Owyhee tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1869-1870, 1869-09-16
Sentence of Dcadman for the
Murder of Albert Springer, at
Virginia City, Nevada.

The sentence was pronounced on
the 7th inst, and published in the
Enterprise of that date. Albert
Springer was well known here as a
well behaved young man. He act
ed as deputy last year under his
brother A. C. Springer, then Sheriff
Of this county:
At 10 O'Clock this morning Robert Dead
man. convicted Of murder in the second de-
/ gree for killing Albert Springer, was brought
| into the District Court, in this city, and
Judge Richard Rising pronounced the fol-
| lowing sentence
| Robert Deadman You were indicted by
| the Grand Jury, at the present term OF Court,
FOR the murder Of Albert Springer, on the Sd
day OF August last, to which you pleaded not
| guilty.
In due season yeu were placed upon trial
before jury Of your peers ably defended BY
| counsel Of your own choice and selection /;
/ the trial resulted in your conviction for the
crime of murder in the second degree. This
has been appointed az the time for pronoun-
| cling Judgment upon the verdict OF the jury
such Judgment should not be pronounced
Offering no sufficient legal cause, sentence
| by the Court must follow.
/ + nurpose referring but briefly 10 the facts
established at the trial. II appears that, pro-
curing a pistol. and without cause or appar-
emf provocation, you deliberately and secret
lv advanced upon the deceased, across a
room sixty feet in length, and with this dead
Iy weapon. Hsed as a club, struck him upon
| the head. telling him to the floor, and while
thus helpless wel:ering in his blood, you
continued to nlict fatal blows then declar-
| ing il TO have been your intention to kill but
for the interposiiion ofothers. The deceased
had not offended you or even spoken 10 you
that night was entirely ignorant and unsus
pecling of your premedltated assault and at
| tack when stricken by your blows The act,
coupled with the external manifestations Of
intention, 10 my judgment constituted
| murder Of the first degree, and had the jury
so found and returned, the evidence, in law,
would have sustained the verdict But for
tunateiy for you. their deliberations so re
suited that your crime was reduced TO that
Of murder in the second degree. The con
viction of the jury, of the enormity Of YOU
ofIense. was so clear and positive that they
| unanimously requested the Court TO IMPOSE
the scyerest penalty known to the law
| sanction lfllS Hob opiti9 ~
canse the Jury made il, but because 1t is II
accordance with my own opinions. | can
| not well conceive Of much more deliberate
intentional and aggravated case of murder II
the second degree, than the facts and circum
| stances exhibit and Illustrate this to be--an'
the penalty will be CORRESPONDENCE severe
| The punishment prescribed by law for thi
| OfTense is Imprisonment for not less than tel
| years, and may extend TO life.
1t is, therefore, ordered, and is the sen
tence and Judgment of the Court that you
Robert neadman, be imprisoned in the State
PRISON Of the State of Nevada. at hard labor
and that such imprisonment commence nov
and continue and extend during your natu
raj life.
The sheriff will execute the Judgment 0
| the Court
There was quite a crowd in the Courtroom
at the time the sentence was passed. tn
prisoner was quite calm during the time tn
Judge was passing his sentence. He wa
taken down to the State Prison yesterday at
tcrno0n.