The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-02-15


her side and asked her to state candidly the
case. She told me she had lived with Mrs.
Naseby two years and had never had any
trouble before. About two weeks ago, she
said, her mistress lost hundred dollars.
"She missed it from her drawer" the
girl saiCi to me, "and asked me about it.
| said knew nothing about it. That eve
ming L know Nancy Luther told Mrs. Nase-
by that she saw me take the money from
the drawer, that she watched me through
the key-hole. They went to my trunk and
found twenty-five dollars of the missing
money there. But, sir, Inever took it, and
somebody must have put it there
I then asked her if she suspected any
one.
81 don't know" she said, "who conld
have done it but Nancy. She has never
liked me because she thought was better
treated than she. She is the cook. was
the chambermaid."
She pointed Nancy Luther out to me-
She was stout, bold-faced girl, some
where about ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS old, with
a low forehead, small gray eyes, a pug-nose,
and thick lips. l caught her glance at
once, as it rested upon the fair young pris-
oner, and the moment l detected the look
of hatred which read there was convinc-
ed she was the rogue.
"Nancy Luther did you say that girls
name WASP" asked, for a new light had
broken in upon me.
eyes, sir"
| left the courtroom and went to the
prosecuting attorney and asked him for the
letters had handed him-the ones thathad
been stolen from the mailbag. He gave
them to me, and having selected one, re-
turned the rest, and told him would see
he had the one l kept before night. l then
returned to the courtroom and the case
went on.
Mrs. Naseby resumed her testimony. She
said she entrusted the room to the prison.
er's care, and that no one else had access
there, save herself. Then she described
the missing money, and closed by tell
ing how she had found twenty-five dol
lars of it in the prisoners trunk.
She could swear it was the identical
money she had lost, in two tens and five
dollar bank note.
"Mrs. Naseby," said I, "when you first
missed the money, had you any reason to
believe that the prisoner had taken it"
No cir cba anSwarad -
"Had you ever before detected her in any
dishonesty?'
"No, sir"
"Should you have thought of searching
her trunk had not Nancy Luther advised
and informed you?"
"No, sir''
Mrs. Naseby left the stand, and Nancy
Luther took her place. She came up with
bold look, and upon me she cast def
ant glance, as if to say, "trap me if you
cam She gave me the evidence as fol-
lows:
"She said that on the night the money
was taken she saw the prisoner going up
stairs, and from the sly manner in which
she went up she suspected all was not right.
She followed her up. Elizabeth went to
Mrs. Naseby's room and shut the door after
her. stopped down and looked through
the key-hole, and saw her take out money
and put it in her pocket. Then she stopped
down and picked up the lamp, and as saw
that she was coming out hurried away"
called Mrs Naseby to the stand.
"You said that no one save yourself and
the prisoner had access to the room,' l
said. "Now, could Nancy Luther have
entered the room if she wished?"
Certainly, sir meant that no one else
had any right there"
saw that Mrs. Naseby, though naturally
a hard woman, was some what moved by
poor Elizabeth's misery.
"Could the cook have known by any
means in your knowledge, where the money
was?"
eyes, sir; for she has often come to my