Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-02
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MONDAY, JULY .. 1866.
CITY NEWS.
THE DEATH SENTENCE!
MOtiOn for the New Trial of
Alexander Mcconnell, the
Murderer Of Rosa Col
vim, OVerruled.
DEPARTMENT OFTHE PRISONER
TO BE HUNG AUGUST 10Th.

The Court Of Common Pleas, Judge Foote
presiding, convened Saturday morning at
nine o'clock, when a motion for a new trialin
the case of Alexander Mcdonnell was filed
by his Counsel. The motion was ftly
argued by Messrs. C. W. Palmer and L. f.
Knight, Counsel for the prisoner, and re-
piled to by Messrs. Castle and Slade for
the State. Judge Foote most ably reviewed
the matter in all its bearing, plainly and
pointe dly giving his reasons why the mo-
ton should be o~verruled, stating that after
very mature deliberation he had no hest
fancy in saying that he was satisfied with
the verdict rendered by the Jury.
Immediately after the overruling, on mo-
ton of the Prosecuting Attorney, the Court
ordered the prisoner to stand up. McCOn-
nell rose with that same stolid indifference
with which he had regarded almost the
whole course of his trial and without the
least visible emotion or trepidation, gazed
upon the Judge in a sort of vacant, half
idiotic stare. Mcconnell having signiied
previously mis- desire to make no remarks, |
Judge Foote solemnly proceeded to pro-
nounce the following sentence:
:" now propose to pronounce upon you
the sentence which the law requires to be
pronounced in your case. / wish to say no
more in reference to Your case than I have
said in your hearing, in disposing of the
motion for a new trial. You nave mad a
fair, patient and impartial trial and you
have no one 10 blame for the result but
yourself and no reasonable regrets there
for, save from your own luiseonducJ'
allure you to prepare TO meet the result of
your trial, which ] now announce 10 you
Ii Is the sentence Of the law that Won, Alex
ander Mcconnell, be taken from this place
TO the jail of the county that you be
therein kept in close confinement by the
sheriff thereof until the 10th day of August
A. d. 1850 and that between the hours OF
ten o'clock in the forenoon and two o'clock
in the afternoon of said day, you be hung
by the neck until you be dead-and may
God have mercy on you"
During the passing of the sentence, the
prisoners sister an unmarried woman of
about forty years sat at one side within the
weeping bitterly, but from Neon
nell there came no sign Of contrilion, no
emotion, no feeling. The prisoner was re-
conducted to the jail by the Sheriff. On
dow the steps of the Court House
le met his sister; and, seeing her in tears, be
for moment touched with feeling, as it
we're a sting from an expiring conscience, f,
md wept. 1t was but a moment, and then
anne back and settled upon his features the ,
bed look " and it stayed there. |
He was locked up in the eonyict's cell, !
nd his sister, after being searched, was per >
ed to visit him. Whether he will confess !
r not is impossible to guess. Thus ends s
he trial, conviction and sentence of the !
perpetrator Of the greatest cri,ue
. a. L-.-0r tho Land.