Q. (i solemn manner)—And from that hour to this you have never: felt regret or remorse?
A—I regret giving pain or trouble to any one, but I have no doubt as to necessity of the act or the divinity of the Q.—Yot you have-never hinted at any re—My mind-is perfectly free on that ject.
—Do yo feel any-more remorse xbout rendering his wife's widow and her children fatherless than about breaking'the limb of a-puppy dog?
MAT have no conception of it -aa-a murder or killing.
Q.—And you feel no-remorse? perso 5 Femorse as much as any man, and regret the necessity of the act, but (raising his voice)
Mr, Porter—The cross examination in closed.
"But" continued the prisoner excitedly, "my duty to the Lord and to-the American people over came my personal feelings, If the Lord had not red that act it would nochave'bi examination'and prisoner just as clears to the divinity of and the-necessity of ft for: the "good of the
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