The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-08-13
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
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"Wednesday Morning., August f3. 1885.


AN ACCOUNT OF A REGENT TRIAL At tn,
ON BAIIr IN LospoN.--Georgs Hammond. ,
portrait painter, was placei at the bar to be tre,
on an indictment found agsinat himself by tn,
Grand Jury for the wiiful murder, with msiic,
aforeshousht, Of George Baldwin, a rope dancer
| and mountebank. The prisoner was a man of m,
d"m height but slender form. His eyes war,
blue and mild. His whole bearing gave evideue.
| OF subdued sadness aud melancholy resignation :
lie was fsrty one years of age, had aoft voice
ana bis appearance and manner bore evidence ia
ma being man OF distinguished education, IL
spite OF the poverty OF bia dress
On being called out to piesd the prisoner ad
mitted that be did not kill Baldwin. aud he do
pored the act, adding. however What on his sou
and conscience he did not believe bimself guiltv
Thereupon jury empa aneIed to try ,b. pri .on
| ar lhe indictment was then read to the iury
and the act of Killing being admitted the govern
ment rested their case, and the prisoner WAS
| called upon for his defence
The prisoner then addressed himself to the
| conrt and jury.
My lord" said he, my justification IL TO he
found in recital Of the facts Three wears ago
Loaf a daughter then four years of age. the sole
memorial OF my beloved wife. whom it had pleased
God to recall 10 himself lost her but + did no,
see her die. She dssppeared--sha was stolen
from me. She was charming child and but her
bad no body in the world to 1--we me- Gentlemen
what l have suffered cannot be described. yo,,
cannot comprehend it. i have expended in ad
Vertsing aud fruitess searches everything / hog
| sessed-furnifure. pictures even 10 my clothes
All have been sold, :
For three years foot had been seeking for
my child all the cities and all the villages in the
three kingdoms. As soon as by painting portrai,s
had succeeded in gaining n little money / return
ell to London TO commence my advertisements IN
the newspapers. At length, on Friday the nth of
April last, crCssed the Smithfield cattle mark
In the centre of the market a troupe of monte.
inu hair foat
child was turning on its head supported on a hal.
bred. A ray from tho soul of its mother must baye
penetrated my own, for me to have recognized my
child in that condition. 1t was my poor child
Her mother would perhaps have precipitated her.
self towards her, and locked herself in her arms
As for me a veil passed over my eyes. knew not
how it was-I, babtuay gentle, even to weakness,
seized him by the clothes-l raised him in the air
then dashed him to the ground--then again he
dead Afterwards l repented what had
done. At the moment regretted that was able
to kill but one"
Lord Chief Justice Tindale-"These are not
Christian sentiments How can you OK pect the
court and jury TO look with favor your de-
fence, or God to pardon you, if you cannot for.
give
Prisouer-"I know, my lord, what will be your
judgment, and that of the jury; but God has al.
ready padoned me; l feel it in my heart You
know not | knew not then the whole extent of
the evil that man had done When some compass.
sopate people brought me my daughter in prison
she longer my child; she was no longer
pure and angelic as formerly; she corrupt
body and soul-her manner, her language, infa
nous like those with whom she had been living
| did not recognize her myself. Do you compre.
hend me That man had robbed me of the
| love and soul of my child. And II have killed
! him but once
Foreman-"My lord, we have agreed on our
verdict"
| Chief Justice--'I understand you, gentlemen,
but the law must take its course. must sum up
the case, and then you will retire to deliberate
The Chief Justice having summed 10 the "a. 80
the jury retired, and in instant after returned
| into court with verdict Of Not Guilty"
| On the discharge of Hammond the sheriff was
Obliged to surround him with an escort The
women were determined to carry him off in tri-
| umph. The crowd follow ed Kim all the way to his
lodgings with deafening shouts Of huzzas
THE yIhGINIA WAsHINGToN MONUMENT
Thomas Crawford, Esq the eminent American n
| sculptor was in Richmond last week and closed a
contract with Governor Wise for the completion of
the Monument by placing on the four vacant cir.
culsr pedt stas the statues of George Mason, the
author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. in
l7T6, the fret made in America Chief Justice
John Marshall Gen. Andrew Lewis, the here of
Point Pleasant; and Gen. Thomas Nelson, of York
town distinguished sons of Virginia. In consulia A.
ton with Mr. Crawford. it was determined to orna.
ment the six lower rectangular pedestas not with
eaQlcs originally designed but with trophies rep.
resentng the peculiar characteristics of the men
to whose statues these pedestals belong The idea
| all will admit, Ia appropriate and beautiful Mr.
Crawford is now in W ashington, whittier he has
sent some exquisite models, representing the Pro.
grPss of Civilization in America for a pediment
of The extension of the Capitol. Mr.. G. will sail
for Europe on the o5th Of September. to finish his
works for Virginia snd other places 1t is proper
that we should state that Mr.. expressed the
highest satisfaction with the beautiful and substan
tial style in which the granite structure of the mon
umebt, on our Capitol Square, has been completed
Ii is confidently expected that the equestrian
statue of Washington, now boxed up in Munich,
will be brought over from Amsterdam during the
autumn, by the United States steam propeller
"Merrimac," Capt. Pendergras At Norfolk it
will be placed upon large ark and towed up to
,mond.-Enqmirer.
FIRE.-On Thursday night the barn of Mr. Ma.
son Al. Dunlap, near West Liberty near Wheel.
| ing. was burned to the ground, with about 200
bushels of wheat rye and barley, stored away in
| H. The barn was large and good, and cannot be
| replaced for less than from 500 to $1,000 MIR
u ~ 1883 viii be from $500 TO $1,000. No insu.
rance
| ALLURE TO ELtCT IN THE HOUSE should
| three candidates for the Pres idepcy go TO the
i'ouse ana toeir respective friends absolutely re.
iise 10 cast thelr votes for any save their first
choice, until the 4ih of March, the eIertion will
| then go to the Senate The term of all the mem.
| bers OF the present House expiring on that dav
IDe senate WIZ then vote for President having
| as candidates the two persons who receiyed ths
| highes. vote for President
| HowADu CURTIS on THE SouTHERNrRs
w. Curtis, ("Howadji') in a lecture at Middleton
CT, last week, thus speaks of the South II is !
shade more intense than anythiug that ha. vet an
peared
"Tharefore In Slave States there is no literature
no art no progressive civilization. Manners ars
fantastic and fierce; brute force supplan,s moral
principle, freedom of speech is suppressed be
csuss the natural speech OF man condemns Slave
ry: sensitive vanity s called hcnor; and coward
ly swAgeer, chivalry: respect for women Is de.
stroyed by universal Righteousness; lazy indiffcr
ence il called gaantry, and an impudent familiar
ity, cordially.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CHILD-A boy, named
John r. King, only seven years Of age. and hav-
ing brother and sister, both younger arrived at
Detroit, Michigan, on the lat inst. on his way TO
Wisconsin. The parents were killed by The In