Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-02-18

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fend at the request Of party to the record
aWill you please to enter. your namei
requested the Judge, offering his docket.
The stranger scrawled. in immense bio
ted capitals, "Pete Whetston, of the De'
IFS Fork Carroll county, Coon township.
"Pete Whetstone! Pete Milestone
murmored the throng passing the singula
name from lip to lip. ave thought
could not be Fent NoIand.'
The stranger deposited his rife in an ar
gle of the bar, and the sheriff from tn
door, went on to call over the panel. Th
scene of calling jurors was indiscribably ri
diculous of which the following brief spec
mems may suffice:
Sheriff in sonorious voice. "Solomol
Tuttler'
Juror from neighboring grocery scream
ing like wild cat-aHere! Tell the judg
to wait till l take another horn!
Sheriff.-'Tom Finkv'
Juror, with shout like roar of storm
aHere! presently, as soon as I thrash Bol
Weaver"
Sheriff, excited.-"Crosby Bell.w
Juror.-"I can't come. I'm rubbin' m,
boss for the cholic."
Sheriff despcrate.-Abraham Tackett !!
By-stander laughing.-"He can't com,
neither because he's drunk and
ga fool when SOBER" shouted another
finishing sentense that otherwise nigh
have ended worse.
An length twelve jurymen were select
ed and sworn, and the state proceeded
with its evidence, which was very simple
and lucid amounting only to this-Tha
Henry Martin challenged Col. Wallace, fol
words spoken against bis siser. They met
and Wallace fell at the first fire
The defence examined but one witness
Mary the beautiful sister, who testified te
most revolving insult received at the
hands of the deceased. The state answer
ed with rebutting testimony, attacking the
character of the girl by the vilest acts Of
perjury. .-rt
Up to this time the strange counsel fol
the prisoner had remained calm and appa-
rently abstracted, putting but few cross
questions, and those evincing no particular
ingenuity. But when the witnesses were
offered for the impeachment of Mary's cred
ibility, Pete MILESTONE bounded to his
feet suddenly, as if he had received shock
of electricity in his heart and his small
eyes of redish blue Literally blazed, till they
seemed to east gleam of livid light over
the faces of the adverse attorneys, that mo-
mentarily blinded them, and made their
quivering fingers wander to their dagger
hilts in vain.
.1f You dare touch her character, by even
the shadow of an imputation,' cried the in
dignant young advocate, in tones rolling
sweetly loud, like the richest peals of an Or
gan. II will set on your shameless brows a
black seal Of infamy, that you shall bear
till your dying day. srasi
Major General Sneabornly Sneed sprung
from his chair purple with rage and ex-
claimed-@I will hold you responsible for
those words"
General Sneed was the bully of the Fay
etteville clique, and perhaps there was but
a single name in the world that he really
feared.
"Very well, am responsible man." re-
torted Milestone with an icy sneer. And
the case progressed as if there had been
no interruption. Such episodes were too
common to excite serious apprehension.
Finally the argument opened. After
several had spoken for the prosecution with
some show of decency and regard to mod
grafton, Gen. Sneed, on the same side,
burst all bounds, and poured fourth in the
genuine style of Lord Coke, such merci-
less volley of abuse against the prisoner,
against his friends, the "wood rats" that
many of the latter cooked their guns, yell
it back, or we'll shootr' The
retainers of the clique displayed equal ac-
tivity, and the forum instantly assumed the
aspect of battlefield where adverse iegions
were about to encounter the shock of NOR
tai strife. Then had one gun been fired
it would have been the death knell of hun
lreds. But the awful imminence of the
peril caused both parties to pause. While
i voice of majesty and command pealed
nigh above the tumult of threats and cur
fools! do not render the
wifes of your bosom widows, and the chill
lren of your loins orphans, for the sake of
TWO mercenary advocates who would hang
you all for hundred dollars fee! Leave
me and Gen. Sneed alone to settle our own
quarrel, after adjournment"
1! was the voice of the strange lawyer,
Pete MILESTONE, and the wisdom of the
advice was so obvious as to calm for
while the fury of faction. Besides many
of the clique began to have painful misgiv-
ngs that this was Pete Noland in disguise.
The impression as 10 the incognito deepen
ID when the stranger came to address the
ury. He began with such an arrow-like
light of mingled jest, anecdote, and ridi-
,ule, that the very walls of the courthouse
appeared to be exploding with laugter. He
changed the theme, and hailed such tor
'ents of frey wrath on the heads of the
lique that they stood all aghast, and ma
" of them trembled as if they already
heard the hollow whisper of the angle
If death summoning them to judgement
He boldly charged them with perjury and
murder, and enumerated every spot in the
street which had been stained with the
blood of their assinated victims; and what
,viuced the boldest daring of all he solemn
y accused them of robbing the bank-a
act not publicly detected till two years af-
erwards.
Again he passed to another topic, and
Urged the innocence and depicted the mis-
ortune Of his client, and dwelt upon tho
INJURIES of that beautiful sister, till scores
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