Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-05-21
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SioNS OF AN ATTORNEY
In tho second year of my connection
with the Northern Circuit | was acrcca-
by surprised as | sat musng on the even
ing of my arrival in the ancient city of
York upon the capricious mode in which
those powerful pcrSomgcs the attorneys
distributed their valuable fvors, bv the
entrance of one Of the most eminent law
ycrs practising in that part of the country,
and the forthwith tender of bulky brief
in the Crown Court The local ncwspa.
pcrs, from which | had occasionally seen
extracts, had been for some time busy with
tho case and knew therefore to be-. rcla
lively to the condition in life of the princi
pal person implicated, All important one
Ruinor had assigned the conduct of the de-
fence to an eminent leader OIL the circuit /;
since, one of our ahlcst judges; and ON
looking more closely at the brief, | per.
cclvcd that that gcntcmans name lad
been crossed out, and mine substituted.
6 You are not, sir, believe, retained for
the prosecution in the crown against Eve.
rctt ~ said Mr.. Sharpe in his brief, busi-
ness manner.
" am not, Mr.. Sharpe"
" In that case, beg to tender you the
lcading,brcf for the defence. 1t WAS in
tended, asyou perceive, to place it in the
hands OF our great nisi priuS leader, but
he will be so completely occupied in that
court, that he has been compelled to de-
cline it. He mentioned you and from
what have myself seen of you in several
cases, | have no doubt my unfortunate eli
cnt will have ample justice done him. MIR.
Kingston will lie with You +"
thanked Mr.. Sharpe for lbs compli-
mcnt, and accepted his brief. AS the
commission would be opened on the fol-
lowing morning, | ut once applied myself
to pcrnsal of the bulky paper, aided as
read by the vcrbal explanations and com.
mentarcs of MIR. Sharpe. Our confer
cncc lasted several hours; and it was ar
ranged that another should be held early
the next morningat MIR. Sharpe's Office, Mt
which Mr.. Kingston woald assist Dark,
intricate, compasscd with fearful mystery,
was the case so suddenly submitted to my
guidance, and the few faint CLEANS of light
derived from the attorneys research, pre-
science, and sagacity, served but to render
dimly visible still profound and blackcr
abyss of crime than that disclosed by evi-
dencc for the crown. Young us / then was
IN tho profession, no marvel that felt op.
pressed by the weight of the responsibility
cast upon me. Happily the next day was
not that of trial; for awokc with a throb-
bng pulse and burning brain, and should
have been out poorly prepared for strug-
gle involving the issues of life and death.
Extremely sensitive, as, under the circum-
stances, must necessarily have been, to
the arduous nature of the grave duties so
unexpectedly dcvolvcd upon me, the fol-
lowing resume of the chief incidents of
the case, as confded to me by Mr..
Sharpe, will, thiHk, fully account to the
reader for the nervous irritability under
which for the moment lnbored:
Mr.. Frederick Everett, the prisoner about
to be arraigncd for the frightful crime of
murder, had, with his father, Capt. Antho-
ny Everett, resided for several years past
at Woodlands Manor-House, the scat of
Mrs. Eleanor Fitzhugh, rich, elderly mai
den lady, aunt to the first, and sister by
marriage to the last named gcntlcman.-
a generous, pious, high-minded person
Mrs. Fitzhugh was represented to haxe
been, but extremely sensitive withal on the
score of family" The Eitzhughs of
Yorkshire, she was went to boast, "camo
in with the Conqueror !" and any branch
OF the glorious tree then firmly plaptcd in