Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-05-27

quest, lie OrQereO mary murray 10 Oe re-
called. She Appeared. qui,essred with
anger. examined her as - where she
obtained the garnet ring, and, as | antici-
pated received only unsatisfactory and
| contradictory answers. The judge re-
Quested her TO remove it from her Tiger.
She refused An officer in attendance
soon relieved her Of the ornament, which
he handed up to the bench The judge
| looked at it retully, and then read from
the inside Miles Allen. To the girl
love best"
There was litter through the court
room. glanced at Miles. He was smiling
| and blushing, bat showed no shame or
embarrassment. 1t was plain he thought
| it no unmanly thing to give ring to the
| girl he loved the best, and he was not un-
willing to have it known that the pretty.
| understanding Selma White was that
girl, though she was now in the prisoners
dock on trial as clearinghouse thief
Now" said the Judge turning to the
| clerk, ~ think we will look at those
stolen clothes again" They were pro.
duced, and CT being examined, there was
| found fastened to some head trimming
which ornamented the dress bit of brown
plush, the same in shade and fabric with
| that the clerk had secured. In the mean
time an officer had returned from Mary
| Murray's lodgings, (where he had gone at
my suggestion,) with a brown plush cap,
| which she had lately finished and. on
| comparison, it was found that its material
was the same with the shreds before the
court.
| The testimony was now all in, and l
arose to make the defence. l went over
the evidence and showed that there was
nothing against the prisoner but the one
fact OF possession, always a strong one,
admitted, bat in this case outw eighed by
the apparent malice and guilt of the girl
Murray, who had not only hated and
plotted to ruin her, but had stolen from
| herself. In proof of this, alluded TO
| her jealousy, threats, and her too great
readiness liz throwing suspicion upon Sc
| lima. | dwelt on the circumstance that a
| bit of plush which appeared to be cut
ting from Mary Murray's work, was found
upon the stolen dress, although it had
been packed away for long time pre-
vious to being found in the prisoners pos
session. 1t had not been shown that Sc
lima White ever had any plush, or had
ever been ia Mary Murray's room to OBJ
tain it. :" Then how" l asked, "did this
detective shred find an opportunity to fas-
ten itself upon dress in sudden transit
from its owners trunk, to strangers
travelling bag2
Perhaps" l suggested, Mary Murray
might tell Us. She had similar shred
attached to her shawl, and is it not posi-
BILE, nay. probable, that she should tell
how and where its fellow became attach
ed to the trimming Of the stolen dress p
Might it not have been canght in a tenn
pOrary Judgment in her room, or by con-
l. u
In vain of all the circumstances proved. it
was easier to believe that Mary Murray
had stolen the clothes, and then put them
In SeliM Whites carpet-5ag, in order to
rGin her and get her out of the way, than
that Selina had stolen them"
| then touched upon the garnet ring,
showing that it had undoubtedly belonged
to the prisoner, and had been taken from
her carpet-ba when the stolen goods had
been deposited there, and ended with d
few words of appeal to the conscience
aid sympathy of the judge, intended to
produce Its effect on the spectators rather
than the person addressed. The Judge
whispered a moment with one of the Of
Ulcers near him, then rose and pronounced
Selma White innocent OF the charges pre-
ferred against her. There was loud
burst of applause. | took Selina's little
cold hand in mine, and told her she had
better leave with me at once. We had
just reached the door when Miles Allen
Joined Us, shaking hands and laughing and
talking so fast that one could scarcely un-
derstsnd him. | learned this, however,
that he and Selma loved each other too
we'll to be far separated; that Selma had
come TO get work near Miles at his sug
gestion; that owing to series OF blum.
ders not so easily explained as frequently
met with, she had failed to find him on
her arrival, but that. certain of meeting
him soon, she had spent her time in look
ing for employment, till she was arrested
and lodged in jail. Miles declared him
self to have been surprised beyond ex-
preston, so much, even, as to have been
suspicious of his mental state, when, on
going to the court room to make com
plant of some wrong done to himself, he
saw the very girl he loved the best in the
dock on trial.
But the lovers were happy now. And
so was /, notwithstanding my old over
coat. | don't know whether or not Miles
noticed that | was thinly clad and that, in
spite OF a strong effort of the will, |
| showed great sensitiveness to the cold on
| reaching the outer air, but this / know,
the warm hearted fellow gave into my
hand q don't say paid, for of course |
never charged him or Selma auything)-
be geve me the price of one OF the very
best overcoats | ever wore, within a week
of the time when | first met him in the
police court room.
There may be some who are DESTROYS to
| know whatever more | can tell about the
garnet ring, | will, therefore, add, that
soon after the trial | have described, the
morning papers reported Mary Murray to
have been convicted of stealing a ring,
and fined twenty dollars, failing TO pay
which she was sent TO jail.
And this, further. No longer ago than
last summer, met Miles Allen on pleas
ant Sunday afternoon, leading a fine boy,
who looked the very image OF Selma White
as when | first saw her. Leaning on
Miles right arm was Selma herself, and,
what was curious, on her little left hand,
which chung to the strong, muscular arm,
was the Identical garnet ring that had
proved her innocence. Perhaps she was
proud of it, and DESTROYS CT having it seen
and admired perhaps it was so large
! it might have torn or misshaped her glove.