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Dr. Doy Sentenced. - - The Doy trial is at last concluded and Dr. John Doy has been pronounced guilty and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in the Missouri penitentiary. Dr. Doy and his son Charles were kidnapped last winter in Kansas by the Mayor of Weston, Missouri, and 11 other nigger catchers.
They were bound with a rope, and taken to Platte City, Missouri, where they were met by a mob and barely escaped with their lives. After a mock examination they were bound over for trial and in due time indicted. While awaiting their trial they were confined in a dark loathsome cell, where they could not see their own hands at mid-day.
The first trial was had at St. Joseph. The indictment alleged that the prisoners abducted a negro boy named Dick, the property of Mayor (Benjamin) Wood of Weston, from Platte County, Missouri, on the 5th of January, 1859. Judge Norton presided and his rulings in the case were fair and strictly impartial. There was not an iota of testimony to establish the alleged abduction. The prosecution relied solely on passion and prejudice as the means by which to secure a verdict of guilty. A majority of the jury were slaveholders; ten were in favor of acquittal, two of conviction, and they were discharged.
The second trial is just concluded with the above result. Comments are unnecessaryDate(s) of Creation
6/25/1859
