The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1861-11-29

be crowd and upon inqairiuo> wha, was
the matter was Informed lat A>S'z-s were
btiup held, and that an Interesting nur
der case" was going on. Nv CURIOSITY
WAS reused turned into the court house
and meeting an acquaintance who fortu-
ratev happened to be a man in authority
was intro iuced to the court, and hcco,n
modated with a seat 7si ael4J y '@'1 -"5 p
The prisoner al the bar, who was arcus
ed ofrobbing and numbering poor conn
try GIRL, was a man Of low, slight s'aure,
with a coarse. bruitish cast of feature,
rendered peculiarly striking by their
strangely sinisfered expression.
As his small bright ewes wandered fur
lively round the court they met mine. and
for an instant rested upon me. | ~hrank
invoIun ariIy from his gaze, AS | would
from that of some loathsnme reptile, and
kept nv ewes steadily ea from him.
till the end of the trial, which had been
nearly concluded the previous evening
The evidence, as summed by the Julge.
was principally ercurnstantial, ths'gh ap
parentlv overwhelming in its narnle Ia
spite Of his counsel's really excellent de
fence, the jury, unhesits,iusiy, touud hun
guilty" -.........s. ..r-
The Judge, before passing sentence,
asked the prisoner, as usual if he had any
thing further to say why sentence Of death
Should OF be passed upon him.
The unfortunate man, in an eager, ex-
cited manner, emphatica!ly denied his
guilt-declared th&s lie was all honest,
hard king, travelling glazier-that he
was at Bristol, many miles from the scene
of murder on the day of its commission
and that he knew no more about it than "A
babe unborn. When asked why be had
not brought forward this line of defence
during the trial. he declared that he had
wished it, but, that the gentleman who
had conducted his defense had refused to
DO so ..n
His counsel, in few words of expIana
ton, stated that, although lie had every
reason to believe the story told by the
prisoner, lie had been forced to confine
his endeayors to circumstantial evidence
in his behalf to breaking down the circum-
stantial evidence for the Irosecution-
that most minute and searching inquiries
had been male at Bristol, but from the
short time the prisoner had passed in that
town (some three or four hours), and from
the heightened period which had elapsed
sjnce tl9 murder he had been unable to
find witnesses who could Satisfactorily
have proved An aii5i and had therefore
beet forced 10 rely on the weakness Of The
evidence proiuced by the prosecu;ion.-
Sentence of death was passed upon the
prisoner. who was removed from the bar
loudly ana pefs'sIeh''y oeclaf'h9 us "f, ihho N.
rence.
l lett the court PalniuiIy impressed
win lne c'h''euo'' 'ia' he was innocent
ITO i'ass'o''"'e ea'"eS' he>S VIZ" WHICH he
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