The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-10-01
THE CASE OF BARNEY cos
GROVE.

| Judge McKeeney of Elko no more
minces matters with felons convicted
in his court than does that other eN-
cellent Judge of a neigh boring county,
Judge Beatty. Prefaciny his sentence
of the girl-murderer, Barney Cosgrove,
with brief speech. he said, among
other forciblea and well timed remarks:
You deliberately planned the muir
der of your victim the day befor You
murdered her. You wrote to your
mother. saving that YOU intended TO
kill Annie that night because you were
jealous finer, who was yonr paramour,
and in the same letter conveyed the
idea that YOU would follow the crime
of murder by that OF suicide. In ac-
cordance with that plan, you that
night entered the room where this girl
was in bed, and not only drove the
knife repeatedly into her breast. to
the hilt, but actually carved and stab
bed her from head to foot, intlicting
no less than siXty-tive wounds upon
her. Unfortunately you had not the
nerve to carry out The rest of Your
CHASTITY programme, and. after infiict
ing two slight flesh wounds upon
yourself. you gave up the idea of self
destruction. and fled. As Il defense.
YOU claimed to have been insane n
the time of committing the deed, but
from the evidence l am satisfied tina,
YOU were perfectly sane: and so
thought the jury before which YOU
were tried. The more | consider the /
circumstances of this case, the greater
=, h of 'ln iI.f
dered in it, An unlawful killing of a |
human being, with malice afore- !
thought. is murder, and all such kill !
ing which is wilful. deliberate and |
premeditated. is murder i'll the first |
degree. am at 4 loss TO imagine a
more perfect illustration of what cir
would constitute murder !
of the first degree than this case affords. !
\ more perfect case OF unprOVOked, |
willful, deliberate and preneditated
butchery. where all of the circum
stances of the killing would show a
heart more thoroughly abandoned by
all the better sentiments and impulses,
and replete with malice, l cannot con-
ceive. The question naturally arises,
what measure of horror and brutality
what peculiar circumstances Ofwick-
much plotting and plan
Mig mus: attend an unprovoked kill
ing, in order to induce Il jury to render
. verdict of murder of the first degree?
The verdict i'm this case renders the
uuery unanswerable. Mercy mis-
placed is but the nurse OF crime!
Think not unkindly of your fate if
The memory OF your crime is ever
present with you; if every stone of
your prison whispers the name of your
victim, and in the sill ence of your cell
you seem to hear the breath of that
lying girl kissing through the CHASTITY
wounds you made; not if the damp of
horror stands on your brow in sleep,
Or if ut midnight you shall hear IL e
empest shrek Armies wild desperate
.ry, Barney, you have murdered mel!
or the path you tread is of your own
making.
AS our readers are generally aware,
cosgrove was sentenced to the Peni-
entiary for the term of his natural
ife.
We saw this brutal murderer when
n ElkO some two or three months
ince. When spoken to by Sheriff
Fitch he arose from the chair in which
,e was sitting, smoking a fine cigar,
md came to the grated door of his cell
With all the easy, smiling nonchalance '
# the happiest, most hopeful and most :
of young men. He was gen.
eely attired, tall, handsomely framed
nd possessing an easy grace which
at well upon him. Doubtless this =
elbow like too many others who have !
made their mark in this Safe and
has native thirst for blood ,
is murderer by instinct. Such !
,rutes should be put to death as we
lestroy savage Indians and destruct- a
We beasts. Sheriff Fitch delivered \
,Osgrove at the State Prison on Thurs .
lay.