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A WAHXISU.Tho Atlanta ller,illt;/. of yestorday, brings us an account of tbo sad sceno when Milton Malone was souteucod for the crimo of murdor, to bo hanged on the *JSth day of November, next. This closes the last judicial act, and the rest is in the inexor-nblo hands of the executive—the ShorilT. True, his counsel state (hoy will carry tho case to the Supremo Court of tho Unitod Slates, but from this nourco thoro is no more hope than had tho travelers who entered tho gloomy gates of Itanto's Inferno. Milton Malono stood up ; ho was pale from confinement, and hagard with anxiety and fever, as he hoard tho torriblo words that marked tho limit of his young life, lie made no plea and otforod nodo-fonse boforo tho sentence, but after it was passed he spoke, and what ho said rellools nothing to tho credit of his character, and only tends in its bitter donunciutionH to prejudice his casein tho eyes of 111011 who look impartially 011 both sides. Yot thoro is u terrible lesson in his words, though they aro intended to convoy uo such moaning. Milton Malono is not a had man bocuiiso lie lms bad instincts, for the natural impulses of the man are good, lie is not a bad man because tho circumstances of hiu birth and oducation wore caloulatod to make him fumilliar with crime, for his parents wore peoplo in good citciuustances, moving in good society, and tho future of their son was as bright and promising, so fur as social advantages wore concorned, os that of any young man in tho Stato to-
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Columbus Daily Enquirer
Columbus, Georgia, US
Fri, Oct 24, 1873
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