The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-20


which the Off, 'ers Of the law discharged
their duties beg. Jars description. The drop
was cut and the negro Ellis dangled be-
tween heaven and earth until he was liter
ally compelled to adjust the rope around
his own neck and take his own lite. Thrice,
with the aid of HI, hands and feet, and by !
making, as it werer stairway OF his fe' :
low murderers hanging body, he succee' led
in drawing himself up, crying in agony
''save me, save me-" and no offic .er inter-
fering. The third time, as witt one hand
he drew himself up, with bis feet braced
against his companion In crime, and In
death too, with the othe, hand he adjusted
the rope around his neck and then death
speedily put an end to his tortures.
On the same day was confined in the
Tombs, Dolan who had been tried, convic-
ted and sentenced to suffer death at the
same time with the three negroes. His
crime, to }, was murder, but at another time
and under different circumstances. He was
charged with the killing of one Noe, when
evidence against him was e,Icumstantial,
| but was clear, positive, convincing and left
| no doubt of his guilt, but Mr.. Justice Don
ahue had interposed, granted him writ of
error, stayed the execution of his sentence,
and temporarily, at least, spared his miser-
able life. The law plainly declared that
killing "when perpetrated without any de-
{" sign to effect death by any person en-
gagged in the commission of any felony"
shall be murder in the first degree and pun
shable with death-and this clearly was
Dolan's case but because the statute after
wards stated that ''such killing, unless it
{" be murder in the first degree, shall be
murder in the second degree when per-
petrated Intentionally, but without de-
L" liberation and premeditation," Judge
Donahue, without notice to the district at
torney or attorney general, as required by
law, and.without giving any reasons for his
action, interferes and stays the execution
that Dolan may seek, through the courts,
to cheat the gallows at last, and that the
court may place construction on a statute
which admits Of but one possible construc-
ton or Interpretation.
About the same dsy-during the same
week-Judge Van Brunt, of the New York
supreme court, returns from an European
trip, and announces his intention of resum-
ing his judicial duties This judge, during
he year, was divorced from bis wife, at
her suit and in pursuance of an arrange
ment entered into between them, the de-
cree of divorce precluding the judge from
again marrying during her life time. I'm.
mediately thereafter, Tire judge started fol
Europe, being preceded few days by Mis-,
Jennie E. Bull, and was, as stated by the
lady and her mother, married in Cam
bridge, England, June !. The judge de
ules the marriage, but it is indisputablt
that they lived and cohablted together al
nan and wife in Paris and elsewhere from
June /, until he started on his return trip
If the Judge was duly married, as claimed
he violated and set at defiance the laws Of
New York and the DEGREES of his owl
court. If he was not married, his offenst
is as great, yet he returns to New York ant
intends to resume his place as judge, ex
pound the law and administer justice.
At the same time, William NJ. Tweed
one of the most notorious of New Yorl
criminals, is at large with the connivanc,
IF tue Ufiiveio of tLe low ia,iuS uiuI II
charge, and although, seemingly, grea
efforts are made for his recapture, peel
) below the surface reveals the fact that tn
majority of the law-abding citizens feel a
they had an elephant off their hands ant
he current of the better informed opinion
IS that his escape was planned and time,
30 as to bring to- successful conclusion
regulations already pending for the com
pounding Of his felonies, and the felonie
If numerous other thieves and robbers
Such is the picture of justice as admins
tered in New York city, the metropolis O
country where it is boasted that it is ad
J ninistered decently and in order impal
y tally, and without fear or favor freel
md without being purchased or sold
promptly, and without haste or delay an
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