The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-13

publican majority in the House, sufficient
to secure the ratification OF the Fifteenth
Amendment. The canvas has been much
less exciting this year than last, and the
total vote falls 10000 below that of q
year ago
TIE SENTENCE OF TUE SHREWSBURY
MuRpERERs We have before announ-
ced the conclusion OF the trial of the
Shrewsbury murderers at the Rutland
County count on Tuesday last, the SEN
tence was pronounced by Judge Benja-
mine II. Steele, and the scene in court is
described by the Rutland Herald in iis
Thursdays issue, as follows:
The scene in the court yesterday was
sad one, an aged vile and mother listen
ing TO the sentence of the law, booming
son to execution, and husband and amos
ther son to virtual separation from her for
life---a young wife, hearing the awful sens
tence of her companion to be hanged I'm
til dead, and daughter and sister hear
ing the judgment which separated her
from father and brothers, almost in one
short moment-mourning children, almost
too young to comprehend the terror of the
passing scene, which condemned father
to the ignominy of the gallows. Such
scene has rarely, if ever been witnessed, and
God forbid that it may ever be witnessed
again in our community.
The prisoner, Horace r. Plumley, was
ordered by the clerk to stand up, when the
question was asked him
Horace r. Plumley, have you any
thing TO say why the sentence of the law
should not now be pronounced against
you 2
The prisoner arose, and with much
emotion answered;
Il have but little to say. | have been
wrongfully convicted. think it hard for
me to be taken away from my family
and lay down my life for my enemies"
In answer to the same inquiry, Ziba
Plumley said /;
/ have few words to say to the court
and spectators. shall be go years old
| day after to morrow. have lived in
Shrewsbury ifty-four years, and have
raised a large family. | have always
known John Gilman, Jr., ever since he
was born. We never had any trouble with
each other before the LIST day of August
last. He never laid straw IN my way,
nor / in his. | have but few days at the
most TO travel in Vermont even if were
set at liberty. have been prosecuted for
'he last fifteen years by my enemies, and
the authorities of Shrewsbury have turned
Il deaf ear TO my complaints, have
been crippled for the las. three years by
the rough hands of Isaac II. Balch. And
no am overtaken by my enemies.
hope my downfall will be the means Of my
enemies salvation, hope the court
will have mercy on me and my son Fr, .
Derrick
In answer 10 similar inquiry by the
clerk, Frederick Il. Plumley, said in sub
stance:
Il hope the court will have mercy or
me-, and | should like to have a minister
come in and see me before ! leave, and
have prayers
Horace r. Pluinley then received the
sentence of the court, rs follows, Judge
Steele reading the same from a writer
memorandum
Horace II, Plumley, you, having been
duly tried by an impartial jury, and con
yicted of the awful crime of murder it ha,
now become the duty Of the court to pro.
nounce the the sentence of the law upon
you, which sentence is;
That on tho Goth day of September, il
the year of our Lord one thousand cigh
hundred and seventy, between the hour.
of ten o'clock in the forenoon and tw,
o'clock in the afternoon, you he takeI
from your place of confinement, to tn
place of execution, and there be hung b.
the neck until you be dead, pursuant to
warrant to be issued as provided by law
and that you be imprisoned in solitar.
confinement in the State Prison, at Wind
sor, until such punishment shall bs in
ficted.
AS the Judge was pronouncing the sen
tence, and the room was hushed and still
not even breath being heard, when b
reached the part where he said, and ther
be hung by the neck until you be dead
the wife, mother and sister, and othe
, female relatives of Horace in court, ut
tered long, loud wall of distress, so stron
= and continued that the voice Of the Jude
was drowned by its power, The remain
der of the sentence was read amidst tn
. moaning Of women and the sobbing I
, children, The scene was one 10 affect d
strongest hearts, and scarcely an eye b,
was filed with tears of sympathy for Il
, families of the condemned men.
: Ziba Plumley was then sentenced
4 hard labor in the State Prison during h
natural life, and Frederick u. Plumley f
u the term of twenty years. In fixing Il
e sentence of Frederick the judge remark'
=, that1hcy had Disseminated in his fav
e for the sole reason that he was weak
intellect.
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