Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-10
From the y. o. picuyuno, Jan. 81.
TRIAL OF TWO WOMEN For WHIPPING
A SLAVE TO DEATH.

FIRST DlsrRICT ~CcuRT-Judge Ruhcrtsnn-State
versus Aimee Dictz and Elizabeth D,niitry, wife
of } hn Dimitry. Indictment for murder The
prisoners are charged with cansjng the death ui n
slave girl. iiln. the property of Lrrlannettc, On
the 18th of November lust, by cruelty heating and
whipping her, when nIrea'y in Il feeble state -
health. from previous i'll treatment, with q cow
hide. on various parts of her body, On the 10Th Of
the same month. Mrs. Tietz is the mother Of
Mrs. Dimitry, and resides in The house with her
daughter, and the slave Lidl was Il servant in the
family. The jury was cmpanncll,d ahout II
O'clock yesterday morning. Attorney General
Morse and District Attorney Tappan appeared for
The State, and Judge Llrne and Judge Burmudrz
for the prisoners.
The counsel for the accused moved n severance
Of the defence, in order that the husband of Mrs.
Dimitry might appear "A. n witness for Mrs.
DIetz. This motion WAS ov er-ruled, and trial
proceeded.
Mrs. Caroline Constant, a German woman, tcs-
titled that She lives near the accused, and that for
Il period of six weeks or more, up to within IL few
days of the death of the deceased. she had known
the deceased to lie W ipped by the accused every
day on an average as often as ten times IL day.
there being each time some five or six blows III
llicted.
Mary Clark, a servant in the family from the
week prior to the death of the deceased 70 the
present time, testified that she had known the
accused to whip the deceased for stealing, but
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was taken sick. they were very kind and attentive
to her. up to the hour of her death.
Another witness also testified as to the whipping
of the deceased.
DR.. MERCER, wEo attended the port. norton eX-
animation, testified that l.e found several worms
in the deceased that the deceased was afflicted
with the worm disease that this disease was the
immediate cause of the death that there were
many marks, bruises and flesh wounds on the body
uf the deceased. apparently caused 10y some in>tru
ment of punishment: that tue punishmcnts which
caused these wounds might accelerate the termi-
nation of the disease which afflicted. the slave. but
that they were not IN her case the immediate cause
of her deuth.
Drs. FACET and Valete. who were also prescnr
at the pOSt-mOlicm examination, testified as to the
marks and bruises and flesh wounds on
the body Of the deceased, and also rs 10 the cxis.
fence of II worm disease, but they differed with
the previous witness rs tn the worm disease being
the immediate cause of the death. THIS they CON
sidered mistake. They thought the injuries were
the immediate cause Of the death.
At this stnSno of the trial (nearly I o'clock one
of the the Jurors WAS taken suddenly i'll, and heinS
removed nom the Court room was found To be in
so critical Il safe that it would be impossible to
to proceed With the trial. Accordingly the Court
discharged the jury, and continued the cause to ii
future day.
Tho Nidllesex Journal says: We learn from
good authority, that Truli brothers, d~istiIlers, are
now engaged in filling al order for New England
Rum to 20 TO the Crimea. They get As cents per
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