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980 TRIAL Ox' JOHN W. WEBSTER.
Larkin, Joseph Smith, B. Perley Poore, Osmyn Brewster, Pearl Martin,
Thomas W. Robinson, David Chapin, Hamilton Willis, Benjamin Adams,
and Peter Harvey,-all of the county of Suffolk, Esquires.
And there were also present at the execution of said sentence of
death, two surgeons hereinbefore named. And, at the request of said
John W. Webster, I permitted the Reverend George Putnam, D. D., to
be present at said execution.
And I also informed the counsel of said John W. Webster, that they,
the said counsel, and the relatives of said John W. Webster, might be
present at said execution, according to the provisions of said statute,
if they saw fit.
And there were also present at said execution, by my order, such
officers of the jail, constables, policemen, and other assistants, as in my
judgment were expedient and necessary to insure the preservation of
order and decorum in and about the yard of said prison and the neigh-
borhood thereof.*
JOSEPH EVELETH,
Sheriff of Suffolk County.
* The original warrant, with the above return, was deposited by the sheriff
in the
Secretary of State's office on the 9th of September ollowing: and, on the
same day, the
filed a certified copy thereof in the clerk's office of the Supreme Juicial
Court, pursuane
to the following statutory provision:-Rev. Stat. chap 139, sec. 15. "
Whenever a sheriff
shall inflict the punishment of death upon any convict, in obedience to a
warrant from
bee governor, he shall make return thereof under his hand, with his doings
therein, to the
tscretary's office, as soon as may be, and shall also file in the clerk's
office of the court
where the conviction was had, an attested copy of the warrant and return;
and the clerk
shall subjoin a brief abstract of such return to the record of the
conviction and sentence."
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