Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-17

elected VIM. Mulligan president, Horace II.
Bryant vice-prcsident, G. w. Dodd secretary and
William H. Clark treasurer.
Nine OF the boys who escaped from the re-
form school at Westboro Thursday evening
were captured the same night and several
others were taken yesterday. At the time of
the escape the boys were in the play ground,
and all started together, forcing open the gate
and getting past two of the teachers, after which
they separated and took to the woods and
swamps in various directions.
The republicans of Milford elect as delegates
to the state conventions Hon. A. c. Mayhem, +.
c. Field, James II. Barker, A. S. futile aud
George b. Blake The political situation in
Milford looks favorable. The Greeleyites com.
menced the campaign with a great flourish of
trumpets, but the enthusiasm for him has very
nearly died out and Grant will undoubtedly
carry the town by as large a republican vote
as ever.
Camp meeting at Sterling junction begins on
Monday, with prospects of an attendance much
larger than that of past years During the
present week large number of people have ar
rived, the work Of improving the grounds has
been vigorously carried on, and to-day, if the
weather permits, the grounds will be put in the
best possible condition for the opening of the
meeting. The Worcester and Nashua railroad
have made ample arrangements for transport
ing passengers by extra as well as regular
trains, and the time table will be found in our
advertising columns this morning.
JUSTICE AT LAsT.-The case of VIM. j.
Sutherland for receiving goods stolen from the
store of Zacchcus B. Ingalls,, in Spencer, in
May, 1871, was settled yesterday morning by the
prisoners being sentenced TO two years "a the
house of correction by Judge Devens The dc.
PENDANT was arrested and tried shortly after the
robbery, but was acquitted by reason of vari.
ance, the indictment not properly describing the
goods alleged to have been received, and Suther-
land then brought Il libel suit against one of the
newspapers and also against officers Ham and
Wood, who arrested him, and subsequently
published an article in another paper setting
forth his innocence, and criticising severely the
government officers, whose motives he also
impugned. This led to his being in
dcted, and on the second trial he
was convicted by the testimony of the
burglar Lee of whom the defendant received the
goods. Exceptions were taken to the supreme
court, which were overruled, and the case was
called for sentence, when Sutherland was found
to have disappeared. He was traced to Canada,
brought back by the officers who first arrested
him and placed at the bar for sentence, when his
counsel interposed with motion for new trial.
A delay was granted by Judge Lord, who after.
ward heard the motion and overrued it. Yester-
day morning, Sutherland was again placed at
the bar for sentence, when his counsel, Mr.
Bradley made an appeal for the clemency of
the court saving that were it not for the foolish
course pursued by Switzerland in attacking the
government officers and newspapers, he would
not now be before the court. District Attorney
Cheney narrated the facts of the case, and COM
mented upon the trouble he had experienced at
the hands of Sutherland He was satisfied that
he had been partner in crime with Lee, and
the ends of Justice demanded that he should re-
ceive term of Imprisonment.