Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-13
SENTENCE OF ARRISoN THE
INEERNAl.NIAC IIINENIAN.

SENTENCE OF ARRIsoN THE
INE'ER%A1-N1AC
In the Court of Common Pleas at Cincinnati
lastweek. VIM. Arrison, convicted ofmanslaugh-
ter, upon an indictment for murder Of, Isaac Al
lison, was brought up for sentences The prisner
looked as usual. and manifested no emotion of
any kind. Judge Parker proceeded to pass sem
tence in the following terms.
The crime for which you were indicted is the
highest known to the law, and tho circumstances
disclose at the trial were such as have never
been developed in the annals of crime On the
facts thendisclosed there could be in, our opinion
no question as to the degree of crime If gull
ty Mt all you were ofmardcrin the first degeec
The Jury, by their verdict, have found that
you were the person who caused this internal
machine TO be constructed and transmitted to
the victeln; but from mistaken philanthrophy
applied to the individual, instead of the protec-
ton of the community, or for some other rea-
son wholly incomprehensitle to us, have found
that you had no intention Of taking human life;
and that you are guilty of manslaugter only.
With this finding wehaye no power, if we had
the inclination, TO interfere. Our duty IS to pass
sentence upon the verdict
Assuming, as the jury have found, andas the
evidence detailed upon the trial does not permit
us TO doubt, that you really the guilty agent
in preparing and transmitting to Isaac Allison
theinstrument which caused his DEATH and what
a spectacle of human depravity does the case
present.
For real or Eancied injury inflicted upon YOU
by some one, you conceive desire of aveneing
yourself, which required not only generalization
and deep thought, but the exercise of no small
degree of inventive genius to perfect. Every
step must have been studied. The conStruc-
ton OF the box designed to conceal the machine
ha to be peculiar, lest it should exploce in the
snrsN i =
tor. The tube, the disposition the pistol lock-
the addition of nail to the trigger to increase
the leverage, and thus the more easily and sure
ly to spring the lock-the construction of the
meters which formed the groove in which the
lid ran, so that they might be screwed on, after
the machine was set and the lid in its place-a
these show cautious determination to avoid all
chance of failure, which could only be the result
of long continued and ingenious reflection; and
when the machine was thus prepared, the send
ing il for any purpose into crowded hospital,
where its explosion must necessarily cndanEer
and would in all human probability, destroy the
lives of men already sick and disabled, land who
could not by any possibility have injured you,)
erinced recklessness in the imperiing of hui
man life, and a corruption of heart and feeling
which, for the honor of our common nature we
would have hoped did not exist in any one bear
ing the form of man.
All this the jury have found you tlid-and for
what purposes To wreak your vengeance on a
man who had overcome you in personal en-
counter, or (taking the hypothesis upon which
we suppose the jury predicated their verdict, J
to aVenge yourself by mean attempt to de-
stroy the property of one who had failed to pay
you sum of money which he owed
The fatal engine did its work but too cffectu-
ally. Totally unsuspecting, the wife of your
victim, (herself soon to become so,) upon re-
cciving the box, ran with it to her husband
Eager with curiosity to see what was the pres.
ent which she supposed some friend had sent
her, she stands over him, while lie removes the
cover ltexplodes, and two human beings, who
a moment before were buoyant with health and
strength, and looking forward to the ordinary
term of life, lie wounded, torn and dying upon
terrible fate was vouchsafed them; but at once
in the sacTedness Of their family privacy, and
! by their own freside they We're hurried, by a
dreadful death, into eternity
! In the silence and solitude of the cell to which
the law consigns you, ample time will be afford
J ed for reflection and repentance.
Young as You are, and bright as were your
prospects in life, before the act of which you
have been co ivictcd your hopes in this world
are gone forever. Shut out from association
with the good and virtuous, your society for
long years to come, must be the degraded and
the vile. Nor do the consequences stop with
your own punishment The innocent suffer
''A1'i h'AS At1A Oil w tlo tIS ueaV
you must partake. in some degree, in your deg
radiation. That father, who with unblauched
check, and kindling eye, upheld the honor of
his country's flag, on field where Deaths rich
est harvest was reaped, must veil MS face, and
bow his whitened head with shame, when the
name of Ills son is mentioned in his hearing, and
the mother, whose undying love will cling TO you
even in your guilt, must wish, in her Utmost
heart, that she had never heard your first feeble
cry, or had stood above your grave ere crime
had set its mark upon you, or your own evil
passions brought disgrace upon all whose love
is mingled with your life
With our opinion Of your gnilt, our duty re-
quircs of us to atfix the utmost penalty awarded
to the crime of which you have been convicted
The sentence of the Court, therefore is, that yor
be taken from hence to the Jail of the county
and within thirty days you be conveyed to a,
p,enitanttiary Of the State, at Columbus, anc
therein be confined at hard labor for the period
of ten years, and that you pay the costs ofpros
ecution.
IRON the Philadelphia Arpezieanl
EB Letter of Mr.. Madison to Mr.. Clay ii
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