Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-03-14

Tn. sentences Of D.ssh rrorer.e.s Cps.
liam Dinsmore. ..i...
from the washington upe) Reporterl
On Thursday morning last, Robert
FoQler. who had been found guilty as
one OF the murderers OF Mr.. Dinsnlore,
was brought upon the stand and aff0rd-
ed an opportunity to testify I'm the case
of Montgomery who had been Jointly
indicted with him. After being told by
the Court that 1t was for himself TO de-
eide whether or not to give his evidence,
and admonisbed in the most solemn man
ner that he had nothing to gain or lose
by becoming q witness In the case then |
ON trial; he finally decided not TO testify. !
The Court then remanded himto jail and
directed the Sheriff to have him present
at 2 o'clock I'm the afternoon to receive
his sentence. li..lt,-y.
1t being thus made known that sen.
tence of death would be pronounced
upon him at that, time, the Court room
wasffilled to its utmost capacity even be-
\ fore the ringingof the bell. AT 2o,clock
Fogler was brought in by Sheriff Smith
and took his seat within the bar. The
| Court being opened, amidst profound 81
| lence his Honor Judge Acheson address
ed him as follows:
Robert Fbgler;-.Y You have been tried
and convicted by q jury OF your own
! choosing, of ''murder of the first degree"
1 Have you anything to say why sentence
of death should notbe pronounced upon
you?"
The prisoner replied, "Not at present."
His Honor then, proceeded with the
sentence: .. -,
The verdict of the jury meets with the
A unanimous approval of the court and the
whole community. The evidence 0f
your guilt was SO clear and conclnsfvet
that no effort of your counsel could save
you from capital conviction,
The murder of which you have been
/ found guilty, was no ordinary kind. 1t
was not the result of excited passion or
of revenge growing out of any. quarrel
with the deceased, but 1T proceeded from
an inordinate lust after gain. You mad
learned that the deceased had wealth.
You visited his house two or three weeks
before the murder, and by your own con-
fession, were then looking about for the
evidences Of 1t. You conceived the de-
sign of robbing the deceased some TWO
weeks before you proceeded t0accOmPlisis
your Gliabolcal purpose. On the eve
ming of the murder you set about your
preparations with deliberation. You
provided yourself with the cartridges
i,eedful for the pistol you designed to
make use of it if necessary. You chang
ed YOUR clothes. and lackened your lace,
and thus disguised in company with
your confederate, armed with deadly
weapons, YOU pursued your unrelentlng
wov for six miles. in the darkness of
night. to the house of the. deceased.
Having. by artifice, succeeded in induc-
ing your unsuspecting victim to unfast-
Ell the door. YOU entered the dwelling,
uistol i'm hand, demanded his money,
when n struggle Immediately sensued
which did not cease until after you had
discharged the contents OF the plstol
t twice against the person of the deceased,
t thus inflicting the mortal wounds which
, occnsioned his death. Not content with
: this, YOU called on you confederate 70
strike the deceased after you had thus
!, shot him, and he was brutally struck
0 upon the head with q chair, and cut with
:. n knife across the breast, and on the
: hand, in vain effort doubtless on his
part, to wrest the knife from the assas
e sins grasp. .'-~ -, = - .
:. We do not recite these facts to harrow
M your feelings, but to show you how
, inst and righteous has been the verdic
condemn ng you TO death. Consider
o likewise, that If u mysterious Providenc'
a permitted the commission of this grea
- crime, how the same Providence inter
~ posed afterwards to hiring you to the ba
Is of Justice. In your vain imagination yo'
l. Thought that the darkness of the nigh
o and the disguise you wore, would screel
' you from all human observation, but yo
forgot that the eye of an all-seeing God
:, to whom "the darkness Is as light,
~ was looking down on you, and that D.
at His interposition the evidence of you
n guilt was feftat the very doorstep OF tn
,s dwelling YOU had desolated. By the ap
- narently insignificant circumstance {
Is the loss of the heel from off your boots
G. the clue was given by means or whic
of your guilt was traced out SO clearly tina
,y in the prison You exclaimed 10 the, M
lister of religion who visited you offefin
)" spiritual consolation, II have no hope;
and to them as to others you freely COZ
gs fessed yourself the murderer of the d'
nd ceased.
~ For your own peace of conscience
10 would have been well you had rename
5s' unwaverinsly in that frame of mind
Unhappy man! BY these confessions
your guilt, you had taken the first ste
ar which every sinner must take, towaI'
Ia that fountain which washes away all IN
ia man trlps res, o however great. Il
ny what satanic influence you were turne
IL back wgenuuireno but it will not be r
nd nembercd . alias. you, if you htstep, |
Ia rcnc,ymt con essaon and prayer for inerc
'e fo seek tier IL ar,in. Your only re-
ou ancc 30 ehi. world, IS in he merits
Christ's blood, which IS aule to was
=, from your soul the sui,lns oi the hum'
eli blood yon have so unr'ghteo s.! shen'
;he Dismiss from YOU mind the nope oi {
t gaming the punishment which huns
, law, by divine command, assigns TO T.
ho murderer of his fellow man. There
Tx, no hope for YOU i'm this world. .l4
lie. The sentence OF the court is that y