Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-09


on trial for keeping disorderly house. Crowns
house is in the Immediate vicinity Of the notorious
" pole" around which SO many battles have been
fought within a couple Of months, and even life
lost. The testimony pretty well proved that the
charge against the accused grew out Of i'll WILL
After good while spent in elaboration, the Jury
brought Grown in not guilty.
Henry Croggin was then put on his trial for rob-
ling the store of Michael Hoffa, and Others, and
pleaded guilty.
John E. Bailey was similarly arraigned for the
larceny at the store of Mr. John r. Latham. on
the night of the Gath of March last, aud likewise
pleaded guilty.
The counsel of the parties, Bailey Crogsin, and
Domaine, prayed the court to delay execution of
the sentences on their clients for three or four
days, in order to give their friends an opportunity
TO visit them before taking their long journey The
court felt itself compelled to refuse this prayer and
the rather that the parties had undertaken to es-
cape from Jail.
In calling these prisoners forward to receive
their sentences Judge Crawford said that it was a
melancholy spectacle to behold three young men,
who might have been respectable and an honor
and comfort to their families and friends standing
in the criminal dock bearing the stamp of felony,
and now about to suffer its punishment Instead
Of enjoying life, its liberty, and pleasures they
would be debarred from all such enjoyment, but,
bound and manacled, must pay the penalty OF their
wrong-doing.
1t gave the Court great additional pain to per-
ceive the degree of evity and utter heartlessness
that the prisoners before him had exhibited whilst
sitting in the dock within his observation Others
had remarked it besides himself They laughed
and talked to the visiters--who, he feared, were
in many cases little or no better than the convicts
themselves-just as if they were innocent, and had
nothing in the world to regret. He looked on
these things as marks of an utter restitution of
principle, and the more 30 when, as he understood
one left suffering wife and children, another an
aged mother, and the third two agonized parents
to deplore their crime and dishonor. Even when
the jury, upon whom their fate depended, had re-
tired to deliberate, the same sort of misbehavior
was observable.
The Judge further remarked that he never reco-
ected to have heard of such series of large rob-
berries as those disclosed on these trials. There
had been, to be sure, single robberes one of which
far exceeded in respect to the value of the articles
stolen, the whole of these; but he spoke now of
the long succession of burgaries in which the pris
oners had been engaged-one of $700 or $780,
another of $500 or 5000, one of $3.50, and several
others. There was that of Mr. Hughes, for in
stance, acknowledged by Croggn when he said
" Hughes's goods would never be found "a very
heavy robbery, perhaps the heaviest
The Judge concluded by expressing his hope
that the long confinement to which they would be
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what they must ultimately come to, unless they
make q radical change in their lives and charac-
ters-a change which must depend on themselves
alone. s
The Court, then, in the first case on which Henry
Croggin was convicted, sentenced him to three
years Imprisonment and hard labor in the peniten-
tiary of the District of Columbia and similar
term in the second case, to commence at the ex-
piration of the first term.
John r. Railey waa naxt aantanaad 10 axanf1v
the same punishment; and, lastly, John w. De-
maine to two years in the penitentiary on each of
the three charges for which he had been convicted,
to commence at the special instance of his father,
three days hence, that is to say, Monday morn
ing next.
Anon Duvall, police officer, was then put on
trial for aiding and abetting the escape of John
Essex, charged with the murder of Owen Quigley
on the third of June last the result Of which was
Duvall's acquittal.
Henry T. l.. Wilson's case for the Same offence
came next, but terminated differently, the Jury
having after about forty-6ve minutes consultation,
rendered verdict Of guilty whereupon the Court
ordered Wilson into the custody of the Marshal.
Mr.. Martin, counsel for Wilson, moved the Court
for arrest ofjudgment
The Court then set the trial of Magee, for the
killing Of Sims in Georgetown, to take place on
Wednesday next. Magee retains Mr. Charles Lee
Jones as his counsel
After which the Court adjourned.-Nat. Intel.
GEoRGETowN.-Prime butter from wagon, $40
per hundred pounds eggs, per 100 dozen, $l3.-
Oats new, arriving in small lots by wagons-sales
at 40 cents.
The venerable Mr.. Hardy, probably the Oldest
inhabitant of the District OF Columbia, was found
dead yesterday morning at his residence on Bridge
street.
THE SroRA-Several shade trees were blown
down by the storm of yesterday afternoon. At
Spring Park near Alexandria, q portion of the res
dence of Mr.. B. Rochford was destroyed by its
violence.
FREIGHr.--Twenty-four cars laden with wheat
came over the Orange and Alexandria Railroad to
Alexandria on Thursday evening.
LIGHTNING.-The steeple of the Friendship Fire
Company struck with lightning yesterday after
noon, and slightly damaged. The steeple of the
Court House was also struck, but slightly damaged
Mr.. John Domaine struck and FRUSTRATED, but
not seriously iDjured.-Aler. Gdz.
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