The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-04
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a NEuIdcroUS Quartette.
Seventeen Years Imprisonment AL
lotted to Smith, the Assassin of
Hughes--The Sentences of
the Other Three.

In the Court of Oyer and Termner Judges Peroe and
Paxson on the bench this morang toq young men in the
OF their fellow They all presented strong hearty
@ life with pr9t and to the e9pmu
permitted take possession their minds, led them
from the path OF virtue and brought them here dsgrAeed
Of murder "'' ''- '-' ''-'-0
At the opening of the Court District Attorney Gibbons
and moved that judgment be pronounced against
Edward Smith who convicted of murder the second
degree taking the life John Hughes the Chestnut
street bridge the night of October 3D. and who pleaded
girl Hulda Coleman, committed at the time and
g. Davis Page, ESQ., counsel for the prisoner made
strong appeal Tor mercy to which District Attorney b
bons responded at length In passing sentence Judge
Edward smith, you have been convicted Of murder Of
Street Bridge the night Of the I'd of October last
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capable any crimeeven highway robbery and murder
highway robbery upon the person OF an c9ored
delpha and meay took from her the shawl and sacque
The victim Of your murder vas Psaoea6e unofendns
and having and malicious desn ySr rst sn
gagged with him in scule; you then stabbed him with
died before he could reach the other end ofns bridge
The Evidence given At 9e trial would 81 have Justified the
frst degree the Court would have had difficulty
da guilty
the q gos thus saved you
The crimes of which you have been convicted are but
poftunites for the useful employment Of your time
INDUSTRIOUS pursuits and the cultivation of your heart
With gang Of youthful oilers and outlaws ike yoTTssf
the schuyki Some Of his gang, and of other like asso
haT hHye n Seady peen So inmates o our ana
they withdraw nom such associations become inmates Of
gallows,
SAD one Receiving from your hand the blow OF death
others who witnessed it reached orh h no arm to assist
Alone un9sssled from M; T91nd and the loss
be- Ras to fall ana Die I he be W
sight hearing of who call themselves yet
they knew he had received without word of
S as flowed ro S wound or one Sod o
in his DYING moments a Nay when death had
under the cold sky aud went their to their
oicers OF the terrible tragedy which enacted or
that foless human body was lying exposed upon the
These men Continued conceal their knowledge Of the
in abetors after the Of the crime which
you & a az the trial m Sb To er TINS
veted , 49,, ....,. - A.,
Attorney officer of the Commonwealth. to the Of
these men, To m OF OF neS naYe been
Suggest hm the proprety OF sending in bills of ndict
DusG the long period Of mRrisonmsnt to which it is
to think upon and we trust repent of the crimes which
have c9mmitted YGq go & into G Gsen "a very young
your tme and pryegss that you may daily grow in
M The end OF your term from the habits of an
evil life be restored to family and society
and thereafter live useful and honorable hfe
The sentence the Court s that for the felony of muir
der Of the second degree of which you have been
ycted undergo imprisonment by separate solitary
connenent the State PenitentaTy for the Eastern
District of for the period of eleven years
eleven months and ten days.
And the felony OF robbery Of which have been
convicted Of the Court ID that fin
of one cent and that undergo Imprisonment sepa
rate or solitary confinement in the said Eastern Penten-
tary for the further period OF five from after
the expiration of your sentence above stated bill No
ia OF October sessions 1861 for the felony of murder of
the second deRrt OF which have been convicted
The prisoner here drew his face up TO the CRYING
pitch, and in sobbing manner sad:-"HOnor, Pm
innocent OF the crime as the sun shines. Won't YOU
please tighten my sentence.7 l didn't do II at an
Won't YOU please tighten my sentence" 2"
Judge Pierce-"yoar case has been fully con-