Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-10-27

Thanksgiving morning the jury came in, reported
that they had not agreed and at their request the
official stenographer Of the court read from his
minutes the testimony Of certain Witnesses Judge
Redfed still sitting alone upon the bench. Judge
Redfed then recharged them and they went out
again. Soon after they came in, and Judge Red
field, sitting alone, received their verdict of
guilty. The question presented to the SUI
preme court at this term whether the proceedings
above narrated were legal-in other words,
whether there was court present when they
took place. II there was not then of course the
verdict Of guilty went for naught. The statute
general statutes, chapter 80 section 23) says,
t. One judge of the county court may try and de-
termine any cause pending in such court when
the other judges are legally disqualified to
act on the trial Of such cause" The supreme
court finds upon the above mentioned state Of
facts that both Of the assistant judges were legally
disqualified and that Blair was legally convicted
He was accordingly sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment in the state prison. Blair has already
been two years in the county jail Campbell, one
Of those convicted with him, is out on bail Mills
who was probably the instigator Of the crime
Blair and Campbell being his toos-has fed the
state, and is In one of the western states
THE SENTENCE OF CARR.
large number of legislators and others
were gathered in the courtroom during the
delivery of the decisions to hear the sem
tence OF Royal s. Carr, for the murder of the
half-breed, William Willard Murcommuck at
Calais year ago last December. Carr came
into court between Sheriff futile and Tailor Dud-
ley and took seat in the aisle between the bar
and the jury box. He was dressed quite neatly,
| and seemed good deal less concerned than any
of the spectators. His dark and stolid features,
lit up with his handsome dark eyes, betrayed not
the slightest symptom Of appreciation Of the sit
uation he was in. Judge Barrett delivered the
opinion of the court and overruled, as everybody
| expected would be the case, the exception which
| Cars counsel had taken to the rulings Of the
county court. When Judge Barrett had finished
the room still as death. Carr looked around,
as II to see what the matter was-not at all as II
| his life had been hanging in the balance and had
| just been adjudged forfeit By Judge Barretts
direction, Mr.. Smile, the county clerk, told Carr
| to stand up, and asked him II he had anything to
| say why the sentence of the law should not now
| be passed upon him. Carr, leaning against the
railing OF the bar, with his left hand in his pocket
and his right hand holding his hat, said pleasantly
as one might refuse request to have another
slice Of roast turkey, "No, don't know as
have" Judge Barrett then pronounced the
awful sentence. As he begun, Carr advanced up
the aisle, If he wanted to be sure and not lose
anything, and leaning nonchalently against the
bar railing as before, stood facing the court:
Carr the law demands your life the penalty for your
great offence That law has established your guilt by the
modes and means thereto appointed It's penalty for such
,lon as condemned criminal becomes me in making this
the Importance Of your anxious reflection upon hrd
S .e se W YOU Ss S
to commit and to exhor you seek forgiveness OF that
guilt and you from Anal condemnation and punish.
Or yoar sSS a n
with him. noIwhstanding The magnitude Of your wicked
the last Friday Ap in he seaf ISL Between he hoG Es
e one and two ocoSk in the afternoon Of said day within
in The county Of Windsor be hanged the tai dead
70 county G Ssh Ss a
20 esIs sa 6s % BE sed into And
be confined in said state prison at hard labor therein TIL
ton and for and during said three months next prior
sad time nIed for your said execution and up to said
ecnton you be confined In solitary confinement in said
state prison.
Carr turned, went to his seat, sat few seconds,
and then accompanied the officer to the Jail,
where he ate dinner with good appetite and
appeared to care as much about the terrible sit
uation he is in as the wolf, whose desperation his
character so much resembles, might. That he
has got only six months more to live affects him
not at all, as far any one can see. The truth
is, that Carr is not Of strong intellect Like the
wolf, he knows just enough to be blood-thirsty
and he killed the Indian simply because that
seemed to his butcher intellect to be the best way
Of getting at the Indians wife and gratifying his
brutal instincts. Cars counsel, Messrs. Heath
| 4 CarletDn have left no fforta nntriad ~ saya
him. and Is reported that they will now pc
tition the legislature for a communication of the
sentence to imprisonment for life, upon the
ground OF the weakness OF his intellect.
CONFESSION.