New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-11

would keen us there for four weeks, and
three months, until We did find that ver'
dict; and that it any of US needed any
money he would lend any of US 9 $lOO ct
any time. He further said tn IT II We did
not find an unqualified verdict of guilty"
that we would be lynched. The whole jury
were intimidated and controlled by the said
Schellang, and by the presence OF the crowd
which thronged the court room during the
entire time of the trial. .
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
nineteenth day OF February. 1876:
JOHN LIE MONNIER,
Third Justice Of the Peace Parish OF Or
leans.
Robert Seaton being duly sworn, deposes
and says: l reside at No. AS Music street,
in the city of New Orleans. l was one OF
the Jurors in the case of Alexander New,
ton, mentioned in the foregoing affidavit OF
Mr.. Louis Musse. know that everything
aud corroborate the same.
His
ROBERT u SEATON.
mark.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
nineteenth day Of February, 1876.
JOHN LIE MONNIER,
Third Justice OF the Peace Parish OF Or
leans.
Another petition, which was signed by
over fifty members of the Senate and House
of Representatives, contained among other
allegations the following:
Under these circumstances the trial was
called, and during it's progress the court
room was crowded with an excited multi
tude, nOtoriously inimical to Newton, and
who. in their manifest eagernees, seemed
impatient for his conviction. 1t was SUB
ject of common remark and belief in and
around the courthouse that were Newton
acquitted by the jury he would be instantly
killed. In fact, 80 ominous had these Wills
pers become, that the sheriff deemed 1t
necessary to adopt prec cautlonary measures re
against any violent demonstrations on the
part of the auditory and Others outside the
Courthouse and on one or two days, toward
the end of the trial, Newton, in the
charge of the sheriff, was compelled to
make his egress from one Of the back
windows Of the courthouse, thence
through an adjoining building, and clan
destinely return to prison. Again, on the
day after the case had closed, and after the
| iury had been locked up during the night
| to consider of their verdict, the sheriff cav
fit doubtless impelled by his solicitude for
! the prisoner) to assemble at the courthouse
a large body of the Metropolitan Police.
When the jury were called into court at ten
o'clock in the morning, and Newton came
! to the bar, he was accompanied thereto by
about twenty policemen in uniform, who
completely enveloped him. The jury be-
/ ing asked whether they had agreed upon g
verdict, through their foreman answered
no. They were thereupon reconducted to
the jury room to further deliberate, while the
policemen escorted Newton back to the
| dock. The interval during which the jury
were in court was marked by extreme
though suppressed excitement, and the
presence of score of policemen to guard
the prisoner from outside violence this es
cape was not dreamed of gave to the scene
q novel and terrible Significance. the intiu
ence of which can be better estimated wher
the fact is known, that in about ten minutes
afterward, the Jury returned into cour
with an unqualified verdict of guilty.
To say the least, It has 2 pecullarl!!
escence in q verdict by body of men, Wit
in twelve or fifteen hours previous delib
Grafton had been unable to agree.