Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-21
vs. Poiisseal lPrsssbsrs.,

4 The Democracts 10 Adams County have
q new way OF getting at ttieit opponents 10
The ministry sItiis simply to- Introduce a.
lwomsn in the esses Rev. Mr. otwal !.
% Lu'beran minister ,sot thei Republican,
persuasion, vas charged by O. Miss Walter
with being the. father Of ber child, 4, The
crime swas alleged by the pfosecutrix as
having been committed while Mf, Gotwait
wss connected Win tie Theological Semi
usfy sr @ 0ettysbufghA-,hs be date being posi-
aively fixed iD the beginning otlthes week iu
which the college session closed in April.
1853. lie was. al rested on the charge in
Juue last, and the case. was brought 10
Iaiisl at the last term Of the quarter sessions
10 G ettysburgh. Mr.. Gotwalt Is an earn
Test Republicsn, while Miss Waiter and
her family ars true Democrats her brother
being CLERK 20 the 'Oouimissiopers, aud her
brothe in law an x-Comrnissioners wbott,'
exercising considerable influence inlihe Sc
lection ,ef jurors. BY these influences il 10
charged that every Democrat was prejudi-
ced against, Mr.. ;GotwaIt before. Inc, trial,
ard the list of jurors was manipulated to
lsuit the purposes Of The prosecution. Tbe
jury was composed orc democrats, & three
Rel ubiicsns, ,laldlshs teaimony proddred,
tpruysag that during the three days specified
as 1.-THE period ~ heu abe crime sas commit
ed. siz she 18th, 18th. aud l4lhsof April
1853, ersrather from the .6!hyto the 18th
Of, The month. Nj. :, ,Gotwalt was in Centre
county. many miles away from the society
'Eof the fair proseeutrix, aud also beyond
reasonable cavil That be was it Gettys
burgb but one evening during the entire
month, also where ,he was all Of Mat even
\ iugsud night, aud dso where the plaintiff was
--thus aemally5 accounting for aMe.i Got'
waits absence, during every day and night
of the month 70 and establishing his limo
l|cenee negatively. 10 spite Of this most
convincing and conclusive evidence, howev
Ter, the jury STOOD time for conviction and
three for arqaittai every Democrat voting
dito1couvict aud every Republicans to scquit.
The jury weren fusily discharged. raid ar
lcffsrt is now being made oai iproepe q
change Of venue. on The groupd that lem
ocrslic influence aud prejudice will prevent
the possibility Of 40 impartial trial il
Adams county. q gag 's''@' W.
\ The e6dimit ee or the Synod aappoin. e,
), TO inve.,Va,e" the case hsdoa reporter 4
; stteudslo The trial, and the entireu tesiimo
! lny gtakesddewnBt with tbsa ehargeao -th'
!, court They met juy Baltimore The wees
af,er. and unanimously declared their con
h viction. of. Mr., Golwalt's innocense ant
Recommended that he, be restored 10 hi
ministerial charge; but he asks fair ant
impartial hearing by a jnry Of lis country
man, aud feeling tha. it cannot be bad il
a Adams now. be purposes that the trial b'
trsusferredytef Frankio, Cdmberlaad o
Dauphinl Cumberland isaaas strongl
Democratic as Adams, and has sa Demo
cratic j edge; but be is wiling ioshaye i
tried there. The peculiar ex agencies of u
J. case, and It's Importance, will undoubtsdl
( constrain The Legislature to grant ID
: change OF Venue asked for. The case is o
! Instructive one. as exhibiting the extreu
E 10 which iDsmoerst hale aud malice can
e carried against q political preacher It
o in perfect. accord with the spirit Of d
= Democratic press in that seclon of 4
!, Stale, though prebaps q little le s foul. ;
81 90 S''aI 'H's y'sf oo Erie Dispatch