The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-04-26
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Hroa shs New York frsbane.
Customs beget words. In the Sou
/. West. where revolyers and bowic>knives
worn - gracefully ~ paletots or neck-t
= quarrel seething up 70 the murder point
nte murder thrown in-is - difficulty. =
: This, however, 10 clearly An abuse Of tern
icr nothing 10 90 easy a. disembraining
disemboweling man when the weapons
+ 20 handy. Suppose they dub this special
OF the Sunny South - facility" Would
not read well 70 cay that that'.a facility occr
} rcd between General Stump and Sena,
Lump, in which the former stabbed the /,
tor, and the latter shot the former, each mo
tally r We leave out particulars a. to &
arms, the weapons being Of course elegant
understood.
But taking the crimson vocabulary "a
stands, we learn from The Weekly Gazet
and Comet Of Sunday morning, April 3. 1855
and of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that diff
Guilty occurred there, ending with only or
death-as it appears the dead man ma
no opportunity Of returning the compliment
The survivor is Mr.. j. F. Moor the gentle
man who was revolved into the next worl
was MIR. g. O. Duruy. The Comet. h
brandishing its Sunday tail, reveals the 70
lowing nebulosities on this subject III,
Moor had been out to dine. Now dinners ar
poultices to the mind. They relieve tn
morally acrid and the intellectually acrid
They are the bonnie bouche of diplomacy
and the sudciter in modo materialized, of tn,
peace-maker. Men love their neighbors a,
themselves at dinner A drive after Dime,
is the gliding to the refined gold. Happy
ne who can dine and drive. But Mr.. Dupuv.
according to The Comet, was not happy. f.,
ne got into an alteration with MIR. Moor
both gentlemen in buggies. Buggy No. 3
hred into Buggy No. l. Buggy No. tried
to escape, but was several times fred into
and finally dispatched by Buggy No. q
Dispatched finally and @sthetically by beinc
stabbed twice; the revolvers' wounds not
Immediately effecting their purpose. These
facts The Comet says, were iudiciallv estab-
lished, and not controversial
Alter such an expose Of the business, all
that remains 10 an account of the trial The
accused had two lawyers, the Hon. A. s.
Heron and A. NJ. Dunn, esq. ard our old
friend OF hidalge memories and Cuban glo-
rles, the Hon. Pierre Soule, was employed
% aid the District Attorney, j. D. Stuart, ESQ.
Inc Comet mentions noticeable fact, that,
m reference to prosecutions for capital often
'es, an alarming want of public confidence
n laws and courts Of justice is shown by the
employment Of additional counsel to aid the
Prosecuting attorney for though it may not
prlng from private motives of revenge, but a |
esire to have public justice administered,
always awakens sympathy in the mind
Or the prisoner. going far to defeat the end
esired. The Comet assails great criminal
swyers as accessories to crime, and saws we
lust return to the primitive forms of trial by
ury or abolish it altogether. "Where is
ne murdered man-where the criminal
le weapon Of death-the witnesses ofthe
ced? This is all the Jury wants Honest
eople, with common sense, discriminate
etween right and wrong, SO express them.
lives daily" The peribelion of that Comet
lght to go farther north
The Comet also mentions q number of Ia.
les who attended the trial. 1t is dubious
neither to say they ''graced or honored" the
Ourt-rOom. 1t teaches them that thew sho'd
'e governed by no Northern or Eastern
shions." We think-nay, we timely in.
nuate-that there is no danger of this; for,
the gentlemen have the manners of the ,
7elfth century, spite of all the amenities and :
lprovements of the nineteenth, the ladies
i'll imblbe the spirit of the society about
EN-. Sweet Comet, don't hint that ladies 90 /.
the murder trials here. They 90 to Stew !.
is. which is one block above the Court
uses-nO lower down upon our veracity. .
But now comes the termination. The jury /.
manned out three hours, and then like !,
Cd fellows returned verdict of Not i
'ilty. The applause which followed this t
nouncement was promptly checked by o
dge Beale, and one of the effervescing u
ntlemen, NJ. Louis Sanchez, was arrested, S
sent to prison for twenty-four hours c
Their hard, this. Here is NJ Sanchez en- a
nbed for day and night for merely ap- Ia
wing OF Southern justice-for merely say q
that the jury were right In deciding that
man in one buggy may shoot and then b
. and kill another man in another buggy. 81
The affair, moreover was illustrated by an pr
Ter Brutus scene. Mr.. Moor, senior, was cl
principal witness against Mr.. Moor, jun 81
''ln the struggle between flial (pater- p'
p affection and his duty, he come off p
'ly as the Roman To such crushing "
Its do young gentlemen who sport revolv- W
and bowie-kniyes reduce the pater-fam- '"
$. But the Dreaming joy of the citizens
not reached by applause simply. Can. OF
. "OtS AAVA' AHV UCICuluS lLTOdLS Oh |
ty-two.pounders roared fourth their ecsta- w.
It the result-thc innocence and beauty In
hooting and stabbing III
inally, when Night colored goddess, had SCI
ped Baton Rouge in her gentle gloom in
n the star dimpled heavens revealed
r glories; when the passion and pertu- We
on of the day Of sadness and terror were GU
;, and the soft poetry of the soul had its de-
y, then band of serenaders assem- an
in all their suavity and soonority, and in
naded the-Jury Serenaded the glo- to
8 twelve, who, after three hours incu- do
on, brought forth the verdict then a lF
Q firing, and a tiercer stabbing, ola man
,g to escape, is as innocent as the no
b of infancy or the breath of Spring. ant
e Jury in the case of The State VS.. j. +. EN-
re desire" through The Comet, ITO ex- the
3 their thanks to those citizens of Baton an
&c who were kind enough to relieve a." 10,
swhat the monotony of their situation by s e..
'enade on Sunday night" 49,. =
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