Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-05-09

.runk, and they found twenty-five dollars
of the missing money there. But, o, sir,
never took it-somebody else put that
money therer'
I then asked her if she suspected any
one.
II don't know" she said, awho could
have done it but Nancy. She has never
liked me, because she thought I was treat
ed better than she was. She is the cook,
and I was the chamber maid.
She pointed. Nancy Luther out to me.
She was stout, bold faced girl, about
two-and-twenty, with a low forehead,
small grey eyes, pug-nose and thick lips.
l caught her glance at once as it rested
upon the fair young prisoner, and the mo-
ment / detected the look of hatred which
I read there, I was convinced that she
was the rogue.
ooh, Sir, can you help me ?" my client
asked in fearful whisper.
"Nancy Luther did you say that girls
name was?"
"Yes, sir"
as there any other girl of that name
about here p
aNo, SIR"
''Then rest easy. I'll try hard to save
you"
l left the court room, and went to the
prosecuting attorney and asked him foI
the letters I had handed to him-the ones
that had been stolen from the mailbag
He gave them to me, and having selected
one, returned the rest, and told him ]
would see that he had the one 1 kept be-
fore night. l 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 de-
scribed the missing money, and closed by
telling how she had found twenty-five
dollars of it in the prisoners trunk. She
could swear it was the identical money
she had lost, it being two tens and one
FIVE dollar bill.
Mrs. Naseby," said I, "when you
first missed your money, had you any rea.
son to believe that the prisoner had taker
it,"
'+No sir" she answered.
Had you ever before detected her il
dishonesty"
"Nosir."
Should you have thought of searching
her trunk had not Nancy Luther advised
you and informed you?"
mo sir.
Mrs. Naseby then left the stand, anC
Nancy Luther took her place. She cams
up with bold look, and upon me sh,
cast defiant glance, as much as to sa7
trap me if you CAM She gave evidenc,
as follows:
She said that on the night when tn,
money was stolen, she saw the prisone
going up stairs and from the manner il
which she went up, she suspected that al
was not right. So she followed her up.
elizabeth went into Mrs. Naseby'
room and shut the door after her, / stoop
ed down and looked through the key hole
and saw her at her mistress's drawer.
saw her take out the money and put it i
her pocket. Then she stopped down t
pick up the lamp, and as 1 saw that sh
was coming out, hurried away" The
she told me how she had informed he
mistress of this and proposed to search th
girls trunk.
called Mrs Naseby back to tn
stand.
sYOu say that no one save yourse
and the prisoner had access to YOU
room" I said. "Now could Nancy Ii
ther have entered that room if sh
wished %
Certainly, sir. I meant no one els
had a right there"
1 saw that Mrs. N, though naturally
hard woman, was somewhat moved b
poor Elzabeth's misery.
@COuld your cook have known, by an
means in your knowledge, where yor
money was ?"
@Yes, sir; for she has often come up
my room when was there, and I hay
given her money with which TO buy pr,
visions of market-men, who happene
along with their wagons"
-One more question: have you know
of the prisoners having had any none
since this was stolen %
"No sir"
l now called Nancy Luther back, al
she began to tremble little, though b
look was as bold and defiant as ever.
Miss Luther.n / said. auhu did ~