Helm and Thomas McBirney should both hold high and important offices at the time, and _after_ they had been tried and convicted of the crime of kidnapping.

Both of these gentlemen, guilty of a State's prison offence, were judges of the common pleas.

T.McBirney was first judge in the county, and Capt.

Helm was side judge; and notwithstanding their participation in, and conviction of, a flagrant outrage on the laws of God and man, they managed not only to escape the penalty, but to retain their offices and their respectable standing in community for years after..