Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-07-14
Case of DIR. D0y.-Mios0urf jus.

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The second trial of Dr.. John Doy, at Sd
Joseph, on the charge of abducting slaves
from Missouri, resulted in his conviction
and sentenced to the Penitentisry fos i've
years. Execution of the sentence sus-
pended for thirty days, to allow questions
of new trial to be argued before tho Su-
preme Court.
1t is stated that when the second jury
when out first, they stood seven for con-
viction, and fee for acquital. The jury
came in three times, and reported inability
to agree. They were sent back each time.
An immense outside influence was brought
bear, and after thirty-six hours the jury
brought in verdict of guilty. The Judge
made the following new ruling against the
prisoner, which shows him to be fully quail
fled for seat with any Jeffreys Court un-
der the Fugitive Act. Beldon and Wilson
will find the Missouri precedent conve-
nient one in pursuing the remaining Ober-
lin prisoners. The belief of the accused, and
statements of what he has done and would
do, are as good to convict abolitionists on
in Ohio as IN Missouri. Tho St. Louis
Journal says of the ruling the case of DR..
Doy. a-ee--
aThe State had from the Court an In
struction which it had not at the previous
trial. 1t was in substance that the Jury
might infer guilt from circumstances. This
together with Dogs confession while i'm
prisoned at Weston, to wit: That he be-
iieved he was serving both the laws
of God and his country when engaged in
assisting slaves in making their escape from
their masters, and that be had been enga-
red in the business before, and if acquitted
he would engage in it again with more en-
ergy than ever, also memorenda for sur
vey ~ for u. g. R. R. found on his person,
and other circumstances elected from wit
nesses when coming in conjunction with the
above instances, was considered too strong
evidence for the jury to find ayerdict of ac-
quital. Tis'a. 81 {, -
The case of DR.. Doy is an exceedingly
hard one. The charge was that he enticed
the slave Dick from Missouri. The evl-
dence failed to show that DR.. Doy was ev-
er in the State of Missouri, while it was
conclusively proved that Dick left the State
provided with pass from his master, al
lowing him to do so, and that DR.. Doy
never saw him until be reached Lawrence,
in Kansas. DR.. D. was seized in Kansas
without process of law, and taken BY vio-
lence to Missouri, thrown into loathsome
cell and kept there some months, has been
twice tried and at last convicted for crime
which, if committed at all, was committed
in Kansas. The st. Joseph correspon-
dent of the st. Louis Democrat writes:
"The whole transaction is a libel upon
the freedom of an American citizen, IN
open violation of justice, and only paral-
leled by the English state trials in Ireland.
If the Supreme Court of Missouri does
not grant new trial, they deserve the ex-
ecration of every honest heart and unpre-
iudieed man; but cannot think the high
est court of any State could be guilty Of
so great injustice as TO refuse new trial,
with the features of this case fairly before
them.
The citizens of Kansas feel justly indig-
nani, and if Doy goes to jefferson CITY,
slave property on the border will be more
unsafe than ever. This trial, if adverse in
its results, will breed more underground
Railroads than the mere sight of slavery
could in ten years.