors you drew your esggsr and indicted stab after
upon til officer who st struggled TO do his duty,
you though noraly wounded, yetiorsbcrs to strike
injure you. When you bad, ~ the means or your
friends effected your escape You p0ssted OF your bloody
work and showed contriton. This outrageous muir
were sought out have been tried; and After den-
erate consideration Of yonr case, have besn found
nifty and deserving death.
Unou you therefore, and upon all Of you and each
You, must, In consideration Of your respective
rimes the several verdics thereon pronounce the
sentence Of the Law, which L. that you, each one Of
you be taken hence and hung within the four walls o.
The Psrsh Prison. until you dead, upon such day
md 1T such hour the Governor May appoint And
ow may the Lord have mercy ON your souls.
The prisoners then sat down. Without one OF them boz
rayipg mptoms OF emotion. n A. Frazer, Esq.,
took appeals In behalf Of Coseo and Kennedy leaving
Calashan and Shields ~ the only ones who will certainly
Patrick Hsggarty, Calashan's aecomplcs. was then
sentenced TO the penite nary for ue He begged for
trial. with faiterng voice, asserting that he WAS
me Judge, in kind but firm manner denied the re-
Eiebard Scott for the murder Of his wife In jealous
At at wake Tchoupitoulas street. sentenced To
the pensntisry for fs He said nothing, nor betrayed
John johnson, for shooting Patrick speImsn ct his
boue Magazine street. sentenced 70 the penten-
tary eighteen years. He had nothing 70 say and
paor which overpread his countenance was an tnat De-
trsyed his feelings
No FANNIE AT THE WEST. The receipts Of bread
stus at the Upper Lake porte are uemendous and pre-
cluds the possibility Of the maintenance Of present
psees or 6readstus, hundred and three thousand
tushs r,csvsd q port, on the Upper sss ~ ons
one cav were 7s2s bbls OF four, 81, 6e1 bushas %
wheat, sso27 kushsh Of corn and ~, 275 bushss u
i eats. asss