The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-11-03

TBB SENTENCING OF GLEAsos.-Ths fol.
lowing 10 the judgment of the U. s. Court
in the recent session At Des Moines, pro.
nouncsd BY His Honor, Justice Samuel F.
Miller, sentencing Michael Gleason to death
for the murder of e. 8. Deputy Msrshals
Bashore and Woodruff:
MlcHAEI. GLEASON: You are charged at
this bar and before the country with the
crime Of murder. A jury Of honest and
faithful men, after full and fair investiga>
ton of your case, have said that you sr~
guilty. You have had three years to pr
for this trial, and to secure, At - pAfs
of the Government, all the = Expense !,
you could find in yo-- ..s sur"ony Wn'cI
had the aid Of sh oen.m io oa;,h nast
1919 et1 !. 20 nsel, who have done all that
solia % 4oae. in your defense. You h.v,
nsu fair, and impartial, and consideration.
have no doubt myself Of your moral and
ieRsl guilt, and ! feel authorized to say that
such 70 the Judgment Of my associate, who
has been With me through the case.
lou met those two men, who cun6ded te
you their purpose to arrest deserters. You
vent from them Immediately to a place in
rue nelghborhood whore these desc rters were,
WITH . large crowd Of other persons Assem-
o'ed, many of ON you no doubt knew
y%paInsed v,th them. On your way you
puo'Saso every person you sa~ the pres
shsa o. these officers in the neighborhood,
soa .e object OF their visit. You declared
o each occasion your hostility to their pur.
pose, and your readiness TO jpin in resisting
even to death, although you had professed te
them that jnu would assist them.
When you reached the crowd, vou pro-
claimed aloud, 10 the hearing Of all. th.
presence OF these men. and the object o
their visit, I'D declared that you would b,
one Of three men to take or kill them Very
shortly Afte, thi. you and two men Of DEEPER
ate cbArncttr left the crowd, in the ,ame di
rection, and shout the same time. Yor
we're next seen lying beside one Of your VIC
Tins with your gun broken over his head
your pistol on the ground, freshly dis
charged, end your other victim dead, few
rods Of.
You were one OF the three who killed thoe.
men, Is 20, had said you could be /; and 20,
killed then, without any cause Of offens,
against then, personally. Yoar only motiv,
wa3 hostility 10 the law which they wer,
charged 10 enforce.
You Aes not = native Of this country but .
yoar counsel have stated you had taken q
oath tina. you were favorable to its govern
ment. You came from a country in whicl
men 10 your station in life, complain, per
hsps Justly; that they are oppressed BY Ia.
which they have no voice IN making. 70,
have come - country where your vote .
the ballot OF is rs potential in making o
modifying tile laws as that Of the Judge VII
nov addresses you.
Not content witi this peaceable mode Q
changing law watch you did not like, yo
permitted your no Utility to it to incise you L
murder the persons charged with its enforce
ment. Your present condition 10 = strikin
admonition that this cannot be permitted 10
| free country any more than in despotism
The Judgment which the law declares 70
your offence il one which my private juda
nent does not approve for do not beli.v
thas capital punishment is the best means h
enforce the observance of the laws, or that il
the present stAte Of eociety it il necessary 70
its protection. But / have no more right 70
that reason to refuse 70 obey the law than 20
had 70 resist Il.
|, therefore, do pronounce upon you il cen
ssnce; which is, that you be com mitted t
the custody of the Marshal Of this district. b
whom you shall he held IA close imnri.on
ment until the 9th day of December pex,
and that on that day you be hanged bv In
neck until you are dead and may God. Ii
| viss Governor Of the Universe, Who i euuall
the Father of the Judge who pronounce
this sentence and the criminal 70 whom i, i
addressed, have mercy on you.