Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-08

| arose and went to the girl, and asl
ed her if she wished me to defen
| her. She said yes. Then | informe
the court that | was ready to ente
,, into the case, and | was admitted a
once. The loud murmur of salts
faction which ran through the roor
quickly told me where the sympa
thies of the people were.
! l asked fora moments cessation
that / might speak with my client
| went and sat down by her side
and asked her to state to NE candid
lly, the whole case. She told M
she had lived with Mrs. Naseby near
ly two years, and that during al
that time she had never had any
trouble before. About two weeks a
go, she said, her mistress lost a hun
dred dollars.
"She missed it from her drawer
the girl told me, "and she asked me
about it, but I knew nothing about it,
The next thing I knew, Nancy Id
ther told Mrs. Naseby that she saw
me take the money from her draw
er-that she watched me through
the key hole. Then they went to
my trunk and they found twenty-five
dollars of the missing money there.
But, O, sir, l never took it-and
somebody else put that money there!"
| then asked her if she suspected
any one.
II don't know she said, "who
could have done it but Nancy. She
has never liked NE, because she
thought.I was treated better than
she was. She is the cook and | was
the ehambermaid."
She pointed Nancy Luther out to
me. She was astout, bold-faced girl,
somewhere about five and twenty
years old, with a low forehead, small
grey eyes, pug nose, and thick lips.
| I-caught her glance at once, as it
rested on the fair young prisoner, and
the moment / detected the look of
hatred which / read there, I was con-
Yinced that she was the rogue.
30, sir, can you help me?'' my Gil
ent asked, in fearful whisper.
'Nancy Luther, did you say that
girls name was?' asked, for a new
light had broken in upon me.
"Yes, sir." ;"
''Is there any other girl of that
name about here?"
"No, sill"
''Then rest you easy. I'll try hard
to save you"
I left the court room, and went to
the prosecuting attorney and asked
him for the letters I had handed him
the ones that had been stolen from
the mail bag. He gave them to me,
and having selected one, | returned
the rest and told him / would see
that be had the one / kept before
night. | then returned to the court
room and the case went on.
Mrs. Naseby resumed her testimo-
ny. She said she entrusted her room
to the prisoners care, and that no
one else had access there save her
self Then she described about miss
ing the money, and closed by telling
how she found twenty-five dollars Of
it in the prisoners trunk. She could
swear that it was the identicll mon.
ey she had lost, it being two tens
and one five dollar bill.
Mrs. Naseby, said |, "when you
first missed your money, had you
any reason to believe that the priso-
ner had taken it?
'No, sir" she answered.
"Had yon ever before detected her
in any dishonesty"
"No, sir"
'Should you have thought Of
searching her trunk had not Nancy
Luther h., advised. you and informed
"No, sir.''
Mrs. Naseby then left the stand,
and Nancy Luther took her place.
She came up with bold look, and
upon me she cast a defiant glance,
as much as to say, "trap me if you
can She gave her evidence as
follows:
She said that on the night when
the money vas stolen, she saw the
prisoner going up stairs, and from
the sly manner in which she went up,
she suspected all was not right. So
she followed her up. elizabeth went
into Mrs. Naseby's room and shut
the door after her. I stopped down
ond looked throuch tha kew hole.