Daily Ohio Statesman, 1861-10-23

or via P. no to Dvs and tne will aiao. their or M Agents J.J . ' . , ' Ia th spriog of 1841 1 was called to Jackson, Alabama, to attend court, having been engag engaged - ed engaged to defend a young man who bad been ac accused - cused accused of robbiog the mall. I arrived early in the morning, and immediately had Along con conversation - versation conversation with my client. The stolen mail bag nao Deea recovered, witn the letters from which the money had been rilled. These letters wtjre given to me for examination, and I returned tbem to the prosecuting attorney. Having got torouga my preliminaries about noon, and a the cas would not oome ctf before the next day, I went into court in the afternoon to see whut was going on. " The first case that cam up was one of theft, and the prisoner was a young girl not more than seventeen years of age, named Ellmbeth Madworth She waa Very pretty, and bore that mild, innocent look, which -we seldom find in a culprit She had been weeping profusely, bat at abe found so many eyes upon ber, the beoarao too trigbtentd weep more. ,- Tno com pi U, t acainit ber set forth that she hud stolen a hundred dollars from a Mrs, Niee- by, a wealthy widow living in the town, and the girls' rulstre. Tbe poor girl declared her In Innocence - nocence Innocence in tbe wildest terms, but circumstanc circumstances - es circumstances ware bard against her. A hundred dollars in batik notes-bad been Btoleu from ber mis tress's room, and she was tbe only one (bit had access there. ' At this juncture, when the mistres was upon tbe witness etsnd, a young man cams and cnught me by the arm. lie was a fine looking mau, and big tears flood in bis eyes. "They tell me you are a lawyer," he whio whio-pered. - pered. whio-pered. "I am a lawyer," I answered. "Then do save ber! You certainly can do it, for she Is innocent!" "Ia abe your sister 1" "No sir," be added, "But but " Here he hesitated. "Has she no counsel?" leaked. "None that's rood for anything no-bodv inat u ao anything lor bar. O, save her! and I'll give you all I've got. t can't give yon much, but I can raise something." . ' I reflected a moment, I out my eyes toward the prisoner, and ahe was at that moment look looking - ing looking at me. She caught mv eye, and the vol ume of ectreaty I read in ber alance resolved me io a momeut. I arose and went to toe girl, aud abked if abe wished me to defend ber. iShe said yes. 1 then informed th court tbat I was ready to enter luto tbe case, and was admitted at once. Tbe loud murmur of satisfaction tbat ran quickly through tbe room, told me where the avmpaibic of tbe people were. I atked for a mumeut'a ceaealion, tbat I might speak to my client. 1 went and sat down by her side, and asked her to uUte candidly the whole case. She told mo tbat she had lived with Mrs. Nase by nearly two years, and had never bad any '.rouble before About two weeks ago, she said her mistresa lost a huutlered dollars. - "She missed it fiom ber drawer," the girl said to ma, "and asked me about it. I said I knew nolbiug about It. That evening, I know Nancy Luther told Mrs. Naseby that she saw me take tho money from tbe drawer that she watched me through tbe keyhole. Tbeu they went to my trnnk and found twenty-five dollar of tbe missing money there. But sir, I never lock it and somebody muBt have put it there." I then asked her if she suspected anv one. - "I don't know," abe added, "who could bar done it but Nancy. She bag never liked me, because she thought that 1 wag better treated tban she. She is tte cook. I was the chamber maid." . She pointed Nancy Luther ont to me. She was a stout, bold faced eirl, somewhat about five and twenty years old, with a low forehead, small grey eyes, a pott nose and thick lips. caught her glance at once, aa It rested on the fair young prisoner, and the moment I detected the look ot hatred which I read there, I was convinced that she was tbe roeuo. "Nancy Luther did you say tbat girl's name was? I aeked, fur a new light had broken in up on me. ' "Yes, sir." I left (be court room and went to the prose cuting attorney and asked him tor the letiers bad banded him tbe ones that had been stolen from tbe mall bag. He gave tbem to me, and a Vint; selected one, 1 returned the rest, and told bim I would see he had the one I kept be before - fore before night. I then returned to the court room, and tbe case went on. .... Mr. Naseby resumed her teetlmonv. . She said she intrusted the room to the prisoner's care, and thai no one else had access there save herself. Then the described about miselnc Ihe money, and closed by tellintr tbat ebe found twenty-five dollars of tbe missing money In tbe prisoner- trunk, one couia swear It was tbe identioal money she had lost, in two tens and one five dollar bank note. Mrs. Naseby," said I, "when vou first missed that money, had you any reason to be believe - lieve believe that tbe prisoner bad taken it 1" "tto, sir," ebe answered nao yon ever neiore aetected ber ii anv msnoneeiy i j. t . ... . "IMo,ir." "Should you have thought of searchine her iruus naa noi mcoy Liuiner auvi.-ied aud in informed - formed informed you?" "Mo.alr." Mrs. Naaeby left the stand, and Nancr La ther took her place. ' She came no with a bold look, and upon me she cast a defiant elacce, if to aay, "Trap me If you can." She gave evidence aa follows: She said that on the nicht the monev waa taken ahe saw tbe prisoner going np tairs,and from tbe sly manner in which abe went no suspected all was not right. So she followed ber np. "blis&betb went to Mrs. Naseby room and abut tbe door after her. I stooped down and looked through the keyhole, and aaw ber lake the money and pnt it In ber pocket Tben abe stooped down and picked np tbe lamp, and as I saw tbat she was coming out I hurried away." ' Then she went on, ana told how she bad In formed her mistress of tbie, and how she proposed to search tbe girl' trnnk. - 1 cailea Mr, nateny to tne atana.- " Yoa said tbat no one, save yourself and th prisoner, bad access to your room," I said. 'Now, oould Nancy Luther hare entered room If tbe wlabed." . - - "Certainly, sirs I meant tbat no on else any right there ":, r ) 1 aaw tbat jura. JNiwoy, tnonca naturally hard woman.was somewhat moved by poor Elisa beth' misery. . .. .. i -.s i. - -'.r..-.;-r,- "Could your cook, bare known, by tny means In jour knowledge, where yonr money was?" x es, sir lor so naa oi tan oome to my room while I was there, and I bare often given money to buy provision of market men happened to be oomlug along with their wag wagon" - on" wagon" . : '' "One more Question: ha vo yon known th prisoner htving need any money since wasttolenl" . . .. ? "No, sir." I now called Nancy Lutber back, and she gan to tremble a little, though her look waa bold ana aenaut as ever. . .,. Miss Lutber," I said, "why did yon not fotm your mistress at oncaof what you seen, without waiting for her to aak for tbe monevT"- . . - ... j. . "jjaoanse i coma not at once make np mind to. expose tbe poor girl,", she answered promptly, -. . .. , , .. . . "Yoa sty yon looked through the keyhole and saw bar take tne monejv "YtS.Slr.'?,.,, t ... ,; "On tha bureau." .... . "In your testimony tqo. said sh stooped When she nicked It op. What, do yon mean man- , ,.... ..' .-.a ' The girl be!ttd, and 'Anally she said- did not meat) anything, only that she picked tne lamp. . ..,..... ... i '.-.'.' r t "Vert well, now long bsTSjjft been ftt.JMrt, NasebyV" "' " ' r-..ti;t;:t ll dj:v ) t-iaa

"Not quite a year, sir.", i v "How much does she pay yon a week?" "A dollar and three quarters.".' "Have you taken up any of your pay since you have been there?" "Yes, ir." . ' . .. "How much?" ' "Idot'tknow.slr." "Why don't you know?" "Why ebonld I? I bar taken it at different times, and kept no account." ' "Now, if you bad wished to harm the prison prisoner, - er, prisoner, could you have raised twenty-fire collars to put io her trunk?" w "No, air," she replied with virtuous Indigna Indignation. - tion. Indignation. . "Then yon have not laid np any money since you hare been there?" "No, sir, only what Mrs. Naseby may owe me." . "Then you did not have any twenty-fire dot lars when you came there?" "No, sin and what's more, the money found in tbe elrl's trunk was the money Mrs. Naseby lost. You m ght know that if you'd remember what you asked her." This waa aaid very sar. caatlcally, and was intended a a crusher upon the idea tbat abe should have pnt the money in the prisoner's trunk. However, I was not over overcome - come overcome entirely. "Will you tell me if vou bolone to !hi State?" " "I do, sir." "Iu wbat town?" She hesitated, and for an instant the bold look forsook her. But she finally answered, "I belong in Somers, Montgomery county." I nsxt turned to Mrs. Naseby. "Do you ever take a receipt from vour eirla when you pay them?" "Alway." "Can you tend and get one of them for me?" "She baa told you tbe truth, sir, abjut the payments," said Mrs. Naseby. "0, 1 don't doubt It," I replied, "but psrtio ular proof is tbe tblng for tbe court room. So, If you can, I wish jou would procure tbe re receipt." - ceipt." receipt." She said she would willingly go, if the oourt said so. Tbe court did aay so, and she went Her dwelling waa not far off, and ah toon re returned - turned returned and banded me four receipts, which I took and examined. They were signed in a strange, staggering hand by tbe witness. "Now, Nauoy Lutber," said I, turning to tbe witness, and speakirgin a quick, startling tone, at the aame time looking ber sternly in tbe eye, "please tell the court, and jury, and me, where you got the seventy-five dollar yon sent in your letter to your sister in Somers?" At this she started as though a volcano had buret at ber feet. She turned pale aa death, and every limb shook violently. I waited un til tho people oould have an opportunity to . V. : , . , r i . . eto ucr eiuuuuu, auu men i repeated tne ques tion. "I never sent iny," ahe gasped. "You did!" I thundered, lor I was excited now. I didn't," she faintly muttered, erasDine th railing by her side for support. " may it please your honor, and gentlemen of ..mm . . . " tne jury," i said, as soon as 1 bad looked tbe witness out of countenance, " I came here to defend a man who was arrested for robbing tbe man, ana in tne course or my preliminary ex amination I bad access to the letters which had been torn open' and robbed of money. Wben I entered upon this case, and beard the name of the wituees pronounced, I went out and got this letter which I now bold, for I re remembered - membered remembered having seen one bearing the signs tore of Nancy Luther; this letter was taken Irom the mall bag, and it contained seventy, five dollars, and by looking at the postmark you will see that it. was mailed the day after the hundred dollars was taken from Mrs. Nase Nase-by's - by's Nase-by's drawer. I will read the letter to you, 11 you please." The court nodded assent, and I read the fol lowing, which was without date, save that made by the postmaster npon the outside. I give it veroaum : " SisTia Doacos : " I cend vou bear seventr five dolers which I want you to cepe for me til i oum bum i cant cepe It cos im a feered it will git stole dont tpeek wun word to a iivin sole bout this I dont want nobodee to no ive got money, you wont will you. I am furst rate unly that gude lur notbin snipe of liz madworth is bete yet but i nop to git over her now yon no I rote to you Dout ner. give my love to ail Inquirin Irens tbis is from your cister til death.

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