Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-05-28

81 am a lawyer" 1 answered.
"Tben-O!-save her! You can Ger
tainly do it, for she is innocent"
els she your sister,"
The youth hesitated and cOlored.
mo. SIR" he said. "But-but-'
Here be hesilated again.
HAS she no counsel?" l asked.
"NOne that's good for anything-no
body that'lI do anything for her. o
save her, and I'll pay you all I've got
1 can't pay you much, but 1 can lais'
something"
l reflected for a moment. | cast my
eyes towards the prisoner, and she was
at that moment looking at me. She
caught my eye. and the volume of hum
Bile, prayerful ertreaty, l read in those
large, fearful orbs, resolved me in mo
ment. In my soul l knew the girl wa:
Innocent; or at least, firmly believed Sc
and perhaps could help her. Iarost
and went to the girl, and asked her i
she wished me TO defend her. She said
yes. Then l informed the court that
was ready TO enter into the case, and
was admitted at once. The loud mur'
mur of satisfacto on which ran through
the room, quickly told me where the
sympathies Of the people were.
asked for moments cessation, thai
1 might speak to my Client. went and
sat down by her side, and asked her tc
state to me candidly the whole case
She told me she had lived with Mrs
Naseby nearly two years, and that du.
ring all that time she had never had any
trouble before. About two weeks ago,
she said, her mistress lost hundred dol
lars.
"She missed it from the drawer" the
girl told me, "and she asked me about
it, but knew nothing of it. The next
thing l knew, Nancy Luther told Ms.
Naseby that she saw me take the money
from the drawer-that she watched me
through the key-hole. They then went
to nay trunk, and they found twenty y-fve
dollars of the missing money there
But o, sir 1 never took it-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 new
er liked me, because she thought l was
treated better than she was. Size is the
cook, and l was the chambermaid."
She pointed Nancy Luther out to me.
She was stout, bold-faced girl. about
two-and-tweniy, with low forehead.
small grey eyes, pug nose, and thick
lips. l caught her glance a: once as it
rested upon the fair prisoner, and the
moment l detected the look of hatred
which l read there, was convinced that
she was the rogue.
"Oh. Sir. can You help me?' my
client asked in fearful whisper. /
Nancy Luther, did you say that girl S
name wasp
"Yes, sir.''
"Hs there any other girl of that name
about here?"
mo, sir"
"T'hen rest easy. III try hard to
save you"
left the court room, and went to the
prosecuting attorney and asked him for
the letters l had handed him-the ones.
that had been stolen from the mailbag.
He gave them to me, and having selec-
d one, Ireturned the rest, and tod him
would see that he had the one l kept
before light. 1 then returned to the
court loom and the case went on.
Mrs Naseby resumed her testimony.
She said she intrusted her room to the
prisoners care, and that no one else had
access there but herself. Then she de-
scribed the missing money, and closed |
by telling how she had found twenty
Eve dollars of it in the prisoners trunk.
She could swear it was the idential mon
ey she had lost. it being two tens and
one FIVE dollar bill.
"Mrs. Naseby," said 1, "when yon
irst missed your morey, had you any
'eason TO believe that the prisoner had
aiken it?"
''No SIR she answered.
clad you ever before detected her in
dishonesty"
''No sir.''
Should you have thought of searching
Ter trunk had not Nancy Luther advised
md informed you?"
"NO sir"
Mrs. Naseby then left the stand, and
Nancy Luther took her place. She came
Ip with bold look, and upon me she
asst defiant glance as much as to say
trap me if you canP She gave evil
ence as fellows:
She said that on the night when the
honey was stolen, she saw the prisoner
oing up stairs and from the manner in
'hich she went up she suspected that all