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CoNVICKD AND SxNTXNCKD.—CharlgSConklin, the mm who noardered -M’Qro-arty on Thursday last, in Stafford's Ians, near AUica, for expressing Union send-ments, was arrested the same evening, brought to Attica, and alter an examine* tion before Esquire Colman, was committed to jail, at Covington, the same night. On Friday, the Grand Jury being then in session,! *d the case submitted tc hem and on the samo day returned a bill for murder in the first degreo. Tho trial wasfixed for Monday. At the proper time the oase was brought, proceedings had, nd before night committed to the Jury, who, after a short absenee from their box, returned a verdict in accordance with thebill found.On Tuesday morning the Judge delivered the sentence of the Court, which was, to award to the prisoner the punishment of death by hanging, for the crime of murder, and that his execution takes place on Friday, the 29th day of Noven ber, in the jail yard at Covington, in private, as the law provides.The sentence pronounced by Judge Cowan is represented to have been a fine effort, and replete with fine feeling and consideration for the position in which the prisoner, a fellow creature, was found. It was the first oase of the kind everbrought before nim.—Attica Ledger.
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Logansport Journal
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 14, 1861
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