The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1882-01-26
ADJOURNED couRt.
SENTENCE OF TaE COURT.

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Among other business transscted at
the adjourned Court on the sith inst,
the following trnhspired
Uriah Moysr stand up: Have you
abything to say why sentence Of death
should not be pronounced Upon you
To which Uriah Meyer replied.
~ can say never murdered auy-
body. Mary Hartley lied the whole
time, and Lyons lied as TO what he
said. He shid that had killed old
Mrs. Kintzler. IL II q lie, did not
SAY so, and II had said so. Il would
have been ale, because did not do
'it. Hamilton, who was out with him
"just tell You now what Jake Meyer
who stood up and swore 80 terribly.
said himself. Dan Bingaman who
| lives In Moore iIiirk, Michigan, Jake
"Moyer told me that he gave Dan
"Bingaman a suit OF clothes, and par
t"tidulhrly his buck skin pants and his
"ia shooter and Bingsman went to
"Kintzler's. But then he said that
"Bingainan was chased or run out OF
the house; and then have heard
"since have been In Jail that Jake
was outside OF the house-that's all
IL have to say now"
Sentence Of the Court.
We are about toperform the last sad
duty imposed upon us by the law In
the disposition OF this unhappy case,
with which you are so prominently
connected. To say In this hour OF your
extremitythat we pity you Is but n
feeble expression OF our thoughts and
feelings; but, alas, for you, the law
has no pity-no compassion. Ii do
clares that the punishment meeted ont
to the murderer shall be death on the
scafrold. At such time as this I
would not say one word that might
add TO your cup Of bitterness which,
II you are not dead to all the ennob-
ling emotions that ordinarily exist in
man. must be full to the overflow
The few remarks then that tmayoitter
are not spoken for the purpose OF ad-
ding to the depth OF your humiliation
nor to wound afresh your alread v ach.
ing heart. They are made that you
may be brought to see the enor-
nifty OF your transgression in its pro-
per light, to the end that you may
prepare yourself to meet the doom
that surely awaits you. II, perchance,
you should think the punishment about
to be ineetcd out to you to be severe,
think, oh, think Of the offence you have
committed. Think OF your unhappy
victim. to whom life was as sweet as
II Is to you. You were charged with
the murder OF Gretgen Kintzler. You
denied your guilt and appealed TO a
jury OF the county FOR safe deliver.
ance from the charge. You had the
assistance OF eloquent and faithful
counsel, who labored with unwonted
liligence and matchless skill for your
acqujttal but all In vain. tThe Jury,
mainly Of your own selection, after
mature delberation pronounced n
verdict Of guilty. Guilty OF what
Guilty of murder In the first degree.
The Jury under the evidence could
render no other verdict. Ii was plain
from the testimony that you together
with your companions I'm iniquity
went TO the peaceful home Of old
John Kintzler In the silence of the
night, invaded his dwelling with
force and slew his wife Gretgen Kintz
Ter, i'm cold blood in order that you
might obtain the fruits OF their indus.
TRY and frugality. You doubtless
thought when You applied the torch
OF the incendiary to the kintzler
dwelling that the consuming fire
would conceal your iniquity. You
believed that all traces OF your bloody
transgression would be hidden amid
the black and smoking ruins OF the
Kintzler habitation. Deluded man
Your iniquity has been discovered
Your guilt has found you out For q
season you baffied all efforts TO OBJ.
tain conviction, and il seemed that
you weuld escape the penalty of your
offense. But avenging Justice with
sleepless vigilence kept right on your
track, and Mt the moment least sus-
pected by yourself, you were con
fronted with the evidences OF your
guilt. The grave To which had been
consigned the charred and undlstin-
guishable remains Of your victim yield
ed up its contents, and the identity OF a
single bone established beyond cavil
the death OF Gretgen Kintzler, and
added one of the strongest links In
the chain of evidence which the Com
monwealth wove around you. Your
guilt is manifest, and it IL fitting that
you should expiate your oifense by
yielding up your own life. Let your
unhappy situation admonish us all to
nee from tenptutiOn, pructlce virtue
and walk in the paths Of rectitude.
Your melancholy fate tells us all, that
murder will out, and that deeds OF
dark iniguity cannot be hidden. 1t
tells us that the way of the trans
gressor is hard, and the punishment
will surely overtake the wrony-doer.
Let me admonish you to Danish all
hope OF escape. adjure you to de-
vote the remnant OF your days on the
earth, which will be few, to prepare
for the death that surely awaits you.
Humble yourself In penitence before
God, whom you have offended. He
is plenteous In mercy, and will heed
the cry OF the distressed. To Him,
and to Him alone can you look for
pardon, peace and forgivness. Moth
ing remains but to pronounce the
dreadful sentence OF the law.
Z. The sentence OF the law Is, that you,
Uriah Meyer, be taken hence by the
Sheriff OF the county of Snyder TO the
Jail OF the said county from whence
you came, and from thence 10 the
place OF execution within the walls or
va ri Of tha IA fan and that uAt. ha