The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-10-08

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will probably wish to see the sentence Of the
Judge, passed at the close OF the recent trial,
wherea, he was found guilty Of the charge
preferred. We copy from the Cincinnati
Ca eHe:
William Arrison, convicted Of '.manslaugh.
ter" under an indictment for the murder of
Isaac Allison, by means of an "infernal ma
chine" was brought into Court for sentence.
His appearance did no, indicate the presence
Of any painful emotion at the prospect Of n
transfer of his person from the Jail to the
penitentiary.
He stood up by order of the Courtfor SEN
tcncc. Judge Parker then proceeded to ad.
dress him. lie said:
You have been indicted BY the Grand jury
of Hamilton County for the crime Of murder
in the first degree, by the killing Of Isaac Al
Iison, on the Goth day Of June, 1854, by
means of nm internal machine contained in a
box transmitted BY you TO said Allison, and
which exploded while he was in the &C. of
opening said box, thereby causing his death.
Upon this indictment Traverse Jury have
found you gui ty of manslaughter. Have
YOU anything to say why We should not now
proceed to impose the sentence of the law
Arrison said he had no remarks to make.
Judge Parker then proceeded:
The crime for which you were indicted is
the highcs, known to the law, and the cir
cumstances disclosed at the trial were such rs
have never before been developed in the an
mails Of crime. On the facts then disclosed
there could be, in our opinion, no question
to the degree Of crime. If guilty nj All
YOU were guilty. Of murder in the first de-
gree.
The Jury, by their verdict, have found
that you We're the person who caused this
"inferna machine" TO be constructed and
transmitted to the victim but from mis-
taken philanthropy applied to the individual,
instead OF the protection OF the community,
or for some other reason wholly incom-
prehensible to rs, have found that you had
no intention Of taking human life, anl that
you arc guilty Of manslaughter only.
With this finding We have no power, if We
had the inclination, to interfere. Our duty
IS to pass sentence upon the verdict.
Whatever was the intention with which you
acted, the means employed, and the reckless
ness and disreg, I'd Of human life displayed
IN carrying out your intention, are 80 Pc
culiar that we think it our duty briefly TO
divert 10 the facts of this most extraordinary
case.
The evidence detailed unon the trial does not
permit us to doubt, that you were really the
guilty agent in preparing and transmitting TO
Isaac Allison ihe instrument which caused
his death, and what "a spectacle Of human de-
pravity does the case present
For a real or fancied injury inflicted upon
yon by some one, YOU conceive n design Of
ayenging yourself, which required not only
generalization and deep thought, but the ey
crcise of no small degree OF inventive gen
ius TO perfect. Every step must have been
studied The construction of the box de-
signed 10 conceal the machine had to be Pc
culiar, lest il should explode in the act of ar
ranging the lid, and destroy the PROTECTOR
The tube, the disposition Of the pistol lock,
the addition of nail 10 the trigger to increase
the leverage, and thus the more easily and
surely 10 spring the lock the construction
Of meters which Formed the grove IN which
the lid ran, that they might be screwed
on, after the machine was set aud the lid
IN its place, all these show u cautious d.
termination TO avoid all chances of failure
which could only be the result Of long con-
tuned and ingenious reflection ana when
thc machine was TITUS prepared, the sending it
for any purpose into crowded hospital,
we're it, explosion must necessarily endangcr,
+ md would in all human probability destroy,
the lives 0. men already sick or disabled.
(and who could not by possibility have IN
lurei you.) evince recklessness in the i'm
perllng OF human life, and corruption of
neart and feeling, which, for the honor of
our common nature, We would have hoped
did not ex.ss in any one bearing the form Of
man.
All this the Jury have found you did--and
for what purpose TO wrenk your vengeance
on man who had overcome YOU in per
.onal encounter, or ltaking the hypothesis
upon which we suppose the jury preuicated
their yerdict) to avenge yourself by mean
attempt to destroy the property of one who
had failed to pay you u sum OF money which
1 he owed.
The fatal engine did its work but to etfec-
tually. Totally unsuspeoting, the wife Of
your victim, therself soon to become so J
upon receiving the box, ran With il to her
husband. Eager with curiosity to see what
was the present which she supposed some
friend had sent her, she stand- over him
while he removes the cover. 1t explodes
and two human beings, who q moment be.
fore We're buoyant with health and strength,
and looking forward to the ordinary term OF
human life, lie wounded, torn aud dying
npun their own hearth-stone. No warrin.
Of their terrible fate was vouchsafeJ
shem but NJ once, in the sarredness Of thei,
family privacy, and by their own Preside
they were hurried by u dreadful death into
eternity.
For this ne believe your life was iustl,
forfeited to the offended laws Of God an,
man. The jury have found otherwise, anc
instead of it being our painful duty, nt thi
time, TO pronounce upon you the last drea,
penalty of the law, YOU are to receive tn
pun shmcn, due to the lowest degree of Grim
NAL homicide.
In the silence and solitude Of the cell I
which the law consigns you, ample tim
will be afforded for rejection and repent
Q cnee.
( Young as you are, and brightly as wer
, your prospects in life, before the net O
which yon have been convicted, your hope
IN this world are gone forever. Shut on
from association with the good and vrtuou.
i your society for long wears TO come, ma.
G he the degraded and vile. Mr. do the con
!. sequences stop with your own punishment
: The Innocent suffer with the guilty, and a
who are near and dear 10 you, must partak,
IN some degree, in your degradation. Tha
i father, who, with unblanched cheek, an
j kiniiiug eye, upheld the honors Of his couu
!. try's tiag, on field whore deaths riches