Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-17
]oopular Iale.
THE EXPERIENCES
. OF A
BARRISTER. b
PART 1.
THE MARCH AssIzE.

Something moro than half century
ago, person, in going along Holborn,
might have seen, near the corner of one OF
the throughfares which diverge towards
Russell Square, the respectable looking shop
of glover and haberdasher named James
Harvey, a man generally esteemed by his
neighbors and who was usually considered
well 10 do in the wolll. Like many Lon
don tradesmen, Harvey was originally from
the country. He had come up to town
when poor lad, to push his fortune, AMI
by dint of steadiness and civility, and a
small property left him by distant rela-
tion, he had been able to gel into business
most important element of success in
London -"a connection" Shortly af-
ter setting up in the world, he married a
Young woman from his native town, TO
whom he had been engaged ever since his
school-days; aud at the time our narrative
commences be was the father of three chill
dren.
James Harvey's establishment was one
of the best frequented of its class in the
street. You could never pass without
seeing customers going in or out There
was evidently not little business going
forward. But although, to all appearance
a aourishing concern, the proprietor of the
establishment was surprised to find that be
was continually pinched in his circumstan-
ces. No matter what was the amount Of
business transacted over the counter, he
never got any richer.
At the period referred to, shop keeping
had not attained that degree of organiza-
ton, with respect 10 counter-mcn and cash.
iers, which now distinguishes the great
houses of trade. The primitive till wa:
not yet superseded. This was the veal
point in Harvey's arrangements; and no
to make needless number of words abou
ii, the poor man was regularly robbed BY
shopman, whose dexterity in pitching 8
guinea into the drawer, SO as to make il
jump, unseen, with a jerk into his hand
was worthy of Herr Dobler, or any othe1
master of the sublime art ofjugglery.
Good natured and unsuspicious, per
haps also not sufficiently vigilant, Harvey
was long in discovering how he was pillag
ed. Cartwright, the name of the person
who was preying on his employer, was no
young man. He was between forty anG
fifty years Of age, and had been in variou.
situations, where he had always given sat
lsfactlon, except on the score of being
somewhat gay and somewhat irritable
Privately, he was man of loose habits
and for years his extravagances had beer
paid for by property clandestinely abstract
ed from his too-confiding master. Slow
to believe in the reality of such wickedpess
Mr.. Harvey could with difficulty entertain
the suspicious which began to dawn Oh
his mind. At length all doubt was at u
end. He detected Cartwright in the YER
act Of carrying off goods in a considerabl
amount. The man was tried at the Oh
Bailey for the offence; bu. through tech
nical informality in the indictment, acqui'
ted.
Unable to find employment, and with
character gone, the liberated thief becom
savage, reyengeful, and desperate. Instea
of imputing his fall to his own Irregular
ties, he considered his late unfortunat
employer as the cause of bis ruin; an
now be bent all the energies of his dar