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The Daily Dispatch: May 21, 1864., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], Affairs Around Chattanooga. (search)
Murder trial. --The trial of Joseph John Macarthy, charged with killing his wife some time in November last, is set for Monday next in Judge Lyons's Court. The murder occurred on Cary street, near 6th, and it will be recollected the deceased was stabbed and afterwards thrown down the steps leading from the second story into the back yard. They had been married only a few months.
The Daily Dispatch: May 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War News — Grant Quiet — Another Reverse for Butler on the Southside — the battles in Louisiana, &c. (search)
Sentence commuted. --Governor Smith has commuted the punishment of Joseph John Macarthy, under sentence of death for the murder of his wife in November, last, and whose execution was to have taken place yesterday, to fifteen years confinement in the penitentiary. The reasons assigned for so doing are that the daughter of the murdered woman, upon whose evidence Macarthy was convicted, has since acknowledged that her story was entirely false, alleging that she was made to perjure herself by her aunt. The witness has since stated that her mother had frequently threatened to kill Macarthy, because of his dental that they had been married, and that the night on which the murder took place she was very much under the influence of liquor, In a few minutes after she heard the cry of "murder," and on going out found the fatal deed had been committed for which Macarthy was tried. It is hard to say which statement made by this girl is correct; but since her equivocation casts some doubt