Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-11-01

! How strangely you talk exclaimed
Mr.. Talbot, startled by her words ane
manner. .a
Father, lido Sternberg is innocent.
very likely gloomily replied the
| father. 4-,aa
| sAnd, dear father, you must not
permit his death; if all others insist
! you must refuse to be convinced
They cannot hang him without your
sanction
But, child, my friendship towards
him is known-my reputation will
suffer; Imay be ruined in consequence.
But, then, you will have saved an
innocent man from frightful death.
And, dear father, no one can suspect
.you, who are so upright, of partiality.
well, dear child, we will see what
can be done to save him..
Father, you must promise me- ex-
claimed Fanny Talbot, with unwonted
vehemence; and then she poured into
her fathers ears the deep abiding in
terest she took in the young man, al
so her deep seated convictions OF his
truth and innocence, and the grounds
of those convictions, saving that if
he were hung and could have been
saved by her father, she would not
live to bear the horrors of the thought.
/ Deeply affected by his daughters
pleadings, Mr.. Talbot left her to at
tend the trial with a solemn promise
to do all in his power to save the pris-
oner.
The trial proceeded--the evidence
was all convincingly against the young
Pole. His own words were few and
pointed; he declined any explanation
of the case, but distinctly and firmly
pronounced that he was not guilty OF
the awful charge preferredagainst him.
His calm manner did much towards
establishing his innocencein the minds
of some. But all the evidence being
so strong and decided against him,
the presiding judge closed his speech
with pronouncing the prisonersguilty,
and recommended the jury to remem-
Der the responsibility resting on them
and their duty to society. -
The impatient multitude without
and within awaited the decision of
the panel for twelve long hours. At
length, they returned and the crowd
were hushed into silence.
'NVe cannot agreep was the re-
sponse of the foreman, to the usual
question.
The bench was perplexed. The
Judge went all over the whole of the
evidence again, dilating upon the point
which proved SO conolusively the pris-
oner's guilt:
The jury again withdrew, and thir-
ty hours this time were passed before
they pronounced a second decision,
and then the verdict of eleven was
guilty whilst the twelfth juror firm
tly persisted in the belief of the prison.
er's innocence, and solemnly ayowed
that he would suffer death himself
before he would assist in his condem-
nation. 9'''~
Finding this man so solemnly inn
pressed with the prisoners innocence
and his argument. in his favor still
sounding so conyincingly in their ears,
to the astonishment and indignation
of all present, the eleven unanimously
coneurred with the one In a verdict
of acquittal. ds,. .2a a
i, The prisoner being therefore set at
Liberty, narrowly escaped the Lynch
law of the infuriated mob without
A strong police guard alone protected
/ him. e1 iasm
! Once more lido Sternberg stood
upon the deck of a vessel bound fol
South America. A boy whom he
recognized as one in the employment
of Mr.. Talbot, approached him and
placed a letter m his hands. The
i Captains orders in the meantime haf
fbeen given, the anchor was drawn up
and the brig under way. With a ca
!. like spring the agile messenger jump
1ped upon The parting wharf, receiving
ia lusty cheer from the jolly Jack Tar
: who witnessed the act. s
lido leaned his head mournfully
uponhis hands and gazed abstractedly
, upon the receding shore. 9
| Suddenly he bethought him of hi
i letter. He opened it,and tohis surpris
4 a roll Of bank bills fell from it. I'll
i glanced upon them; they were all bill
1 oflarge amount, The lettermerely said
sYou will net refuse the enclose'
from one who believes in your inne