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Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Alexandria County, District Of Columbia
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O'Brien, convicted in New Orleans of murdering police officer Norton at Carrolton race course over a year ago, was sentenced to hang. A dispute between Jefferson and New Orleans parish sheriffs over execution duties led the Louisiana Governor to commute the sentence to 20 years imprisonment.
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More than a year ago a man named O'Brien was convicted, at New Orleans, of the murder of a police officer, a Mr. Norton, in an affray upon the Carrolton race course. He was sentenced to be hanged; and the warrant for his execution was issued to the sheriff of Jefferson parish. But that officer refused to perform the ungrateful duty, alleging that it belonged of right to the sheriff of New Orleans parish; who in his turn threw it back upon the Jefferson sheriff. The controversy has been kept up from that time to the present, and the Governor of Louisiana has at last been fain to commute the sentence; so Mr. O'Brien gets off with twenty years of imprisonment.
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New Orleans
Event Date
More Than A Year Ago
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sentence commuted to twenty years of imprisonment
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O'Brien was convicted of the murder of police officer Norton in an affray at the Carrolton race course and sentenced to be hanged. The sheriff of Jefferson parish refused to execute him, claiming it was the duty of the New Orleans parish sheriff, who in turn refused. The controversy persisted until the Governor commuted the sentence.