The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-06-01


She pointed Nancy Luther out to me. She
was stout, boId-faced girl, somewhere about
five and twenty years old with low forehead,
small gray eyes, pug nose, and thick lips. /
caught her glance at once as it rested on the
iair young prisoner, and the moment detected
the look OF hatred winch [ read there, [ was
convinced that she was the rogue.
"Nancy Luther did you say that girls name
was p | asked, for new light had broken in up
on me.
eyes, SIR"
"Is there any other girl Of that name about
here %
"No, sir"
"Then rest easy. I'll try very hard to save
you.'
left the court room aud went to the prose-
cutting attorney and asked him for the letters I
had handed him--the ones that had been stolen
from the mail Gag, He gave them TO me, and
having selected one, [ returned the rest, and
told him would see that he had the one kept
before night. l then returned to the court room
and the case went on.
Mrs. Naseby resumed her testimony She
SAID she entrusted the room TO the prisoners
care, and tha. 20 one else had access there save
herself. Then she described about missing the
money, and closed by telling how she found
twenty-five dollars OF it in the prisoners trunk.
She could swear it was the Identical money she
had lost, in two tens, and one five dollar bank
notes.
Mrs Naseby,'' said I, ''when you first mis-
sed the money, had you any reason to believe
the prisoner had taken it %
''No, SIR"
"Had you ever before detected her in any dis
honesty q
''No, sir"
"Should you have honght of searching her
trunk bad not Nancy Luther ADVISED and in-
formed you %
''No, SIR"
Mrs. Naseby left the stand, and Nancy Luz
ther took her place. She came up with a bold
look, and upon HE she cast detian: glance as
if to say strap me if you can." She gave her
evidence as follows:
'FShe said that on the night the money was
stolen, she saw the prisoner going up stairs, and
from the sly manner in which she went up, she
suspected all was not right. So she followed
her up. Elizabeth went into Mrs. Nasrby's
room and shut the door after her. | stopped
down aud looked through the keyhole, and saw
her take out the money and put it in her pock-
ct. Tfen she stopped down aud picked up the
lamp, and as | saw that she was coming out l
hurried away"
Then she Went on and told how she had IN
formed her mistress OF this, aud how she propo-
Sed to search the girls trunk.
! called Mrs. Naseby back to the stand.
lyon say that no one save yourself and the
prisoner, had access to your Toom."
"Idid.''
''Now, could Nancy Luther have; entered the
room ii she wished %
''Certanly, sir, mean no one else had any
right there"
I saw that Mrs. Naseby, though naturally
hard woman, was somewhat moved bv poor
EIizabeth's misery.
''Could your cook have known, by any
means in your knowledge, where your money
was"
eyes, sir, for she has often come TO my room
when was there, and have often given
her money to buy provisions of market men
who happened TO come along with their wag-
ons''
"One more question
"Have you known of the prisoners having
used any money since this was stolen %
''No, sir.''
| now called Nancy Luther back, and she be-
gan TO trembea little, though her look was as
bold and defiant as ever.
ssMiss Luther,' | said, sswhy did you not in
form your mistress at once of what you had seen
without waiting for her to ask about the lost
money %
because I could not make up nv mind at
once to expose the poor grrl,o she answered
promptly.
''You say YOU looked through the keyhoe
and saw her take the money 2''
ayes, SIR
"Where did she place the lamp when she did
so %
'sOn the bureau.''
ain your testimony you SAID she stopped down
when she picked It up. What did you mean
by that %
The girl hesrtated, and finally said she didn't
mean anything only that she picked up the
lamp.
ssVery WE'LL said !, show long have you
oeen with Mrs. Naseby 20
e'Not quite year, SIR"
"How much does she pay you a week 2"
IA dollar and three quarters"
'Have you taken up any of your pay since
you have been there 2"
eyes, SIR"
CHOW much 20
81 don't know, sir.'
ssWhy don't you know 7'
'sHow should +? l have taken it at differ
ent times, just as wanted 1t, and have kept no
account"
Snow, if you had wished to harm the pris-
oner, could you have raised twenty-five dollars
to put in her trunk %
"No, sir" she replied with virtuous indigna-
ton.
''Then you have not laid up any money since
YOU nave been there.n