{"newspaper_name": "American watchman and Delaware advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
On the afternoon of Tuesday, the 18th Novem
Der, John Funston arraigned before the Court o!
Common Pleas, then sitting Tor the county Of Tus
carawas, in the State Of Ohio, charged with murder
in the first degree. in shooting William CartmiH,
while in the act of carrying the United States mail
from Freeport to Coshoc.on, on the 9th Of Septen-
ber last. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Thirty
six persons summoned to attend as Jurors,
from whom the prisoner selected twelve. Forty
witnesses we're examined. The Jury returned a
verdict guilty., and the prisoner was sentenced to
death.