were admitted
Counsellors, and Asa W. Wildes, Esq. an attorney of said Court.
_Capital Trial_.--On Tuesday Stephen Merrill Clark, a lad about
15 years of age, was indicted for the crime of ARSON alleged to
have been committed in Newburyport, was arraigned the same day,
and pleaded _not guilty_. The day for his trial is not yet
fixed.--The Court assigned him Leverett Saltonstall and John G.
King, Esquires, for his counsel on his trial.
_Salem Observer_, Nov. 4, 1820.
Clark was subsequently convicted of the crime for which he was tried,
and executed upon Salem Neck in 1821. He had made a confession of his
guilt; but considering his youth, and the circumstances of his having
been instigated by others, as was believed, to the commission of the
crime, many humane people thought there should have been some
mitigation of the punishment.
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Strange and Curious Punishments, by Henry M. Brooks
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