The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-08

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ssrP Do you thinksI don't know
what I am about?''she exclaimed, be.
slowing upon me 8 look Of witherihg
contempt IT sent the ring with the
boy, sir. The boy has stolen il.
Nothing more need be said, sir. :"
And he turned to the newspaper he
had been reading.
: I was not much pleased with the
interview. I was highly vexed at the
naughty bearing of the fellow; and I
confess that my piqne rendered me
ten-fold more jealous in my endea-
vors to clear my youthful client.
visited Philip at the Jail. He was
very sad on his mothers account; on
his own he seemed not To care. 4
more frank, open-hearted boy I never
saw. He told his story; though /
questioned him him pretty severely,
he was consistent to the last.
I made the case my own. and work
ed increasingly, as it seemed to me
then, for the overthrow of the naughty
President of the insurance compa-
ny, as much as for the salvation of
the widow and her interesting son. 1
visited more than q dozen jcwelry
shops. that afternoon and the next
morning; with what result the reader
shall learn in the details of the trial,
which came on the next day.
Philip was duly arraigned, and his
poor mother sat by his side, weeping
and sobbing like a child as the case
proceeded. ,-.,..
Mr.. Carman, with majestic dignity,
stepped upon the stand. He told the
story I have before detailed, and was
turned over to me for cross examina-
ton. / could see that he was nettled,
for he certainly could see no mercy
in my face.
"Mr. Carman, are you willing to
ewear that you gave the ring to this
boy?"
"Certainly I am, he replied, vexed
and angry, for he had answered the
same question O dozen times in the
course of the cross-eXamination.
81 beg your honor to notice par
ticularly the words of this Witness"
remarked to the Court
His Honor testified readily that he
had noticed them, as a matter of
course; he had them in his minutes;
and he rather snubbed me for press
ing so respectable n witness in so Sc
we're manner.
"Now, Mr.. Carman, may beg you
to examine this ring?" and I handed
him the one he had lost.
1T is mine," he replied, with evi-
dent astonishment.
''You identify the ring, do you,
sir?"
"I do"
"That is all, sir. May it please
your Honor, I shall bring but one
witness for the defence. Will Mr..
Graham take the stand?"
Mr.. Graham took the stand. 1
showed him the ring.
"Have you ever seen this ring be-
fore?"
"I have"
estate to the Court what you know
about it,"
Mr.. Graham proceeded to state that
he was jeweler; that the ring was
left at his shop three weeks before,
by an elderly gentleman, to have the
stone reset.
"Is the gentleman in the court
room?" I asked.
"He is; there he SITS" and he point
ed to Mr.. Carman.
The Court was astonished; the Of
ficers were astonished; and Mr.. Car
man was overwhelmed with confusion.
He acknowledged his error when there
was no possibility Of concealing it.
He asked to correct his testimny, and
did so.
Mr.. Carman was q very absent
minded man; and the solution of the
whole matter is, that he forgot all the
circumstances connected with the
ring. He intended to have sent
Philip to the jewelers. with it, aud
actually called him for that purpose,
but his attention was attracted to
something else, and he thought no
more about it. On his way home to
dinner, while his mind was absorbed
by an important business operation.
he had left the ring at Mr.. Graham's
The impression that he had given
the ring to Philip was fastened upon
his mind. He remembered the fact
of calling him, and his intention be-
came reality.
When thus corn cred he amused the
judges with several other instances of
Observation-Disclosures of which he had
been guilty, in this manner explain