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The case of Stephen Merrill Clark is remembered by many people in Salem and its vicinity.

    Supreme Judicial Court.

    At the present term of this Court in Salem, Andrew Dunlap,
    John Foster, and Solomon Whipple, Esqrs. were admitted
    Counsellors, and Asa W. Wildes, Esq. an attorney of said Court.

Capital Trial.—­On Tuesday Stephen Merrill Clark, a lad about 15 years of age, was indicted for the crime of ARSON alleged to have been committed in Newburyport, was arraigned the same day, and pleaded not guilty.  The day for his trial is not yet fixed.—­The Court assigned him Leverett Saltonstall and John G. King, Esquires, for his counsel on his trial.

    Salem Observer, Nov. 4, 1820.

Clark was subsequently convicted of the crime for which he was tried, and executed upon Salem Neck in 1821.  He had made a confession of his guilt; but considering his youth, and the circumstances of his having been instigated by others, as was believed, to the commission of the crime, many humane people thought there should have been some mitigation of the punishment.