The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-10-03

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To this course the prisoner could have
no reasonable objection, for his own
peers and countrymen would be bis
judges.
They had but little time to stey in
camp where they we're, for theiIjourney
still stretched GU. hundreds OF miles
before them and the waning season
their prompt attention. 1t
might, under other circumstances.
have seemed precipi.ate, but why not
as well try him that night as st any
other time in the future2
Having come to this conclusion
they set about it Immediately and 10
downright earnest. a jury was sworn
in and a lawyer, vino vas of the
party, was chosen to defend the pri-
soner. The captain of the company
was chosen judge, and prelimirares
having been settled to their bsst
ability and satisfaction, the culprt
was brought forward to undergo his
examination and trial for the murder
OF hODert Oa9ress
In order that nothing might occur
to interrupt the proper administrs-
ton OF Justice, and that no undue ex-
hibition of feeling might be mani.
tested to me delay of business, the
females OF .he party we're excluded
from the deliberations OF toe body OIL
men appointed to try the murderer,
As much decorum and order wss main
tanned ss in en- enclosed and legally
court OF justice. The
solemniiy Of the proceedings was fell
and the stern necessity Of the step
taken made them DESTROYS that it
should be fair, impartial and salutary,
in its effects.
The dark mantle OF evening had
shrouded the prospect of hill and
dale, before these proceedings had
been fully contaminated, but a
bright, full moon shons serenely
down upon that grim assembly. The
cheerful fires cast their genial blaze
into the night air. Any one viewing
the scene might think they had met
for other purposes, than one of life
and death to a human being; but We
must not be imaginative in a tale oil
truth and dark aess.
1t will not be necessary to enter
into all the details OF that singular
trial. The morning hours we're far
advanced when the court broke up.
All had been done by the lawyer, that
be possibly could do, to cave his
client. Bat his legal skill and bis
eloouence were alike in vain. The
array of facts was so powerful-the
palpability of his guilt so visible-the
manifestation of his baseness so ap-
parent, thp. no amount of human
skill and eloquence could save Carson
from the sentence OF death. Such
was at last the decision OF the jury
and the Judge pronounced that
sentence upon him. Name blood he
had sbed, for so said the good old
book. The condemned was, however,
allowed till the following evening ioT
preparation, when ss the sun went
down, he vas to be shot and buried
beside the victim of his brutal passion.
The next day was a sorrowlul one
in camp. The thought that human
being, laden with the red hue oil
blood, vas to be sent, with ali his
Gins upon BIN, before his maker, va:
81 awful consideration. Maiden's
cheeks, before rosy With the bloom
ing hues of health, became pale and
cold; AMI, even stsl1srt manhood
seemed Overcast with cloud. Blu
however this might be, there vas NJ
relentiDg or change OF purpose; and,
though sympathy and compassion
were felt they we're not allowed t
interfere with the demands OF justice
or the administration OF right.
In the meantime, how Jared it will
the prisoner He had spoken nj
word since the fatal bullet had pen
etraled the heart OF his victim. Tit
eIoquence OF his defender, the sterI
facts presented by the witnesses ant
the terrible sentence OF the judge
we're all UNDECIDED. The hurrican
had passed through his soul, prc
strating everything before il Man
hood, hope, everything had fade
from his vision and in stupor AM
apathy, painful to look upon, did b
sit communing with himself AM
oblivious to all around.
There are few scenes in lite, ofere
to ouI contemplation more mournfuI
or suggestive of painful reflection
than the moral wreck and ruin pre-
scented by 8 talented but deprave
mind. To see ability and power
capable and worthy of gracing tn
higher walks Of life, prostituted I
unholy passion. is something dread
full. The aim OF existence, the en-
Of life, OF knowledge and of wisdom
il understood, is not appreciated b
such an one. Bstter, indeed, Wer
such men never born, than that pa.
sion should thus gain the asceDeanoy
Slowly the evening sun declined Il
wards the vest. 1t descended brigt
and unciouded. the zsphyred brsez'
played smong the trees and wantone
aiming the flowers. The time can
thai the Offering 10 Justice should /
made Thres men bad been chose
| by lot and two guus bad been loade
/ With ball while the third had bI