The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-28
Restored 10 Freedom.

t.er Instance u touI wrong done by
he court, and thc jury Th-N J..
Herold says:
The Governor yesterday laLIp Il
.ilchael Murphy. All wt- ser,iu !
- sentence - the pefit-nJia.l tor
the Muri.r Of Ms Mlt.i5a Hujus.
II Vii be remembered by the read
er> OF the Herdld that af..r Murphv's
trial and conviction he was sentenced
u be hanged. and a stay OF lis -xecu-
ton was had UPON appeal TO the
General Term of the court. whereat
the sentence was affirmed. He was
then re sentenced before the BROOKLYN
Court which tried him. and on that
terrible occasion sto ID up before the
full Bench and ~feryenriv called God
TO witness that he was innocent OF the
crime for which he was ID die. His
sentence was committed to penal SER
ytude for lIi. by Governor Tilden. IL
order TO afford an opportunity for the
friends OF The unfortunate man tc
have MS case more thoroughly ~inyeSti-
gated. Governor Robinson took the
matter under Amusement. had it sifted
to the bottom, and the result is a full
pardon to Murphy, WHO now returns
10 the bosom OF his family indicated
and exonerated.
STORY OF II CRIlIE.
for which Michael was sentenced
10 be hanged At fifteen minutes
after eight O'Clock on Sunday evening.
April 10, 1874, Mrs. Matilda Huius,
forty years of age Robert CANDLE,
aged forty four, ami Kathrina, a
Bohemian servant, We're sitting around
a stove conversing together. Though
Mrs. IIujus' husband was living she
appears to have borne a bad name
about the village Rumor had it that
Robert Gamble was on terms of crimi-
ilal intimacy with her. Suddenly,
while the three persons were CONVEX
sing together, a red flash was seen and
a loud vibrating report heard in the
direction of the farthest window, in a
corner OF the room, and Mrs. HuJus
fell forward on the carpeted ii)or in a
dying condition riddled with large
squirrel shot. She arose for q instant
IN her agony, her eyes rolling wildly.
exclaimed ''Oh jesus fell to the
floor again, and died within an hour
from the time she was shot. Gamble,
who was sitting in a direct line with
Mrs. Hujus, received seven of the
leaden pellets IN the face. Wounded
diilNi oI-1bitS- IS lCit Ills way ~ liz
bedroom, leaned against the wall. and,
staggering round, slid his hands down
the door, and then fell on his knees to
look for his pts Ols, which were con
cealed in the bed. The girl ran into
the a. adjoining room, and a little boy,
Albert, who had in the meantime come
in, cried out in his fright. Don't
shoot, papa Don't shoot any more"
Gamble said that he crossed the street
to a house kept by man named Corsa,
and a tavern keeper named Kidner
stated that he found a greasy cap and
a red yellow paper mask outside the
house and under the window whence
the shot came. Two arrests on suSe
piciOn were maGe-Michael Murphy,
The man who WAS pardoned yesterday,
and his BROTHER Thomas, the former a
blacksmith and the latter a ~truckman,
both of them residents of Hudson
City. y. j., and both reported to be Of
excellent character. The only posi-
bic reason for their arrest was the bare
fact that their sister. Margaret j Full
ton, then an attractive young widow.
married Robert Gamble in 1866, and
lived with him for two years on a 81
0O0 farm bought with Mrs. CANDLES
money. Gamble took Mrs. Hujus into
49, tl liz "a % 1911
OF his wife. Mrs Gamble brought
her husband $125, 900, left by her for
mer husband, and died suddenly,
under suspicious circumstances, on
the 2d of August, 1868, while MIS-.
HuJus was living s~candalouSly III COM
pany with Gamble Hel burial was
sudden, secret. and without any rell-
glouS ceremonies, SO that it was only
through the New York press that her
relatives heard of her sad fate. Mean
time Gamble had, through a recon
veyance made of a supposed will of
his wife, acquired possession OF her
property. Her relatives had the body
diSinterred, and after examination
Gamble and Mrs Hujus We're arrested
on a charge of completely in causing
her death, traces of meconic acid and
crude morphia having been discovered
in her stomach. Mr.. IIujus, a book
canvaSsen, husband of the deceased,
was IN the habit of being absent for
long periods from home. The Murphy
brothers contested in court the pos
session of their deceased sisters money
by Gamble and Mrs. Hujus. Gamble
said he had no one to blame for the
murder but the Murphys. because OF
the pending law suit. The upshOt of
it all was that a net of circumstantlal
evidence was woven round the Muir
phys in such ann as to lead to the
conviction of Michael. who, after years
of confinement for a crime which 1T is
clear he never committed, returned a
free man and an unimpeached mem
Der of the community.