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From the Burlington (font) Gazette.Conviction mi.I Sentence.I lie rase cif McCuuli y, who some time Iasi ten turner or fall cnmitted a moM deli-* - ami lie ml i» h murder in Washing, ton county, in tluu territory, has not escaped the recollection of the public. The ItfllcMilty, wo believe, grew out of the al-llegnl improper iiitinmey of the wife of •he murdered man, Ci.liman, with Me-Catilev. rite former, upon the fatal occasion. was parking along the road in a eotupwiy with l.i- wife, and having a younir child in hi* arras, when he was Mtotbv Mel ’ a it Icy Irotn a clump of bush-i in wliii li lie was concealed ; the bull */ v in- lJ,r u.;h the bodies (/both failin' and rlild! both of whom died almost j ir.hMiitly, McCauli y was arrested and thrown into pthon.and would have been trool at the l ot term of the Washington county court, 1 u| not his counsel decided to take a change of venue.Iht* trial w as taken to Van Burin county, and was got through with last week. It resulted ill the conviction of Met ’.mb y of muider in the fir*! degree, and the guilty man was sentenced tn bo executed on the 311th lt;I* May. The prisoner put in I lie plea of guilty, and threw himself upon the mercy of the court. The s-cnteuea of the judge, we rrc informed By those who were present, was one j of the most nfiVctii.g nnd feeling things of the kind ever liM. ned to. The duty of sentencing :l |V||,.w I t ing to death is by lar the most painful one which those cloilnd with the judicial ermine can bo called upon to perlmm ; hut to such na are oppmed lo capital punishment ityon principle—nnd wo be lieve we do not err in rnnking Judge Mason among this numerous and increasing class—it must ho doubly painful. Still, the laws must bo l.iiihfttlly administered,I lie execution to take place in Van Buren county.
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The Ottawa Free Trader
Ottawa, Iowa, US
Fri, May 09, 1845
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