The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-14
BALTIMORE.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY IA, 1859.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY IA, 1859.
The fate of the murderers of police officer RIG
DON is now, We presume finally sealed. The
death-warrant of one of the wretched men has al
ready, it appears, been issued, and the contem-
plated application of the other to the Appellate
tribunal for reversal of the Judgment of the Cir
cult Court, must, we take it for granted be re-
garded, on all hands, as more than desperate. In
case which involves the lives of two human
beings, it is fortunate that there should be no
reasonable doubt, upon the mind of any one, as
to the fulness and fairness of their trial, or the
justice of the sentence which condemns them TO
the scafold. If ever an occasion existed, when
the majesty of the law should be vindicated at all
hazards, every right-thinking man must feel that
such an occasion is before u.s. and the stern fidelity
with which the Chief Magistrate of the State has
thus far resisted appeals, of no ordinary character,
to his political and personal sympathies, under
similar circumstances, has infused into the COM
munity novel and growing confidence in the
vigorous administration of justice. Already men
begin to breathe freely in the hope that a new
order of things is at hand, and that the time has
gone by when riot and murder could stalk our
streets, not only UNPUBLISHED, but triumphant and
supreme. We trust that there is real foundation
for this hopeful feeling as to the future We
would gladly contribute to its realization, by
pointing the public attention to some of the useful
lessons of the past and especially in connection
with the sickenng tragedy whose actors are now
drawing near to their account
Our readers may possibly remember that we
published, some months since, with editorial COM
ments, the following advertisement taken from the
columns of The Baltimore Clipper, of November
10Th, 1853. 1t is worth repeating, for the moral
that goes with it:
Sc A II A MEETING OF THE AMERI-
n CAN CLUB CONVENTION, held on last evening
1.-THE isth,) the following preamble and resolutions
unanimously adopted:
Whereas the American Club Convention being amply
impressed with the necessity and Importance of sustaining
our Honorable Mayor in his praiseworthy efforts pre-
the peace and good of city And whereas
Association arroganty styling themselves 'Cty Re-
form Association having for their object the peser
the control of matters into their rebeous hands and
by their mpudent invitation for the formation of similar
incenday associations in the several wards the city,
setting an example of INSTRUMENTATION and lawessness
therefore
Resolred That We the american Club Convention of
the city of Baltimore, dscountenance this movement
the of those would be subversye of the
good order OF awleSsness
the part of the viciously disposed.
Resolved, That all the measures instituted by
orable Mayor for the continued peace and prosperity Of
Baltimore, pledge him. law abiding and
citizens, cordial and undivided support.
Resolved That the foregoing resolutions be published
GREGORY BARRETT, President
R. B. EVANS Secretary"
Among the reported proceedings upon the trial
of MARION Crops, we find the following:
MR. ATKINSON RECALLED
Mr.. Cuttings having received from Mr.. Atkinson the
letter, read 1t to the jury as follows
FEIEND GREG-I wish you would come over and See me
and etme ao,O actot you going to do for me ex-
pect to out in the county every day. and would like
very much to see You before out oiSh you scoud
try and get pistol Ike the that found also
see about getting the witnesses for have not any
body at all, and do not know what to do. acish you
ood find out ohetler the boys going to stick up for
time ago DO yon think will stand any sho,o or do
you think had better try and get out If the Inter-
dframe and goa get the blades 10 TT it. Come over
soon No more at present, but give my lore to all he e
tows. Yours, &c.
GREG-I wish you would come over here; want to sec
you as understand there is talk going about
which do not altogether like. should like to you
in person BY complying with this request, you will
fer favor on Your most obedent,
L. A. OBRrEN.
By The State-Q You say that letter was handed to
you by the prisoner at the bar.
A. Yes sir, and the next day he questioned me very
closely as to whether had delivered it, know Gregory
Barrett, but cannot say whether he before
afterwards.
By Defence-There in the Jail at the same
time named Lewis OBrien, confined in the cell with
Marion Cropps.'
Mr.. CLANCY was then examined
"Witness is deputy warden at the jail.
By Stdte-Q. Was there any personal examination OF
Crops in the Jail, and did you find anything his per
A In No cell, where Crops was confined we found
in coat hanging up on the wall, which Crops
Objected to by Mr. whyte but decided admissible by
the Court
A found in coat hanging on the wall two iron saw
pocket exhibited TO the jury frames for
IRON about twelve inches the other about
eight lnches The sleeve was pinned up, and the large
frame was in it, asked Crops if it his coat, and
he said it was, but denied all knowledge of the
frames.
O. Was the search made before after the letter
intercepted
A. The was searched before had any knowledge
O. Do you knou Gregory Barret2
Barrett freonendy visited Crops ie asked for him and
aoent to the acindGtc and talked Nth him
By the Defence-Q. Is Gregory Barrett deputy
A Not that erer heard; Iheard that he ,oas super
intendent in the aceauing department."
We design to waste no argument upon the plain
story which the proceedings, thus copied, disclose.
The respectable President of the "Amercan Club
Conventions public officer employed in the
Penitentiary-the especial vndcator and champion
of -FOUR Honorable Mayor, in his praseworthy ef-
'torts to preserve the peace and good order of the
"City," in opposition to the Decentralization and
'lawessness' of the Reform Associations neither
more nor less than the ''Friend GREG" of the
interesting epistle produced by Mr.. ATKINSON. The
virtuous gentleman who so Indignantly joins ''the
whom he presides, in 'discountenancng the Re-
form movement, as ''subversive of the good order
'of our city, and incentive to lawlessness on
'the part of the viciously disposed" is, at that
very time visiting and comforting with the muir
derer of RIGDoN, day by day-is sent for by him to
concert means for his escape-s solicited to provide
false witnesses and hunt up fabricated pistol for
his defence in case of the necessity Of trials in
fine, his confidential friend, confederate, adviser
and reliance. The testimony makes all this as clear
as sunshine. But there is more than this. ''Friend
"GREG'' was not only President of the 'CIub
Convention" but of the ''Rp-Rap Club" with
which Crops was affiliated Within the last fort
night-long since the disclosure of the shameful
association with murder, prison-breaking, and con-
templated perjury-whch the extracts we have
given disclose-we have seen his name in the ad-
vertsing columns of The Baltimore Clipper as still
chairman of the Executive Committee of the
"American Club Convention" He is high in
place and honor, with all those lovers of 'he con-
'tinued peace and prosperity of Baltimore Does
any body suppose that they do not know who he
is, and sympathize with what he is? Does any one
imagine that they are any better than he? They
and none other are ''the fellows to whom Crops
desires his Glove" They, and none other, are
''the boys' whom he expects to 'tsticl mp for
''him'-to help 'Friend GREG in whatever that
benevolent individual may be 'going to do for
Chin" They and their President, it is made
manifest beyond peradventure, are and were band
ed together, with CRoPps-it may be, not in the
very connection of the awful crime, which has
brought down the vengeance of the law upon his
guilty head-but in Il conspiracy against all law
and against society, of which that crime was the
result-in the maintenance and perpetuation of
the reign of terror, whose bloody annals have so
long been the history of our city. Would CROPS
have dared to call on them for aid, if he had not
known in advance that he had their sympathy p
Would he have ventured to solicit their assistance,
in the fabrication of perjured defence, if he had
notknown that they were on his side, and the side