Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1859 — A Curious Cate of Injustice. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Cate of Injustice.

A man was convicted and sentenced in New York, a year since, to ten years’ imprisonment, for shooting a piivate watchman, who, according to the evidence on his trial, detected him and a confederate in the commission of a burglar'-. The watchman was dangerously wounded, and swore positively that Edward Griffith, the prim tier, was the minn who shot him. There were, besides, several circumstances which involved him in suspicion, and the jury found him guilty. It now trahspires that Griffith was entirely innocent. This fact is ascertained from the confession of one Gordon, recently arrested for another crime. Me was one of the burglars, tint! his confederate, Kelly, shot the watchman. Griffith, who is now in prisph for the crime, was at hi.s own in bed, at the time. Other circumstances confirm this confession, and Griffith will doubtless be released.