, 1873-04-05
ANOTHER MURDERER sENrENoEp.

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ANOTHER MURDERER sENTEN0ED.
| On Thursday last, another OF tho Now Yorl.
murdorers was sentenced to donth by Judge
Brady, his execution to tako place on May 10.
/ Tho dispatches state that whom tho guilty wretch
vas sentenced lie began to tromb1e and turned
pale, tainted on the way baok to priaon, and by
tho tlmo he reached Lis cell was completely COL
1apBod. Tho dispatches further add that tho
newa Of his conviction and sentence fell upon the
other murdorors in the Tombs like d death
knoll. The intelligence that at last tho Inv
would vindicate its majesty and dcal out oyon-
handed Justice was too much for their
foolings, and, in placo Of an expectation
that thoy would soon DO released from imprson-
ment, q gloomy foreboding Hottled down upon
thom that they would havo to pay tho penalty Of
tho law thoy had violated, md mako tho only
compensation they could make Tor tho human
lives they had taken. :
Tho name OF the murderer sentenced on
Thursday WAS Michael Nixon . bill-poater by
occupation. His crime is the murder Of an in
Offensive cartman named Phyfor-a murder with
SO little proyocation that 1t was virtually an as-
easaination. The crime wns porpelrated so long
ago, and 80 many crimes llayo succeeded It
In New York, thnt. the circumstances
attending 1t aro probably unfamiliar to most Of
onr roadors. A'briof recapitulation Of then, will
bo sutfciont to show tho 1uBtico of tho sentence.
On tho evening Of the 21Ht Of January last,
Nixon was driving along Broadway, which was
crowded with vohiclos, mud came up with phyfer,
who was riding horse, which ho had taken from
his team, will, tho whiffletree resting aoross tho
Horse Nixon ordered him out Of tho way, aul
Phyfer, seeing that ho had room to pass, loclin-
ed to turn out. Nixon then drove IN
in q threatening manner, wlon phyfer
soized his wliffletreo, intending to do
fond himself, wheroupon Nixon drow
pistol and shot him, innlctiug mortal wound.
He then jumped from his wagon, lied through
the crowd, and for time Disappeared. He WAS
subsequently found by tho officers at his house
making actiyo preparations for flight. Whom mr.
rested. ho was asked il he had shot man on
Broadway, md replied: "Ycs, I did shoot
him, without faltor in hia voice or the quivor
Of muaclo II shot him because ho said ho
would strike NO." He lad no regrets to OK
prcss, but, on the other hand. waa surprised that
ho should be arrested, and declared that ho Ind
done just md proper thing.
Nixon was a fair sample OF tho New York
Rough-a combination Of the brute and tho
coward. Ho was ostonBibly billpostor; in ro-
alisy desperate, who made business Of ruff
1anism. He waa tho associate Of roughs qud
rowGies, and was known to tho whole polico
forcc Of New York City, In whose hands le had
boan many times for shooting ARRAYS anl other
crlmea, aa ono OF tho worst mou in the CITY.
Hia victim WAS quiet, iuo1ronaivo man, n toanl-
Btor by occupation, who led peaceful, inlustri-
GUS life, and upon whom d vito mud four chill |
dron dopondod for support. In tho entiro |
annals of murder, thoro cannot DO found moro |
cauaoless dood. Even tho Italian desperate
murders his victim for money but this Now !
York ruftlan murdered phyfor because tho letter
happened to bo in his why, in straot crowded
With yohiclcA, and bocauso tho murderer did not
choose to turn ont himself or wait, rs others do,
lila brutal aud cowardly dood, and tho uttor In
-s>-~~*'eN Ne~AAA0o0
it, aro characteristic Of the New York r11fllane |.
Ind ruffians everywhere. They wore specially
Of them In January last. At that
;lmot tic criminal classes OF Now York believed
'llat thoy wore In tho ascendanoy, and not WITH
'ut so1no chow Of reason. Tho corrup-
ions OF tho courts, the looao manner in
Which law lad been administered, tlo
'rcquent escapes of notorious csiminals, and tho
apparent Indifference OF tho public, let} these
'uflans to infor that tic courts wore ipeom-
'otent to enforce laws, and that the public was
10 intimlaatel that It did not daro to protest
lgainat violence. &c. for u time, the brutal ole-
nent Of tho city Ind full ewoop, and burned,
md killed at will, and temporarily
Established d terrorism In tho city. No mans
'ools or life were safe by day or night. Mur-
lers aro usually perpetrated at night and in
solatod places, where there arc no Witnesses,
But In Nov York, neitbor the bright sunlight
lot crowds Of witnosses malo any difference
o tho murdoror. stoloa shot Fisk with aa Nttlo
oncoalment as lle would hayo oatou his dinnor,
'immons butohored Duryoa In tho broad day.
'ght. with scoroa OF witl'osasH looking OIL. THOR
'ollnoss could not havo boon greater lad thoro
'oon no low at all. The firm stand Of Gov. Dir,
nd Ills uttoranco that whoever murders his fol.
ow'pan mupt do It at tho peril Of hls own llfo.