Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-10-24

see he had the one / kept before night.
then returned to the court room and the
case went on.
Mrs. Naceby resumed her testimony.
She said she entrusted the room to the
prisoners care, and that no one had ac-
cess there save herself Then she desert
bed about missing the money, and closed
by telling how she fohnd twenty-five dol
lars 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. Naceby," said I, "When you
first missed the money, had you any rea.
on to believe that the prisoner had taken
it?'
"No, sir" she answered
Had you ever before detected her in any
dishonesty?
"No sir"
Mrs. Naceby left the stand and Nancy
Luther took her place. She came up with
bold look, and upon me she placed a
defiant glance, as if to say, "trap me if
you can." She gave her evidence as fol-
lows
She said that on the night the money
was taken 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. eliza
abeth went to Mrs. Naceby's room and
shut the door after her. l stopped down
and looked through the keyhole, and saw
her take out the money and put it in her
pocket. Then she stopped down and
picked up the lamp, snd as l saw she was
coming out, l hurried away"
Then she went on, told how she had
informed her mistress of this, and how
she proposed to search the girls trunk.
called Mrs. Naceby to the sand
"You said that no one, save yourself
and the prisoner, had access to your
room," l said. "Now could Nancy Luther
have entered your room if she wished?"
Certainly, sir, l ment that no one else
had right there.
I saw that Mrs. Naceby, though natdr-
ally hard woman, was somewhat moved
by poor Elizabeth's misery.
Gould your cook have known by any
means in your knowledge, where your
money was?"
eyes, sir, for she has often come to
my room while / was there, and | have
often given her money to buy provisions
of market men who happened to come
along with their wagons"
"Have you known of the prisoners
having used any money since this was
stolen?"
"No, Sir"
l now called Nancy Luther back, and
she began to tremble little, though her
look was as bold and defiant as ever.
"Miss Luther" l said, "why did you
not inform your mistress at once of what
you had seen, without waiting for her to
ask about the lost money!"
"Because could not at once make up
my mind to expose the poor girl" she
answered promptly.
You say that you looked in the key
hole and saw her take the money!"
Yes SIR"
"Where did she place the lamp when
she did so?"
"On the bureau.,'
In your testimony you say she stoop-
ed down and picked it up. What do you
mean by that?"
The girl hesitatcd, and finally she said
she did not mean anything, only that she
picked up the lamp.
VERY well," said 1, chow long have
you been with Mrs. Naceby?"
"Not quite year SIR"
Chow much does she pay you week?"
ga dollar and three quarters"
"Have you taken up any Of your pay
since you have been there :''
eyes, Sir
"How much?"
Il don't know
"Why don't you know?"
"How should L? l have taken it al
different times, just as wanted it, and
kept no account"
"Now if you had wished to harm the
prisoner, could you have raised twenty,
five dollars to put in her trunk?"
"No, sir" she replied, with yirtuoaS
Indignation.
"Then you have not laid up any mon
ey since you have been there?"
"No, sir, only what Mrs. Naceby may
owe me-"
Then you did not have twenty five
dollars when you came there?"
"No, sir, and what's more, the money
found in the girls trunk was the money
Mrs. Naceby lost. You might hav'
known that, if you'd remembered wha
you asked her." This was said very sar
castical, and was intended as crushe
upon the idea that she would have pu
the money in the prisoners trunk. How
q ever, | was not overcome entirely.
/ "Will you tell me if you belong t.
| this State?"
v 81 do, SIR
e ''In what town.
q She hesitated, and for an instant tn
|, bold look forsook her. But she final
: answered, Il belong to Somers. Mont
k gomery county
!, next turned to Mrs. Naceby.
). "Do you ever take receipt fror
d your girls when you pay them?"
" Always
,r Can you send and get one for me?
I 'She has told you the truth, sir, abor
the payments, said Mrs. Naceby.
q. 'Oh, don't doubt it, replied l., 'b'
9. if you can. wish You would procul
a the receipt
Sc She said she would willingly go if IL
at court said so. The court did say s.
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