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EDWARD D, WORRELL. 161

THE VERDICT AND SENTENCE.

The jury retired to consider their verdict. They were ont
about an hour, and when they returned the foreman pro-
nounced the words: ‘‘We, the jury, find the prisoner guilty
of murder in the frat degree, in manner and form as charged
in the indictment,”

The prisoner was required to stand up and receive his gen-
tence. He arose, his father and mother on each side of him,
their arms around his neck.

Jupce Stone, Mr. Worrell, you have appeared before me
for the last time. It is a most painful duty that I must now
perform, which is to pronounce upon you the sentence of
the extreme penalty of the law. It is painful to see so young
& man and one so respectably connected who, by his conduct,
could have raised himself to happiness and promoted that
of his family, but whose hopes in that respect have been
dashed to pieces and blasted by crime of the foulest die.
Yours might have been a path of distinction, but you have
not chosen that course. Let me advise you that all human
hope for you is ended. But while justice must take ita course,
and while you have but a few days to make preparation for
eternity, I tel! you there is a consolation from heaven—thera
ig a balm in Gilead. Make your peace with Him whose blood
washed out all sins. There is your only hope. Though your
sin be as scarlet, His mediation can make it white as snow.
Look to the Savior as your only remaining hope.

I must now pronounce upon you the sentence of the law,
which is that you be taken hence to the place where you came,
and that on the 17th day of March, next, between the hours
of 10 a. m. and 2 p. m.,, the sheriff of this county conduct you
to some convenient spot, and there and then hang you by the
neck until you are dead—and may the God of heaven have
merey on your soul!

The prisoner's counsel appealed to the Supreme Court, which

affirmed the verdict and sentence. See Missouri Supreme Court Re-
ports, Vol. 25, page 205.

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