Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-14

they are eminently worthy of their I'M
doubted parentage. For the protection of
those upon whom devolves he unpleasant
and onerous duty of executing the law,
for the furtherance Of the ends of justice
and to admonish maliciously disposed
persons, the Legislature of this State, in
its wisdom, has seen fit to place upon its
statutes the following enactment, to which
the attention of the learned counsel for
the defense is respectfully directed:
"If any person shall defame any court
of justice, or any sentence or proceeding
thereof, or shall defame any of the magis-
trates, Judges or justices of any such
court, touching any act or sentence there
in passed, he shall be punished by fine not
exceeding two hundred dollars Gen..
Stat Of VI, Chap. III, Sec. Is.
Having disposed of the principal charg-
es the learned gentleman prefers against
the magistrate in bis official capacity, L
have but little to say of those more es-
pecially of personal character-such az
want of intelligence, with which my
Maker has not seen fit to endow me also
the unfortunate mistake my constituents
made, when by their suffrages they elect
ed me to the responsible position of justice
of the peace.
In respect to the inferiority of my nat
ural abilities, it is nothing more than
what I have always been painfully con-
scious; still I never felt like impugning
the wisdom of the Highest on this &C
count, and an not particularly grateful
to the learned gentleman for doing Hf01' me.
In reference to any mistake my fellow cit
liens may have made in comforting upon
me official position, all that need be said
is that they are presumed to be able to
satisfy themselves in a matter Of this
kind, and undoubtedly will do so, with
which action I shall, l have no doubt, be
perfectly we'll satisfied. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that the sagacity of the legal
err the mark, when in crediting the author
ship of the article which appeared in the
HERALD of August Goth, over the stars,
to zone connected with the trial 1t
seems that it was this communication,
which he contends contained an unpro-
voked slur at the prisoners attorney, that
prompted him to write his highly s9as-
oned article. His far sightedness en-
abled him to discover ear marks in 'its
style of composition" and he at once COM
mences to pour out his " Walls of wrath
His fertile imagination has this time led
him sadly astray, and should he ever as
certain the name of the real author, he
may come to the conclusion that the
French used was not 50 very "unf0rtu'
nate" after all; perhaps not so much so a.
his attributing the authorship TO the
source he did, and that the writer of thai
article is perfectly familiar with more
than one language, and in scholarly attain
ments generally not inferior to his would
be critic.
intended to have said few words il
reference to the testimony offered on the
part of the prosecution, on the strength O
, which the respondent was held for trial
I can only present a few of the lending
features of the evidence which seemed Il
point to the respondent as being guilty o.
the terrible crime with which be was
charged, and which seemed TO justify my
self in finding the verdict l did, which
verdict was fully concurred in by the two
NJ ~
, with me during the entire examination
= There can be no manner of doubt, bu'
what the murdered man was CrebOnil
partner Balm, and that he bore him com
= pany as far "a the outskirts of this village
the proof showing conclusively that they
were together up to eight o'clock Of
: Tuesday evening, August LIST, dnring the
night Of which the murder is supposed tC
= have been committed.
1t will thus be seen that Creboni ,ca,
the last person aoih tton the murderec
man aca8 eUer seen alire.
On the following morning we find
Creboni at tbs unseemly hour of half-pas
three o'clock, or thereabouts, coming VI
4 the bank of the river, not very far from
where the body of the murdered wa
afterw ards found, under circumstance
} leaving, no doubt that he had sought tina
} place, secluded as it was, dense growth
I of alders lining the rivers bank, for tht
4 sole purpose of washing himself. Whether
to obliterate traces of terrible guilt, or fol
= the sole purpose Of cleanliness, of cours
everyon can draw their own conclusions
! At this same Place there was subsequent
? ly found a cotton shirt, which ha beer
washed before being left that this sbir
} was uDquestionably the property of Gre
boni there can scarcely be single doubt
: The reasons for his wishing to be rid o
g cient. Had not the shirt in question re
ceived so thorough an application Of thu
] cleansing element, there is but it'll
doubt it would have shown stronger evi
, dence of the respondents guilt than it die
: in the condition in which it WAS. |
, should be borne in mind that Creboni haC
on cotton shirt at the time Of his arrest
2 the 0nlg one Of the kind be had in lii POI
session, the one found on the organ wher
f he was arrested being fl tnuel one, ant
4 corresponded with the one found On th'
body of the murdered man ; and as evi
: dence showed the organ on which thi
, f mel shirt was found was the one Bal
: lin, the murdered man, seemed TO have
claimed as his only two days IreVious t.
the time be disappeared. 1t should alsC
not be forgotten that the witness Mccall
, testified that on the Wednesday follow
ing Creboni and BALM arrived here. HI
met the respondent in the neighborins
town of Cavendish, on which occasion
Creboni acknowledged to having " had {
partner" but that he had "lost hin
thirteen or fourteen days previous" anc