Litchfield enquirer., 1863-06-18
the Judge grarely, after hearing all the other

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 had to say. sss
 q will youch my innocence" replied Moon @even before the body of my late master, i that be necessary" .s (Such . thing often took place under tn.
 old colonial law. aJohn Moon" said the Judge, in a voice ' broken by some peculiar emotion, ..it is before your late master that you will have to assert
 your innocence, and may God make the truth
 appear Y
 l 4 signal from the Judge accompanied these
 words, aud i'm nediasely door opened. aEd Clodomir Frenois, the supposed suicide, en. Itered the court. He adsanced to the bar with
 a slow and deliberate step, having his eye calmly, sternly fixed on the prisoner, his ser want A great sensation was caused in court
 by his appearance, Uttering shsieks of alarm and horror, the females present fled from the spot. The accused fell on his knees in abjeet ! terror and. shuddering, confessed his guilt For time no voice was heard but his. How ever, as it became apparent that living man stood before the court, the advocate of the prisoner gained courage to speak. He de- handed that the identity of the merchant be established. and the mystery of his existence be explained. He said that the court must not be biased by what might prove to be mere accidental likeness between person living and one deceased and that such an ayowal as that of the prisoner, extracted in Q moment of ex- traordinary terror, was not to be held of much weight. < F
 Before being admitted here as an accuser or witness" continued the advocate, addressing the resuscitated merchant, "proye who and what you are, and disclose by what chance the tomb, which 80 lately received your body, man. gled with bullets. has given up its tenant, and restored you to the world in life and health!"
 The firm appaal of the advocate, who con tinued steadfast to his duty under circumstan ces that would have closed the lips of most men, called forth the narrative from Clodomir Frenois, which follows:
 "My story may soon be told, and will suffice to establish nay identity. When Idiscovered the robbery committed by the accused, he had then fled from the island, and speedily saw that attempts to retake him would prove fruit lesS. l saw ruin and disgrace before me, and came to the resolution of terminating my lite before the evil day came. On the night in ssaJtu dltousa atian- fnrmesl. was written the letter which was found on my ta, ble, and had loaded my pistol. This done, 1 prayed for forgiveness from my Maker for the act was about to commit. The end of the pistol was at my head, and my finger ou the lock, when a knock at the outer door of the house startled me. I.concesled my weapon and went to the door. A man entered whom recognized to be the sexton of the parish in which I lived. He bore sack on his shoul- ders, and in it the body of deceased man which was destined for my nephew, the physi- clan, then living with me. The scarcity of bodies for dissection, as the court is aware, compels thoss who are anxious to acquire skill in the medical professional procure them by any possible secret means. The sexton was at first alarmed when he met me.
 Did my nephew request you to bring this body?' sad I.
 No, replied the man but ! knew his anx
 iety to obtain one for dissection, and took il upon me to offer him this body. Fos mercy's sake,' continued the sexton, do not betray me
 or shall lose my situation, and my family'i
 bread
 While this man was thus speaking,a strange
 idea entered my mind,- and brought to my des
 pairing bosom hopes of continued lite a'o
 honor. Istood for few moments absorbed IT
 thought, and gave to the resurrectionlst ths
 sum which he expected Telling him to keeE his own counsel, and that all would be well,
 sent him away and carried the body into m,
 cabinet. The whole of the family had beer I Scut Out VI suo way on P~Af~S time to carry into execution the plan which hat ! struck me. The body was fortunately of th'
 same stature as myself. and like me in com I plexlon. kneu the man, he had been . poe
 offender, abandoned by his family.
 i Poor relic of mortality!F said I, with tear ! in my eyes, nothing which man may do cal
 now injure thee yet pardon me if l rudsl. I dis6gure thy lifeless substance. It is to pre-
 vent tha ruin of not one but twenty families .l And should success attend my attempt. l swea that thy children shall be my childrsn; an'
 when my hour comes, We shall rest together il the tomb to which thou shalt be borne befor ! me fl By this ror.isn of the merchants narrativ tie most lively interest was excited in court and testified even by tears from many of th : audience. Frenois then proceeded:
 II then stripped of my clothes and dresse . ltha body in them This accomplished, Itoo . up the pistol. and with : hand more rs.octan I.l..-l.-s T.v,.l;od if tn my ou,st ,,.r..,,,