Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-05-23
They tell me you are a good
lawyer he whispered.

Then -Ol-save her You can
certainly do it, for she is innocent
Is she your sister
The youth hesitaied and colored.
No, sir, he said, but but
Here he hesitaled again.
Has she no counsel = asked.
None that's good for anything
nobody thatll do anything for her
o, save her, and I'll pay you all I've
got. can't pay you much, but |
can raise you something
reflected for a moment. cast
my eye towards the prisoner, and
she was at that moment looking at
me. She caught my eye, and the
volume Of humble, prayerfuI cnirea-
ty, read in those large fearful orbs,
resolved me in moment In my
soul | knew that the girl was inno-
cent or at least firmly believed so
and perhaps | could help her.
arose aud went TO the eirl, and asked
her if she wished me to defend her.
She said yes Then | informed the
court that ] was ready to enter into
the case, and was admitted at once.
The loud murmer of satisfaction
which ran through the room, quickly
told me where the sympathes Of the
people were.
! asked for a moments cessation,
that | might speak to my client. |
went and sat down 10y her side, and
asked her to slate TO me candidly
the whole case. She told me she
had lived with Mrs. Naseby nearly
two years, and that during all that
time she had never had any trouble
belore.-About two weeks ago, she
said, her mistress lost a hundred dol.
lars.
She missed it from her drawer
she told me, and she asked me a
bout it, but | knew nothing Of it,.
The next thing knew, Nancy
Luther told Mrs. Naseby that she
saw me take the money from the
drawer--lhat she watched me through
the key-hole. They then went 10
my trunk, and they found twenty
FIVE dollars Of the missing money
there. But o, sir, 1 never took it
somebody else put that money there 9
tlen 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, and | was
the chamber maid
She pointed Nancy Luther out to
me. She was a stout, bold faced
glrl, about two-and-twenty, with
low forehead, small grey eyes, a pug
nose and thick lips. | caught her
glance al once as 1t rested upon the
iair young prisoner, and the moment
! detected The looA OF hatred which
| read there, - ~onu,nced that
she was the rogue.
oh, sir, can you help me : my
client asked in a.fearful whisper.
Nancy Luther, did you say that
girls name was 2
Yes, SIR.
'is there any other girl CT that
name about here 2
No, sir
Then rest easy. III try hard to
save YOU
| lett the court room, and went 10
the prosecuting attorney and asked
| him for the letter | had handed him
the ones that had been stolen from
the mailbag He gave them to me,
and having selected Que, ! returned
the rest, and told him would see
that he had the one kept before
night then returned to the court
room and the case went on.
Mrs. Nuseby resumed her testi-
mony.-She said she entrusted her
room to the prisoners care, and that
no one else had access there but her
self. Then she described the miss
ing 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, 1t being two tens and one
FIVE dollar bin.
Mrs Naseby, said |, when you
first missed your money, had you
any reason to believe that the pris-
oner had taken it =
mo, sir, she answered.
Had you ever before detected
her in dishonesty
No, sir,
Should you have thought Of
searching her trunk had not Nancy
Luther advised you aud informed
you 7
No, sir
Mrs. Nasbey then left the stand
aud Nancy Luther took her place
She came up with a bold look, and
upon me she cast a defiant glance,
as much as 10 say, trap me if you
can 7 She gave evidence as fol-
lows:
She said that on the night when
the money was stolen, she saw the
prisoner going up stairs, and from
the manner in which she went up,
she suspected that all was not right,
SO she followed her up.
Elizabeth went into Mrs. Naseby' 5
room and shut the door after her. |
stopped down and looked through
the key hole, and saw her at her mis-
tresss drawer. ! saw her take out
tho mooav md nut n in her nocket