Litchfield enquirer., 1846-01-15
From Tie Boston Daily .Nail.
A VICTIM.

| From The Boston Daiv .Nail,
A VICTIM. u.
On Saturday, Uriah Rich. formerly mar.
ter and part owner of a vessel, and resrccta-
bly, connected in the State OF Maine, was
tried and convicted of stealing wallet con-
tanning S25 FROM Catherine M'Laughlin.--
The defendant had neither counsel nor wit
ness, and as the evidence stood, conriction
was inevitable. When called up for sentence
he was allowed to state what he had 10 Of
fer in mitigation of sentence. His version
OF the affair was simply this I; He was inyi4
ted into sort of sailor Boarding house in
Ann St., by another person, where he met
Mrs Mclaughlin, and was left in the room
alone with her. After some conversation
she dropped her handkerchief, which the
prisoner picked up, and offering it to her,
she refused to take it--stating that it must
belong to him. The girl then walked across
the room and let fall the wallet in question,
which Rich also picked uT, but had hardly
done SO when she returned and charged him
with stealing it, This he denied, ana after
some threatening language, she offered b
hush it up il hesWould give her some money
or acknowledge himself the thief
Having no money, to comply witlisthe
first demand was impossible, and being q
strangers and considerably alarmed, he made
the Observation-Disclosures, hoping by this
means TO get out Of the house. But The was
Immediately seized by men whom the girl
called in, violently thrust through trap
door, into the cellar, and confined in tho
dark until an officer was sent for, who, OIL
the declaration Of this woman, arrested him
and took him to Jail. He was convicted ON
her evidence, without the jury leaving their
seats. The unfortunate man told his sto-
ry with tears in his eyes, and with SO much
apparent sincerity, as to excite general COM
mlseration. lie came to the city with the
prospect of shipping en- board vessel hav-
ing some two years since been reduced to
poverty by his own vessel being wrecked
and total loss. His wife and children he
left in the state of Maine, and in waiting
here in expectation of berth to earn for
them livelihood, he was accused of a
crime which he had no means OF dispro-
wing, incarcerated in Jail and finally convic-
ted as thief 1t seems incompatible with
justice that evidence ofsuch 4equivocal ma
ture should be taken and allowed to convict;
but as the law is, the jury in this case had
no choice but in the verdict they rendered.
His Honor Judge Colby, who tempcrs JUS
tice with mercy in portions more in accor-
dance with right than precedence, after hear
ing Rieh's story, imposed upon him fine
mot in proportion to the crime, had 1t ac-
tually been committeeman as small as the
law would allow in view of the verdict
The prisoner having no money to pay the
fine, appeared doomed to further persecution,
when half dozen charitable gentlemen i'll
the Court room, including high function
airy, two constables, and three reporters for
the press, contributed the necessary amount,
and the poor man was set at liberty.
Interesting facfs--Out of every thou.
sand men, twenty die annually.a The num-
Der of inhabitants Il city or county is re-
newed every thirty years. The number OF
old men who die in cold weather, is to those
who die in warm weather seven to four
The men able to bear arms form the fourt!,
OF the inhabitants Of country. The pro
portion between the deaths of women and
men. is one hundred and eight. The pro-
bablc duration of female life is sixty. and
after that period the calculation is more ia
vorable to them than men. One half OF
those who are born, die before they attaii,
the age Of seventeen.
GRACE DARLING OUrDoNE.-A m ost in
teresiing story is told In late German
paper OF u remarkable woman Of Pillau,
Prussia, whose heroism OF character Ger
tainly rises into The gigantic, or whose in
irrpidity, to shy the least, appears TO BIS
Unprecedented. This woman of altruly
generous daring, IL the widow of n sea.
man. with whom. for upwards IT twenty
years, she made long sea voyages; and
since his death, she has devoted her lif,',
for his me mory's sake, 10 the noble and
perilons task Of carrying aid To the drow.
ming. Her name is Katherine klcnfoldt.
Whenever storm arises. whether by day
or night, she embarks in her boat and
quits the harhor in search of shipwrecks.
Al tho age Of forty seven, she has alreai.
| dy rescued upwards Of three hundred in.
diyiduals from certain death. The popu.
lation Of Pallau yeneratc her as some.
thing holy, and tho sc ,rlen look up
on heras their guardian angel. All
heads arc uncovered rs she passes along
the street. The Prussian and several o.
Their governments, have sent her ih,ir
medals of civil merit; tho municipality
of Piliau has conferred on her the free
dom Of the town. She Is possessing Nj
athletic figure and great strength. seem
ing to be Furnished by nature 10 view ii
capacity to 20 through wild scenes AMI
high deeds. Her physiognomy is some,
what masculine, with the expression sr,f
tened by a look of gentlcness and good
ness.
"A Good WJs--Andrew Johnson, nacm-
Der of the House Of Representatives fl m
Tennessee, We see II stated in an exchange
paper, was taught by his wiz TO read altar
his marriage! lie Is tailor By tEzae: =