The New York herald., 1872-06-15
"P0pe, Jones Weighed in the Bal
ance and Found Wanting.
1.-THE DEATH OF A TORMENTOR.
Judge Bedford's Charge to
the Jury.
The Prisoner Sentenced to One Years Hard
Labor at the State Prison.
4 GREAT PRINCIPLE INDICATED.

4 GREAT PRINCIPLE INDICATED.
Al ten O'Clock yesterday morning the people be-
gan TO MI the starways and passages leading TO the
Court OF General Sessions, in the brown stone
building fronting on Chambers street. Every
and woman there in that immense gathering was
eager TO learn whether the BOY Dunn who had been
charged with the killing OF Calvert the keeper or the
Honse OF Refuge, was to be sentenced to death or
% be allowed TO go free. For twenty years the
irlals in the Court OF Sessions have been dun in
their way, and the interest that was yesterday
s.anifcsted has never before been known Ia any
criminal cause.
The jurymen who had been instructed by Howe
and by Stewart as to the course they should take,
seemed troubled. The question of religious belief
had been raised for three days, and the jurymen,
who were eleven for one idea, and one for an idea
AiaInetrcally opposite, still hesitated 1t was
mos really q difference In religious belief;
but the cruelty and true viany which had
been displayed toward the boys in the House
Of Refuge made every grown man in the Court
mad. The recital of the dastardly acts that had
been done to the boys was unequalled in the his
tory Of criminal jurisprudence In New York city.
The lawyer who had been sitting by the District
Attorney for three days, and who had been
teacher in the House OF Refuge, and who had been
proven to have inflicted cruel punishment on two
boys left his place out Of sheer disgust. He was
ho longer wanted in that seat. The seat burned
unter him.
For three days Judge Bedford, amid the clarnor Of
religious and political partisans, had ruled in man
ner which should always hereafter be n precedent
70 magistrates. Every witness was allowed to
speak his mind without fear or reproach. To bring
0Ht the intense scoundrelism OF the officers OF the
House OF Refuge In open court it was necessary to
make some allowance for the heat manifested by the
District Attorney and the counsel for the defence OF
She boy Dunn. During the arguments Of these two
gentlemen individuals In the Jury box yawned.
Three OF four days is long time for q man taken
from hts business from his daily labor to sit In
ciose, confued room; but they were patient and
waited to hear the evidence.
When the Court opened, aud after the counsel sat
Gown, there was great stiffness, and every man
and woman seemed to feel that a great principle
wac about 10 be decided.
The lad Dunn in his gray homespun jacket and
trousers, was alone among all those people. There
was no father or mother to speak word to him
his sisters had deserted him. He was alone his
counsel only to stand by him In that moment when
ufo "nd death hung in the eeianve.
Judge Bedford took hs seat and the court be.
came very still. Briefly his Honor spoke and
directed the counsel for the defence, Mr.. Howe, to
address the jury, who waited in suspense
"a WILL WASH NINE HANDS"
Mr.. william =. Howe rose amid breathless 81
aence. and proceeded in Oh eloquent strain to say
that the question TO be decided by the Jury
not whether the boy Mt the bar was guilty OF
homicide not, but it involved the eternal
principles Of liberty and protection to the human
race. II involved the consideration as to whether
the children OF poor parents becoming the offspring
ofcrme shall In addition to the punishment which
the law has wisely provided, he subject to the tor
tures barbarites hendsh and devish devices re-
peatng in history the horrors and the inguites OF
the Spanish tnduisiton.
'.Eor.L BEFORE THE LAWS
He rejoced that an opportunity was afforded 10
thc Jury 10 send forth an edict against cruelty and
baTharity, and 10 hoist the banner OF
universe that an American jury win
citizens. Rev. DR.. Pierce, no doubt was an esti.
mable gentleman; but Catholics and Jews were
compelled to listen TO his Methodistic teaching,
which was seed sown upon stony ground. Tile
House OF Refuge was an excellent institution In it.
sen and presided over by gentlemen OF great intel
lectua and moral wortli-humanitaria and toler-
ant ctizens-who now having had these cruel
ties brought To their knowledge viii take immediate
steps to remove remove. that despot OF tyranny, that
fies the faIsiying hypocrite Jones. II that
end should be brought about by this trial
minds viii be spared degredatons tortures and
Punshments. People will know that when the law
tne cnlld 10 place or S0-called reformation.
its Gdcrseeves and its Brushes that Young crmi,
nas viii be treated in such IA manner as TO give
them aschance to reform
STARVATION AND ToRTUREr
Mr.: Howe referred TO the evidence, showing how
the boys were tortured and almost starved. He
believed that but Tor the deviIish barbarites in.
nlcted upon the boy Dunn, Calvert, who was Killed
by accident would not be in his grave. Had not
xaNert gone into the cell and pulled the boy out
by the ear and struck and Kicked him with
bis heavy foot the unprotected boy never
Wouu nave used The knife which he happened
10 have III his hand cutting tobacco. The evidence
demonstrate that there was no premeditated de-
sign 70 kill the deceased for he did not strike at
SI,ai part ~ that the verdict ought 10 be justi-
nabie homicide. In the Honse OF Refuge the poor
Jewish BOY was compelled TO work on his Sabbath
end 70 eat 1000 which his religion forbade him.
"JoNES l. NOT AFRAID
The catholic boy must not ask for a prest even
when IL erfre0,ts, unless the threat OF punishment
goes out. SO That said Mr.. Howe, we have pest.
hOc III which bodies are tortured and
sonls DESTROYED 70 suit the specious pur-
poses OF the cunning mend the scrmonilIny
Jones who would have you believe all that was
good and holy was carried on ia thar place The
was sincere when on the stand, or was his conduct
that Of a studied canting, rrah Heep Of a hypo
cntc
There was striking contrast between Jones tcsti
monv ard that ol the eight boys who underwent nis
fortures. The youthful victims were corrohorated
by the production Of the cord and by the cross.ex-
animation OF Gildersleeve. hypocrite No. 2 VINO
said that he watched the poor boys tied up by their
thumbs out Of ''curosIty.n For the sake OF appa.
rent deceDcy, GIldersieeve wanted 10 take tlat
word curiosity back. lie could no more with
draw that expression than he conld take back The
torture and agony imposed upon the witnesses.
lie regretted that Brush did not favor them with
Dis presence, hut Jones and Giiderseeve were Two
t0rturInF villains whose names would so down to
desccrafion and everlasting contempt.
- WILL NOT SIT WITH TIE WICKED"
HJoneswanted Immortality he has achieved y now,
but u viii be the immortality OF loathing and con-
tempt Mr.. Howe hoped that the jury would teach
the Joneses the Sprouts and the didersleeves that
this is free America and not the dungeon OF the
spanish lnqu1siton. fhe only witness against Dunn
was The little boy Burns who was a pf0tegG Of
Jones, who was promised by the King OF fanatics
and emperor OF demons Jones free PARDON for
coming Into Court 10 testify. He sthe counseU be-
ieped that Jones was the man from whom Dickens
Hatl