The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1845-08-09

would have proposed TO her 70 see ah'
comfort Richard, but she said mildly, wi
nave both need Of our strength I'll to'mor
row. Tell him forgive him, and bles'
God for bringing me 10 save him and pray
that it may not be from danger in This
world alone
'She was quite worn out with fatigue, Il
nay be supposed, and glad 10 lay down he'
head once more 10 sleep in her mothers
rooms in the bed where she was born, and
where she had hardly expected ever 10 lay
it again. She rose quite refreshed, and able
for The hard trial Of appearing in court be-
fore her whole towns people on so melan
Icholy an occasion
She was INDUCED with chair, and sat
is much out Of sight as possible, surround
ed by kind ftiendS ill she could be called
On. The case for The prosecution was gone
into, and chain Of circumsanlial evidence
made out so very conclusive against po OF
Duck, that The counsel against him, rather
|aPpan, young man, remarked, that no,hin9
,hor! Of an aIlbi could oring the prisoner
off,
'And that shall be proved directly, my
lord replied very un expectedly some OF
The prisoners friends. I'VE have a witness
here come more than three hundred miles
for the purpose & Mary, shaking like a
leaf,and deadly pae,wa placed in the box
The counsel had nothing for it but 10 ex
anime her. should be sorry to say he
wished to find her testimony false, bat re-
lolly, sir, lawyers have a (rightful degree Of
pride in showing their own ingenuity, aDi
he did not quite like his case TO be overluln-
led. AT all events, his manner was any.
hing rather than encouraging 10 poor
frightened girl.but he little knew that Mary
lnld 81 he was y nature, could be al firm
IS rock, where her duty was concerned.
On being desired 10 say what she knew
If this business, Mary simply asserted, in
rs few words as possible, that Richard
Marshall could not have been al Ovclton
wood al the hour mentioned for the mur-
Ter of John Osborne, as he was with her on
he road to B. -.faIm,in an exactly opposite
direction.
Very pleasantly engaged, dare say,
ny dear said the counsel aippanhy, but
am afraid the court will not be the more
disposed to admit your evidence for what
passed on that OCCASION
4 am sure they ought, said Mary in a
tone Of deep and solemn sincerity.
And pray what reason may you have
or remembering particularly that it was the
23d of October and no other day, that
Richard Marshall met you at nine in the
eveniug! said he, recovering himself
Richard Marshall met you, you say, on
The road to Bat little afer nine on a
,erlsiN evening Pay what rea son can you
i fr remeu betIng the hour?
Because had stayed 10 give his mother
her nine O'Clock draught before | left and
because, Just as got to my fathers gate
the church clock struck len.
Very accurate, and pray what led you
10 be very positive as to the dayP
Because the very next morning | sailed
for London in smack whose sailing day Is
always on Frid4y, and Thursday was the
23d.'
Very good and logical indeed And
now my dea:, to come to the point. how
came you 10 remember this meeting itself
so particularly! 1t was not the irsl, dare
sayl
No sir, said Mary, with wonderful self
lUSStbbiUUb Jul ~ " 10 'llU 'dol.l ~
! because we were engaged 10 be married and
on That very night, and | bless God II was
no other. Richard Marshall told me, and
not very kindly either, was not fiji wife
for him, and that all that had been going on
between US so long was forever at an end.
I've a righ, 10 remember This. sir think.
Mary had made, 10 preserve her utter
aBce in this testimony, all the exerLion na
ture permitted. She fell back faining into
i ZION ran round the court.
j This is an allb with witness, said
? The old shrewd senior crown council