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A Celebrated Case

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
February
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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John P. Phair will be hanged at RutIand, Vt., on April 4, tbc Snpreme Court of Vermont Inning refused to gruut liim ti new trial. Cliief Jnslice Pierrepont remi the opiniĆ³n of the court, whioh is, in brief: TJie. only reason produced by Phair why he shoukl be again tried for the morder of Mrs. Fries is the impression (not oath) of W. D. Dowaing, of Boston, that he saw and talked with Phnir on the oars between Boston and Providence at a time when, bad he committed the murder, he could not havo been there. Downing does not swear that Fhair was the man he saw ; therefore his testimony is of no weight. This enda one of the most remarkable of New England's criminal sensations, and a man is again appointed to die whom many think gviiltless.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus