The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-22

COi1ESolUiig dIiH BIlel udQ alIiiQ-t UfAot
the husband insane This acr of K Us
eliminated the affair. With dash, Sick
les passed to The street, and a few mo-
merits later Butterworth, who had gotten
bud a short distance away, heard Sicxles
exelainl, in loud voice: key, you scoun-
drel you have dishonore1 my home, and
you must der
Drawing a pistol from his pocket, he
aimed and fired The first ball is said
to bave entered a tree. The second
oeugiht The victim in the groin. Key
grappled with Sickles moment Then
they became disengaged. Key rstrcated
up Madison place. Sickles followed.
When within ten feet of the fugitive Sic
kles fired again. This ball struck be-
meath the heart. A fourth glanced off
! near where the second struck, but brought
Key 10 the ground.
A great crowd collected al once The
excitement ran high. The sensation was
intense. In half an hour the entire city
was alive with the news.
Key was removedIo The clubhouse near
where he fell. Their he gasped a few
times. Life fiuttered on the brink of
death for a moment, and then the tragedy
was compl;ts.
The avenged husband accompanied by
Mr.. Butterworth, then gave himself up.
| Then followed the taking away of the
| Wife and the funeral of Key. The friends
| of Sickles now began 'Gleir preparations
| for the trial to come, while ehe prisoner,
broken-hearted and WIZ tched, waited in
his cell the coming ordeal, with only
| faHorite greyhound as company.
The day of the trial, April 4. 1859. came
His honor T. II. Crawford, presided.
| Robert Ould, United States district al
| uorney, announced that his associate
would be J. M. Carlisle. The prisoner
was represented by James II. Brady and
| john Graham, of New York; e. H STAN
ton, of Washington Ratcliffe, Clinton &
| Magruder, of Washington, and Mr. Phil
| lips, late of Alabama.
| THE indictment charged Daniel e. Sic
| kles. gentleman" with murder Sickles
pleaded met guilty.
The COUNSEL on both sides were learned
and distinguished. Great crowds at. end
| ed the proceedings throughout. Lockers
| on were rot so checked in thsir court
conduct then as now, and applause fire.
/ quently followed Ehe presentation Of
some effective legal point or bit of tell
| ing reparec.
| In empanelling the jury the district ct
torney insisted upon the rejection of all
| MN from the panel who were not pos
| sessed of at least $500 in money or prop
| ely Immediate objection to this was
| raised and after due discussion and de-
| liberation the cou 1T d. cided that the laws
of Maryland, which had been extended
| over the district in 1901, made the dis
| trict attorneys objection legal, and If
| M insisted upon his point that must end
the matter. While the cour. did not think
hihe law was good one, nevertheless 1t
| was operative in the district and the law
! would have to be observed If the dis
| trict Attorney had never awaited him
| self OF the law before st was simply be-
| cause he had never seen fit to do So
| In fact he had heard that gentleman say
| that the reason he had not done so be-
| fore was simply because he did notehe-
| lieve man WAS always possessed of
| mind as heavy as his pocket.
| The great proveeation the prisoner at
! the bar had for The commission of the
| deed for which his life was now in jeop-
| ardy and his mental responsibility at
| tlhe time of the shooting afforded the
| strongest ground or which the defense
could work. The Nervousness of the
| CRIME of adultery was elaborately dwell
| upon. The histories of many nato
were ransacked for Illustrations tending
to present the dead mans offense in all
ITS enormity. LII order that rhe jury might
| be acquainted with the manner in
| which other nations treated destroy
ers of the homes sanoti.y, Prof.
Dmiry, a learned Washington gen
tleman was commissioned or requested
to furnish the court with list of the
ways European and other countries dealt
with adulterers. After long research
he made the following report through
Mr.. Brady. 1t constituted one of the
most interesting and instructive Incl.
dents of the trial:
Among the Jews by the law of God
the adulterer and the adulteress were
both stoned to death.
"In Greece Lycurgus decreed that adul-
terry should be punished the same as
murder.
1.-THE Saxons by their law burned the
adulteress to death, and over her re-
mains erected a gibbet on which the
adulterer, her accomplish, was hanged.
Some of the northern nations of Eu-
rope suspended the adulterer to a hook,
and left him sharp knife, with which
he was compelled to infiict self-punish-
IheHl OF eApenu MS guilty NE IN pro-
tracted torture.
TN England under Alfred the woman
was shorn and stripped to the waist,
driven from her husbands home, and
On the presence of all her relatives was
scourged from tything to tything until
death ensued; while the man was strung
up to the nearest tree.
I'm France under Louis the Debonair
both parties suffered capital punish
ment.
Constantine inflicted capital punish
ment on each Of the offenders, and JUS
tinian, in his reformation of the codes,
left the same penalty menacing male
adulterers
1.-THE Spanish laws deprived the adult
Nerer of shat through which he had vio-
lated the sano.ity of the marriage bed.
In PnrtIitra1 beth ma. b,1rt Il 4 L..