Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The trial of LEVI WEEKS, says the Commercial Advertiser, for the Murder of
JULIAN ELMORE SANDS, which came on before the court of Oyer and Terminer, on
Monday last, ended this morning about half past two o'clock. The vague reports which
had been in circulation from the time of her body being discovered, until the hour of
trial had irritated the public mind in such a manner as to draw to the place of justice a
large concourse of people, and rendered it somewhat difficult at first for the court to
proceed to business.

After the examination of the witnesses which occupied two whole days, the counsel
for Mr. Weeks, without a single remark upon the testimony, submitted his case to the
charge of the court. Mr. Chief Justice Lansing, after commenting on the evidence,
delivered to the Jury the unanimous opinion of the Court that Mr. Weeks was not
guilty. The Jury, which was as respectable as ever appeared in this city retired, and
after appointing a foreman, returned in less than four minutes, a verdict of NOT
GUILTY.

It must be a pleasing circumstance to this young man, whose character on the trial
appeared irreproachable and uncommonly amiable, and to his respectable connections,
that he does not owe his acquittal to the eloquence of counsel, but solely and entirely to
the clear and unequivocal proof he produced of his innocence.

After so fair and impartial a trial, it is hoped that those who have entertained any
suspicions, which have been very improperly excited on this occasion, will not only
divest themselves of them, but that this young man will be fully and completely restored
to the standing in society which he has so uniformly maintained.