The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-09

Rev. MYRAM D. WooD AGAIN Con-.
vIoTED AND SENTENCED. Jury quail.
fed to try the Rev. Myram D. Wood,
charged with seduoipg Miss Emma 7.
Ohivers, returned verdict of guilty.
The prisoners counsel Immediately
made motion for arrest of judgment
and a new trial, the motion to be heard
within thirty days, during the vacation
of court.
The Judge then asked it he had any.
thing to say why the sentence should
not be pronounced, End Mr.. Wood rose
and said:
II desire, in the first place, to re-
affirm, very solemnly, all have pre-
viously said during the course of this
trial. affirm that everything in the
indictment, charging me with crimina-
lity with Emma I. Chivers, is false. /
re-affirm it in tho most solemn manner
in which can speak.
''In the second place, have thought,
as far as the State OF Georgia was con-
cerned, or its officials in this prosecu-
ton, in this public manner, they have
done nothing but from sense of public
duty; and further accept, with ali my
heart, the issue presented by the gentle
men for the prosecutions; that We shall
meet at more solemn tribunal, before
an impartial and just Judge, who knows
the truth, and that oil the facts of this
case will be seen in clearer and purer
light.
Il wish to say, as said before, that I
ana O law abiding citizen; and whatever
may be the issue, shall never attempt
to elude the verdict or the issue, what
ever it may be-"
The Judge then, in most impressive
manner, addressed and sentenced him to
ten years imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary, stating that as be was legally con-
victeG, it became his duty, however un-
pleasant, to pass the sentence OF law
upon him, and that the certainty of
punishment and the nature of the new
Undiscovered testimony had pursuaded
him to reduce the former penalty.
The prisoner, at the announcement of
the sentence, betrayed no extraordinary
emotion, but rather preserved calm
self-possession. .-ANanta San, 4th.
The Atlanta Consultation, referring to
this case, says:
The evidence is too sickoning and dis
gusting to be given to the public, espe
cially where it is likely to fall into the
hands OF tho young. To believe the
testimony of the young lady preferring
the charge against Rev. M. D. Wood, Of
seduction, one is compelled to believe
the accused moral monster-a whited
sepulchre-an adept in scoundrelism.
TO give credence to the testimony Of
the defence, one must believe the accuser
equally as bad ms the accused Tho
mind is bewild cred and confused. and
faith in humanity ia almost obliterated if
one should believe either; and the mind
falters in selecting the side to believe
The accuser is a young lady of remark
able intellectual development and cul-
ture; fine l'ersonel; and, on tho witness
stand, the equal of any lawyer. The
accused bore the reputation of an earn
est, jealous and eloquent divine, of rare
probity and piety. His walk was cir
cumspect That these two should ap-
pear in the character Of accuser and &C
cused, and develop facts so heart-rend-
ing; that they should for so long time
carry on their evil conduct, and give no
outward indication of their inward de-
prayity, passes our finite conception
Time will give us an explanation OF what
is now o mystery.