The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1859-05-14
From coIbum's New Moshly.
The Grand Aasizo Causo.
ny THE AUTHOR or "AsHLEY."

The spring assiEes we're being held, thev ha,
commenced that morning, Monday, and IN
great eause waa on, Carr Va. Carr.
Not that the cause Was anything 30 yer
great IN Itself only the good citizens Of Riy
vTlon had taken Il up and maguIhed IL iut,
otrg-it it't-'e si'sH t4's leg ilI1',sey 81 llaL
( ert Carr, nov dead III that could be proved
bis widow and ohildrer would inherit thl
/ fortune Of his grandfather II not, that for
lu1e went 10 more distant relatives, Squiu
Carr and his son Valentine.
Robert Carr's father (whose name was nj
No hober) had wrItten a document upon hi
death'bed 20 the elect that he had been mar
/ Tied in hverton, at the Church Of ST. Jamel
the Less but this document had been mis-
lad until alter the death Of Robert Carr
lis widow found u and dispatched Il 10 Mr.
fauntleroy ite lHyerion solicitor who wai
conducting their cause. Mr.. Faunleroy. uD
on receipt Of the important letter, sent d
clerk 10 search the register Of ~. James the
Less and there the marriage was found dul,
entered This was the previous autumn
and Mr. fuunileroy hugged himself and
| buoyed up Mra, Carr with the certainty Of
success when, just upon the assze, the uH.
accountable discovery was made that no en-.
| lry Of the marriage was 10 the register Mr..
faunlleroy though be had not himself seen
it-asserted that It had been there, and must
have been taken QUIT and the other aide
held 10 IL that the marriage had never taken
place and the entry had never been there.
The tral came on about Two la the after.
noon and II progressed cquubly up to five,
ahen there arose q fierce discussion touching
The reRlltor Mr.. Fauntleroy'a counsel, Ser.
gennt Nnngc, declaring that the marriage
was there up 10 very recently and Mynn
aud Myun's counsel, Sergeant Sihem. fidi-
euling thsFnsseuion. Mynn aud Mynn being
the lawyers for Squire Carr. The Judge or.
derod the register 10 be produced.
IL was brought into court and examined
ING marriage was not there, neither was
ther1 any slBn OF It's having been ubsirlcted.
Lawfncc Omer was called, MIR. Fauntleroy'a
clerk and lac testified TO having searched the
register seen lae marriage, aud copied the
names OF the witnesses 10 II, IN proof Ur
which no rendered his pockct-book, where
the names were written Ia pencil.
Up rose Segeant SiIem. What day was
this, pray9
ber
And so you think you saw the marriage
Of Robert Carr and Martha Ann Hughes
there p
! am sure saw it,' replied Mr.. omer.
w ere you aloncP
Il looked over the book alone. Hunt the
clerk Of the church, was present in the yes
Try
IL must appear TO the jury s singular
thing that you only, and nobody else, should
have seen this mysterious entry continued
Sergeant Siitem
Perhaps nobody else looked for il; they'd
nave seen II II they hal,' shu'dy .>,.,..sa
the witness, who ielt himself an aggrievcu
man, and spoke like one, since half the town
had publicly accused him Of having gone
down to ST. James, in his sleep, aud seen The
oStry in dream alone.
Docs IL not strike you, witness, as being
extraordinary that this one particular entry,
profcsScd TO have been seen by your eyes,
and by yours alone, should have been ub.
gtractcd from q book safely kept under lock
and key ? pursued sergeant Slltem. i am
mistaken IL il would not strike an intelligent
man as being akin TO an impossibility.'
NO, II does not strike me SO, tut evuutE
hard Of belief happen sometimes. swear
the marriage was in the book last October
why Il is not there now, is the extraordinary
part Of the affair
IL was no use TO cross-eNnmine the witness
further heswus cross and obstinate, aud per
sisted in his story. Sergeant Sinem dismiss.
ed him and Hunt was called, the clerk Of
tho church, who came hubbling in.
The old man rRmbled in HIS evidence, but
the point Of il was that he didn't believe any
abstraction had been made. not he il must
be n farce 10 suppose IL; croichet Of that
great lawyer Fauntleroyi' how could the
register be touched VIXEN he himself kept il
sure and sacred, the key Of the safe in hid
ing place in the vestry, and che key of the
church hanging up in his own house. outside
his kitchen door? His rector said it had
been robbed, and in course he couldn't stand
out to his face as il hadn't but he were upon
his oath now, and must speak the truth with
ont shrinking.
Sergeant Wrnngle rose. Did he mean to
tell the court that he never saw or read the
entry Of the marriage
No he never did. lie heard say as il were
there, but he never looked.
But you we're present when the witness
Omer examined the register p persisted Ser
gcant Wranglr.
Master Omer wouldn't ha' got to examine
it, unless had been, my lord and jury re-
tortcd Hunt TO Sergeant Wrange. Il was
a-SAting down in the vestry, a nursing Of my
leg, which were worse than usual that day
1t always is in damp weather, and
'Coniine yourself to the evidence inter
rupted the judge.
We'll, your reverence, was'a nursing OF
my leg while Master Omer looked into the
book. ! don't know what he saw there he
didn't say Ind when he had done looking, /
locked it safe up again"
Did you see him make an extract from it7'
demanded Sergeant Wrangle
Yes, your worship, saw him n writing
something down in his pocket-book.'
Have you ever entrusted the key Of the
safe TO strange bandsP
4 would't do such thing, your reverent
worships. ! never gave it to nobody, and
never would there is not nsoul knows where
1t is to be found, but Jnc, and the rector. and
the other clergyman, MIR. Prattleton, what.
comes often 10 do duty. l couldn't say as
much for the key Of the church, which some
times goes beyond my custody, for the rect
tor allows one or two Of the young college
gents to 60 in and play the organ. BY token,
one Of 'em--the quietest o. the pair, il were
too--lung in that very key on to our kitch-
en- floor, and shivergd our cats beautiful
chaney sauuey into seven atoms, and my