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Extract of a letter from Utica, New-YorkState, June 22.At the court of oyer and terminer, held in this county laft week, Robert Hazard of Rome, laborer, was conviflcd of forgery, and fentcnced to the (late prifon For life. He leaves behind him an affeftionate wife, (fhe is by law no longer his wife) and three or four fmall children. At the fame court, George Peters, an Indian of the Broihertown tribe, was conviQed of the murder of his wife. The proof againft him was full and convincing; and the murder appeared to have been committed in a mod cruel and barbarous manner. Judge Kent, who prefided and delivered his fen-tence, explained to him the nature of the crime and of the fentence, in a manner at once plain, full and pathetic. This impref-five fentence cannot fail to have confidera-v . I * Hr* .1 - f 1* P 3Lvdu£t of a number of the principal men pre-fent of the tribe to which this Indian belongs. It was calculated to fhew them the energyas well as the necefTuy of the law's by which we are governed. This convi wfti be executed on the laft Friday in Auguft next.44 Some little doubt was at firft entertained, whether the Broihertown Indians were amenable to the laws of £he ftate for offences committed amongft themfelves; but a recurrence to their hiftory, evinced them to be mere remnants, of various Atlantic tribes, which were conquered and moftly dcflroy-ed by the early European emigrants; who hadloft all tertitorial and national fovereignty, anti renounced all right of felf government and cognizance of offences, and had for a century been fubjefied to the laws of the ftate in which they had refided. Tbefe confident ions jnduced judge^ Kent to proceedto maf^nTexec Jiion Wu^vtVe left thet Oqueftion for confidcration of thejuftices ofthe fuprcme couhiSi
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Georgetown Gazette
Georgetown, South Carolina, US
Sat, Aug 08, 1801
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