Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-04-25

put it there"
l then asked her if she suspected any
enc.
L don't know" she said, "mho could
have done ii but Nancy. She has never
liked me because she thought I was better
treated than she. She is the cook. | was
the chambermaid.
She pointed Nancy Luther out to me-
She was a stout, bold-faced girl, some
where about FIVE and twenty years old,
with low forehead, small grey eyes,
pug nose and thick lips. l caught her
glance at once, as it rested on the fair
young prisoner, and the moment detec-
ted the look of hatred which I read there
l was convicted that she was the rogue.
Nancy Luther, did you say that girls
name was?" I asked, for a new light had
broken in upon me.
eyes, SIR
"Then rest easy; I'll try hard to save
you"
| left the court room and went to the
prosecuting attorney, and asked him for
the letters had handed him-the ones
that had been stolen from the mail bag
He gave them to me, and having selected
one, returned the rest and told him
would see he bad the one kept before
night. l then returned to the court room,
and the case went On.
Mrs. Naseby resumed her testimony
She said she entrusted the room to the
prisoners care, and no one else had access
there save herself. Then she described
about missing the money, and closed by
telling how she 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 one five 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 III
any dishonesty?"
"No, sir F"
Should you have thought of searching
her trunk had not Nancy Luther advised
and informed you?"
"No sir"
Mrs, Naseby left the stand and Nancy
Luther took her place. She came up with
bold look. and upon me she cast de-
fant glance, as if to say '' trap me if you
can" She gave her testimony as follows:
She said on the night the money was
taken she saw the prisoner going up stairs,
and from the sly manner in with she
went up she suspected all was not right.
SO she followed her up. g Elizabeth went
to Mrs. Naseby's Dom and shut the door
after her. [ stopped down and looked
through the key hole, and saw her take
out the money and put it in her pocket
then she stopped down and picked up the
lamp, and as saw that she was coming
hurried away
Then she went on, told how she had in
formed her mistress of this, and how she
proposed to search the girls trunk.
called Mrs. Naseby to the stand.
"You said that no one, save yourself
and the prisoner, had access to your
room,' said. Now could Nancy Luther
have entered the room if she wished?"
" Certainly, sir; l meant that no one
else had any right there
saw that Mrs. Naseby, though natu-
rally hard woman, was somewhat moved
by poor Elizabeth's misery,
"Could your cock have known, by any
means in your knowledge, where your mon
ey was +"
. Yes, sir for she has often come to
my room while was there, and have Of
ten given her money to buy provisions of
market men who happened to come along
with their wagons
:" One more question" "
"Have you known of the prisoner s
having used any money since this was sto-
len ?"
mo sir"
I now called Nancy Luther back, and
she began to tremble little. though her
look was as bold and defiant as ever.
q Miss Luther l said, "wby did you
not inform your mistress at once of what
you bad seen, without waiting for her to
ask about the lost money!"
Because l could not at once make up
my mind to expose the poor girl" she an
swered promptly.
You say you looked through the key
hole and saw her take the money!"
"Yes, sir
"Where did she place the lamp when
she did so?
ss0n the bureau"
e In your testimony you said she stoop-
ed down when she picked it up. What d.