Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-09-16


q called upon the authorities Of the Stat
n to maintain inyoilate the dignity of tn
i. outraged law, and to let its tremendouI
@ penalties follow speedily and sure. The
. funeral of the three murdered men took
e place at tho village of Burlington Oh
Thursday. August 4. The remains were
escorted by the militia company of Bur
, lington, under the command of Capt. JUS
tus Warner, to the Court House, where
religious services were conducted, and an
able and impressive discourse was de-
livcred by Rcv. Samuel Williams Lii.
i D., the historian of Vermont A crowd
of people from Burlington and the ad.
jacent towns were in attendance. The
rancor of political feeling was great
ly increa sed by the events which have
been detailed. The annual State election
being near at hand, the Democratic pa
pers charged upon the federal party in
and about Burlington. an indifference to
the great crimes which had been COM
mitted, if they did not even sympathize
with the murderers A flaming hand
bill, headed by three collins, was scat
tered over the State, and copied into the
Democratic pa 'ers, in which respectable
federalists" were charged with attempting
''to screen the assassins, and throw the
whole weight Of guilt upon the govern
ment :" that some had said, that PEN
niwan had sent military force to cap.
ture an empty boat, and that they were
glad at what had been done;" others.
that 'the officers Of the government alone
were to blame" and that "old Penniman
ought to be hanged"
That "some of the principal merchants
of Burlington furnished the Insurgents
with powder and ball, for the expressed
perpose of performing this bloody work. "
This was Indignantly denied ty the Fed
eralists, nor is it at all probable that i'll
was to any extent true. TIE rash ex-
pressions of heated and VIOLENT men are
never to be regarded as the sober convic-
ton of the great mass with which for the
time they may be associated The au- |
thorities of the State acted with prompt
ness and CELEBRITY. On Tuesday, August
23d, less than three weeks from the time
of the atfray, the surpromo Court was
convened in special session in Burlington. !
There were present Hon Royal Tyler,
Chief Judge; Hon. Theophilus Harring-
ton and Hon Jonas Galusha, Assistant
Judges William Chase Harrington, Esq
States Attorney David Fay and Corne-
Illus P. Van Ness Esqs., associate counsel
for the prosecution; Bates Turner and
Amos Marsh, EsqS., were counsel for the
prisoners. In his charge to the Grand
Jury, Chief Justice Tyler alluded to the
general dismay 1.-The agitation of the pub
lie mind which prevailed, that some were
ready to condemn the accused unkeard,
while others perhaps were disposed to ex-
cuso, and if not to excuse, to palliate."
He said to the Jury that "if in some mo-
ment of levi:y any of you have thought
that the primary laws of society, made
for the preservation Of human life, ought
on this occasion to be relaxed. and be &C.
commodated to certain supposed cZigen.
cieS of the times, purify yourselves from
these prejudices."
On Friday, August Goth, the Grand
Jury returned bill of indictment against
Samuel L, Mott of Alburgh, VIM Noaks,
Slocum Clark, and Truman Mudgett of
Highgate, Cyrus B. Dean and Josiah
Pease Of Swanton, David Sheffield of COL
chester, aud Frances Ledgard of Milton.
The trial Of Samuel |. Mott commenced
on Monday, August 29th, and closed on
Thursday evening with a verdict Of gull
ty of murder. On Friday Sept. 81, Cyrus
B. Dean was put to the bar for trial, but
the challenges peremptory and for favor,
we're so numerous, that after an inefcetu.
al attemptt to Eli up the panel, the Court
ordered new venire for petit jurors, and
adjourned until Saturday morning, when
the trial commenced and was closed on
Monday with verdict Of guilty of MUIR
der. Wednesday and Thursday. the
Court were occupied with the trial Of Da-
vid Sheffield, Jireh Isham and Elihu AL
len. Jr., being called as talesmen, both
declared that they bad formed an opinion
that these men ought not to be punished,
A verdict Of guilty of murder was return
ed on Friday morning. Mr.. States At
torney Harrington, in his remarks to the
jury on the trial Of Dean, said. at is
painful to find that party spirit in this
part of the United States has already as
sumed an alarming attitude. Have we
not seen in the commencement of this
present trial, measures taken and pursued
by the prisoners counsel. to syeep every