Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
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514 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.ered the commission as directed to himself, and esteemed hisauthority to have received the royal sanction. By advice ofthe committee of safety, he now assumed the title of lieuten-ant governor. To add strength to his party,…
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JACOB LEISLER. 516and was seized and thrown into prison, together with his son-in-law and several of his adherents.The prisoners were immediately brought to trial before aspecial court of oyer and terminer. Six of the inferior in-surgents were convicted of high…
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516 %. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.THE EXECUTION.On May 16th, 1691, Leisler, with his son-in-law, Milborne,was led to the gallows. Parting with his wife Alice, and hisnumerous family, he met his death with fortitude, and as be-came a christian. After praise to…
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JACOB LEISLER, 517hoped they would act aa such. Turning to Milborne, he ex-claimed, ‘“‘why must you diet you have been but as a servant,doing my will; and, as I am a dying man, I declare beforeGod and the world, that…
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THE TRIAL OF NICHOLAS BAYARD FOR HIGHTREASON, NEW YORK CITY, 1702.THE NARRATIVE.Jacob Leisler fell a victim to the malignant feelings en-gendered by political contentions in the Provinces in 1691;and the passions, excited in his adherents by hia melancholyfate, continued long…
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NICHOLAS BAYARD. 519mont, the aristocratic party, now in the minority, took meas-ures to secure the new governor to their own interests, Nicho-les Bayard who had been long imprisoned by Leisler, and wasinstrumental in his death, procured addresses to be signedto…
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520 ¥, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.jection was immediately overruled. A part of the jury in-sisted that they had a right to deliberate alone, whereuponthe Solicitor General took down their names and threatenedthat he ‘‘would eause them to be trounced,” and the…
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NICHOLAS BAYARD. 521THE TRIAL?In a Special Court of Oyer and Terminer, New York City,February, 1702.Hon, Wuuutam Arwoon,? Chief Justice,Hon. Apranam Durrysrer,? Judges.Hon. Roszsr Waurens,January 6.Lieutenant Governor John Nanfan™ and his eouneil com-plained of libels against the government in the form…
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522 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.neither the address nor the petitions nor any matter thereincontained is criminal and illegal, but nevertheless the Councilissued its warrant for the arrest of Nicholas Bayard andJohn Hutchins under a recent statute which provided that“whatsoever person…
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NICHOLAS BAYARD. 523for the service) attended them with the proofs and insisted to bepresent with the grand jury, and that no person should be sent forbut whom he should name; and that no question should be askedthem but such as…
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524 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.presented the bill and the court was possessed of it; it was now arecord and there is uo averment against a record. It was ordered,that the prisoner come to trial on Monday next; to whieh day…
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NICHOLAS BAYARD. 525Saunders, Jacob Cornelisse, Barent Kool, Goert Olpherto, SamuelCornelius Clopper, Conrael Teneyck, Jacobus Goelet.The Prisoner then read a petition to the court, in which he setforth the injustice and irregularity of the proceedings against him.The indictment, he said, was…
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526X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.ignera, were entitled to theprivileges of Englishmen here.It speaks concerning the laterevolation here, of which I havebut a confused idea, and ean re-member nothing particular; aft-erwards it speaks concerning myLord Bellamont’s administration,in several articles, of which I…
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NICHOLAS BAYARD.527word ‘seum’; but I now think itwas, that the ‘hottest? and ‘ignor-antest? were put into places oftrust.” “Mr. Clows, pray tell us,what was the reason why you didnot sign the other two ad-dresses?” “TI think I am not atthis…
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528X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.them complained, that the peoplelay under some hardships hera.The Solicitor General. Youdeelared much more before thecouncil I was then called sud-@enly before the council, and wassurprised,John Bashford. I was at thecoffee house, where I saw thepepers or…
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NICHOLAS BAYARD. 529the house nor his name on thepapers,John Buckly. Coming homefrom the fort and passing byMr, Hutchina’ house I was askedto walk in by Mr. Hutchins,which I did; saw some papersthere which were called ad-dresses; but did not read…
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530&. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.others at their request, they hav-ing first put their marks; I andthe others expected by this to bemade free of the city; believe,out of 160 men now belonging tothe fort or thereabouts, theremay be thirty that signed.One…
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NICHOLAS BAYARD. 531The Solicitor General. I have now proved by the witnessesthose false and scandalous tibels set forth in the indictment,whereby the good, peace and quiet of the government haabeen disturbed, which by this act of assembly is high treason.I…
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532 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.tment, By the course of the evidence, it appears, there was anaddress to the king, an address to the house of commons, andan address to my Lord Cornbury, and a petition or address tothe lientenant governor…
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NICHOLAS BAYARD. 533hy that it plainly appears to be the right of the subject topetition the House of Commons, or the King. The provisoin that act eays, ‘that neither that act, nor anything thereincontained, shall be construed to extend or…
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534 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,eomplaining is made treason! Here is a strange and fataldilemma on the subjects of the plantations. They must eithersuffer their oppreasions, or be hanged for traitors if they eom-plain. .The act of assembly of this country…
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NICHOLAS BAYARD. 535Mr. Emot. By Your Honor’s permission, I am of counselfor Colonel Bayard, the prisoner at the bar; but by reason Iam unwilling to spend too much of your time, this trialalready having been very long; and Mr. Nicholl,…
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536&. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.upon loan, without interest, sev-eval considerable sums of moneyfor the preservation of hismajesty’s interest and govern-ment in New York, of which up-wards of 2001. money in specielent, is atill unpaid. I desire,clerk of the conneil) may besworn,‘Arwoon,…
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NICHOLAS BAYARD. 537guilty; who had his advantage in moving in arrest of judg-ment, and might be relieved as to matter of law.Mr. Emot, This ig not fair, to give the jury a handle tofind the prisoner guilty, in expectation of…
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538 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,The prisoner made an urgent appeal in a letter addressedto De Peyster, one of his judges, in which he says:“Believe me, sir, a5 you may give credit to the words of a dyingman, I die with…
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NICHOLAS BAYARD. 539have you any thing to say why sentence should not be pro-nounced f””The Prisoner. I have nothing more to offer, than what myeounsel have offered, and what is contained in my last peti-tion.The Cammy Jusnice, I am sorry…
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THE TRIAL OF ORRIN DE WOLF FOR THE MUR-DER OF WILLIAM STILES, WORCES-TER, MASSACHUSETTS, 1845.THE NARRATIVE.William Stiles, a deformed and feeble man, married to agood-looking wife, was lazy and given to intemperance. Hehad a small property whieh on account of…
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OREIN DE WOLF. 541June 10.Today began the trial of Orrin De Wolf. The first count ofthe indictment charged the prisoner with committing afelonious assault on William Stiles, at Worcester, on thefourteenth of January lest, and producing the death of saidStiles…
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542X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.ham Haskell, foreman; Holland Albes, Gilbert Bond, JoelBarnard, Zalmon Bellows, Salem Cobb, Charles Cutler, Frank-lin M. Farnum, Ephraim Fisher, Lincoln Fay, Wileott Har-wood, Emerson Johnson.THE WITNESSES FOR THE COMMONWEALTH,Benjamin Baldwin. Reside inWorcester—tend stable for Flagg& Dodd, _hotel-keepera—Mr.Whipple's…
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ORRIN DE WOLF.543a Toom at the left as T went in.This was a little after nine inthe morning." Rodolphus C, Edwards, Wasst Flage & Dodd’s tavern thenight of Stiles’ death; saw DeWolf about half past ten in thebar room. He…