Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-01-14

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display brought out, that the inevitable DEGREES Of
so called justice are about to be carried out, and that
therefore, 1 stand upon the ground az one who has
but a short time to- live. When / look back, within
my OWE sonl when / reflect upon my position
when | reflect upon thosewho to-day gather around
me upon my own school-mates, my old friends miles
and miles away when look into my own shul-whe
| reflect upon the agony that I have suffered since |
nave been confined In those cells, and look into the
dark future, | feel that ! stand upon consecrated
ground-ground consecrated to Justice so-called-to
the death OF a man innocent0f crime. When Iaee-
elect my family who are away-nfy poor gray-headed
father and bleeding hearted sisters - when | re-
i nect that in q few minutes more [ shall stand ha(,ra
the Judgment Seat of God, there to receive the re-.
ward of punishment of deeds done in this life. / am
Impressed that this is the hour, this is the time what
l may say Will be saidin sincerity. (Here he wiped
the moisture from his eyes with . handkerchief,
which he deliberately took from his coat pocket. -
am oppressed with a sense that | am u~ttering nv
last words,za kind and affectionate and last alden.
God is my witness that | would not bring
desolation unto the hearthstone Of any man, but it
behooves me in my dying hour, that there are those
yet living there are those {waving his right hand
toward the Court H0use) who have testified
against james P. Denneily by periurinQ themselves
WHO have petjured themselves most fouIly in the
sight of God. 1 have ne animosity, no spirit Of re-
venge to crafty against any one. Everything 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 atonement. | feel that any car-
poral, physical suffering that l may endure will be
put q drop in the ocean, a pebble upon the sea-shore.
Ii my past lie has been spent in sin | have this day
received the holy sacrament and have placed my trust
in Christ. feel that there is happiness in store for
me. God, the Judge knows me, for to him | have
anburdened my soul, showed him theinraoat rucesses
OF my heart, tnat am not guilty of the murder i'm
puted to me (here placing his hand upon the should
ers of the priest who supported him. he knows that
| am not afraid to meethim. But / am not indif-
ferent to my awful position--I am not callous. l(lfere
he becams theatrical. On the one side | see he'll, with
It's gaping gates ready to receive me, i'll utter a false
hood; on the0ther hand see thed0ors of Heaven those
realms of grace guarded by the angelic host, and
my poor sainted mother pushing aside the cur
ta1ns, and opening the door to receive her poor son.
Here he was much affected. There is no bitterness
no danger, no anger inthat future state. / know my
position, and the reality of that position. I~appre-
ciate the infinite justice as well as the Infinite mer-
cy OF God, and trembling for other sins, for this l
am fully exculpated in the sight of God. "a pause,
and he resumed with more iirmness.
In the latter part Of March | left my fathers
home and came to New York, proposing TO change
my position IN life. | 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 dreadful thing betel
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 l do not
show you that am innocent, it will be because you
are prejudiced, and cannot be moved by the truth.
William NJ. Smith, the proprietor Of the Sea View
House will ultimaty stand before his God with the
brand of perjury upon his brow, more certain than
that of Cain. have a few questions to put to that
man he can never answer them to my satisfaction,
but he may to that of my friends. / am not carried
away hy the raaIitioa of mn uocifion aud DAD
knows it is a terrible one.
But l have some qestions to put which that man
must answer before he leaves this world. In the
passage-inthe west passage OF the Sea View House
were bloody foot tracks-tracks of a bloody foot:
DOnnelly, the alleged assassin; convicted, and to die,
for the murder, is proved to have hadson a slipper
that morning. Albert S. Moses aaFer was in chat
passage in his bare feet that morning. Who do we
know, according to his own confession, was there
in that passage IN his shirt and pants that morn
morning. Wiliam M. Smith,
4 Perhaps it is wrong for me--yet IAeuld mt wrong
any man but dc it only for the sske of my friends.
When that fearful outcry of murder was heard that
fearful morning, Donnelly stood in the passage alone,
saw the form OF the murdered man rushing through
SShee Ras#aaGfae b SAY. ime fall in tue hall ap tia let # hit
who else was in that passage9 Why're came there
[ don't know. What he came there for / don't say.
out God knows, / don't want to attribute anything
unjustly Dennelly saw the man fall-it was natural
to say, "The man is dead! !" If nothing was known
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passage to come to that room? Somebody else was
in the house. There were a great many others, but
Donnelly, poor Donnelly, alone saw that man fall on
his back, apparently never to rise again.
1t is due to the testimony of that most es-
Unable lady, Mrs. Judge Bradford, although cav
lied at in this Courtroom it was the most truthful
testimony given on that trial. 1t is due to her that l
give her the need of praise she deserves. She did
what / asked others to do-did not trust to her mem
ory,.but put down in black and white the convictions
of the moment as to what occurred there that morn
ing, and came here to tell it frankly, and without its
being tortured and perverted by lawyers technic-
~alities, that would have damned any man in a con-
ditlon similar to mine. Any other man who had seen
Moses as | saw him that morning, would he not have
done as Ibid, and been judged as 1 was
James 7. D0nnelly, upon the morning OF the LIST of
August, according to the evidence, was dressed in a
suit of light clothes. Hehad on a coat of slate col
er, the shirt and the pants white. and no vest
The room in which that man was injured, was,
| presume, about nine feet deep, and some five
or six feet in width; it was a little, narrow,
dark bedroom. The only light reflected in that
room came through a window and door in an adj
Joining 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 0 flight, not a ray Of sun ever reached
that room until ID P. NJ. When D0nnelly entered
that room that morning, some twenty-five minutes
after that outcry, on the oath of a dying man, it was
just as much as Donnelly could do to see. AlbertS..
Moses, when l Went IN and opened that door, to give
himlight, said, els that Donnelly IN l said it was.
He said, grinding his teeth-"Oh, you son of a b-i
| wish to the Lord Jesus Christ had a pistol to
shoot you. Why have you done this2' On the oath
of a dying man, these were the words which Moses
spoke. l turned to call for help and thereswas no
light in that room to distinguish any one. 1t was
as much as l could do to see. / stepped to his bed
side, and, reaching over him, begged and implored
him to say that it was not true. The only other per-
son there then was the German barber, He asked
me what he should do, and / told him to get some
court plaster, and needles and thread. I ran to my
room, as / had on white clothes, / took them off,
lest they should be spotted with blood, and thus
fix the dreadful charge which Moses had made upon
me, and put on dark clothes. There was no blood
on py clothes, yet everything in the room was bloody.
When went back there, l asked the magistrate to
swear Moses, for | felt that my poor bones would
rattle in my grave if / died under such an imputa
ton. The case was a desperate one, but ] metI It
and brought the man back to consciousness 30 that
he was enabled to make the statements which have
brought me here. (In this part Of the address, Dom
nelly was vehement.) / brought the man back to
consciousness. We do not see a man retArn after he
has fed from the scene of murder. Would one of
you, if you had killed a man, return to bring him back
to consciousness to give testimony and convict your
Was it natural for 4 man cturn back who had COM
mitted a crime like that, and assist a man he had
injured 2 When three doctors came. nothing was
done for want OF a slmple instrument to take up the
arteries. | closed the wounds, and washed the
poor fellows wounds several times. and then God
brought him back to life. I kept him alivefor two
hours; his life, as long as he did live, next to God,
was due to Donnelly. | kept him alive two hours,
hoping he would say something. Didn't he say il?
AS payment for the repeated attempts of Donnelly
Ito revive him, Moses said the first thing l knew in
the morning | was stabbed in the throat. and on
waking up, caught Donnelly. struggled with me
fought him, followed him down the passage to the
| head of the stairs, and then returned to his room y
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