Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-04-12

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that was the bank replied the witness.
You say, then, that you have no
doubt they were upon the Globe Bank ?
'Oh, no! no! did not say that--I
cannot po-itively say, but | think they
were would not perjure myself to
save my child
The old man buried his face in his
hands and wept bitterly and many an
eye in that crowded courtroom was
moist in sympathy with the fathers dis
trses. The prosecution here rested their
case.
Counsellor Nj. in behalf Of The prisoner
addressed the jury briefly IN opening the
defence. He said that as to the commits
sion of the crime by some one, there
could be no doubt That a chain of cir
cum ances, partly accidental, and partly
resulting from a coincidence Of indapen-
dent events, and which be trusted he
should be able satisfactorily to exaloIn,
connected with a deep laid -l4ame Of
fraud and yiliany involving IN another
not only the crime here charged upon an
innocent, and unoHending girl whose
charact M to thi ';ue. ha. been above
rsproach, pJt also deeper and more
lamning crimes OF conspiracy and per-
jury most foul. That he trusted with
the aid of facts within the knowledge of
the defence, aud Of unimpeaehable eyi-
dence which he should be able to produce,
not only to explain away all evidence on
the part Of the prosecution, that made
against the prisoner, and to set her char
acter in all its pristine beauty before all
men, but also to fix the double guilt be-
yond all doaht upon thereal party. That
If he should succeed rs he anticipated, in
shielding really innocent person from
u mistaken yengence of offended JUS
tice it was all the reward he asked; and
he trusted in God aad in :ho righteous
ness of the cause in which he was en-.
gagged, 20 be able to show the character
of the accused as pure and spotless as
The MONDAY sun in heaven.
There was a breathless stiffness through
out the court house during the progress
Of these remarks. The confident man
uUI in which tho,. ,vero uttered, IN a.,
face Of testimony so astounding which
had carried conviction, to almost evory
mind, of the prisoners guilt, awakened a
redoubled interest, aud caused a painful
idea in the minds Of the more rejecting,
that possibly, in the silent workings of
their own thoughts, they had condemned
the prisoner too soon.
The gentleman who had held the mort
gage wa, the first witness called by the
defence. He came in to the courtroom
a few moments before with the drover to
whom he had paid the money, accom-
panied by William Johnson, who it now
came out, had been to seek him in Ohio,
and bring him back as a witness in the
case.
The mortgage testified to the pay
ment by him to the drover Of the same
bills he had received from the prisoners
father, but he could not identify the
Bank.
The drover, however, swore positively
that they were on the Granite and not on
the Globe Bank. That he noticed and
remembered them particularly, as tens
and twenties, check letter B." anl that
he had paid them out for stock, in small
amounts. at time, except two o. .breo of
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