The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-07-17

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Through the key hole. Then they went
to my trunk and found twenty-five dol
lars Of the missing money there. But.
isir, never took it-and somebody else
must have put it there
| / then asked her If she suspected any
one.
Il don't know she said, who could
have done it but Nancy. She has never
liked me, because she Thought / was
treated better than she was. She is the
cook. / was the chambermaid.'
She pointed Nancy Luther out to me.
She was stout, bold-faced girl. some
where about Eve and twenty years old,
with low forehead. small gray eyes. a
pug nose and thick lips. caught her
glance once. as it rested on the fair young
prisoner, and the moment l detected the
look of hatred which read there, / was
convinced that she was the rogue.
Nancy Luther did you say that girls
name was p asked. for new light
had broken in upon me.
Yes. SIR
Then rest easy. I'll try hard to save
you.' / left the court room and went to
the prosecuting attorney. and asked him
for the letters / handed him-the ones
that had been stolen from the mail bag.
He gave them to me, and having select
ed one, I returned the rest. and told him
would see that he had the one kept
before night. I then returned to the
court room and the case went on.
Mrs. Naseby resumed her testimony
She said she entrusted the room to the
prisoners care, and that no one else had
access there save herself. Then she de-
scribed about missing the money. and
closed by telling how she found twenty
Eve dollars Of it in the prisoners trunk
She could swear it was the identical mo-
ney she bad lost, in TWO tens and one
6ve dollar note.
Mrs. Naseby.' said I. when you first
missed the money. had you any reason
to believe that the prisoner had taken it?'
No, SIR she said.
Had you ever before detected her in
any dishonesty p
| No, SIR
Should you have thought Of search
ing her trunk. had not Nancy Luther ad.
vised you and informed you?'
| No, SIR
Mrs. Naseby left the stand and Nancy
Luther took her place. She came up
with bold look, upon me she cast d e.
fiant glance, as much as to say, strap me
if you can.' She gave her evidence as
follows
She said on the night when the money
was stolen, she saw the prisoner going up
stairs. and from the sly manner in which
she went up, she suspected that all was
not right. So she followed her up
Elizabeth went into Mrs. Naseby'
room and shut the door after her.
stopped down aad looked through the
key-hole, and saw her take out the mo.
ney and put it in her pocket Then she
stopped down and picked up the lamp
and as I saw that she was coming out
hurried away Then she went on and
told how she had informed her mistres.
Of this, and how she proposed to search
the girls trunk.
i 1 called Mrs. Naseby back to the stand
i = You say that no one. save yoursel
. and the prisoner, had access to you
room,' I said. Now, could Nancy Lu
; ther have entered the room it she wish
, ied?' ~
D Certainly. sir. / mean no one els
3 had any right there
l saw that Mrs. Naseby, though natu
; rally hard woman, was somewhat NOV
ed by poor Elizabeth's misery.
Gould your cook have known, by an,
: means in your knowledge, where you
money vast ~ q
Yes, sir for she has often come u
te my room when I was there, and
have often given her money with whic
to tuy provisions of market men, wh
> happened along with their wagons
J, One more question have you know
: the prisoners having used any none
e since this was stolen p
'No, SIR
VI I now called Miss Luther back an
is she began to tremble little. though b,
1t look was as bold and defiant as ever.
l. Miss Luther said. why did you n
lie inform your mistress at once, of what ye
'e had seen without waiting for her to Al
= about the lost money!
n Because, I could not make up n
n mind at once to expose the poor your
at GIRL she answered promptly.
'h You say you looked through the ke
he hole, and saw her take the money!
II yes, SIR
/ Where did she place the lamp VIII
i'd she did so?'
TO ON the bureau