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1 Alarming Developments Connected with Our Courts: The Wrong Member of Middlesex Bar Convicted of Perjury, and the Means by Which it Was Accomplished Exposed 1848

handle is hein.trials/aldvct0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ALARMING DEVEROMENTS CONNECTED WITH OUR COURTS. THE WRONG M BER OF MIDDLESEX BAi CONVICT D OF PERJUIRY, AND THE MEANS BY WHICH IT W ACCOMPLISHED EXPOSEKD! BY B. F. CLAR , Pashvrlf thia Coigregational Church and Society inNorth Chelmsford, Mass. TO THE PUBLIC. Friends and Fellow Cilizens:-It is with unfeigned reletance, that I attempt to expose the strange and unusual proceedings whlch have reolted, as 1 believe, in the conviction of an innocent man ofthe crime of purjury. A sense of duty to the injured person, 1o whom I sustaid the relation of Pastor, and a sense of duty to you, who ought to be informed how vrongs are sometimes in- flicted by men in high places, who susiain important relationt to public interests, has influenced me to step out of my sphere to perform this unplekant task. Friends of the Clerical as well as the Legal Profession, hive advised me to pursue' this course, saying that the People ought to have the facts cnnected with this case. With these preliminaries, I will state what I propose todo 1 propose to show from documents, in which all disinter(sied persons will phre confidence, as vell as from the testimony in the case, which is reported, and agreed by the counsel in the case to be truly reported, that Mr. Samuel Parker is not guilty of The crime of per- jury, of which lie has been convicted; and I also propose to describe some of the' ex- traordinary means which were employed in securing his conviction. To those who have no know ledge of Samuel Parker, I will say he is a member of the Middlesex bar. In 1836 he failed; since ,hich time he las resided aiih his fath- er-in-law, in Chelmsford, and has done buttery little law business. In 1839 he join- ed the Church, of which I am Pastor, by regular letter of rec(.mmendao n it( m the Rev. Mr. Blanchard's (hurch it) Lowell; since which lime I have seen nothing in Mr Parker to shake my confidence in his piety. I will now direct attent on to the subject 1 have announced, which I shall present in chapters. CHAPTER 1. An account of business transactions between George F. Farley, also a membtr of the Middlesex Bar, who was the prosecutor, and Samuel and Lemuel Parker, having an important bearing upon this prosecution. January 21, 1831, Lemuel Parker, Samuel's brother, borrowed of Farley $ 1000, upon h s note as principal, Saintel Parker, Nehemiah Cutter, and Abel Jewett as sureiie-. The two latter are brothers-in-law of the two former. The note remained unpaid till Sept. 1835, hen Farley stied all the tiebtors, and attached real estate. In giving an account of this transaction, in his testimony, Farley said, my suit was Digitized from Best Copy Available

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