New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-13


About two weeks ago, she said, he,
mistress lost a hundred dollars.
| She missed it from her drawer the
jgirl said to rae, land asked me about it.
Isaid Iknew nothing about it. That
evening Iknow Nancy Luther told Mrs.
Naseby that she saw me take the mon
ley from the drawer-that she watched
me through the keyhole. Then they
went to my trunk and found twenty
FIVE dollars Of the missing money there.
But, sir, 1 never took it, and somebody
must have put it there
| then asked her If she suspected any
one.
| L don't know she said, who could
have done it but Nancy. She ha new
er liked me because she thought I was
better treated than she. She is the
cook. Twas the chambermaid.s
She pointed Nancy Luther out to
me. She was stout, bold faced girl,
somewhere about five and twenty years
old, with low forehead, small grey
eyes, a pug nose, and thick lips. I
caught her glance at once, as it rested
on the fair young prisoner, and the mo-
ment I detected the look of hatred
which I read there I was convinced that
she was the rogue.
Nancy Luther did you say that
girls name was? I asked, for q new
light had broken in upon me.
Yes, SIR
| I left the courtroom and went to the
prosecuting attorney and asked him for
the letters I had handed him-the ones
that had been stolen from the mailbag.
He gave them to me, and, having select
ed one, I returned the rest and told
him would see LIE had the one I kept
before night, Itheu returned to the
courtroom, and the case went on.
Mrs. Maseby resumed her testimony.
She said she intrusted the room to the
prisoners care, and that no one else had
access there save herself. Then she
described about missing the money,
md closed by telling how she found
twenty-five dollars Of it in the prison
cr's trunk. She could swear it was the
identical money she had lost, in two
tens and one fve-dollar bank note.
| Mrs. Naseby,' said I when you first
missed the money, had you any reason
to believe that the prisoner had taken
it,
/ NO, sir she answered,
| Had you ever before detected her in
any dishonesty?'
No, SIR
Should you have thought of search
ling her trunk had not Miss Luther
advised and Informed you?'
No, SIR
| Mrs. Naseby left thestand, and Nan
cy Luther took her place. She came
up with bold look, and upon me she
cast defiant glance, as if to say trap
me if you cam She gave her evidence
as follows:
| 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
! Elizabeth went to Mrs. Naseby's
room and shut the door after. I stoop.
ed down and looked through the key.
hole, and saw her take out the money
and put it in her pocket. Then sht
stopped down and picked up the lamp
and as saw that she was coming ou
J, Ihurried away
}, Then she went on, told how she hae
informed her mistress of this, and hov
she proposed to search the girls trunk
I called Mrs. Nasedy to the stand.
J, You said that no one, save yourself
and the prisoner, had access to you1
! room,s said. Now could Nancy Lu
ther have entered the rsom if she wish
: ed?'
Certainly, sir; I meant that no ont
> else had any right there
, I saw that Mrs. Naseby, though nat
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