Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-10-22

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please" / said to him.
Without hesitation be die so. took Il
1t was Charles Ambold's knife i--the;
large blade was gone! With all the power
/ possessed l restrained my deep emotion !;
and, having cut my paper, handed back
the knife.
Why should he have that knife so boldly
about him? afterwards learned He had
not worn these pantaloons before since the
night CT the fire; and now he used The
knife probably without the least remem>
brance of the lossit had sustained during
a very peculiar piece Of work, to the exc
cqtion of which it was made subseryient.
We talked for some minutes, and found
that eleven of the jury were bent on rem
dering h verdict of guilty; though most Of
them were in favor of recommending the
prisoner to mercy. Moulton Warren was
decided. He had no mercy at all.
Presently started up, ard pretending
TO be faint, | said i must go out Tor few
moments. | kicked at the door and the
deputy sheriff came. He heard my plea
asG let me out. As soon as we bad gained
a safe distance, told him all. He was as
tonished. and went away; when he came
back he brought the district attorney and
the district judge and the sheriff. / told
them again what / had seen-I assured
them that knew that it was no mere sus-
picion. And | explained, too, Warren's
manner in the jury room, and his former
connections with the prisoner, and his
known character.
The officers went away, and at the end of
ten minutes they returned, a constable add
ed to their number, and this constable had
freshly written instrument in his hand.
The sheriff bade me to point out the hat to
them as soon as we entered the room.
The door of the room opened, and |
pointed them TO the hat. The sheriff took
it and asked whose it was. Warren leaped
to his feet and seized it, but was held back
Word was instantly sent to the judge
that the jury could not agree. They were
discharged, and then Moulton Warren was
searched, the knife found upon him, and
his behavior at once exposed his guilt
The presence of that letter was accounted
for by him in dozen different ways within
an hour.
A new jury was impaneled. and Charles
AmbOld was acquitted. Shortly afterward
Warren was tried. 1t was plainly proved
that the woman who kept it was to rave
been burned up in it, as he contrived to
lock her into her room shortly after setting
the fire. She had incurred his displeasure
in various ways, and this was his revenge.
Not only she but three of her girls had
suspected him from the first, but they dared
! not complain, for fear he would not be
convicted, and would be sure 20 murder
| them.
| The hardened william confessed his guilt
| after he had been condemned, and then il
was that he told how he Mapped to be so
| careless in regard to the paper and knife.
1t was he who had robbed Ambold, and
when he took the old letter from his hat to
use it for torch in setting the fire, he did
not notice what it was. and even when that
| partly burned half had been exhibited in
court, he had entirely forgotten that he
had torn off the other hale and put it back
! in his hat, as he must have done. The
letter had been found in Ambold's pocket.
book, and he had kept it, because in it the
youth was warned against his Influence.
He confessed that be held a slight idea
of calling the writer ~ an account i. Ser
it should become convenient. With regard
| to the knife, it was as | before stated. He
took that also from Ahbold's pocket, and
| put it in his own; and on the night Of the
fire he used it to pry up the sash. and wher
he had broken it he put it tack in hi,
pocket and had forgotten it,
Thus was Charley saved-and saved
from more than an ignominous death, too
He was saved to be noble, virtuous man
and his mother once more took AMPLE de-
light and joy in the love and care Of he
only child.
When Charles Ambold knew that Moul
ton Warren had expatiated his crimes upor
the galows, he sat down and pondered up
on his past life The thoughts of his ole
companion being hanged sent strang
thrill through his frame. But he was abb
to trace out, ce rly and logically, this ter
rible result from the course of life the i'll
fated man had pursued. He shuddered a
he remembered how far he had gone in tn
same course himself; and he was able +
see the only safe path for any youth.
Not only must he shun vice-not onl
keep clear Of even the appearance of vic
but above all, must he shun evil com
partnership. A youth may make all tn
good resolution thought can afford, but
he continues one evil companionship, he
not safe.