Synopsis of the trial of John & Wm. Gordon [electronic resource] : for the murder of Amasa Sprague : before the Supreme Court of Rhode Island : with the principal witnesses in the case and the arguments of the counsel : together with full particulars of the execution of John Gordon on the 14th of February, 1845 / by an Eye witness ; with an appendix containing John Gordon's petition to Gov. Fenner for a reprieve and William's full disclosure of what he avers to be facts in regard to the murder.