Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-03-08
Perseverance under difficuIties--A Counter
feiter followed two years and a half by a
woman and caught.

| Perseverance, under difflcuIties--A Counter
feiter followed two years and a half by
woman and caught.
| With some writers, the fckleness and insta
bility of woman is faYorite theme. Oceans
of ink have been shed to prove that her nature
is essentially tickle, and that her great charac
teristic is love and craving for change. W.
have neither the time nor disposition to argue
this point-we have seen wives desert their
husbands when misfortune overlook them, then
again we have seen them cling closer, and with
tenfold tenacity, when disgrace and reproach
bad branded those they loved.
An incident of the latter kind came to our
knowledge the other day, which is so extraor.
binary in its nature. that we cannot resist the
temptation of giving it to our readers.
The people Of Bucyrus, will recollect q we'll
to-do carpenter named P, who resided in
town some five years ago, and afterwards pur-
chased farm a few miles west, which after
residing on year, he sold, and removed to
Missouri. After he had been in Missouri some
eighteen months, ,rumors came back that he had
committed some crime, had been tried, convicted
and sentenced to the Penitentiary. The story
was talked of for few daya-P. was pitied by
his friends and abused by his enemies, and it
was forgotten. The circumstances were these:
P becoming embarrassed for funds, sold pair
of horses to a stock buyer, for $3.50, receiving
that amount in los on Kentucky bank, all in
new, clean bills. Two of these he paid ont,
when it was discovered that they were counter
feits. P.,was arrested, and on his person was
found $3.50 of the same kind He at once told
who he procured them of, but to his horror the
horse dealer, whom we will call A, denied all
knowledge of the notes, and asserted positively,
that the money he had paid, was on an Illinois
bank, and that there was but one ten in the lot.
At that time an immense amout Of counterfeit
money had been set ahoat in that region, and
the idea existed that an organized gang of coun-
terfeiters were located in the vicinity, and as P
was the first one detected in attenDg it, public
opinion was set strongly against him. A. was
also arrested, but as no spurious money was
found on him, and as he told perfectly straight
forward story, denying Indignantly, any par |
Licipation in the matter, he was discharged, and
P was made the sufferer. He was tried, found |
guilty, and sentenced to FIVE years imprison-
nent in the Penitentiary
His wife, however, did not desert him. She |
believed him innocent, and determined to make /
he fact clear to all the world. First she went /
% the Governor, and implored his pardon. She
stated ths circumstances, and insisted upon his
innocence, but to no purpose He sympathized
Eith her, pitied her, but could not grant her re-
Iuest. The offence had become common, and
he public good demanded that the laws be
igidly enforced. The courts had found him
uilty and he could not set aside their will, until
acts could be brought to his knowledge, show
ng his innocence.
Her next step was to convert her property
nto cash. She was satisfied that A. was the
cal perpetratOr Of the offence, and abe deter