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agree, Nov. 1; acquitted......Dec. 24, 1873 David Swing, for heresy before the Chicago Presbytery, April 15 et seq., in twenty-eight specifications by Prof. Francis L. Patton; acquitted after a long trial......1874 [Professor Swing withdrew from the Presbyterian Church and formed an independent congregation.] Theodore Tilton v. Henry Ward Beecher, for adultery, Brooklyn, N. Y.; jury disagree; case ended......July 2, 1875 Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston boy murderer, for killing of Horace W. Millen, April 22, 1874, supposed to be Pomeroy's fourth victim......1875 Gen. O. E. Babcock, private secretary of President Grant, tried at St. Louis for complicity in whiskey frauds; acquitted......Feb. 7, 1876 W. W. Belknap, United States Secretary of War, impeached; acquitted......Aug. 1, 1876 John D. Lee, for the Mountain Meadow massacre, Sept. 15, 1857; convicted and executed......March 23, 1877 Col. Thomas Buford, for killing Judge Elliott at Frankfort, Ky.; acquitted on gro