New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-06-15
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE Is, 1860.

the jury to qualify their verdict by adding thereto
without capital punishment. And whenever
the jury shall return verdict qualified as afore-
said, the person convicted shall be sentenced to
hard labor for life in the State Penitentiary."
In this case, the jury, believing that Justice and
public policy demanded the severer example, re-
turned an unqualified verdict of guilty-the doom
of death.
Eugene Adams, tile act which has brought you
to your present deplorable condition, was commit
ted while you were laborng under the pernicious
excitement Of liquor. creature OF mere impulse
of wild and reckless temper, unchastened by the
restraints of moral discipline and of religious edu
cation you were transported, without any reason
able cause, into frenzy of rage, a demonac fury
and took away the life Of an unofiAding citizen
For this atrocious wrong your life has been de-
clared forfeited by the laws OF your country.
Unhappy young man May your melancholy
fate to teach Others the necessity Of restrain
ing their evil passions and OF ahstainng from an
excessive indulgence IN the use Of splFituous
liquors, the most fruitful source of crime And
may it especially impress on parents and other
guardians the duty Of intoxicating on the minds OF
youth the great precepts of Christian love, and OF
guiding them in the paths of law aud righteous.
ness. IT, Ii
Eugene Adams, the life Of man is naturally short,
but yours has been contracted by crime to still
briefer period In a few days your mortal exist
ence will terminate, and you will stand in judS-
ment for the deeds done ID the body before just
| and offended God. Use the precious moments
that remain to you to obtain religious instruction,
| and endeavof through faith and penitence to se-
| cure the pardon of Heaven. He who is all power
fu is also all merciful and He has declared to those
who. however grievonsly they have erred, yet sim
cerely believe and repent that " though their sins
be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow" Hum
| BILE yourself, then, before God. On your return to
prison, send for some holy minister Of the gospel,
/ and seek, with his pious aid, to become wise unto
| salvation. Do not delude yourself with the false
| hope Of pardon from the Governor, nor surren-
der up yourself to the consideration Of things OF
this world, but devote yourself entirely to prep
4 aration for the immortal change of estate which
| awaits you. And may God Almighty enlghten
| your understanding and purify your heart and
through the merits of Him who died to save sin
ners, receive yon into his blessed favor.
! As the organ of the law, the Court will now pro-
| ceed to pass its sentence upon yon
| In consideration of the verdict Of the jury find
1 ing you guilty of the crime of murder and OF the
| Ist section Of an act of the Legislature of this
State entitled can act relative to crimes and often
ses,n approved March IA, 1886, afixing the pun
ishinent of death to said crime you, Eugene Pope
alias Adams are hereby sentenced to suffer death
and it is ordered that this punishment be inflicted
upon you by hanging you by the neck until you be
| dead: and that this sentence be executed by the
Sheriff of the parish of Orleans, within the walls
| Of the Parish Prison, such day and at sucl
hour as the Governor of the State Of Louisiana il
his warrant shall direct and it is further ordered
| that you be remanded to prison whence you came
Il there to be kept in safe custody.
I And may God Almighty, of His infinite goodness
have mercy upon your soul.
The sentence being concluded, the doomed mar
talked and smiled agreeably and famliarly to thost
around him, and on his way back to prison sait
that he had prepared himself for his fate, anc
would die like man.
Il H. A. RozentIal was examined on one of tn
charges against him, of obtaining money unde
false pretences. He was found guilty.