Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-10-31
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A DEAlii-Bi.b SCENE.

If | were to tell You all sir, they
cannot drag ae from my death. oed and
h4ns m, caa they: Basilcs am nno-
ccut. But what does that matter p
More Inaoeen men than | have been
hung Tor less crimes than m .rder, before
this. will n it'll You.
"Mnrder said |. with unf4gncd as
constituent, Murder, Charlton :" for
this nun | was attending IN my cap lcity
as house gcon of the Henboroush
workhouse. had known him for
years. and of all my present patients,
he had seemed the simplest and less
Violent. His anxious eyes-which closed
so tightly even in sleep-his averted
looks when spoken to. his nervous i'm
iity at the sight of any strange face.
had set down as the outward signs of a
broken spirit and waning brain for
he had had enough of sorrows to shake
stronger mind than his. l could re-
member hun with wife and children
about him, IN respectable, if not an
extensive way Of business and why it
suddenly fell off and was given up, and
what misfortune had changed the couple
who had before been SO blithe, l had
often wondered
He was quite friendlcss. too. His
chamber was common to five other work
house folk, but i, was July day. and
they were summing themselves in ,he
payel court outside. The noon-aay
beams which poured into the long bare
room found othing fair to rest upon !;
no print upon the whitewashed wall no
commonest wild flower in any of the few
drab-colored mugs that strewed the ta-
Bile; no signs of comfort anywhere
The sick mln lay upon his little iron
bed, an l was sitting upon the wooden
stool beside it his hand lay upon mine.
and his face was turned towards the door
listening. rose, and locke it and it
was then that he began, as have said,
to speak of mnrder. and his innocence
to ask if it would be dangerous to con-
fess all.
said NO nothing can harm you
now. What you say to me is u secret
as long as you live. You may speak as
If l was the clersym.n' whom he had
refused for some reason. know not
what. to see. III itw.l! ease your mind
to tell me anything. say oa.'
You have known M. doctor, this
twenty years and will easily believe M
when say that no more expected to
become dependent IN the perish and die
in the workhouse. than can't of the
possibility Of my comm ttins-aly very
terrib crime was Young to tae world
then. AMI fooiish and m; wife was not
older or wiser We w'ra not strong
min led folk--lor alas even s:aght-
forward Throrgh a plausible story OF
der times coming which may yet have
been partly trl we soii many pound
of butter and ounce of tet: ami if II
was not always pound nor always IN
ounce. it wis mover over the just weight
but under. Spirits, Also-there beng
no public house close by-wh'ch we Of
course had no license 10 sell, we would
let our best customers purchase, ano
drink in our back parlor. which appeared
in their weekly bills under the head o
candles or what not so that speaking
before our own children, we had tn fab
ricate strange stories, and give things
their wrong names and many. othel
devices we had, which. though they go
US little gains, seemed not much. on tn
whole, to benefit us. l have purposel,
told you tho worst Of us, because it vii