Show AN AMERICAN SENTENCE or OF DEATH IN CHIM the valparaiso Val correspondent or of oe the new york herald writes georgo george colton the young american sentenced to death by a council coin cil ot of war has had his sentence confirmed by the ibe court martial in santiago his case care is one of rh peculiar C liar oppression A participator in the itelo involution ution of 1851 he was as pardoned by general amnesty during the present year he was arrested upon some flimsy pretext and after buffering two months imprisonments imprisonment was liberated without evert even the semblance ot of a trials trial upon the 18 islda h or of septem september hearing that a revolution had broken out out lie be hastened home borne arid and finding the tb street leading to his house occupied by a line of sentinels went to the polite police barracks arid and re reves bues ted of et the officer of the guard permission to lu pass tin the line ile he was instantly arrested llund ind told that un unless lle he v would ron cot fess fees who ito were the leaders of the evolution andl and their heir plans he would be shot in ill five minutes 1 and to show alim that it was wag no idle threat tile the firing party was vas ordered out and drawn up in line he replied i that tie he knew nothing of the crewl ution its plans leaders or projects project san ard upon being urged told them to shoot it if they chose that he could not tell what he did not know at thi this s moment a party of police arriving r i ving with prisoners caught with arms I 1 in 11 their hands in the act of firing the military mili colton was reprieved and the newly ay arrived prisoners shut shot before his hisey e nee eg S 0 o was then laden with chains so eo beavy that he could move neither hand n nor or foot I 1 carried up tip to prison thrust in ini i t to 0 a dunat on aud and there left two days and nights lights without a particle of food without fire light or bed upon his big trial but a single wit nessi appeared against biffl birdo aid ad lie he a man who under sentence of death purchased a reprieve by fauese denunciations against the innocent and even he be could find rio no greater crime in colton than that he be was present in a public bar boorn whey when the r revolution was wag being disc discussed assed A more unrighteous and unlawful verdict never was I 1 tendered rendered in lr a civilized community than that which ban consigned this american citizen to a shameful death vigorous vi 1 orous efforts were made by ba our energetic ic and aclise vice consul G W to obtain his release he even ap appearing pearin 9 in person to defend him im before the to council until of war but to no effect |