An Innocent Man's Punishment.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 7, 6 June 1885, Page 2

An Innocent Man's Punishment.

The case of Henry Dighy, residing near M c Lennsboro, m this State, ia a peculiar one, and exhibits m a striking n i tinner the. hardships which may be endured without a remedy under our law« Ms they exist. His sister, named Eliza Digby, was engaged to be msuried live years ago to a thriving merchant, named John Sinkler of the SHinu town. - Two days" before the wedding was' 1 to have occurred, John Sinicler was killed m his bed at midnight. In his statement, before death, he said he believed Henry Digby was his murderer ; that it was extremely dark when he was attacked, and that he supposed Digby's motive to commit the murder was founded on opposition to the wedding which was soon to take place Di«by was tried, convicted and sentenced to impmonraent m Chester Penitentiary for fourteen years. Subsequently Eliza Digby, the girl who had been engaged to Johu Sinkler, married Dick Sinkler, a brother of the murdered man. Two years. -i "-o Dick Sinkler killed a man m a row at Bel I p River, and was sentenced to (he penitentiary for life. Tt has since been learned that he and not Henry Dig 1 by killed John Sinkler, his brother, and that his motive was a violent passion for the girl who was to become his brother's wife and whom he afterwards married. These facts served to get Dixy's case befo-e the llin.»is Supreme Court, which decided (Itat the evidence on which he had been convicted wh.»- iuxiilhVictit for that purpose, and he was liberated from prison. Hi.s vindication was "complete, au-l ho was welcomed m honor and wi.h rejoicings l>v hi« <-.ld neighbors and friends. — " Chicago Journal"