The Trial of William Freeman

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486

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708 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: copy thereof solicited for publication. The request was granted; the sermon printed, and thousands thereof gratuitously circulated throughout the body of the State. The press announced the murder in glaring, startling capitals, and did its part in awakening the community to the awful consequences of sympathy for such an offender. Nor was this excitement local. As the tidings of the affair went forth in the public prints, the people of the whole State, in very considerable degree, partook of the feeling that pervaded the masses in Cayuga. Such had been'the tragedy; such the excitement; such was the condition of the public mind, when, at the May term of the Cayuga general sessions, four indictments for murder were found against Freeman, and presented by the grand jury. That for the murder of John G. Van Nest, being the one upon which he was tried, was in the words and figures following. THE INDICTMENT. At a court of general sessions of the peace, held at the court house, in the village of Auburn, in and for the county of Cayuga, on the eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty- six, before Joseph L. Richardson. Isaac Sisfon, Elisha W. Sheldon, Esquires, and others, their associates, judges and justices, assigned to keep'the peace in the said county of Cayuga, and to hear and determine divers felonies, trespasses, and other misdemeanors, in the said county, committed: Cayuga Couxty, ss: The jurors for the people of the State of New York, in and for the body of the county of Cayuga, to wit: Samuel S. Coonley, Ezra Willits, Phineas F. Wilson, William Beach, Henry H. Cooley, William Bidwell, James Congdon, Charles Paddock, Leonard D. Harmon, John O'Hara, John A. Carter, Charles Lester, Jacob Cuykendall, Daniel R. Books, William Moor...

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