The Express. — 1848-01-11 (London, England)

SENTENCE OF DEATH ON ANDREW DER.—The prisoner Dea, convicted yesterday of the murder of Edmund Murphy, was brought up for sentence. The calmness and apparent unconcern so remarkably exhibited during the trial and after conviction characterised the demeanour of the unfortunate man throughout the still more trying and awful solemnity of passing sentence. The face was much flushed, but otherwise neither in feature nor voice was there the slightest trace of excitement observable. The cleric of the arraigns read the record of conviction, and then put the usual question if the prisoner had anything to say why sentence of death and execution should not be passed on him according to law.— The prisoner, after a considerable delay, and a repetition of the question, replied," I ask mercy of your lordships all, for my lather and mother's sake."—The judges then put on their black caps, and The Lord Chief Baron passed sentence as follows : Andrew Dee, you have been found guilty of the awful crime of wilful murder. It is dreadful to reflect upon the guilt into which one so young as sou appear to be have fallen. The circumstances which led to the murder, as they appeared upon your trial, show, that young as you are in years, you had full opportuuity of considering what you were about to do, and I fear that it must be taken from all that appeared on your trial that it was • transaction the result not only of deliberation, but of a deliberation—a determination—formed some time previous to the transaction which terminated in the death of your victim. His lordship recapitulated the leading features of the transaction as they appeared on the trial, and then proceeded Can it be pouibie to conceive an act of atrocity more daring than this ? In the middle of the day upon the public road— exposed to °beery*. lion, you and your brother prepared to make this murderous assault. Upon testimony clear beyond the possibility of doubt you have been found guilty by the jury. Your crime is one for which your life is a forfeit to the laws of your country, and I hays to announce to you that that life must be taken as • penalty for the life that you have taken, and that upon this side the grave there remains no hope for you. Let me then conjure you to spend the short penod, that yet remains, in that repentance and in those exercises of devotion which may obtain fur you that forgiveness from God which you cannot obtain from the laws. Turn your heart to that quarter whence mercy was never denied, and take the benefit of that assistance which will be afforded during your preparation for the dreadful scene which awaits you after you shall have suffered the awful sentence of the law. It now becomes my duty to pronounce upon you that sentence. His lordship then pronounced sentence of death in the usual form, fixing the day of etc nation as Monday, Feb. 7. John Collins was indicted and found guilty for highway robbery. No feature of interest appeared in the course of the trial. Several ether cases of a like character were disposedo) in all of which the prisoners were found guilty. It is a remarkable feature in the present commission, and one almost wholly unknown in the history of criminal proceedings in this county, that now the filth day has elapsed without a single cue of acquittal, and that there has been only one case in which the jury retired to their room to consider the verdict.  Beaux,