The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-18
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TIE CORTEL[ MTIRDER.

BRIDGET DURGAN TO BE HANGED AUGUST 80.
The Radsr Of &r
Mary Ellen Corieli at Newmarket; n j. was brought
This morning, 70 receive her sentence. The Court.
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PIT she did not smile as she continually did during
Soon after 10 A. NJ. District Attorney Hubert
and moved that the sentence of the Court be pro-
nounced against Bridget Durgan, who had been found
Judge yredenbuTghe @ Dnrgsn stand up
Bridget arose, and looked around with apparent
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mated By their verdict that il was Of the first degree
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ShSpd not Pc pT0nSgnSe6 % upon y9p ron,,o,
that she had nothing to say He proceeded 70 argue
Court Much irrelevant testimony, he said, had been
admitted during the examination under the sanction
Mr. Leupp also claimed that the Court had argued
soner, and lad thereby Induced the Verdict He ex-
amneG at Length tie Judges charge ana M insisted that
be taken before the Supreme Court. HM
the HI MOTION Of e Res He s
said that when the counsel for the defense undertook
the they did with the intention of bringing all
their zeal TO bear in her defense He claimed that
motive for the murder on the part Of the prisoner
when no motive had been shown by the prosecution
cate Justices id the Court refused the motion for
anew trial. and also refused to further postpone the
The Judge now addressed Bridget Durgan by name.
She arose. The Judge said-The Court repeats the
you anything to say why the sentence
You can tell 1t through your counsel If you have any
Bfidget looked around the courtroom several
times, as il expecting some one and then sat
down and spoke to her counsel, who consulted with
Mr.. Adrian then said Bridget had requested him
there was person who is now at large who promised
That person is now at arge but she has always said
from the first, as now that she never imbrued her
entirely innocent Of the charge.
Judge VTedenburg addressed the prisoner In effect
Bridget Durgan:-The Court finding nothing in what
Om 10 sentence m yS They he are yet T
further that you may have to say personally.
The prisoner made no response;
there is nothing in what your counsel says cause
@ ehe of T
able and experienced counsel, who with untirng real
aEen care BY ali upTgst means that no @prope
inference should be drawn from the facts 10 the evil
knowledge which could operate in your favor should
to the cause. The jury have listened to the evidence
Th a n SnS wH 20 10
lean, far duty would permit TO the side OF mercy.
nothing should be permitted to operate against you
except the strength of the evidence alone The yer.
minds of the jury that you were participant In this
maiciOus, Siiful deiibsrate and premsdaed muP
der In this finding Of the me ITy this Court 1na1i
by circumstances of cruelty and horror not perhaps
exceeded, considering your sex, In the history OF
crime.
stances of the murder, drawing vivid picture OF
the scene in which Mrs. Coriell lost her life, and
then continued follows:-Such, Bridget Durgan,
which known. II the differences are not correct,
you can tell us where they are wrong You say you
know, but you will not tell. II anything is assumed
too strongly against you IL is own fault have
again those horrors In the public but that IL
may be seen under what circumstances II is that
the law in this instance consgns a woman 10 the
scafiold. have one more remark 10 make; DO not
put off your preparations for future world under
any hopes that mercy may be shown in this. You
may be undeceiYed too late. Relieve from suspicion
those whom you have wrongly accused. Disclose
SO they may be held 70 their legal responsib-
ties. But, oh! you value your souls salvation,
accuse not the innocent. There remains for the
law which is, and this Court doth more order, con
slider and Judge that you, Bridget Durgan. be taken
hence TO the place whence you come, and there be
kent in strict safe custody until Friday the Both
day OF August 1867 and that then you be taken 10 Tie
place of execution, TO be provided by the Sheriff of
the county Of MtddeseX, according to law aud that
then and there, between the hours OF 10 O'clock
in the forenoon and o'clock in the afternoon of
that day, you be hanged by the neck until you
dead.
pronounced, and commenced 10 cry aloud, rocking
herself TO and fro and utterng could be
heard far beyond the Court House. fter some delay
she was removed. stil screaming, from the COVrt
House ana carried to the jail, where for some time
crowd without. She remains In the custody of the
Sheriff. Mr.. j. Manning ClRrksOn, who has now two
murdercrB 10 execute during the summer, One Is
BrldRet Durgan and the other is Joseph Williams,
col0red man, 10 be hanged July for the murder Of
another colored mRn-M y Times,