Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
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574 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,Mr. Sampson. Was there notsome other case whieh you men-tioned before the police office?I mentioned somewhat jocularlythe loves of Theagines and Char-ielea. Chariclea was a beautifulend fair virgin, of Ethiopianparents, Her whiteness was oc-easioned by her…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO.575lowed the profession of an attor-ney, ot a serivener, who bada very amorous wife, But hehad not I¢isure to attend to allhhér gayeties. Once, that he wasunable otherwise to free himselffrom her importanities, in toy-ing with her he upset…
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576X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.and cross-examination meant only an indirect examination.Theignorant, who take things in the wrong sense, often show ill-homor,and put themselves in an attitude to be cross, because they are tobe cross-examined. With the eandid and enlightened, it provesoften…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO.B77the other side will not fail toavail himself of your opinions tothe utmost extent, perhaps be-yond your intention. I wish,therefore, by taking your opin,jon touching the probability ofother facts, to find what degreoof belief you attach to the pree-ent,…
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578X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.children will be witty? Someis have a great deal of wit,but I don’t know how they comeby it. Do you think, doctor, a3the counsel on the other sidedoes, that a pistol is au instrament of mueh efficacy…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO.579rale; for instance, wherever theeomplexion partakes more of thewhite than from the known pa-rentage, it should be expected,then it would be found that insome other of those indicationsthere will be preponderance theother way. One example out ofnumbers I had…
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580 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.the white man because of the matter, I bave found the oldfighting, it would be good to wee practice good enough for me,whether the pistol-barrel could end have made no experimentshave got it? Then, sir, you…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO. - 581only one month from the time she swears to his having gother with child.) All the physicians agrea that that symptomof prognancy docs not take place in less than three mozths,and that it is more commonly four.…
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582 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.enough to discredit her. What she said at the police is of a8little importance, being easily reconcilable with what she hassworn here. She said ahe had no connection with a whiteMan, meaning ne such connection as…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 583Lastly, the woman's testimony goes to accredit the sup-position that the influence of fear or surprise, and the suddenappearance of the white man armed with a pistol—the strug-gle that ensued—the irritation it produced—all combinedto operate such change.And although…
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584 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,color, nor yet of the African—but strange to tell, of mostdegenerate white.Third. And the greatest of these wonders, she remained,as the counsel for the Almshouse charitably testifies, a ladyof virtue and unblemished credit!T had heard of…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 585white onet We do not know why—some love the darknessrather than the light.But it is said her evidence was meritorious, and for thegood of the community, charitable, and for the good of theAlmshouse. I never before heard of…
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586 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,be any satisfaction to him we will retract that saying. Wewill admit that there waa first and second fiddle and baseaccompaniment. But as he is himself the leader of the band,he ought not to complain of…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 587sport, It is a quit rent which the learned owe to us smallwits; it ia an indemnity for the shade they cast upon us, andwe seize upon it by the title of amends, I do very much re-spect…
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588 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.‘We passed on to Aristotle; but with all his form and hissubstance, his matter and his motion, his cause and his effect,he could not inform us how, without violating probability,the black man could get the white…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 589that the Calipoedia,® or art of getting beautiful children, asalso of procreating males or females, may be taught by affect-ing the imagination of the male parent; for he says that thedelicate extremities of the seminal glands irritate the…
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590 X. AMERICAN §8TATE TRIALS.who made it black, and not rather be taken to be his whomade it white? Even upon legal principles, such an act ofownership exercised by 8 man over the child of another, asbleaching him without authority,…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 591dancing master it had, I would not undertake to say: it was,however, a merry-begotten devil, and probably a dancingone; and it is not impossible that it might have been one ofthose that tempted Saint Anthony, twenty thousand of…
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592 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.according to Censorinns, supported by the single argumentof an egg.* For they said no egg was produced without abird, and no dird withont an egg; and as it never could beshown which was first formed, it…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 593that Doctor Mitchill saw, in the very act of metamorphose,was a full-grown man, and could not be influenced, one wouldthink, at that time, by any affection of his mamma to changehis color. That fact then remains to be…
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594 2%, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.harlequins playing about! But for the ignorance of ourfathers we might have been burnished like game cocks, andhad wives like birds of paradise, and daughters like cocka-toos, Now and then those that love curiosities might have…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO, 595A Prussian soldier was detected taking certain jewels andeorporal ornaments from the image of the Virgin Mary, andboldly asserted that she gave them to him. The case wasnovel, and a counsel of prelates and other learned men waseonvened,…
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596 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.with a black man in a bad house, and he worried her out andhad a connection with her. Very good. Shortly afterwardsshe acoffled, or fit, aa she termed it, with a white man, andknocked off his…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 597in etiquette—but not in reality. ‘‘Montague’s men are al-ways thrust from the wall, and their women to the wall.’’Can we believe that the white watch made the black watchturn out, merely for the sake of a warm hammock!…
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598 %. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.There remains but one topic of the evidence to discussCases have been related and assented to by Doetor Mitchill,that where there has been a rapid succession of intercoursebetween a white and a black man, twins have…
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ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 599have been called in to give their opinions, and they almostunanimously declare that the defendant is not the father ofthe child, as it would be a deviation from the course of na-ture. Doctor Pascalis haa fortified his opinion…
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600 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.with the defendant. We ean, therefore, even upon her owntestimony, be justified in dismissing the present complaint;and we accordingly order, that the application to charge thedefendant as the father of the illegitimate child be overruled,and that…
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THE TRIAL OF ROBERT McCONAGHY FORTHE MURDER OF ROSANNA BROWN ANDHER FIVE CHILDREN: JOHN, ELIZABETH,GEORGE, JACOB AND DAVID, HUNT-INGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, 1840.THE NARRATIVE.‘When Farmer John Brown of Cromwell Township, Hunt-ingdon County, Pennsylvania, left home to do a week’s plow-ing some distance…
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602 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.the boya were gunning in the woods and coaxed him to gowith him, and as he walked from the house in front of him,he shot him in the back. He returned and told little Eliza-beth (17)…
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ROBERT McCONAGHY. 608John, Elizabeth, George, Jacob and David Brown, and hadpleaded not guilty.Alexander Gwin* and George Taylor’ for the Common-family to America and located in Montgomery Connty, Pa, in 1793;studied law and began praetice in 1804; removed to Bellefonte, Pa.,Mareh,…