The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-05-12
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DUNN.

We are favored by II. E. Prickett Deputy Clerk
of the District Court for q copy of the sentence
Of Michael Dunn, convicted at this term of the
court for the crime of murder in the first degree,
for the killing Of Thomas Mckay in March last.
"icbael DUNN you have Eeen lndct ed for the crime
muder by grand jury and your plea thereto was not
guI2sy You have been tried by twelve men selected
from the body of this county, and found guilty of murder
in the first degree Have you any legal cause to show
why judgment should not be pronounced against you
The prisoner replied, 81 have killed Mckay. and the
circumstances connected with lie between myself and
my God not responsible to this tribunal 1t is a
case between me and God and to Him alone am respoE
sible"
The Court then sad at is an awful and responsible
thing to take the life of human being under any cir
cumstances-but when that act shall be committed by
generalization and with malice, the Divine aud human
laws say the punishment shall be deah The life of
every human being is not only and dear to him and
his friends but valuable to society Two months ago.
while the deceased unarmelczen was lesureIy aud
unexpectedly walking along of the streets of this
city, you steppecu from your hiding place. with cooked
and loaded piston and shot him down. and be endeav-
ered nd fee you followed him up and continued
shooting him until he had fallen bank in order
get of your way. Yon walked deliberately the
edge Of the bank and booked down upon your victim and
that you had done your work. and then fled ia order
your life. From the evidence elected upon
your trial. the fouE and brutal of all the muir
ders committed in this county. YOU havehad able coln-
sci and every known effort the law has made in
ysur behalfyour pretended Defense that you had had
previous quarrel with Mckay and threats had passed
only tends to show that the threats and revenge had been
violent your part and finally eliminated in this hor-
rid murder. few days ago. for ought this community
knew your spectacle and ansuspeeted citizen as
any in midst and but for the exhibition of this
secret revenge whchremaned in your breast you might
have SO lived and ded--but how changed The
ignominious punishment which the magnitude of your
ofense requires not only falls upon you but upon Iela
tVes far and near, for all time to come.
You stand before the bar of this Court to answer
the penalty of human tribunalsbut you are about to
pass from this to be uShered into the of that
living and all wise judge at whose bar you will be
again summoned to for the murder Of deceased
weas FOR every evil thought and deed of your whole
life
From the evidence produced on this trial and the pub
lie example which you about to become you are not
alone reminded, but it is warning to all men, that in
all our difficulties with another, how important it is
that We should leave open the door of reconciliation
The longest time which can give yOtA under the
law but brief compared with the great and necessary
preparation which will fit you your last and final
trial admonish you henceforth to devote all your
time and thought to the great work Of preparation and
commend you to the mercy Of that final Judge at whose
bar you must soon appear.
The judgment and sentence ofthis Court is that Won
Michael Dunn be taken hence the Jail of this county
and that you be there confined until Friday the sixth
day OF july 1865 anon that day yoR be taken thence
to such convenient place. in the vicinity of said JAIL as
the Sheriff OF this county may select that You be there
between the hours of 10 A. M. and 2. NJ hanged by
the meek until youare dead And may God have mercy
on your sonl!
At the opening of the Court on Friday Messrs.
May q GanahI, defendants attorneys moved the
Court for an arrest of judgement. The molten
was denied, to which counsel accepted.