M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-04-24

4 belong in Somers, Montgomery
county,
I next turned to Mrs. Naseby.
Do you ever take a receipt from
your girls when you pay them q | as
ked.
always she answered.
Can you send and get one Of them
for meP
'She has told you the truth, sir,
about my payments Mrs. Naseby
said. s.'.lr
%, | don't donbt it, l replied;
'brtStill the occular proof is the thing
Tor the court room,' added with a
smile, So if you can, wish you
wouldpprocure me the receipts
She said she would willingly go, If
the court said SO. The court did say
so,and she went. Her dwelling was
not far of, and she soon returned, and
handed four receipts, which took and
examined. They were all signed in
a strange, struggling hand, by the
witness. l,.t
Now Nancy Luther said Turning
to the witness, and speaking in quick
startling tone, at the same time look
ing her sterniy in the eye, please tell
the court, and the jury, and tell me, too
where you got the seventy-fyo dollars
you sent in a letter to your sister in
SomersP
The witness started as though a
volcano had burst at her feet. She
turned pale as death, and every limb
shook violently. waited until the
people could have an opportunity to
see her emotions, and then | repeated
the question.
I--never-sent-any,' she family
gasped.
you didp / thundered, for l was
excited now.
I-I-did MT she family uttered
grasping the rail by her side for sup
port. -, 4
May it please your honor, and gen.
tlemen Of the jury said, as soon as
| had looked the witness out Of conn
tenance,t i came here TO defend q youth
who has been arrested for helping to
rob the mail, and in the course of my
preliminary examinations, l had ac-
cess to the letters which had been
torn open and riAed Of money. When
| entered upon this case, and heard
the name Of this witness pronounced
l went out and got this letter which
| | now hold, for | remembered to have
seen one bearing the signature Of Nan
cy Luther. This letter was taken
from the mail bag, and it contained
seventy-five dollars, and by looking
at the post-mark, you will preceive
that it was mailed on the very next
day after the hundred dollars were
taken from Mrs. Naseby's drawer
l will read it to you, if you please
The court nodded assent, and | reat
the following, which was without date
save that made by the post-maste
upon the outside. l give here yer
batim .....-
SISTER DoRoAs ! cend yu hee
sevente. dolers, wich want yu t
kepe for me til cum hum. cant KEEP
it heer coz ime afrade it viii git stol
don't speke wun word to a liven sol
bout this coz i don't want nobodi t
no i hav got emmy mony yu wunt nov
vii yu. i am first rate heer, only tina
guide for nothin snipe of liz wadwurtI
is heer yit- but hop to git rid O.
her. civ my luv to awl inquirer thi
is from your sister till death.
"NANCY LUTHER.
Now. your honor l said, as
handed him the letter, and also th'
receipts, You will see that th'
letter is directed to Dorcas Luther
also observe that one hand wrote tba
letter and signed these receipts
The Jury will also observe. And nov
l will only add it is plain to see hoy
the hundred dollars were disposed Of
Seventy-fve were put into that lette
and sent off for safe keeping, Will
the remaining twenty-five were place
, in the prisoners trunk, forthe purpos
, Of covering the real criminal. OF tn
tone of other parts of the letter, | leav
, you to Judge. Andnow, gentlemen
leave my clients case in your hands
only will thank God, and | kno'
you also will, that an innocent perso
/, has been thus strangely saved fror
ruin and disgrace"
? The case was given on the Jury in
mediately following their examins
, ton of the letter. They had hear
, from the witnesses own, mouth ths
, she had no money Of her own, an
, without leaving their seats, ,theyreturr
ed verdict of-'NoT GUILTY.
The youth, who had first asked m
/, , to defend the prisoner, caught me b
, the hand but he could not speak plain
ly. He simply looked at me throug
tears for moment, and then rushe
to the fair prisoner. He seemed t