Hempstead.
Special to the Herald.
Hempstead, April 15. — The evidence in the case of the state vs. George Lawrence closed last night at 12 o'clock. The argument began this morning at 8:30 and was concluded at 6 p. m., when the case was given to the jury, under a very able exhaustive and impartial charge by Judge Burkhart. At 10 p. m. the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and gave Lawrence five years in the penitentiary..
"George Lawrence guilty.", The Dallas Weekly Herald, Thursday, April 20, 1881, p. 7, col. 4.