The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-06

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Tp re S1 IN moment and now she rshes from her home Had
this poor weak girl not been asned into III
secontro and had she not been driven beside her rea
sSnG sho would oSitpb have hurled
s9at o thS %a YSs against wRioS this glass
the of od alone that preserved all that were IN
her. her. but while endeayorng to be just never
Your Bonors will not overlook any part Of the evidence
which the strctcst application OF the rules OF %
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6ab9Ey to Eh'h ss gS0EF e evoked
You saw the irritation produced on the exposed , REM
horrible maggo creeping in and creeping out you heard
5 f0rs bS%s Do ' forgotten Dr. Rspew words
pOspre would not be likely to oo prSooSe IN
hot climates than in cold thus taking away the only quail
position advanced, even were many OF the others
weakened by that 30ns S a1d EnSn
This was taken from h9 Jury Jury by mgta b a S
that Jury. in Honors minds doubt
70 whetf the sngp ar treatment applied h1d not some me
give this poor trom ing girl the beneht OF thAt
You the chosen guardians of this whole community,
Of the well as OF the rich and we look TO you to de
wherein il is duty to stand fast to the trust we do
that would lay before your Honors in behalf Of the
prisoner the bar and while know have right to
simply that might recall every consideration to your re-
membrance.
Your Honors sit here to administer Justice tempered
wn mercy ana to ReTeet s1 hos Wh6
thus reminding of that great day
knowing we and The bnt orset that
and that the bar between us rs not wall
shutting from human sympathy and kindly feeling
the pusatons feel here know are answered. in yosr
bre ists would mpore then to extend to the pri
soner all the discretion tho statute reposes in you'
of the law should hero demand hardly than salts
faction indeed under the peculiar circumstances of this
case that could appeal moro to Honors sympathy
Shut breasts that ennobng feeling that must
make yg TSn6rSps 6S kind Have pity on aer SEX & 9qsn b
temptations think of her provocaton think of her feeble
and her dread Of fresh assault think of her own
And sharing this poor girls fear and trepdation,
ourselves in all humility on your mercy.
In reply to this, District Attorney Gibbons said that
he thought Mr. Page had stepped little beyond his
professional duty in thus assaing the character OF
Dr. Hewson, who was an honorable member of an
honorable profession and had for a long period of
years discharged his duties at the hospital with
credit to himself, and he thought the gentleman's
remarks on such an occasion as this were uncalled
for and should be disregarded.
After conference with Judge Perce, Judge Lud-
low thought it sufficient to remind the public of the
entire failure OF the prisoners defense, that the
deceased not slain by her hand, but by the
siclans of the Pennsylvania Hospital; and that she
had been mercfuly dealt with by the Common
wealth in allowing verdict of manslaughter to be
taken, when she might have been Convicted of MUIR
der In the first degree without any very great stretch
OF the law.
Having dwelt on the enormity OF the crime, the
Court sentenced the unfortunate girl to an imprsOn-
ment OF eight years in the Eastern Penitentiary