The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-11-27
THE CRIMINAL WITNESS.

. long conference with nv CLIENT The
stolen mailbag had been recovered, as well
as the letters from which the money had
been rIiied. These letters were were given
me Tor examination, and l returned them
TO the prosecuting attorney. Having got
throush my private prelimin aries about
noon. and as the case would not Come off
b, fore the next day. / went into court in the
afternoon to see what was going on. The
hrst case was one of theft, and the prisoner
was young girl. not more than twenty
Years OF age. named Elizabeth Madsworth
She was very pretty, and bore that mild in
'nocent look which you seldom find in a
.culprit. She had been weeping profuselv
l., but as she found SO many ewes upon her
she became too frightened to weep more.
1.-The complaint against her set forth that
sne mad stolen hundred dollars from Mrs.
Naseby: and as the case went on. I found
that this Mrs. Naseby was wealthy widow
To- living in Jackson. The poor girl declared
her innocent in the widest terms, but cir
cumstances were hard against her. A hun
dred dollars in bank notes had been stolen
from her mistress roon1 and she was the only
one that had access there.
at this Juncture, when the mistress was
upon the witness stand, young man caught
me Dy tue arm. lie was fine-lookine
Young man, and big tears stood in. his ewes
They tell me you are good LAWYER; he
whispered. A'
am lawyer answered.
Then do save her. You certainly can do
it, for she is innocent
is she Your sister?'
No, SIR he added; 'but-but-, Here be
hesitated. H0
Has she no counsel? asked.
None that's good for anythine-pobodv
mat VIII do anythi ng for her. Oh, save herr
spo VIII give you ALIVE got. can't give
You m uch but l can raise mething.,
reflected a moment. I cast nv ewes
toward the prisoner, and she was at that mo-
ment looking at me. She caught nv eve.
and the volume of humble entreaty 1 read
Al her glance resolved me in a moment.
arose and went to the girl and asked her if
she wished me to defend her. She said YES.
then informed the court that was ready
to enter into the case. and was ad mitted at
once. The loud murmur of satisfaction that
ran quickly through the room told me where
the sympathles OF the people were. 1 asked
for moments Cessation that might sneak
with my client. / went and sat down bv
her side and asked her TO state candidly the
whole case. She told me that she had lived
with MIS-. Naseby two years. and had never
hadrany trouble before About two weeks
ago, she said, her mistress lost one hundred
dollars.
She missed it from the drawer the girl
said to me, and asked me about it. | said
1 knew nothing about it. That evening
know Nancy Luther told Mrs. Nesebv that
she saw me take the money from the drawer
that she watched me through the key
hole. They went to my trunk and found
twenty-five dollars of the missing money
there. But, sir, l never took it, somebody
must have put it there
l then asked her if she suspected any one.
Il don't know she said, swho could have
done it but Nancy. She has never liked me
because she thought 1 was better treated
than she. She is the cook, 1 was the |
chamber maid.'
She pointed Nancy Luther out to me. She
was stout. bold faced girl, somewhere about
five and twenty years old. with low fore
head, small grey eyes, pug-nose, and thick
lips. caught her glance at once, as it rest
ed upon the fair young prisoner, aud the
moment detected the look Of hatred which
I read there, 1 was convinced she was the
rogue.
Nancy Luther did you say that girls
name wasp 1 asked, for new light had
broken in upon me.
Yes, sir.'
L left the courtroom and went to the
prosecuting attorney and asked him for the
letters had handed him-the ones that had
been stolen from the mailbag. He gave
them to me, and having selected one, / re-
turned the rest, and told him would see
he had the one l kept, before night. then
returned to the courtroom and the case
went on.
Mrs. Naseby resumed her testimony. She
said she entrusted the room to the prisoners
care, and that no one else had access there
save herself. Then she described about
missing the money, and closed by telling
how she had 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 five dollar bank-note.
Mrs. Naseby,' said 1, when you first
missed the money. had you any reason to
believe that the prisoner b ad taken it?' /
No, SIR she answered.
sHad you ever before detected her in any
dishonesty f
NO, SIR
Should you have thoughto of searching her ,
trunk had not Nancy Luther advised and S
informed you? 6
NO, SIR
!. Mrs. Naseby left the stand, and Nancy S
Luther took her place. She came up with c
o bold leok, and upon me she cast degant |
glance; as if to say, trap me If you CAM S
She gave me the evidence as follows:
She said that on the night the money was t
taken she saw the prisoner going up stairs, I
and from the sly manner in which she went 8
up she suspected all was not right. She q
her up. Elizabeth went in Mrs. s
Naseby's room and shut the door after her. s
L stopped down and looked through the key 4
hole, and saw her take out money and put y
in her pocket. She then stopped down and +
picked up the lamp. and as l saw that she e
was coming out hurried away. n
called Mrs. Naseby to the stand. q
You said that no one save yourself and :,