Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-04-18

up and saw the breast.pin and money found
IN it-tucked away in one corner. BY my
cross.examination l elected the fact that
Helen had just come home from an errund
ION which she had been sent over an hour.)
when her trunk was searched, and had on her
bonnet and shawl: that ''sbe looked quite in.
nocent and unconcerned until the things were
found, and that she seemed astonished." On
dismissing the witness, ] gazed at the jury,
but they sat with stern faces, as though re.
solved that nothing should make them clear
the culprit. ! called Miss Boyce back, say
ing had forgotten q very importan, point.
This excited some attention, and when |
asked her it Mrs, Wesley was in the habit OF
il!-treatiDg the prisoner, every body pricked
up their ears. The girl hesitated and STAN.
mered, and finally said she was And why
do you think cor ] asked.
because Mrs. Wesley beat her once
with large club, and threatened to
kill her, and was scoldng her. But don't
ask me any more questions" she suddenly ex-
claimed, "or shall lose my placer
glanced at Mrs Wesley, ur1 saw that
she was regarding her servant with look Of
intense nalignity, and TO annoy her | APP
pealed to the Court 10 protect the witness
against the threatening looks of her mistress
ihis brought oil eyes TO "a focus on Mrs.
Nesleys ugly countenance, and she turned
fairly white with Indignation. The Judge
told the witness to speak without fear. and if
she lost her place 10y telling the truth, she
would find plenty of better ones. Being sat
ished with the impression made, told the
witness she might go, and the District Attor-
ney permitted her to puss without question
ing.
The next witness was Miss Sarah Brown,
the seams,ress--a rat-eyed. hatchet-iaced,
dapper little creature. "She WAS at work
Tor Mrs. Wesley at the time the theft was
discovered. She met Helen the day before
the trunk was searched. coming out Of her
mistress room, and she looked so guilty she
suspected she had been doing something
wrong. The same day Mrs. Wesley spoke
TO her about the things being gone, and she
told her suspicious. Thereupon she thought
1t would be a good plan to search llelpns
trunk; proposed to do it at once, but Mrs.
Wesley preferred to wait. When the trunk
was searched, the things we're found in it,
just as she expected they would be-"
When The witness was passed over to me,
l asked in Il careless tone, how she knew the
money was in Mrs. Wesley's room the day She
had met Helen coming thence.
"She knew it because Mrs. Wesley had
told her. Couldn't be mistaken, for Mrs w.
had spoken about the half eagle with u hole
IN it, which she was going to present to the
minister's boy"
This | made her say over again, until
there could he no mistake about it, and then
asked fshe knew who made the hole in the
half eagle.
"Yes, MIR Murch the jeweler, made it,"
us he in the room ?" asked.
Yes, there he is." said she, pointing.
told Miss Brown she could CO. aud the
District Attorney requested that Mr.. Murch
should be sworn. The Attorney handed
Murch the identical balfeagle. and asked if
he recognised it, lie said he did that the
Magistrate who committed the prisoner had
made mark upon it.
"'rhats ull; The witness is yours, Mr.. Rem.
sen."
DO you remember, Mr.. Murch. on what
day OF the month you made the hole in the
hali.eagle?' ] asked.
at was on the 18th Of March" said he.
"Why, that was the very day the prisoners
trunk was searched was it not 7" said | , turn
ing to the District Attorney.
THAT is the day mentioned in tho indict-
ment, he replied.
Turning again to the witness. said, MIR.
Murch, please to recollect with precisinn
you heald the witness who proceeded Won,
identical half-agle. with The hole then made
in it, was in her husbands trunk on or before
the 10th of last March,"
Yes" said Murch, II heard her swear
that. and was astonished, for Mrs. W.lsey
brought me the coin on the Afternoon OF the
10th and told me must have il fixed ty noon
next day; at IL on the l1lh, she came for it,
and at one that afternoon it WAS found IN Nj ss
Nj ,ntressor's trunk"
The District Attorney turned sharp around
and gave the Wesleys piercing lock. Mrs.
w. sat iDmovable; but Wesley turned pale
and fairly covered beneath the gaze Of the
Attorney, who. ] saw, was now convinced Of
.he true facts of the case aud Judge aud
jury seemed 10 be Of the same mind. | felt
certain, then, OF verdict in my clients favor
but how was ] 10 crush the Wesleys and
how win back her estate? decided on my
course.
flanagan was next. and showed by him
that Mrs. Wesley had prosecuted the prison.
er in the most outrageous Misunderstanding
her, threatening to kill her ard to ruin her
reputation and treating her Shameiully. His
testimony excited so much Indignation against
the couple, that longed for the noment TO
arrive when james Wesley shonId take he
stand,-When llannegan retired, Mrs. Nes.
pered to the Attorney. The latter seemed
surprised, bnt announced that the prosecution
would there rest the case.
Everybody was surprised that the Wesleys
were not called, and ny plans were all disar-
ranged. OWNED ut once that Mrs, Wesley
had suggested this course TO shield her hus-
nd and herself from or, ss-exanination -
Had the instinct Of selCpreserya:ou told her
what was coming? ] rose to open NY case
for the defence, and began by stiijfk that
had incontestble evidence that a cotispira.
cy had been entered into TO blast The chuiac-
ter Of my client TO enable the parties in the
conspiracy Ia perfect certain secret plans,
which would fill the community With hI rror
| saw that everybody was prepared to believe
almost anything, and determined TO waste no
time in words. So requested that James
Wesley might be sworn, and desired the
Judge to have Euuice Wesley removed while
her husband was being examined. She was
taken out by the Sheriff, and turned to ques,
apIa