Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1856-06-19

sat down BY her side, and asked her toI
stats % no candidly The whole case..s
She told me she had lived with Mr.
Naseby nearly two years, and that dur =
inn all chat time, she had never Ind any
trouble before. About two weela lgu,
she said, her mistress lost ahundred dol
lars.
M * She missed Il from the draw, e the
girl told me, and she asked no shout
U, hut / knew nothing of 4. Ths 1iss.t
thias 4 knsi llyan1y slils Md sl1tsz
Nasshy sshat she saw NE take Tho n,oney
from the draw-.~th that she watched me
through the key-hols. Then they won't
to my trunk, and they found twenty-tive
dollars Of the missing money there.
But %, sir, | never took Il it<-somebody
else put that money there !''
ssI then askedlher il she suspected any
ono.
e I don't know, = she said, .s who
could have done il hut Nancy. She
has never liked me, because she tho't 1
was treated better tha. she was. She
is the cook, and / was the chamber
maid. .'' S4@
She pointed Nancy Luther out u me.
She was a stout, bold-faced girl, about
two-and-twenty, with ! low forehead,
small grey eyes, pug nose and thick
lips. ! caught her glance at tonce, as II
rested upon the fair young prisoner, and
the moment ! detected che look 81. Hat
red which I read there, | was convinc-
ed thatshe was the rogue.
~" Oh, sir, can you help me ~ my
client asked in fearful whisper.
Nancy Luther, did you say that
girls name was ~
y Yes SIR.
Is there any other girl Of that name
about this place -
q No, sir..''
"Then rest easy Ill Try hard 10
save you.' II s.!s, Us
! left the court room, and went To The
prosecuting attorney and asked him for
the letters had handed him-the ones
that had been stolen from the mail bag
He gave them to me, and having select
ed one, ! returned the rest, and told him
that | would see that he had the one
kept before night. 1 then returned to
the court room and the case went on.
Mrs. Naseby resumed her testimony.
She said she entrusted her room to the
prisoners care, and that no one else
had access there, but herself. Then
she described the missing money, and
closed by telling how she had found
twenty-five dollars Of It in the prisoners
trunk. She could swear il was the
identical money she had lost, it being
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two tens and one FIVE dollar bill.
Mrs. Naseby," said I, . when you
first missed your money, had you any
reason to believe that the prisoner had
taken it. =
:" No, sir, " she answered
/" Had you ever before detected her
in dishonesty u
No, sir.'
/" Should you have thought Of search-
ing her trunk had not Nancy Luther
advised you and informed you 81
i No. sir
Mrs. Nasehy then left the stand, and
Nancy Luther took her place. She
came up with bold look, and upon ma
she cast defiant glance. as much as 10
say. trap me if you can r She gave
evidence as follows
IL She said that on the, night when The
money vas stolen. she saw the prisoner
going 1p d stalrs, and, from the sman-
ner.in which she went up shs suspected
that al was No. right. So she followed
her up.
. Elizabeth went into Mrs. Nsseby's
room and shut the door after her. ,I
stopped down and looked through the
key-hole, and saw her Al her mistress's j
drower. | saw her take out the monsy
and put i in her pocket. Then she
stopped down to pick up the laItp. and
a. saw that she was coming on tshe
hurried away"
Then she told how she informed her
mistressof this, and proposed % search
the rirls trunk a II III NJ q