Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-01-07

who have testified against James T. D%onnelly
by perjurihg themselves most willfully in the
sight of God. I have no animosity, no spirit
of revenge to crafty against any one. Every
thing of that kind has been dismissed from my
heart. / have received the last rites of my
holy religion; / have placed my trust in Christ
and in Christ alone, in the judgment Of the
a~tonemeut. / feel that any corporeal, physi-
cal suffering that ! may endure will be but a
drop in the ocean, a pebble upon the sea shore.
God, the Judge knows me, for to him | have
unburdened my soul, showed him the inmost
~recesses of my heart--he knows that / am not
afraid to meet him. But | am not Indifferent
to my awful position--on the one side | see
hell, with its gaping gates ready to receive me,
fame and the fathomiess FIRE; on the other
hand | see the doors of light, guarded by the
angelic host, and my Ioor sainted mother push
ing aside the curtains, and opening the door to
receive her poor son.
The reality of my position is before me-
There is n bitterness, no anger, no revenge,
in that future state; Ihave a great apprecias
ton of the implacable justice, as well as of the
infinite mercy of God. And though / draw
near to him with trembling limbs for other sins
for this | am fully excuipated in the sight of
God. Upon the latter part of March | left
my far distant home, and came to New York,
supposing to change my occupation in life. L
then and there provided the ways and means,
and shortly after determined to recruit my
health for a different position and sphere in
life. was invited to go to the Sea View
House, New Jersey-a few days, and a few
days only, had / been there, when this dread
full thing befel me. You have all heard the
evidence, and most of you have formed and
expressed an opinion thereon, and though /
stand up beneath the scaffold, and though it
may be that it is not possible for me to change
the views Of any one Of you; yet if ! do not
show you that | am innocent, it will be be-
cause you are prejudiced, and cannot be moved
by the truth. Here Donnelly accused GER
tain parties of perjury; but unquestionably
most unjustly. | have a few questions toput
to that man: he can never answer that ques-
ton to my satisfaction, but he may to that Of
my friends. j am not carried away by the re-
alities of my position, and God knows it. But
| have some questions to put which that man
must answer before he leaves this world. Tn.
the passage-in the west passage Of the Sea
View House-were bloody foot tracks-tracks
Of a bloody foot; Donnelly the alleged assas-
sin, convicted, and to die, for the murderer, is
proved to have had on a slipper that morning.
Albert S. Moses was not in the passage; but
who was in that passage that morning by his
own admission. ! v \ Perhaps it is wrong in
me-yet I would not wrong any mau; but /
do it in justice to myself. When that fearful
outcry of murder was heard that morning, Don
nelly, Donnelly stood in the passage alone.-
= KS y = Donnelly saw theman fall--it was
the most naturally impulse of his heart for
Donnelly to ask, $ Who is dead?Ho Z = = = x
The testimony Of that most estimable lady,
Mrs. Judge Bradford, although cayilIed at,
was the most truthful testimony given on this
trial. She did what I asked others to TO-
did not trust to her memory, but put down in
black and white what occurred there that
morning. Any other man who had seen Mo-
ses as | saw him that morning, would have
done as | did.
James P. Donnelly, upon the morning Of the Ist
OF August, according to the evidence, was dressed
in a suit of light clothes. The room in which that
man was injured was, | presume, about nine feet
deep and some ffre or six feet in width; it was a lit
tie narrow, dark bedroom. The only light reflected
In that room came through a window and door ia ans
adjoining room. The sun rose. / think that morn
ing, about three minutes past five; that room stood
in the corner, right at the junction of two houses
Not a particle of light, not a ray of sun ever reached
that room until linn. When Donnelly entered
that room that morning, some twenty-five minutes
after that cutlery, on the oath Of dying man, 1t was
Just as much as Donnelly could doto see. A. s. Mo-
ses, when went and opened that door, to give hni
light, said, lis that Donnelly 2" l said it was. He
said, grinding his teeth, oh, you son of a b.. II
wish to the Lord Jesus Christ I had a pistol to shoot
you. Why have you done thislp On the oath of a
dying man, these were the words which Moses spoke.
| stepped to his bedside, and reaching over him,
begged and implored him to saw that it was not true.
The only other person then was the German barber.
His first words were needle and thread. I ran to my
room; as | had on white clothes, I took them off lest
they should be spotted with blood, and thereby fix
the dreadful charge which Moses had made upon
me, putting on dark clothes. There was no blood
on my clothes, yeteverything il the room was bloody.
When l went back there, / asked the magistrate to
swear Moses, for l felt that my poor bones would
rattle in my grave if died under such an imputa-
tion. Then [ did all l could to save his life-that
mars life; and here let me slide in a question. Is
1t natural for a man once fed from murder to return
to the spot where the deed was done! Take that
fact home. Is It not likely / would have done SOP
Here Donnelly entered into a long account of what
he did to save Moses's life. fs
Immediately opposite upon the wall was a.
streak OF blood curved, with a few drops from
it, clearing indicating to any medical man that
it could not have been done from the wound;
but that it fell from the knife. It clearly in-
dictated to, any man who had walked the hos
pitfalls as Donnelly, that those stains fell from
the point Of the knife-and then a man when
stabbed would not turn toward, but away from
the weapon, which inflicted the wound. There
is young DIR. Taylor there, i'll am wrong, will
correct me. Is it not so7e Was there not a
spot of blood in No. 36, opposite the bed?
DR.. I'll am not certain s