Middletown transcript., 1878-12-14
Cont ProceedinRs.

On Saturday morning the case Of Harley G.
Brown was resumed. The whole Of the morn
ing session was taken up with the argument of
counsel. At o'clock;;P. NJ, Chief Justice
Comegys delivered bis charge, which occupied
nearly one hour, and the case was given to the
Jury. After celebrating for one hour and a
half they returned with verdict Of ''not gull
ty of murder in the first degree, but guilty of
manslaughter." As the foreman pronounced
this verdict the prisoner appeared much re-
Iieved, and his countenance assumed an al
most cheerful expression. Brown was imme-
diately led back TO his cell, and court adj
iourned until Monday morning.. open
ed at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ, on Monday. The
Harris homicide case was taken up. After
the examination of several witnesses the pros
ecutiea abandoned the case and the Court di-
rected the jury to bring in verdict Of ''not
guilty" Harris was discharged from custo-
DIV. At the commencement of the afternoon
session, Harley G. Brown and George Draper
(the Hamtown murderer) were brought into
court for sentence. Draper was sentenced first,
the Chief Justice, concluding few brief re-
marks, pronounced the sentence as follows
at remains, therefore, for us to pronounce
sentence of the law against yon, which is-that
YOU forfeit and pay fine of 1000; that on
Saturday, the 2st day of this present month,
between the hours Of 10 A. NJ. and P. NJ,
Won stand one hour in the pillory; that be-
tween those hours you be whipped with sixty
lashes and that you be imprisoned for the term
of YOUR natural life"
Harley G, Brown, the train wrecker, was
then sentenced to pay fine of $4,000 and to
be imprisoned for the term of FIVE years. This
sentence is the utmost penalty the law allows
for the crime of manslaughter. The prisoners,
after being sentenced, were returned to their
former quarters in the stone house, and at 6
p N the court adjourned...."AI 1890 Tues
day morning, Mrs. Dodson, VIM. Newcombe
and Phillip Vincent were placed in the dock
and Jury empannelled as follows: James N.
Hurst, Samuel J. Mccall, VIM. Naylor, W
Jerome Eliason, Franklin Wright, Joseph T..
Brown, David Morrison, VIM. Morrison, John
f Welden and James Powell Attorney-Gen-
eral Pennington then opened the case by q
short address to the jury, and James Jones was
placed on the witness stand. Jim looked as
sound as a new dollar, and only showed a
slight scar near the temple, where the pistol
ball is supposed to have entered. In reply to
questions by the Attorney-G General, Jones went
over the whole story with only few devia-
tions from that which has been published as
his "dying statement" He told how Dir.
Dodson came for him at house near Chester
town and took him to the Dodson farm; how
be was tied up and whipped by Vincent and
Newcombe. and locked up in the meat house;
how, after night had come on, he was taken
from bis temporary prison, put into carriage,
and in company with Mrs. Dodson, Vincent
and Newcombe, took the midnight ride'' to
the Delaware line; how the halt was made;
how be was taken from the carriage; how hs
was shot by Vincent and Newcombe, and how
after wandering around for some time, be Al
last came to the house Of his sister, without