The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1859-05-14

y uHit irIiltu MT, W ilbeTiufces
IJd you ever see the entry of Robert
Carr's marriage with Martha Ann Hsghss in
the churchs regisierP
Yes did Sergeant siNem pdeked up
when did you see Il p
'On the twenty-fourlh Of last October
How do you fix the date, Mr. WiIber-
force ? inquired the judge, who recognized
him as the minor canon wis had OBLIGATED In
the ehantsr's desk, the previous day in the
Il had been marrying a couple that morn
ing, my lord, the twenty-louuh, Amer had
entered their marriage, ! turned hack and
looked for the registry Of Robert Cars aud
| found IL and read H.
What induced you TO look for itP' asked
the counsel.
Il had heard that his marriage was dis
covered 70 have taken place at st. James,
and that II was recorded in the register. ca,
! riosity induced me to turn back and read IT,
You both saw and read H. continued Ser
geaut Wanglo,
i both saw It and read Il, replied Mr., VIII
beriorce,
| Then you testify that it was undoubtedly
| there p
| Most certainly Il was
THE reverend gentleman will have the
! goodness 20 remember that be- Is upon his
OATH cried Sergeant siiIem, impuGently
bnbbug up,
's1r Was the indignant rebuko Of the
clergyman. You forget 10 whom YOU are
speuking,' he added, amidst the dead silence
of the court.
Can you remember the words written p
resumed Sergeant Nrangle.
'Ihe entry was properly made in the
same manner that the others we're Of that
period. Robert Carr and Martha Ann IIu.
ghcs had signed Il also her brother and sis
ter as wtncsscS.'
You have no donbt that the entry was
there, then, Mr. Wilberlorcc| p observed the
judge.
My lord. cried the reverend gentleman. q.
somewhat nottlcd at the question, i can be.
lcVc my own eyes. | nm not more certain
that ] am now giving evidence before your
lordship, than am that the marriage was in .
the register
Il is not in now, said the Judge.
-.Na. my Lord > II nlast haze been cleyerly I
absttactcd.'
The whole leaf, presume : said Sergeant
Wranglc.
Undoubtedly. The marriage entered be-
low Robert Carrs was that Of Sir Thomas
Ealing ! read that also, with the long string
OF Witnesses that is also gone
Can you account for its disappearance p
asked Sergeant Wrangr.
Not in the least, i wish / could and find
out the ofIepdcri.
The incumhen, Of the parish at that time
is no longer living, believe observed Ser
gcnnt Wrangc.
lie has been dead many years. replied
Mr.. Nilbcrforee: -four or Eve have held the
living since then. But it was not the incum.
bent Who married them il was strange
clergy man Who performed the ceremony, a
friend of Robert Cars
'iioS 90 > ~ N9u" .ns. '""Ppo9 SvF-
gcant Sltem, bohbing up again.
because he signed the register as having
performed IT, replied MIR. Wilberforee, con.
fronting the Sergeant with a look as uudaunt.
ed ~ his own,
What cared Sergeant Sincm for being CON
fronted How do YOU know he was friend
of Robert Carrs?' went on he.
In that speak from hcarsnv. But there
are many men Of this city, older than | am.
who remember that the Reverend Mr.. Bell
and Robert Carr were upon exceedingly iuti.
mate terms; they can testify it to you, If you
choose 10 ealt rtCH.
Sergeant Sihen groHlcd and sat down.
ALLOW me TO ask you, SIR" continued Ser
gcant Wrnngle, whether the marriage being
entered there is not proof Of its having
taken place p
"Most assurcdy >" replied Mr.. wnberforec.
" A proof indisputab!e."
But courts Of justice, judges and jury re-
quire CIRCULAR and demonstrative proof Il is
probable that there was not soul in court,
including the judge and Sergeant Sinem, nut
believed the evidence of the Reverend Mr..
WilberfoTce, even lad they chosen to doubt
that of Lawrence Omer but the register neg
aiively testified that there had been no mar
ringe, and upon the register, in law, must rest
the onus Of proof Had there been positive
evidence. not negative, Of tho abstraction Of
the leaf from the register, had the register
itself afforded such, the aspect of affairs would
have been very different. When the court
rose that night the trial had advanced down
to the summing-up OF the judge, which was
deferred till morning but il was felt by eve
rybody that that summingup would be dead
against the client of Mr.. Fnuntlsroy, and
tbat Squire Carr had gained the eSse.
The Squire and his son Valentine, and
Mynn and Mynn and one or two of the les
ser guns OF the bar but not the great gun,
Sergeant Siltem, took late dinner togrthrr,
and drank toasts, and were as merry and up,
roarious as success could make them: and
Riverton, outside, echoed their sentiments
that cute old Fauntleroy had not a leg to
stand upon.
Cute old Fauntlcroy-'cute enough, good.
ness knew. in general-was thinking the same
thing, Gs he took a solitary chop in his own
house. After the meal was finished, he sat
over the tire in dreamy mood, he scarcely
kneY how long, and full of vexatiou.
An hqpr or so previous to that, Henry Ar
kell wa4 in his home, not at his lessons, as
was customary at that hour, but idly talking
with his mother, when Cookesley, the second
senior of the eollege-school, came in, Mr.. I
'Wilberforce having sent him to inquire after
Arkell.
"Oh think my head is little better to-
night Cookosley," was his reply.
Such game " cried Cookesley. Will Ii
berforce has been at the assize all the after
noon he had to give evidence about that
Register business, and Roberts worked him
sci into passion, trying to domiueer over
us upper boys out of course we were not go
ing to let him. Isn't Aultane in fury, tho,
about the medal businetsw