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row was allowed the right to think over what course he world adopt.
His Counsel proposed that Mr. Murrow should publish an apology, should withdraw his plea and plead guilty and submit to such fine as the Court should decide.
Knowing Mr. Murrow's needy circumstances, I saw that the imposition of a fine would be either a cruel way of sending him to gaol or else would result in the getting up of a subscription to defray it (which would be no punishment to him), and having had experience of the character of his articles even after he has apologized, I thought it better to dispense with the fine and have him bound over in proper recognizances to come up for judgment if called on within the next twelve months.
In this Mr. Baldwell quite agreed, as he said his only object was not to punish Murrow but to clear himself.
This was the course adopted, and a reference to the apology published in the Daily Press of the 20th instant will show that Mr. Murrow has made