Record Data
Source citation
“Sentence of the Rioters,” Carlisle (PA) Herald, September 8, 1847, p. 2: 5.
Newspaper: Publication
Carlisle Herald
Newspaper: Headline
Sentence of the Rioters
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
5
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Matt Dudek, Dickinson College
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
LOCAL MATTERS
SENTENCE OF THE RIOTERS – In the Orphan’s Court yesterday afternoon, after the ordinary business had been got through with, the colored men convicted of riot were brought into Court, and received from Judge Hepburn the following severe sentence.
John Clellan, Jacob Garver, Moses Jones, Augustus [C/Goates?], Anothony Boon, John E. Gray, Achilles [Vandergrift?], Valentine Thomas, George Norman, Henry Myers and Chris Turner, each to three years solitary confinement in the Eastern Penitentiary.
James Jones to six months imprisonment in our county jail.
Eli Butler to ten days imprisonment in the county jail.
