Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-02-08
GgIiean Sentenced.

Judge Cox Saturday overruled Mr.. /
Scoville's motion for n new trial for tho
convicted assassin and thereafter SEN
fenced him TO be hung on the SOth of June
next. The following is the sentence as
pronounced by Judge Cox:
"You have been convicted Of crime so
terrible In its circumstances and so far
resching in its results that II has drawn
upon you the horror Of the whole world
and the excavations Of your countrymen.
The excitement produced by such an Of
fence made it no easy task 10 secure for
YOU fair and impartial trial. but YOU
have had the power of the United States
'reasury and of the government in yonr
service to protect your person from vic.
ence and to procure evidence from all
-Iarts of the country. You have had as
fair aud impartial a jury as ever assembled
n court of justice. You have heen de
ended BY counsel with zeal and devotion
nat merits the highest encomium. and
'prtainly have done my hest TO secure a
air presentation of your defence. Not
outstanding all this. you have hpen fonnd
unity. II would have been a comfort 4"
many people If the verdict Of the jury ha''
Established The fact that Your act was thn'
# an irresponsible man. It would hav,
eft the people the satisfying belief thai
he crime of pOlitlcal assassination wa
.nmething entirely foreign TO the insitu
IONS and civilization Of our country, but
he result has denied them that comfort
rhe country will accept it as fact thai
hat crime can he committed, and th
onrt will have to deal with II, with the
highest penalty known 10 the criminal
ode, to serve as m example TO others
Your career has been so extraordinary
hat people might well Mt times have
doubted your sanity, hut one cannot bul
| relieve that when the crime was commit
I'd you thoroughly understood the nature
Il the crime and its consequences" (Gni
eau-"I was acting as Gods man W
and that you had moral sense and con
Srien"e enough to recognize the mora
qnltv of such an act" (Prisonrr-
That's matter of opinion.' "Yo 7
| wn testimony shows that YOU recoilod
With horror from the idea. You say tha'
GU prayed against it, Yon say that yon
bought it might be prevented. This show
hat your conscience warned you agans'
Il. but by the wretched sophistry of your
'wn mind you worked yourself up agains
he protest of your own Conscience. VIVA
motive could have induced you to this &c
must be matter of mcclure. Probably
men will think that some ianaticsm o.
morbid desire for self-exaltation was thu
zeal inspiration for the act. Your owl
estimony seems TO controvert the theOrie'
f your counsel. They have mlintaneI
md thought. honestly believe. that yet
we're driven against your will by an insan'
impulse to commit the act, but your testl
nony showed that you deliberately resolv
ed to do it, and that deliberate and mis-
GUIDED will was the sole impulse. This
may seem insanity to some persons, bu
he law looks upon it as wilful crime
You will have due opportunity of having
my errors | may have committed durin!
he course of the trial passed upon by thu
ourt in banc, but meanwhile it is neces
AIRY for me to pronounce the sentence o
he law that you be taken hence to thu
1mmon Jail of the district from whence
GU came and there he kept in contine
nent, and on Friday, the 30th day OF June
$50. you be taken to the place prepare
nr the execution within the walls OF sal,
all, and there, between the hours of II NJ
md Z. NJ, you be hanged by the nee
until Won are dead, and may the Lord hav
mercy on your soul"