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The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sentence of a murderer. (search)
Sentence of a murderer. Armstrong, the murderer of Crawford, was sentenced in Philadelphia, on Monday last, to death. The prisoner had maintained the most extraordinary calmness during the trial. The American says: When directed to prepare for his visit to the Court-room he wore an air of entire indifference, though virtually he has admitted his complicity in the murder in half a dozen indirect ways. He nerved himself, therefore, for the conflict, and passed from his cell into th called upon his Maker to register the denial. During the time that the Judge was speaking there was a silence in the Court-room that nothing but the clatter in the streets prevented from being painful, yet to anybody but an expert the face of Armstrong was the face of the man least interested in the proceedings of all that were present in the throng. When asked why the dread sentence should not be pronounced he rose in his seat, and-- this time spasmodically — made a speech.--Even in thi