American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-03-11
ROM ANTIC AFFAIR.
SINGULAR CASE.

Some few months since, case of peculiar
interest came before the Criminal Court of
5ths county, in which female was involved.
I AS the law recognized the case, it was as fol-
lows-The party alluded to was represented
as being the wife of person from whom she
had eloped, having become the mistress of an
Sother. She was accused by her quondam lord
: with the theft of some bed clothing, which,
! the accuser alleged, she had stolen from
steamboat, then in port, and on which she had,
with himself, come as a passenger from New
Orleans. On the way up, as he deposed, she
had taken up with another man, and on arriv-
! ing here, had left the boat with the stolen
goods in possession, and in company with her
lover.
On the complaint of this man the woman
was sought out, and sure enough found living
with her new friend as his wife. The described
goods, too, were found in her possession. She
was arrested, indicted, tried and convicted -
The imputed offence was grand larceny, and
OF course she was sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary.
On her trial the husband testified to her
outlines of the theft as he had before DONE
The Captain Of the boat too, OH being called
up TO identify the goods, swore that they look
Gd very much like some that belonged to the
vlcted The prisoner did not attempt to bring
forward any evidence of her innocence. She
merely entered the plea of not guilty
So much for the law and its consequences;
now for the attending circumstances which
might be considered as throwing very strong
doubt on the idea of her guilt
Her own story was, that she was Of respec-
table parentage in a Southern State; that she
had been induced by her prosecutor to leave
her home and accompany him to New Orleans.
At the latter place, he himself had procured
for her the articles which he afterwards swore
she had stolen. His conduct, dating from a
short time after their sojournng together had
been most brutal towards her, until, in an evil
hour, she had been induced to leave his mis-
called protection, for the arms of another
The prosecution, she averred had been gotten
up by him through malicious feeling, and that
if the goods had been stolen at all, he stole
them himself.
Believing her story every effort of which the
case would admit was made by able counsel to
save her, but without avail The result was
as stated.
During her Imprisonment, and before her tri-
al, she was called onby her husband-as he re-
presented himself to be-but she refused to see
him. He then sent word to her, that if she
Woulu COIlSenI again W i've Will HIN, utt UOutu
be right, and she need not be conuictedi To this
she fatty replied, that the Penitentiary had less
horrors for her, than had his presence!
After her conviction, her counsel, and sever
al other benevolent gentlemen, offered to petit
ton His Excelency, Governor Edwards, in her
bahalf NO., she replied; 81 thank you for
your motives and proffered service, but an APP
plication for pardon would imply my guilt-and
as heaven knows, / am Innocent" Every effort
was unavailing she would not sue for that Gle
, mency which, she maintained, the guilty only
ask.
She was bold, fearless woman; doubtless
f-al in respect to some of the virtues, but strong
in others. She took her part with criminals
but not with a criminals bearing. Her de.
meanor was modest but firm and dignifed.-
She was, and is, a remarkable woman.
We are happy in being able to add that she
has recently been liberated, and that she is now
in this city, earning her bread by her daily toll
as a servant, in respectable family, where hel
conduct is represented as being entirely unex.
ceptionable. Louis Organ.