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August 22nd (search for this): chapter 27
ening Governor Brooks gave an assembly at his mansion on High street, which afforded the highwayman the opportunity of waylaying the returning guests, who were of the class most likely to be victims of plunder. It was told that after the robber's escape from pursuit up High street, he found refuge in a cave in the woods at West Cambridge (now Arlington). From thence he went to Springfield, where, a week later, he was arrested and brought to the jail at East Cambridge. The Centinel of August 22 said The highwayman taken. Yesterday Michael Martin was examined at Cambridge on charge of being the person who robbed Major Bray on the Medford Turnpike. He was fully committed to take his trial in October next. The file of the Centinel consulted is incomplete, but from another source we learn that he was convicted on October 9. The Centinel, October 20, said, The sentence of Michael Martin, convicted of highway robbery has not been passed upon him. His counsel have moved
December 8th (search for this): chapter 27
the Chief-justice after a most dignified and pathetic address to him pronounced the awful sentence of the law. There must have been much excitement over the case, as this was the first sentence under the law before alluded to. His counsel made every effort in his power, but to no purpose. The Centinel of December 5 said, No doubt that Martin would be executed. But with the fatal day drawing near, Mike Martin undertook to do something for himself. On the morning of the eighth of December, as the keeper entered his cell bringing his breakfast, Martin gave him a stunning blow, rushed through the doorway and throwing himself against the gate, forced it open and escaped into the open field, where he was soon recaptured. It was found that he had some time before secreted the knife accompanying his food, nicked its back, thus making a crude hack-saw with which he had severed the links of his chain. The cuts thus made were filled with a mixture of grease and dust, making t
October 20th (search for this): chapter 27
nce he went to Springfield, where, a week later, he was arrested and brought to the jail at East Cambridge. The Centinel of August 22 said The highwayman taken. Yesterday Michael Martin was examined at Cambridge on charge of being the person who robbed Major Bray on the Medford Turnpike. He was fully committed to take his trial in October next. The file of the Centinel consulted is incomplete, but from another source we learn that he was convicted on October 9. The Centinel, October 20, said, The sentence of Michael Martin, convicted of highway robbery has not been passed upon him. His counsel have moved an arrest of judgment for misdirection of court matters of law and the court has assigned a future day for hearing arguments on the motion It seems that the future day was not long deferred, for on October 22— the Chief-justice after a most dignified and pathetic address to him pronounced the awful sentence of the law. There must have been much excitement
1821 AD (search for this): chapter 27
times illustrated by wood-cuts of the criminals and their execution. In the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society is the story (third edition) of this case (70 pages) by F. W. Waldo published by Russell & Gardner, 1822. This contains the story of his life as confided to that writer by Martin, whose real name was not Mike but John. There is also a smaller pamphlet by Mr. Waldo which is a detailed report of the court proceedings as reported by him, and by the same publishers, in 1821. Still another, probably elicited by the first named, deals with the publicity given to the reputed penitence of criminals, and is a careful exposition and defence of the then existing law. A later publication of forty-eight pages, in 1845,— Mike Martin, or the last of the highwaymen. A Tale of Reality—was by F. A. Durivage, the editor of the Olive Branch, and frequent contributor to the columns of the famous Gleason's Pictorial of the '50s. As his work was twenty-four years later, it
1822 AD (search for this): chapter 27
scaping he would probably have gone back to his former life. In the foregoing it will be observed that the quotations are from the Centinel, a leading semi-weekly of the time. It was then the custom to print (in pamphlet form) reports of capital and noted trials, sometimes illustrated by wood-cuts of the criminals and their execution. In the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society is the story (third edition) of this case (70 pages) by F. W. Waldo published by Russell & Gardner, 1822. This contains the story of his life as confided to that writer by Martin, whose real name was not Mike but John. There is also a smaller pamphlet by Mr. Waldo which is a detailed report of the court proceedings as reported by him, and by the same publishers, in 1821. Still another, probably elicited by the first named, deals with the publicity given to the reputed penitence of criminals, and is a careful exposition and defence of the then existing law. A later publication of forty-
1886 AD (search for this): chapter 27
the indictment charged the robbery in Medford, this is comparable to the old weapon found in the river at the building of Cradock Bridge and brought to the Historical Society, and said to have been Mike Martin's, but which was a revolver. Another writer, perhaps with some reason, gives the Devil's Den in Menotomy Rocks park at Arlington as his hiding place, giving a minute and interesting account of its features. The date of this latter cannot be fixed but, as before stated, perhaps was 1886. Another haunt of Martin's is said to have been on the slope of Central hill, where was (and still is) the spring, just northward from the railroad station known as Winter hill. But neither Martin nor any one else ever dreamed of a railroad then. The sheriff doubtless had then and there good reason to ask of the assembly respect of the rites of religion, but it is a sad commentary on some phases of modern civilization that, after the lapse of a century, the chief executive of the commo
December 20th (search for this): chapter 27
s soon recaptured. It was found that he had some time before secreted the knife accompanying his food, nicked its back, thus making a crude hack-saw with which he had severed the links of his chain. The cuts thus made were filled with a mixture of grease and dust, making them unnoticeable until broken in his desperate attempt. He told the sheriff that he prayed to God twice on his knees, that the blow he was about to inflict on the keeper might not prove fatal. Twelve days later (Thursday, December 20) the sentence of death was executed. A vast concourse of people assembled at Lechmere Point to witness it. East Cambridge was not then a network of railway tracks and closely built factories, and the scaffold was in plain view of the state prison at Charlestown, and of Boston across the Charles River. The Centinel of the 22d gave a graphic account of the same, mentioning the appeal of the sheriff to the assembly to maintain respectful silence and order while the last offices of r
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