The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-17
TRIAL OF THE LAMPLEY MURDER
TRAGIC SCENEIN COURT.


Our readers will remember that on 10 II
day of January, 1873, an aged woman y
name Of Mary Ann Lampley, residing =
eastern section of Baltimore city, was 20
manly murdered. There was consid, Oh
mystery connected with the affair for \
time, when one of the detectives working
the case came across an old, blunted chise
the premises and by tracing this from on to
another suspicion was fastened upon Tbomas
Holohan, alias Richards, and Joshua Nchol
son. They were arrested and indicted They
removed their cases to Anne Arundel county
and the trial was concluded at Annapolis last
week, which resulted in the convieti9nI I'd
accused of "murder in the first degree" y
The trial excited great deal of attention
and the court room was crowded during its
progress. When all the testimony was in and
Mr.. Revells was making the concluding argu
ment for the State, very tragic scene occur
red in the court room.
1t seems that Hollohan at CHS juncture leap
ed from the prisoners box and drew from his
pocket slung-shot and struck Marshal Frey
terrible blow on the head and accusing him
at the same time of swearing to a lie against
him, while Nicholson rushed for the door. A
scene of the widest excitement ensued. Hol-
lohan seemed endowed with the strength of a
giant as he jostled and pushed the crowd about
that collected around him. He was evidently
in great rage. The detectives, the court bail
ifs and the auditors assisted in securing the
Infatuated man..who seemed frequently more
than match for those about him. Marshal
Shaffer held pistol to his head when John
English Baltimore bully-rushed up, struck
Hollohan a severe blow on the side of the neck
and seized him by the throat The prisoner
was then hand-cuffed and seated in the box.
During the trial Marshal Frey testified to a
| confession that Hollohan made when arrested
which the latter claimed to be false. The Jury
had no doubt of his guilt as shown by the YER
dict The court pronounced sentence of death
and Governor Whyte has signed his death
warrant fixing June 18th, for his execution.
One OF the novel feature in the case was the
testimony of deaf mute concerning the de-
scription and history of the chisel in question.
"THE TWIN EvIL."-That old sinner, Brig
ham Young, is evidently going to have asmall
taste Of justice in this world-at least so we in
fer from the present state of affairs at Salt
Lake. The rascal has been permitted to con
tinue his wickeiness until he has reached the
door of the grave yard if not the brink of the
grave; but now he is likely to learn that "al-
though the mill grinds slowly it grinds sure"
and that the strong hold he had for SO many
years upon the people whom he ruled and rob-
bed has grown less strong, and he announces
his intention of resigning at the present ses-
sion of the Mormon conference. The old man
has shown himself to be possessed of very
good knowledge of human nature, and, no
doubt he also knows something of human in
situations, and recognizes that the time has
come for his imposture to take itself off the
field.
The humbug of Mormonism has been under
mined in a remarkably rapid manner since
the completion of the Pacific road, and that
the Dantes themselves have grown restless
under oppression, IS of itself a mark of how
the power of the 'Church of the Latter Day
Saints" has dwiudled before the spirit of
American progress. 1t has been but few
years since the iron horse has been heard on
the prairies, and yet, that which the Republi-
can party declared in 1855 to be the twin evil
of slavery, it lettering to its last fall. A few
years more will see it in ruins. 1t is opposed
to the physical ordering of the universe, and
it must make way to that which is more in
agreement with nature.
.
FORTUNES FROM ABRoAD.-The Pittsburgh
Commercial says About once month an item
starts the rounds of the press about some FAM
lily receiving notice that there is a big fortune
awaiting them in Europe, amounting always
to millions of dollars. These item come with
surprising regularity and detail,
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