White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-07
WHITE CLOUD KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL I, 1852

oieOt notuo " OtncI iOuSinSs, anu clearly
remember your person and features"
cat what time was this p
"About the middle of June"
"Can you state the precise date Of your
arrival there ?"
"No. / think it was on the 18th or
10th of the month" Then turning to
the court, the witness added 81 am not
clear, your honors, as to the exact day,
but if your honors will allow me to send
to my hotel, where l am temporarily
stopping here, l can obtain my memoran-
DUN book, which will assist me, your
honors admitting it."
Leave was given at once, and in few
minutes small trunk was brought in
court from the strangers room at the lit
tie hotel. Upon opening the box the di-
airy was found, and the witness turned to
the 10th of June, under which date the
following item occurred:
"Mem-Paid porter for carrying lug
gage to lodgings in Aldoboro', half a
crown. Arrived at p. P. NJ"
The Judge now asked again, "And do
you state that this prisoner was the iden-
teal person who did this service for you,
Mr. Edgeford, at that time 90
Il am perfectly clear, your honor, in
my belief"
Here was a singular statement-that
staggered the court, the jury. and the
populace-and by no means least, the
honorable Member of Parliament, who
had been robbed on the highway. If this
statement was correct, Aldoboro' being
near hundred leagues distant from Bar
rington road-surely Burrows could not
have been at both places on the same night
-to-wit it: the 10th of June, 1914
Il paid him half crown piece, your
honors. which had an unusually large
hole in it /; and remember a remark he
made at the time-that 1t had been sadly
Jew'd abiding to its lightness from
this canse."
Mr.. Edgeford sat down, and the pris-
oner then asked that the officer who ar
rested him. might be called for moment,
who was subsequently required to produce
the contents of the prisoners pockets,
found on him when taken. Among the
small amount of silver thus. secured, was
a mutilate,. half crown piece. which was
shown to Mr.. Edgelord, who instantly
declared it to be the one paid to the por-
ter. to the best of his belief.
This settled the verdict at once. The
crowd applauded, the judge sat down in
amazement the cause went to the Jury,
the result was an unqualified acquittal,
without leaving the box.
That same evening. Henry Edgeford.
ESQ.," and John Burrows left the town
of B together. They were two con-
federates in crime. both being accomplish
ell gentlemen of the road" Burrows was
the robber of the Hon. n. P; he was
really guilty; but his friend and COM
panion in evil assumed the disguise OF a
gentleman traveller, and being aware of
all the circumstances of the case from the
beginning, found no difficulty in coming
story adapted to the moment and the
imminent emergency of his associate
His letters were forgeries-his bills of
credit the same he learned what coins
were found upon Burrows when he was
arrested, and his determination to clear
him was entirely successful. There was
no time or opportunity for rebutting the
testimony of Edgeford-his whole plan
was perfect coup de grace, and to his
confederate in crime he proved eminently,
on that occasion, timely witness.