Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1845-07-03

anu CeTtulH inoHcJs oi the hiShNuy, o"'
Patty with aiding, abetting, and comfort
ing the evil-doer.
The first witness called was one An
drew Bishop. He was a rough, Outlook
ing man, and stared doggedly about the
court, as though the business therein
transacted was wearying and contempti
BILE. His examination, which reduce tc
the main points, began. He had beer
super cargo to the Mermaid: she hac
sailed without him, and he had lost his
berth. and all along ofthe demned watch
and the trial. (Here the witness was re-
buked by the Bench for bad language
whereupon, the witness scratched his
head 1t was gold watch with a ship
IN the plate, pitching in the sea, with the
words Such is life. He had met the
prisoner at the bar ola tavern, the Dog
and Duck; thought him a jovial gentle
man; he sang good song, Witness left
the tavern. and the prisoner went with
him: went through many places. AT last,
mp somewhere by long Fields, when there
was nobody by, the prisoner clapt pistol
to witnesses skull, and said he must have
all he had. And so the prisoner took it;
and that was all the witness knew-but
that he'd swear to.
Mr. Clickly himself cross.examined the
witness, and with an elegant subtley of
manner that would have honoured even
the Golf. In vain: the witness was too
obstinate to be puzzled. He would not
stir from two facts The one, that Abram
had put pistol to his head the other,
that Abram had taken both his purse and
his watch. Mr. Abram himself smiled
pityingly upon the jury: but it aided him
not-Andrew Bishop, supercarso, was
fixed in two facts.
Shadrach Jacobs was the next witness
and proved that he had sold the watch to
Bishop, ia circumstance substituted by
IA subsequent testimony of his daughter
Miriam, He proved that he was pres
ent at the Dog and Duck with Bishop;
that there was a man bringing and singing
with the supercargo, very like the gentle
man at the bar; certainly, very like him;
but not the gentleman. There was girl
With the man; and that girl-Shad:ach
Jacobs would swear twas the girl in
the dock.
Here an e. aculation ordigust was heard
from one OF the audience, and the officer
looking in the direction of Luke Knuckle,
exclaimed, Silence in the courtn Curl
we'll, looking at Patty, seemed anxious
and irrcsoule; and Mrs Gaptooth leered
and smiled
And then came the evidence ofHard-
mouth and two of the watchmen. They
had tracked the prisoner to his lodgiuS
in Bloomsbury, whence he had escaped.
They, however, found there the pocket
book (the money gomez and the watch Io(
the prosecutor The watch was found in
the bed of,he female prisoner, after Abram
has escaped from the room.
Mrs Crnmpet, who declared that she
believed Mr. Abram to he perfect gen.
leman, deposed that he had logged in her
house. Never knew anything irregular
in him. Would have trusted him with
untold gold. The young woman at the
bar had been a long time SICK; and when
The robbery was commltted,w was in bed
Could not, certainly, eXplain how the
watch was found with Patty.
Three more-witnesse for Mr. Abram
-courageously swore that, on the night
of the robbery, the maligned prisoner
was at Gloucester. could perceive that
the widow, albeit she looked wondering
ly at these witnesses, looked not with
displeasure.
Mr. Lintly bore testimony TO the worth
the goodness Of Patty; and Mr. Flamingo
who had been haunted out and compelled
to attend by the apothecary, deposed that
he thought the female prisoner very
honest woman; and then, on cross-exam-
nation, allowed, with great alacrity, lha,
she had been once in the round-house,
that there had been charge against her
something about snulf.box.
But tina, man knows it was all lie,
cried Luke Knuckle from the gallery,
pointing to Curlwell.
Remove that mani said the Judge to
the officer of the court; but Luke did not
wait to trouble the functionary. Mr.
Lintley, however, Immediately communi-
Gated with the counsel; and when Flamin-
go's examination was over, julius Curl.
well was called and sworn. 1t was very
true, he owned, he had made false
charge-he had found his box-in fact,
he himself addressed, not assaulted, as the
council said, the girl IN the street. 1t
was true he had offered to marry her;
since-,he would not deny the loved
her very much. Had never said he could
save her if he would. Knew Shadrach
Jacobs-but knew no harm Of him. would
swear-that is, he was almost sure he
wouId-,hat he had never met the Jew
about the trial. Knew a woman Gaplooth
there that excellent matron elbowed her
way out of court thought her character
toIerabIy good; she had been two or three
times indicted; would not swear that he
had not sent messages by her to the pris-
oner at the bar; they were not dishonora-
bic messages-that is, they were only
messages that gentlemen sometimes sent
to young women.
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