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’ .41: Account of q r7e5nar.Ea5le Yrialfin‘ Jifurder. A 4-5‘ 1
truth,.,with.)nt‘adding or diminish-‘ singular instance of the most in--”
ingone tittle, a'sjhc2shou'd. vnnswver, vcterate’ obsti‘nacy, x‘vh'o.. having.
it to GodAlm,ighty.’?t Being. then -tahkenhtzpga‘. diiiierentdopinion.-fro,nr
called.-,upon.)to produced l1is'..wit-‘ ‘, thefm,“ was,nnalter'ablyVfixed;-it)
ncsses;Vthe,pnsoner=answeredwith :1, , The messenger was. no ,sooner- ref,
steady cdniposcd c0untenance,.and; turned, >butthe' Chmplaining mem-1-I .
resolution "of voice, “ He .had.no hers, alarmede at the'thoughts of
witness but.God:an‘d, his own. con-. being keptgunder .confinement all -
sciE:nc.e‘.”'. - .- V s the. night, and,‘despairing...of bring;
. The-‘judge then‘ proceedcdto de-= ing their .dissenting brother ‘over’ to
liver his charge, in which-,he pa- ‘their own ‘ugays of,t1;inl5ing;; agreed
thetieally-enlarged ,onf.the hein‘Qus- toxaccede to,-his opinion, and. hay:
ness of’ the.V c;ime,Vand laid great ingacquaintcd, .ll1im,with eth'cir;,rc-,-
.t-tress on thesforce VofVthe .evidenc e-, solution; they sent an.oriic<:t‘Qt‘o.de.-.. L
which,-although circumstancial .on-or tain his Lordship few; minutes,
ly; he (lee!-.1red,he thought‘ to be:ir- randthen went into the Court, and-
tresistible, andrlittle inferior to the by their Foreman .brought.‘i,n the,
most positive’ pr<>of,tha,t..tl)e ,pri.- prisonernot.guily,-,.:I'Iis Lordship
’soner:hadindeed cooked. up a- very could not help. ‘expressing the".
. lattsibicvstory, butif.;suc‘h, orthe .greatestsurprize al1d.il1di.gX:!a‘tlOn at
hke .z1lleg'ationsVwere'to jsgadfnitted, ‘ this nnexpccfted v;erdi'6t;‘ ‘and after
-in acase of this .,kind, no murderer giving the jtiry...-ti severe a moni-
' wouideever be br'onght,Vto justice, than, he refused to record-their,,v.er-,
s.u<':h.:b1otidy’deeds‘heingVgeneraily ,di&, and ;,sent them[Vb,ack’;agt1‘iii,-
-p'erf)etr'ated in- the dark, -and. with with ,dire&ions that the .shoul ,d 1:6
the greatest secresy‘-that the pre- locked up.aIlVnight, wit, out filje or
sentxcase was; exempted,‘ in his ;candle. ‘The u1ho.le‘.blam'e‘;V.was
opinion;;; front -‘all possibility of . publicly ‘laid on‘ the Foreman-by
doubt, and that they-“ought not ‘ the,r,est of the members and they
to hesitate one momentfabout find-' spent the; nioht .in loading him '
“mg the prisotiergzgilty, ' i -‘ with refiefttons, ,andV bewailing
The’ Foreman Wbegged ‘jof hiss theirunhappy ‘fate, in '-being asso-
Lordship, as this was a case of life ciated with‘ so hardened a wretch
and death, th'at'the ‘Jury might be --but‘he,'remaincd. quite inflexihfe,
"at liberty .to“T,x’3’Jithdraxv;‘V%and, ,up,on ‘constantly declaring, Vhe.w.ou)d sitfg’
jthis ymdridg an QfT)Cc;'.wa5‘SwQrt1.4:(fCl‘ death rather ‘than .change his
’to.keep'th,eV]ury. "' W V . opinion: ' 7; x V " . L V.
’ This ‘trial Vcame- on the first in . ,As soon as his Lordship ,t:arn'e in
the morning“,aand'Vthe.’judge hav- '. to.Court'the peat: :mor11ing;,he Semi?"
.‘fing sat Vtilinine atV‘night, exipceting . a aintnthe jury. on whibh all Ihc
the return of the ‘Jury, at. last sent ,e e.vet 1 members joined in request:-'-’ .
an ofiicer to inquireif 'they‘,;w.ere. ing their Foreman to go agailpuinto
agreed in-their Vvcrditft, and ;to sign. ;Court; as'suring’;hin1.tlieytwould ad-2“
xnify to them,‘ that; his. Lordship... here'7tb,their'former,verdi&,,w1tat:
would wait no iongeri for them. ever was',the.c,on:equcn'ce;and, on
$ome of them returned for answcr,... "being rcproached .Vv1thV.their former
ithatelcven ofwtheir-‘body had been inconstancy, they promised never
of the same mind from thefirst, but ‘toedesert, or recriminate upon their
.:jthat‘it,was their misfortunes tohavc. Foreman ‘any, more-UP0,I,1 -these
‘,p,.;F'oremau>.that proved .to be as assurances,‘ they proceeded into
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