Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1859 — Sentence of English Merchants for Fraud. [ARTICLE]

Sentence of English Merchants for Fraud.

At the L niil.iii (Timina! (’ourt, art the 3 I o' March. A I.red Skeen ami Archibald F. ecm.in. timber mercaiUts wli > li-.d been c mv.et.ed hi appropriating In their own u-e warrants of goods eut,rusted to them lor dis pos.il, were each sentences to otie y ear’s imprisonment with iiiiai labor. A strong attempt was made to mi iig ite tin- pun sluueni, on tiiegroun i th it me accused, when they u.-wd the w i it., nts, iuiiy intend-d t < m.ke the demlca ion good.; mu., remark al the presiding Judge, so did Dr. llo.ld wii'en tie lorgell tue it one of his patron, which met did n >t s.ive his ii 'ck troin the r g ill >ws. A large number of w< nesses to previous g ><>d cii ,r----aeter, probably tnereh mts, were introduced, but the Chief B iron remarked on t.ie frequent worthlessness ol such stat.‘men s.omo: the parties in the present in.-,t mce having “.t-o tiis eiern.il disgrace, said that, n itwithstand.ng th ■ transact on. he should ilimk awell ol the prisoneis as before.” Tnis case is but on • of the m inv that, prove how much more impartial is ud.n nislr .lion ol justice in England than h.-re. li. is idle l i claim tn.it because ail men are poiitcaily equal in this country, a imccss iry eptiliiv oi consider.it ion an 1 treilmeiit.it tne hands of justice Inflows. Tii..‘ rec-ayls ot Courts proves tti.it it is not so. Ryb scoundrels-, swindiers on a large-scale, rogues o.' good families, h ive time mid ag in escaped justice here, when their i illainy was m njifest, by what influence we do not know, ami need not ask, while such ca'-es are vjiry r.ve in England. if law is frequently executed wi ti unnecessary severity, its vigor lias at least the mi ig iti >n of lalnngequaiiy <>n rich and poor. >• ith all our boasted contempt o rank and position, it is tut so here. Tue more sin me m us.