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ISentences of fhe Bristol Rioters.—_ | lt;)r» Thursday last,('histopher Davis,Thomas (Jregorv, Richard Vines,W illiam Clarke, and Joseph Kayes,f* who had all been convicted of act.■ ingas leaders of the moh during the ’ Bristol riots, were brought up to receive sentence of death. They were all moM dreadfully alfeclcd by■ their awful situation, and Kayes, after behaving w ith frantic violence,fell into strong convulsions and wascarried out of court, foaming at the mouth, and screaming in the most i horrible manner.The learned Judge pronouncedI the awful sentence in the most sol-- emu and impressive manneri 'during its delivery, the ; prisoners were ail in tears. At in-t tcrvals, the roar* of Kayes, who had- been removed to a room in w hich * ;the prisoners were usually detained- jcould be distinctly heard in court., On the conclusion of hi* lordship’s I address, the prisoner Davis wrungt ! hi* hands, and exclaimed, “Oh! mer-I cv my lord, mercy! tiii* is the linttime that I have ever been accused 1 lofany thing. As the great God is to be my judge, I declare 1 never *ct lire to any house. 1 never mod-wdied in any not. I never joinedwith any mob. Oh! my lords, I J 'hope you w ill have mercy on me.”w'[‘he prisoners were then removed. 1‘atrick Kearney. Daniel Higgs,Ja-. Courteney, John Moray.Thom-as Evans Bendall, Jas. Syumis, Jno. Towel!, Matthew Warn , (Cornelius Hickey, Jas. Snooks, Win. R ey-nolds, dro, Andrews, Patrick Barney, Benj. Broad, Stephen Gaisford,Michael Sullivan, Timothy Collins,Henry Green and Ch cries Williams,wI if had l)ef»n all capitally convictedof riotously and tumultuously pulling down and demolishing certainIIJe1aaahouses, were tlien put to tlie bar, and sentenced to be transported forlife. The Lord Chief Justice Tin** j daII soon afterwards left Bristol for2 {London.In the afternoon after some tri-e j al* of no interest, the miserable man 1 | Kayes was again placed at the bar u before Mr. Justice Boasnquet. Hei-again solemnly protested that he bad been wrongfully accused—that•— ....,e t,i home both on Saturday1 and Sunday when iie»i ribed as eu-- 1 gaged in the riots. Sentence of i death w as then pronounced on him, i and he was removed from the court, f |exclaiming that he was as innocent
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Norwalk Huron Reflector
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Tue, Mar 20, 1832
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