The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT.

Yesterday Edward Vail Brown, and John Bailey, a black man, who have been severally convicted of burglary, were brought to the bar; when his Honor Chief-Justice Sargent, after a few preliminary observations, which did great honor to his head and heart, pronounced Sentence of Death on both of them.

The Court-House, on this occasion, was crowded with citizens—attracted by the uncommon sight, of a fellow citizen, as Brown once was, the head of a family, who until of late years, supported an unblemished character for probity and industry, and who once bid fair to be a man of affluence—arraigned at the bar of public justice, to receive sentence of death for an atrocious crime. While commiseration cast a gloom on every countenance, a solemn silence indicated the impression which each one received from the scene. Brown appeared in much distress, and whilst the sentence was delivering, sunk down on the floor.