Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-26
NEWS By TELEGRAPH.
From ALI Quarters.
'SAWTBLL FOUND GUILTY.
Sentenced to be Hanged on
January g. 1892.
SOLDIERS SURROUNDED BY INDIANS.
Heavy Fall Of Snow in the
West and South.
STORMS ENCOUNTERED BY VESSELS.
Homicide in a New York
Livery Stable.
sAwTELL CONVICTED.

Isaac SayvteIl, the Murderer of His
Brother Hiram, Sentenced to be
Hanged ON the First Tuesday in
January In 1892.
Dover, N. H., Dec. 25.-Isaac Sawtell
spent Christmas in listening to the argu-
ments of counsel to the jury who we're
trying him for his life. The court came in
at 9:03 and Lawyer Edgerly at once began
his argument for the prisoner. After
speaking Of the Importance of the case he
alluded to the rules of law necessary and
applied his explanation of theevidence The
Indictment, he said, contained two counts,
one charging wilful murder of his brother
in Rochester, the other that he hired, pro-
cured or induced some party in the state
of New Hampshire to go into Maine and
commit the crime. Counsel claimed that
the evidence failed to show conclusively
that Hiram Sawtell was in Rochester at
the time the murder was ommitted-that
his identity had not been fully estab-
Hshed
The argument was finished at 5:15 and
after recess of ten minutes Judge Doe
charged the jury.
At his conclusion the case was given to
the jury and the court room was cleared
At 7:30 one of the deputy sheriffs went
to Chief Justice Does room in the Ameri-
can house and his passage through the
hallway was the signal for rush of news
paper men to the court. The court room
was being lighted and few figures could
be seen in the gloom when the two judges
took their seats. Tho jury filed in at TAO,
one hour and fifty-one minutes after they
left their seats and the clerk called the
roll, the sheriff making the count. The
foreman then rose and in answer to Judge
Does question "have you agreed upon a
verdict" said:
eve have"
'fWhat say you, gentlemen of the jury
as to the first count, do You find the pris-
oner guilty or not guiltyg'
s'We find him guilty." was the answer.
"Of what degree of murdera"
'tOf murder in the first degree"
Attorney General Barnard Immediately
moved for sentence.
After a moments consultation with
Judge bingham Judge Doe wrote the SEN
tence and handed it to the clerk, who then
read it as follows:
''Isaac B. Sawtell, the sentence of the
law, you being found guilty of murder in
the rstdegree, is that you be imprisoned
in the state prison at Concord until the
| first Tuesday of January, 1892, and that
you then be hanged by the neck until
dead"
The prisoner was pale, but did not make
| q motion except that he respectfully turned
his head to the clerk when the sentence
was read, and there was nothing in his
| manner to indicate that he had just been
| sentenced to death.
| Defendants counsel have taken three ex-
| captions: First, to the testimony of Ma
rion Sawtell; second, to the admission OF
the copy of Jeannette's telegram to Isaac;
| third, to the testimony of a witness in re-
gard to the amount of travel on the Marsh
road. They will be raised on briefs and
| arguments will be given before the court
whose decision will be rendered before the
day appointed for the execution of the
| sentence