From the New York Herald
Opinion of the Court
SENTENCE OE DEATH UPON MICHAEL MULVEY.
The Judge, addressing Mulvey, said: You, also, have been convicted of the crime of murder, and are also now to be sentenced to expiate your crime on the gallows. The jury have recommended you to mercy, and I shall transmit them recommendation to the governor. With him alone, from the moment when we shall pronounce final judgment upon you, rests the power to interfere with your execution, and it is in his breast alone to say whether your punishment shall be changed, or in any manner, and to what extent, modified. Although from that recommendation you may entertain a reasonable hope that your life will be spared, and that you will not now perish miserably on the scaffold, yet you can have no hope that you can escape a long, and perhaps a perpetual, imprisonment for the crime you have committed. Whatever may be the result in that respect, behold the enduring ruin you have brought upon yourself and all connected with you. Upon yourself you have brought either an ignominious death on the gallows, or imprisonment for the best part of your life. Upon your mother and young sisters you have brought irretrievable disgrace, and withdrawn from them the only protector and support they had. All this you owe to your criminal indulgence in the pernicious hahit of carrying concealed weapons and using intoxicating drinks. Had you been perfectly sober, the blood that is now upon your soul
The sheriff took his position beside the prisoner, and the reading of the death warrant and the same forms were gone through.
The countenance of the- prisoner brightened up, and' there was a smile of gladness on the face of his sister, when it was heard from the lips of the judge that he might entertain a reasonable hope that his life would be spared.
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