The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-04

N''~SS~Nt F'iSSfN' 80 '''N''S'
THE SENTENCE.
'fYOu, Albert W. Hicks otherwise William John
ston, have been indicted by the Grand Jury for this
district for robbery and piracy upon the high
Y GU have had patient and fair trial before
honest jury of your country. You have been
defended by able counsel with great fidelity but
found guilty This evidence against you was so
strong, clear, and conclusive, that no one who
heard it could doubt the correctness of the verdict.
The evidence also established, beyond moral
rational doubt, that in order to accomplish the
robbery you guilty of triple murder. That,
to enable you to possess yourself of the palry sum
of $3.50 in money and some clothing not your own,
you, the first officer of the sloop in which you
sailed, as she proceeding to sea, in the stiffness
of the night, and under its cover, in Geld blood,
and without proVocation, murdered three innocent,
notfensive persons, and threw them in the sea- and
the next morning attempted to escape with your
blood stained plumber. But the finger of Proyi-
dence seems to have followed you and pointed YOU
out to the guardians of the law. You were pur-
sued, arrested, and most of your ill-gotten gains
found upon you, and identified, by the most unmis-
taxable evidence as the property and clothing of
the missing and-as it appeared on your trial
murdered men. The annals of crime present few
cases OF greater atrocy and horror than this most
inhuman and revolving violation of the laws of
your country and of the Great Ruler of the Uni
verse, for which you must justly pay the for
felt of your life. The crime is Of such an aggra-
waited character, and your guilt so certain and in
contestible, that you must not hope anything from
Executive clemency. The Court, therefore, would
urge you to earnestly and sincerely devote the
little time that may yet remain to you of life to re-
pentance and preparing to meet your last and final
Judge. The sentence OF the law and the Court is,
that you be taken from this place to the prison
whence you came, there kept in close confinement
until Friday, the 18th of July next and on that day
be taken thence to Elliss Island or to Bedow's
Island in the Bay, the Marshal for this District
may elect, and between the hours of 10 in the NOR
ming and 3 in the afternoon, be hung by the neck
until you are dead" The prisoner heard the SEN
tence unmoved. At the conclusion of the Judges
remarks, he was removed by the Marshal
SAILING OF AN ARcTIo EXPEDITION bark
George Henry, Capt. S. o. Buddington, and the
schooner Amaret, tender to the George Henry.
formerly the Rescue, of the Grnnel. expedition,
sailed from New London, Connecticut, on Tuesday
morning A letter says:
s"The George Henry conveys Mr. G. f. Hall and
Cud-la-ia.ah, his EsquimauX guide, with the boat,
sledge, and outfits, to the Arctic ocean. Mr.. Hall
will probably leave the vessel at Sussex Island
where he will probably procure boats crew of
Esquimaux, and from thence proceed to survey
portion of the UNEMPLOYED region lying between
Cape Willoughby and the entrance to Fury and
Hecla Strait; passing through the strait to Boothia
and King Williams Land, where he expects to ob-
tain additional particulars relating to the fate of
Sir John Franklin. 1t will be remembered that at
this place Capt. McClintock found several relics of
the Inflated expedition under the command of Sir