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The Dead Alive.Our readeis will remember that about a year since. Charles D. Sage, a youth of about nineteen, was missing from his father’s house in Cromwell, in this State, and that one Patrick Nugent, an Irishman, was arrested on suspicion as the murderer, and aB having thrown the body into the Con neclicut Kivor. Subsequently a body wb9 found in the river, without a head, and which was believed to be that of the missing boy ; an overcoat was also found which answered to the description of that worn by the supposed deceased. Some months afterwards, one Benson, a long shore character, came to Cromwell and directly chsrg- I ed Nugent with the murder, claiming that he saw it done and assisted Nugent in putting the body out of the way. Though the accused denied it. the Grand Jury found a true bill against Nugent, and the trial W83 fixed for December.The last few days, however, have given a different turn to the case,—the lad Sage is still a.ive and Nugent has evidently been a victim to the wilful perjury of Benson. The wbeieabouts of young Sage was communicated in a blind way to a cousin of bis in Ithica, N. Y„ and being followed up it appears he had, since his supprsed murder, been engaged in keeping school in New Jersey.A special term of the Superior Court was held at Middletown, on Saturday, Judge Storrs presiding when Nugent and his wife were discharged. Benson was ar-resied on Wednesday of last week, by Depntv Sheriff Camp, and on Saturday whs brought before Justice M R. Warner, in Cromwell, to answer to the charge of peijury, with intent to*take life. He plead guilty. This will send him to State’s prison lor life. It is altogether a strange affair and the trial will no doubt make other developments, not creditable to any of the parties.11 . is n mi
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Housatonic Republican
Falls Village, Connecticut, US
Sat, Jan 02, 1858
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