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Intense exettamonl prevails.

the villains were In It. _ _

Ken h it c been despatched in nil direouoae to aeeare

their arrest.

TiSE UUffilHTIN OK LIS COLT.

Petition Tor Hie Rciemu) of the Dry 'Porta?**

Pawners Hplnnider, !W?dd mnA Arnold?

('nlm Kn1rw of the Te .tiojouy ou tUo Oar.,

?piracy Trial.

IKrom the Haiti more .Sun. Jan. s.|

We give below ttie memorial which hps boon put

in circulation petitioning tlu: PlOlllBlli lor the re

lease of Edm.iu Bplanger, l)r. Samuel A. Ki(M and

Samuel Arnold, prisoners at Uio Dry Tortugas, under

sentence of u military commission for alleged cum

nlicity with the murder of the late President Lincoln.

It is impossible to read the statement given In thla

memorial of the evidence adduced for and against

these prisoners u[>on their trlul without profound

ustoniHiiineut that any tribunal, even a military one,

could lias<? convicted ami sentenced men to along

and painfin imprisonment, upon testimony which,

now that the popular passions aroused by the mur

der of the late President have subsided, uo rational

man would consider suiitcient to ash their trial upon

much less their conviction.

Upon a review of the facts as slated below the

question is lnvolnntartly suggested whether the

court which convicted the prisoners upon such testi

mony could have erred through ignorance or whe

ther they yielded the couvletions of their own ju la

ments from timidity, aud without regard to the

miea of law and evidence, to an infuriate and undi

Criimutttnttdemand for retribution. However that

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The New York herald. (1869). New York [N.Y.], 1869-01-10. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1869-01-10/ed-1/?sp=9

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The New York herald, 1869-01-10.