Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-08
FAYETTEVILLE, TENN: THURSDAY, MAY s, 1856.

and saw her at her mistress's drawer
| saw her take out the money an
put it into her pocket. Then sh
stopped down and picked up tn
lamp, and as I saw that she was com
ing out, l hurried away Then sh'
went on and told how she had inform
ed her mistress of this, and how sh,
proposed to search the girls trunk.
| | called Mrs. Naseby back to tht
stand.
"You say that no one, save your
self and the prisoner, had access tt
your room," l said. Snow. coul(
Nancy Luther have entered that
room, if she wished?"
'Certainly, sir. / meant no one
else had any right there"
| saw that Mrs. n, though natu-
rally a hard woman, was somewhat
moved by poor Elizabeth's misery.
"Could your cook have known,
by any means in your knowledge,
where your money was?"
"Yes, sir, for she has often come
up to my room when / was there,
and l have given her money with
which to buy provisions Of market
men, who happened along with their
wagons"
"One more question: Have you
known of the prisoners having used
any money since this was stolen?'
"No, sir"
I now called Nancy Luther back,
and she began to tremble a little,
though herlook was as bold and de-
fiant jas ever.
aAIiss Luther I said, GWhy did
you not inform your mistress at once
Of what you had seen, without wait
ing for her to ask you about the lost
"Becauso could not make up my
mind to expose the poor girl," she
promptly.
"You say you looked through the
key hole and saw her take the mon
ey?'
eyes, sir
aWhere did she place the lamp,
while she did so?" :
Con the bureau" :"
Gin your testimony, you said she
stopped down when she picked it up.
What did you mean by that?"
The girl hssitated, and finally said
,he didn't mean any thing, only that
'he picked up the lamp.
"Very well,' said l. GLOW long
nave you been with Mrs. Naseby?"
"Not quite a year, sir?'
GLOW much does she pay you a
week."
ga dollar and three quarters"
"Have you taken up any of your
Jay since you have been there?" 3
"Yes SIR
"How mHch?"
81 don't know sir"
"Why don't you know"
"Why should l? I've taken it at
lifferent times, just as l wanted it,
and have kept no account
Snow if you had any wish to harm
he prisoner, couldn't you have rails
I'd twenty-five dollars to put in her
trunk?"
"No, sir, ''sbe replied, with virtuous
indignation.
"Then you have not laid up money
since you have been there?''
"No, sir-only what Mrs. Naseby
may owe me.
" Then you didn't have twenty
five dollars when you came there?"
"No, sir; and what's more, the
money found in the girls trunk was
the very money that Mrs. Naseby
lost. You might have known that
if you'd only remember what you
hear" -.
This was said very sarcastically.
and was intended as crusher upon,
the idea that she could have put
the money into the prisoners trunk.
However, | was not entirely over
come.
"Will you tell me if you belong to
this State?" / asked next.
IL do, sir"
"In what town?''
She hesitated, and for an instant.
The bold look forsook her. But she
finally answered,
81 belong in Somers, Montgomery
county"
Inext turned to Mrs. Naseby.
ssDo yon ever take receipt from
your girls when you pay .them," I
asked. ~