The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1862-01-06
THE NEW YORK SUN.
MONDAY MORNING. JANY 6. 1862.



PEELED 10 and did lay bare the secret history of
her life. I, failed 70 be Of any service 70 YOU.
Your co nsel, with zeal fidelity and ability
Which could not bs surpassed, exhausted al
honorable mens to insure your acquttal, but
in vain. No 6uHnan efforts could overcome tho
terrible array u = cts and cir .umstsnces which
were brought TO bear against you. And now
you, yet under Twenty. five years Of are, stand
here convicted murderer, and ~ far a. have
been able to Observe, have a. yet exhibit ted no
sorrow for your crimes. Your sentence which
will be imprisonment and death, will, I hope
cause you to realize your awful situation. You
cannot escape punishment, and in YOUR felon
cell, in the long, weary nights yet 10 come yoa
will, if you have not already done so think
with horror upon the ctime on have committed
and realize with bitter remote the fearful
judgment YOU have brought upon yourself
That you may ere you die, repent an seek
forgiveness of Him who Is ready and willing TO
forgive, Is the sincere prayer of the Judge who
presided at your trial and who now in tho
discharge Of his solemn duty, prorources son-
terce ~ on YOU according to law. The sentence
Of the Court is that you, CHARLES NJ. J,fferds
for tho murder and felony of which you have
been convicted, shall, on Friday the goth
day Of February 1863, between the hours Of
ten in the morning and two in the afternoon,
suffer the punishment Of death, and that you
shall bo confined n bard labor in tho State
Prison until such punishment Of death shall DO
afflicted.
,l,fcr Is did no; cvhbit tho slightest feeling
when the sentence was pronounced, but, on tho
contrary, showed tho same Indifference which
his ccdntcnancc manifested throughout the trial.
Wh,u he took his seat he looked around the
room AM an He'd, and appeared as II no wors
about to 10 released from the hand Of justice and
Law.
sp>rENCr OF pr. iowESuvRa.
Dr. Mo'os lowenbcrr, con, ic,cd OF the mur
der ut Mr. Huffman, wss then placed at the bar
for sentence. Nj. Clin,nu sad thai he had been
requested hY hi3 client TO say that, although
he jury had convicted him Of murder in the
frs degree, he did not contemplate causing the
dCa'h Of the unfortunate d,c,a.d.
lis Honor, IN ec"tc' ing the prisoner, al
dressed him, Va part, thus:
Mos lnEenLorl, you have been indicted,
tried and COW ttcd Of muuict ia the hrs d'gree.
You arc - man of education and your oars are
mature. You have been the instructor Of youth
in the families e. spuis Ut our ilr't citizens, and
YOU have bycn ths ~ ~CCato u gentleman, 10
whom YOU taught Languages, Of VII ch Won arc
'ttd tn I've master. But educl'ion, cNperioUCO
'nd ase c,a'io,s, all c1mhincd, have failed 10
t'tch YOU to Keep under restraint the violence
t tenr'r to which yo1 arc Mia d,y iHdcbt 0
for the ruin which ovrrW helms yOu. You cho.s
10 h' to nv"uCcr Of YOUR own WRONGS NJ Nu,
rorslderrd hem, and nov YOU must suffer 'lr
l,taliN If tn" low.
Tho rii,,nct hrd rr,oiv,d the same sentence
~ ~ IN rusptiIoui nu' tine ut execution, a,
that ot H. iicr's.
Caups,l Irfrrls ard Iowcnhcrg " II pro
cue writ Of ojtor nd tho GAGS will loo taken
20 the Court If Appeals.