New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-09
Law INTELLIGENCE.
CASE OFJAMRS GLASS.

Jsines Glass and that sentences would be passed on
the criminals con sicted durag the present term.
The Jury cane in u, l0 O'Clock and received further
instruction from the Judge in relation TO the value Of
Testimony given by accomplices after which they
again retired.
Al noon. the prisoners who had been convicted
during the term. were brought into Court for sen
teuce. Judges Alleo, Pratt, Ingraham, Russell snd
Davies. occupied the Bench.
oU!MBO AFRO, THE CHiNAMAN, >ESTESckD To
BE HUNG.
Quimbo Apo, the young Chinaman, who was
convicted OF the murder Of Mrs. Mary +. Fletcher. IN
Oliver street, by stabbing her with a drk-knfe, was
arraigned. and. on being ntercgated by the Clerk
why Judgment should not be pronounced on him ac-
cording 10 law, said: That day came to supper
and have no, got no supper. All those woman III
the house was drunk. one woman called me
China niger. ana said have no right to scold my
wife. told them to get out Of my house. Another
woman catched hold OF my head; another beat me on
the floor. and another took small iron and beat me
on the arm. They all beat NE. had some blood on
NY mouth
Judge-Quimbo Apo, you were indicted by the
Grand Jury for the murder of Mary +. Fletcher. To
that indictment you pleaded not guilty and put your
self Jury Of your country for trial. that jury has
carefully considered the testimony ard found you
guilty of the crime with which you were charged.
Mn Fletcher had been very kind to you; when you
came bone aud found no dinner ready, she very
kindly gave you and your wife a dinner at her own
table. You returned again in the evening and took
her life. There is justification for the crime which
You have committed You took the life of a female
in the absence of any male protector in the house.
The Jury doubtless, regarding your helpless condl-
tion-that you were stranger in strange land, and
has no friend, to stand by you in this your hour of
necessity-recomme nj YOU to the mercy of the Court.
This Court is not the tribunal to which you can APP
peal for uercy-t has no discretion but to pronounce
tt uds ment whlch the law has fixed to the crime
of y hich you have been found guilt, by the Jury.
and if you desire any alienation from that verdict,
the Executive Of the State is the only source 10 which
you can apply. IL becomes. therefore, my duty to
pronounce upon you the sentence which the law CONF
nands II is that you be taken to the City Prison,
and be there confined till Saturday, the I'd of Jny
next and on that day, between clock in the fore
noon and ) clock in the afternoon, you be hanged
BY the neck until you dead and may God,
through the merits Of His Son. havs mercy ou your
SOUL
The death warrant was read by the Clerk. and the
prisoner who seemed struggling with inward emo
tiOr, was conducted back to his seat.
SENTENCE or JEAN BOsQUET, THE MURDERER.
Jean Bosquet the ugly looking Italian, yclipt the
"man-monkey," was anagned for sentence on u plea
of mapslaughter in the first degree, for killing Matino
de SaDtes.
In answer to the Clerk. he said he had nothing TO
any why judgment should nst be pronounced upon
him.
The ,Judge-Jean Bosquet You were indicted for the
crime of murder, in taking the life of Maltino de
Santes. The District Attorney on your arrangement,
by the advice of the Court and upon the alleged
ground that doubt existed to your sanity at the
time OF the commission of thiS crime, received from
YOU plea Of manslaughter in the first degree. The
circumstance disclosed after YOU confined III the
City Prison Of violent and brutal attack upon one
of your ellOwprsoners, satisfy the Cont ths II ~ ts
duty to sentence YOU for the longest term which the
statute allows for the crime Of which you pleaded
gully. The sentence of the Court therefore, is, that
you De confined in the State Prison at hard labor
during the term Of your natural life.
SENTENCE OF MICHAEL FLYNN FOR MAN
SLAUGHTER.
Michael Flynn, who was convicted Of manslaughte
in the first degree for stabbing Freeman Cutting in
Roosevelt street, was next arraigued.
In reply to the usual interrogatory of the clerk,
the prisoner said:
- am placed here for the crime OF manslaughter.
am innocent in the sight of God Of having any iuon
ton Of taking that mans life. Tie treated me In
cruel aud brutal manner and the Court and any other
gentleman IN this Court would have acted rs did.
stand here condemned for protecting my own life IN my
own house"
The Judge.-Michael Flynn by the verdict of the
Jury you have been found guilty of the crime of
slaug liter IN the first degree. SGch verdict author
ICES the Cont 70 mprison you for the term OF your
natural life, or for lesser term. The Count has not
been unnindful Of the circumstances to which you
have alluded. Though not Justification of the crime
which you have committed, il may act rs an alienation
of the punishment, The taking of human life is a
serious thing. Where it Is taken with premedtated
design, the life Of the person taking il is forfeited
Considering the circumstances OF your case the Court
is satisfied that the ends OF public justice will be served
by mitigation Of your punishment. The sentence Of
the Court that you be confined IN the State Prison ut
hard labor for the term of ten years.
THE ELM STREET MUGDER-sENTENCEs OF JOHN
GLASS AND JAMES HIGGINS.
John Glass convicted of mansaughter in the first
degree, for killing William Decker, in Elm street. ON
the 18th OF January last, arragned and the
usual question WEE put to him by Mr.. Vaadervoort.
He replied in loud bold voice:
What am now going to say ia truth-State's
evidence or no States evidence stand here with
my hands unstaned with either of those murders.
That's all.
The JUDGE-John Glass you were indicted for the
murder If " lliam Decker az No. II Elm street, ~
ths city. Upon the trial Of that indictment the jury
found you guilty Of nahslaughter in the first degree.
The Court, from information which it has re-
ceiyed since your trial, IL 10, ouy satlshed that
you were net gull y Of the crime Of murder,
but that the verdict Of the jury in that regard was
strictly correct. IL appeared your ral and on the
trial C the otLeTr connected with the same transecton,
that You with three or -four Others, were engage' III
most dsreputabie rotguty Of breaches OF the peace,
and which alleged riot resulted in the killing OF the
heads of two families Two lives were lost and Others
nipeiied by that riot. The Court thinks, under the
circumstance, that the ends OF justice viii be ,ui
GENTLY answered by melting out TO you the utmost
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