Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

From the Albany Daily Advertiser, Nov. 24.

GREENE OYER AND TERMINER.

On Thursday last, at the Circuit Court
and Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by
his honor Mr. Justice Van Ness, in Cats-
kill, Jonathan Sickler, charged by Tho-
mas B. Lent, an accomplice, with the
murder of Sally Hamilton, at Athens, on
the 25th of August, 1813, received his
trial and was acquitted. Since the con-
fession of Lent, last spring, much inte-
rest has been manifested by the public in
relation to the approaching trial. Many
were induced to believe, from the state-
ments of Lent, and from the exactness
with which many circumstances related
by him corresponded with those that ac-
tually occurred at the time of the sup-
posed murder, that Sickler could not es-
cape conviction. On the trial, however,
the examination of Lent was so replete
with contradictions, absurdities and im-
possibilities, and so feebly supported by
corroborating testimony, as to place the
innocence of the prisoner, as to the crime
for which he had been indicted, almost
beyond a doubt. Partaking, in a good
degree, of the general interest in regard
to this trial, the editor attended the Cir-
cuit for the purpose of furnishing the pub-
lic with a full report of it. The mass of
testimony which was adduced, will pre-
vent our giving it in full: but we shall
prepare a history of the trial from our
notes, which we believe will be satisfac-
tory. The examination of Lent alone
lasted a few minutes over five hours, and
the trial continued from 9 o'clock, A. M.
till 12 at night. Counsel for the prose-
cution, Moses I. Cantine, district attor-
ney, assisted by the attorney general.-
For the prisoner, Messrs. Williams and
Sudam.

On Friday Sickler was discharged from
prison, and Lent ordered to stand com-
mitted for perjury.