The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-05-27

up my mind to expose the poor girl, -
she answered promptly.
" You say you looked through the
key-hOle and saw her take the mon
ey?"
"Where did she place the lamp when
she did so ?''
"On the bureau"
In your testimony you said she
stopped down when she picked it up.
/ What do you mean by that ?'
The girl hesitated, and finally she
said she did not mean anything, only
| that she picked up the lamp.
Very well," said /, "hOw long
have you been with Mrs. Naseby?"
Not quite year, sir"
",HOw much does she pay you a
week?"
"a dollar and three quarters y
4" Have you tallen - bf yoe 5sly
since you have been hEte?''
" Yes, sir.n
"HOw much ?'
al don't know"
"Why don't you know"
How should I? l have taken it
at different times, just as l wanted it,
and kept no account"
/ q" Now, if you had wished to harm
! the prisoner, could you have raised
| twenty-five dollars to put in her trunk?"
"NO, sir" she replied with indigna-
I ton.
"Then you have not laid up any
money since you have been here ,"
" No, sir; only what Mrs. Naseby
may owe me-"
"Then you did not have twenty-five
dollars when you came there?"
| No sir, and what's more, the mon
| ey found in the girls trunk was the
money Mrs. Naseby lost. You might
have known that if you'd remembered
what you asked her"
This was said very sarcastically,
and intended for a crusher upon the
idea that she should have put the mon
| ey in the prisoners trunk. However,
| I was not overcome entirely.
VIII you tell me if you belong to
this State ~
Il do"
60 In what town ~
She hesitated, and for an instant the
bold look fsrsoOlI her. But she finally
answered.
"I belong to Sumers, Montgomery
county"
Inext turned to Mrs. Naseby.
"DO you ever take receipt from
your girls when you pay them ,"
Always"
Gan you Sellu anu get one Vi IlleIu
for me?"
"She has told you the truth, about
the payment" said Mrs. Naseby.
ooh, I don't doubt it," l replied
'particular proof is the thing for the
court room. So if you can, wish you
would produce the receipt"
She said she would willingly so If
the court said so. And the court said
so, and she went. Her dwelling was
not far off, and she soon returned and
handed me four receipts, which took
and examined. They were signed in
strange, staggering hand by the wit
ness.
Now, Nancy Luther" I said, turn
ing to tia witness and speaking in a
quick, staftling tone, at the same time
looking her sternly in her eyes, please
tell the court and jury and me, where
you got the seventy-fiVe dollars you
sent in your letter II your sister IL
SUmers.
HE witness started as though
c;tro had burst at her feet. Thq
ing pale as death, every limb 81
IentIy. 1 waited till the peOpl n
have an opportunity to see her
and then | repeated the questions
'I-neverIsent any" she gasped.
"You did ~ | thundered, for / was
excited now, q
81 didn't" she family muttered,
grasping the railing by her side for sup
port,
May it please your honor, and gen.
tIemen of the jury" 1 said, as soon as
I had looked the witness in the cOunte-
nance" I am here to detlnd man
who was arrested for rObbing the mail,
and in my preliminary examination
had access to the letters which had
Of
When l entered upon this case, and
heard the name Of this witness, l went
out and got this letter which l now
hold, for / remembered having seen
the signature OF Nancy Luther. This
letter was taken from the mail bag,
and it contained seventy-five dollars,
and by looking at the pOstmark you
will observe that it was mailed the day
after the hundred dollars were taken
from Mrs. Naseby's drawer. l will
read it for you, if you please.
The court nodded assent, and l read
! the following, which was without date,
save that made by the postmaster up
on the outside. l give it UerbGtin1::
" SISTER DORCUS:-I send you here
seventy-five dollars which I want yu
! to kepe for me till l cum hum. l can't
/ kepe it COS i'm afeerd it will get stole
/ don't speak won word to liVin soul
about this don't want anybody to know
/ i've got emmy money you won't now
will you. l am fust rate only that
| guide for nothing snipe of lis madwOrth
| is here yit-but hope to get over now
/ you know l rOte about her, give my
| love to alBenquirin' friends. This from
you're till deth.
= "NANCY LUTHER"
"NOw your honor" I said, as 1
gave him the letter, /" it is directed to
! DorcUs Luther, Sumers, Montgomery
county. And you will observe that
one hand wrote the letter and signed
the receipts, and the jury will SO OBJ
observe. And now l will only add
! how it was disposed Of SeVenty-fiVe
dollars was sent off for safe keeping,
while the remaining twenty-five were
| placed in the prisoners trunk for the
! purpose of covering the real criminal.
Of the tone of parts of the letter you
must Judge. l now leave my clients
case in your hands"
The case was given to the jury inn
mediately following their examination
of the letters. They had heard from
the witnesses own mouth that she had
I no money of her own, and without
leaving their seats they returned a YER
dict of " Not Guilty"
/ will not describe the scene that fol-
i lowed, but if Nancy Luther had not
been arrested for theft, she would have
been obliged to seek protection of the
officers, or the excited people would
have MANNED her, at least, if they had
not done more. The next morning ]
received a note handsomely written,
and in it was told that the within was
but a slight token of the gratitude due
me for the effort in behalf of the poOI
defenceless maiden. 1t was signed by
"Several Citizens" and contained one
hundred dollars. Shortly afterwards
the youth who had first begged me to
\ take up the case called upon me with
all the money he could raise, but