Conviction Of Coolidge

The trial of Coolidge, in Augusta, for the murder of Matihews, has lerminuted in the conviction of the prisoner, and he has been sentenced to death. Soon after four o'clock on Thursday afternoon, the Jury brought in iheir verdict, ' guilty' of murder in the first degree. The chief justice tlien asked tlie prisoner whether he had anything to say why sentence ofdeath should not be passed upon hirn. He sni.J he had only to say the sentence would be against an innocent tnan. (Here he paused.) You pass sentence on a man convicted on fa!e lestimony. His counsel had pleaded for him eloquenlly, and done their cluty ; he believed the jury liad ed to do liiin jusiice, bul had heen misled. - "But thank heaven," said lie, " there is a higher court, before whicl) I sball appear, and vvhere false testimony will not avail ; at ihat court I shall meet the vvitnesses on whose teslimony I am condemned. I slial) wait paliently till that time comes ; choostng my lot rather than that of one vvho, even now, may bo within the hearing of my voice. I may reveal what I know, and commit it lo paper. I now bid you all an affectionaté farewell.