The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-06-27
COURT CHRONICLES.
Carl Adolphson to be Hung and Other
Sentences.

Court adjourned on Monday morning,
having disposed of considerable business
during the term. In the case OF the Ter
ritory vs.. Geo. Farnsworth, for selling
goods without license, the defendant was
fined $50 and costs. w. G. Wilkie, for
stealing money from the Western Union
Telegraph office at Livingston got two
years in Gallatin county Jail, at the Ter
ritory IS expense.
Wm. Wertman, for stealing a dimond
ring from a woman in Bozeman, one year.
Geo. Bell, whose history was recently
published in the CHRONICLE, many VIII
be glad to learn, got fifteen years. His
partner in crime, Joe Lane received tive
years, while J. Bell, brother of George
only received two years.
In the case of Chas. Story for embei-
Element the sheriff was ordered to pay
over to the treasury the amount OF the
bonds, the defendant having failed to
put in an appearance. =.
Carl Adolphson, Swede, for the MUIR
der of companion in Rocky canyon last
spring was sentenced to be hanged. The
following is Judge Wade's address and
sentence to the prisoner:
"You were duly arraigned upon said
Indictment and entered plea of not
guilty.
A trial ensued before jury of twelve
impartial men, in which trial you were
defended by able counsel who did every
lawful thing in human power to save you
from conviction The trial jury return
ed into court a verdict of guilty of muir
der in the first degree in manner and
form as charged in the Indictment, the
penalty of which is death. Have you
now anything to say why the Judgment
of the law should not be pronounced
upon you?
The court is satisfied with the verdict
of the jury. You are guilty OF one of the
most cruel murders that could well be
imagined. In cold blood, possessing all
your faculties, and with deliberation and
malice. You wickedly and inhumanly cut
the throat of your friend and companion
while he was disarmed by sleep and who
had never wronged or injured you in the
least.
For this the law declares that you must
die. This law enacted for your protec-
ton and mine, the friend and guardian
of every honest man, in its terrible maj
estv and strength must be enforced, and
crime punished. You but suffer the
penalty of the law that was made for the
protection of all your rights as man and
citizen.
Human life, so precious and sacred, the
divine gift of our Infinite Creator, must
be shielded from the knife Of the assassin
and the murderer. The wisdom OF finite
men has devised no better means of self
preservation, than to destroy the enemies
that seek their lives.
know not under what circumstances
your infancy and youth were surround
ed. but probably a selfish disregard ofthe
rights of others, and a blunted moral
sentiment lnaugurated your career, and
hurried you on step by step until you
reached the very heighth Of crime. Men
do not become murderers except by a
preliminary education in wickedness and
sin.
would if could, give you moment
of comfort. If your death shall teach to
others the sacredness of human life and
cause them to flee from the pathways of
vice and crime, then you will not have
lived and died in vain.
earnestly pray you to repent OF your
awful crime and to prepare for death. l
pity, while / cannot comfort or console
you. The law in its majesty, strength
and power must be enforced.
Now therefore the judgment of the law
and the sentence of the court is: That
YOU, Carl J. Adolphson be taken from
this court room to the Jail Of the county
and there detained in close custody unit.
Thursday the sixteenth day of August,
A. D. 1888, and thence taken, between
the hours of ten o'clock a. M, and three
O'Clock p. H., OF said day to the place APP
pointed by law for execution, and then
and there be hanged by the neck until
you are dead.
And may God have mercy on yoursoul.
ID. $. WADE, Judge.
limo 9 9Th 1899