Richard Parmelee Robinson Trial: 1836

During rebuttals, one juror, allowed (in the legal convention of the time) to question a witness, revealed that he and other jurors knew witness Furlong personally and held him in high regard. Judge Edwards permitted prosecutor Phoenix to read a letter from Robinson to Jewett entreating her to break off their relationship and return the prized miniature of him, which witness Dunscombe had dusted in Jewett's room on April 8 and police had found in Robinson's quarters on April 10.

Following closing arguments that consumed ten and a half hours, the jury began deliberations at half-past midnight. Less than 15 minutes later, Robinson was acquitted. No one else was ever brought to trial.

Within a year, under the name Richard Parmalee, Robinson opened a saloon and billiard room in Nacogdoches, Texas. Using the business acuity learned in Hoxie's store, he built a trade in clothing and personal items. He bought a farm, married in 1845, and died of an unidentifiable fever in 1855 during an Ohio River steamboat trip.