Year: 1876

the people caused Judge Cradle
baugh'S efforts to be entirely una
valllng. The same policy has


THWARTED EVERY EFFORT,


From that day to this, to bring
the guilty to justice AT the for
mer trial last year, the whole pow
er and influence Of those who are
supposed to have had sOmethin9
to do with the dreadful crime Weres
against your conviction. This
opposition to the Investigation
was in strict accordance with their
settled policy of hostility, and to
putting the blame Of this crime
where if belongs but their efforts
to smother and crush out the in
veStigatiOn were found to assist or
await them no longer. It was i'm
possible to longer delay the day
when the outside facts of the cons.
piracy should be brought out, and
they have suddenly changed their
policy. and seem now to be con-
senting to your death. [ do not
comprehend why this is so, unless
they have hope, by your cOGvic-
ton, to appease the public indig-
nation throughout the country,
and that your conviction and
death would end the further in
vestigation of the matter But in
this they are greatly mistaken.


THIS DREAD CRIME WILL NOT
DOWN


In your conviction, but it is the
beginning of the end. The de-
mandS Ofjustice will not be sacri-
feed. They, the guilty leaders in
planning and executing that
crime, are known, and will be
brought to the bar Of Justice and
their cases Investigated in the
Court and passed upon by An i'm
partial jury. 1t gives me no plea
sure to say anything in reference
to the awful deed in which you
we're willing participant. You,
and all those who plotted this
deed of blood or who participated
therein, are no doubt guilty of a
great crime, aud the inOffenSive
VictimS-tbeir mouths are closed
! to this WOrld-Will meet and con-
front you at the bar Of Almighty
God, where the secrets of all hearts
shall be made known, and the
guilty cannot avoid that tribunal.


The world has no sympathy for
| the perpetrators Of so dastardly


AND CRUEL A BUTCHERY,


And the Christian civilization of
our age stands aghast at the long
and persistent Efforts to prevent
the guilty from being brought to
| justice, aud the long delay can
only be accounted for upon the
supp0sitiOn that the guilty leaders,
in plotting and carrying into exc
cution this crime. controlled, and
still control, the popular will and
public sentiment in this Territory.
There is a sympathy for you
among some of the people, grow
ing out of the belief that you have
been deserted by the parties and
plotterS of the crime, and left to
be sacrificed, but yet all good men
| feel that your conviction is but the
proper execution OF the law. 1t is
painful that any human being
should suffer death for any reason;
but outraged justice requires it.
No one, that | know of, connect
ed with the administration of the
law, takes any pleasure in your
death, nor in the death of any one.


1t is a settled duty which devOl-


YES upon them in this matter, and


they cOnnOt avoid it.


In accordance with the verdict
Of the jury, and the law, ii be-
comes my duty to pass sentence of


death upon you, and in doing this


the statute requires that you may


HAVE THE CHOICE


OF your desire of three different


modes Of execution, namely-that


of being hanged, by shooting, o,
by beheaning. If you have any
choice or desire in this respect
You can now express it.


Lee said: II would rather be


shot"


p, Judge B.-As you have made I
choice and expressed desire thai
, you be executed by being shot, i
: follows that such shall be. The
r Judgment of the Court is. there


fore, that you be taken hence to ;
= place of confinement within thi


Territory, and that you there b.
safely kept in confinement unit
@ Friday, the 26th day of January
: 1877; that between the hours Q
10 O'Clock in the forenoon and
O'clock in the afternoon of tina
h day, you Oe taken from your plac
+ Of confinement, and in this distric
/. be publicly shot till you are dead
n and may Almighty God hav
e mercy upon your soul.


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