The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-11-05
TIFFIN, OHIO,

until MISS Seiby was past all hope
DR.. Brewster answered that
3 had acted to the best Of has jud
} ment, and he was not responsible
: anybody, even if he had erred, whiC
he did not And so closed the il
t quest, and Charley was committed
stand his trial for man-slaughter, h
bail having been placed a; ten thor
; sand dollars. OF course, bail VI,
impossible. and Charlie vent to pr.
on, eheered into q little hope By Sar
ford and myself, but still Gearl
, heart broken. There either littl
Nellie Wilson, Sanford or mysel
visited him daily, and did our be-
10 cheer him; but the prospect va
dark, and the State Prison loome
up before The day of his trial va
approaching. and there was not
| bit of evidence to submit in defenct
save good character, and recommeI
dations from former employers an
from Mareelin, all of which was poo
hope.
! One day business led me past tn
house where Miss Selby had died, an
l do not know what Induced the idea
but | thought | would 20 in. Tn
only idea [ had, in fact, was to Sc
the messenger who took the prescrip
ton, aud talk with him, though
knew him to be only an ignorant boy
| saw the landlady-it was board
i0g housewife was a kind, mother
ly sort of woman; after a little gos
sip with her, | got her interested il
Charley's case, as an orphan, anS
| without friend in the world but my
| Iselt. Then | found that the old lad,
was troubled with dyspeptic pain
which l undertook to cure, sendins
out for medicine on the spot, without
letting it cost her anything, and final
ly won upon Mrs. Bramble so, that
as l was going away, she said; Now
doctor, why don't ye come and take
my little front reception room, and
put up a sign here? There amt nc
doctor snywhars around this neigh
borhood, and I'll board We very
cheap, jist to have We in the house OIL
'easion."
1 laughed at the old lady's propo-
sition, and told her that l would
think it over by next day; l did so
and saw that Mrs. Bramble's house
was much superior in appearance and
location to the one l inhabited. The
result was, struck a bargain with
the old lady, and moved Immediately
to her domicil. | hadn't been there
three days, 8heu, one morning, Mrs
Bramble, who was very fond Of go8.
siping in my room, said Doctor,
can't help thinking all the time about
that poor gal that was pisened up
stairs. l haven't had that room open.
ed since the morning after she died
Seems to me as if't might be haun-
ted"
eyes p l responded.
"There was something strange, too
about her; and that doetorman thai
came to see her so much"
"Yesl'' / said again, pricking NJ
my ears, and looking inquiringly a
her.
Thar was so much sneaking il
and out, and coming at all kinds o.
queer times; and then they'd quarl
and, when he went away, she'd fre
and cry so, that she'd be cen Amos
sick
"Hallo!" / said to myself, "here'
new shape to this matter And
then 1 said to Mrs. BrambIe, "Whert
did Miss Selby come from?"
"Well, that's the strangest thing
of all, doctor. Sbe never would tel
where she came from; and the most
that she ever dropped was, that she
was from New Hampshire; but then
her name never was Selby in this
world
"How do you know that, Mrs
Bramble?"
because every bit of her under
clothes had another name rubbed out
on EN-; and one day there came a man
here, and asked for Miss Goodwin,
and, when he was told that no sich
person lived here, he insisted, and
said he'd seed her come in here
Then, when this was talked of at tea
table, before Miss Selby, she got
dreadful excited about it, though no.
body said a word about her being the
one that just come 10 before the man
asked for Miss Goodwin"
The old lady was making somo rev.
elations here that stirred my curiosi-
ty; but ] could not see how they
could help Charley's case. except
that, if there was anything myster-
ious between the dead woman and the
doctor. 1 might sift it out, and use
it to Offset his evidence against Char
ley, or, perhaps, force his interest to
help the poor boy. "Alps fair in
love and war" and SO 1 took hold OF
the slender clew to trace out who
Miss Selby, or Goodwin, might be.
The last, [ thought, was the true
name, and, although it seemed alb
su-d to enter upon the search, in such
way, concluded to write to every
postmaster in New Hampshire. L
framed a letter, saying that there
was something of great Importance
pending to family by Athe name OF
Goodwin, somewhere in that State,
and requested each postmaster. if the
name existed in his locality, to please
to send me list of members of the
family, present and absent, especially
the latter, and that, if the necessary
information proved to be elected
through him, he should be well re-
warded.
This letter brought eleven respon-
ses, one of which was from member
ofthe Go odwin familyinto whose hands
the postmaster of the town of NJ
had put my letter. l had no sooner
read this letter Of Mrs. Sarah Good
yin, than 1 cried "Eureka'' The
very tone of it showed a mother seek
ing for her lost child, from the ex-
preston she put upon my asking eol
the names of the absent. She sought
daughter who had left her year
before, and the description, which |
read to Mrs. Bramble, was recogized
in a moment. OF course, Mrs. Good
win must be sent for. Her daught-
er's effects were still in the locked-up
room, and they troubled poor Mrs
Bramble almost as badly as if they
had been ghost. l therefore wrote
to Mrs. Goodwin that, if she would
come to Boston, ! could give her In
telligence of her lost daughter. II
was sad pilgrimage to bring the
mother on, but it was better than to
have her child lost, without track,
forever. In a few-days Mrs. Good
win arrived, and in my room | told
her the sad fate Of her child, and
pleaded with her to tell me all she
tna1r of Rraustar She did not know