The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-05

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nobody else.
l ventured to suggest that he might
have been mistaken; that he had sent the
ring by some other person.
''Do you take me for simpleton, sir?
DO you think l don't know what | am
about g he exclaimed, bestowing upon me
a look of whitening contempt. 81 sent
the ring with the boy, sir The boy has
stolen it. Nothing more need be said,
sir" And he turned to the newspaper he
had been reading
was not much pleased with the inter
view. was highly vexed at the naughty
bearing of the fellow and l confess that
my pique rendered me tenfold more zeal
Gus in my endeavors TO clear my youthful
client
L visited Philip at the Jail He was
very sad on his mothers account on his
own he seemed net TO care. 4 more
frank, open hearted boy / never saw
lie told his story; and though guess
toned him pretty severely, he was consist
ent to the last.
| made the case my own, and worked
increasingly, as it seemed to me then. for
the overthrow of the naughty President of
the insurance company. as much AS for the
salvation of the widow and her interest
ing son visited more than dozen
Jewelry 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.
Dir. Carman, with majestic dignity.
stepped upon the stand He told the
story l have before detailed, and was turn
ed over to me for cross-examination. /
could see that he was nettled, for he GER
taioiy could see 10 mercy in my face.
"Mr CarHaD, are you willing to swear
that you gave the ring to the boy 2"
"Certainly l am,'' he replied, vexed
and angry, for he had answered the same
question a dozen times in the course of the
cross examination.
81 beg your honor to notice particularly
the words of this Witness remarked to
the Court.
His honor testified readily that he had
noticed them, as matter of course; he
had them in his minutes; and he rather
snubbed me for pressing so respectable a
witness in so severe a manner.
''Now, Mr.. Carman, may beg you to
examine this ring % and handed him
the one he had lost.
''It is mine, - he replied, with evident
Z" GU identity the ring, do you sir 70
81 do"
"TIIat is all, sir May it please your
Honor, shall bring but one witness for
the defence. Will Mr.. Graham take the
stand %
Mr. Graham took the stand. showed
him the ring.
''Have you ever seen this ring before?''
81 have"
Estate to the Court what you know
about it,
Dir. 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 %
1 asked
He is there lie sits = and he pointed
to Mr.. Carman.
The Court was astonished the officers
were astonished and Mr.. Carman was
overwhelmed with confusion. He ac-
knowledged his error when there was no
possibility of concealing it. He asked to
correct his testimony, and did SO.
Mr.. Carman was a very absent minded
man and the solution of the whole mat
ter is that he forgot all the circumstances
with the ring. He intended to
have sent Philip to the jewelers. with it,
and actually called him for that purpose,
but his attention was attracted to some
thing else, and he thought no more about
it. On his way home to dinner, while his
mind was absorbed by an important busi-
ness 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 became
reality.
When thus cornered he amused the
judges with several other instances of
absent nindedness of which he had been
guilty, in this manner explaining the mis-
take he had made.
| must do him the justice to say that he
made Philip ample amends in the shape
of hundred dollar bill for the trouble he
had caused him but 1 believe that Mr.
Carman hated me to the day of his death.
can only say / should not have punished
him so severely if he had treated me like
a gentleman.
..Ex>Sheriff Henry Pratt, of Kent
county, Delaware, has taken to heart the
Scriptural command to increase and null