Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1870-12-15
WOODSTOCK, VT, THURSDAY, DEC. Is, 1870.

five dollars of the missing money in the
prisoners trunk. She could swear it
was the identical money she had lost, in
two tens and one five dollar bank-note.
"Mrs. Noseby," said |, "when you
first missed the money, had you any
reason to believe that the prisoner had
taken it?'
mo, SIR she answered.
clad you ever before detected her in
any dishoucsty?"
"No, sir"
Should you 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
Il defiant look, as if to say, Trap me
if you can She gave her evidence as
follows:
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. So she followed her up. "Eliz-
abeth went to Mrs. Naseby's room aud
shut the door after her. stopped down
and looked through the kcywholc, and
saw her take the money and put it in
her pocket. Then she stopped down
and picked up the lamp, and as | saw
she was coming out | hurried away"
Then she went on, told how she had
informed her mistress Of this, and how
she proposed to search the girls trunk.
| called Mrs. Nascby to the stand.
"You said that no one save yourself
and the prisoner had access to your
ROOM sid. "Now could Nancy
Luther have entered the room, if she
wished?'
"Certainly, sir; 1 meant that no one
else had any right there
saw that Mrs. Nascby, though nat
urally a hard woman, was somewhat
moved by poor Elzabeth's misery.
Gould your cook have known, by any
means in your knowledge, where your
money was"
"Yes sir; for she has often come to
my room while [ was there, and have
often given her money to buy provisions
of market men who happened to come
along with their wagons" "
" One more question: Have you
known Of the prisoner having used any
money since this was slolen?'
"No sir"
l now called Nancy Luther back, and
she began TO tremble little, though her
look was as bold and defiant as ever.
Miss Luther" said, "why did you
not inform your mistress at once Of what
you had seen, without waiting for her
to ask about the lost money.
because | could not at once make
up my mind to expose the poor girl"
she answered promptly
"You say you looked through the
keyhole and saw her take the money"
"Yes, sir.
"Vhere did she place the lamp when
she did so?"
son 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 aot mean anything, only that
she picked up the lamp.
every WE'LL" said l chow long have
you been with Mrs. Naseby?'
"Not quite year, sir"
How mach does she pay you week :"
"a dollar and three-quarters."
Have you taken up any Of your pay
since you have been there?'
eyes, sir"
"How much?'
81 don't know, sir
"Why don It you know?'
elbow should |? l have taken it at
different times, just as | wanted it, and
kept no account"
"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 virtuous
Indignation.
"Then you have not laid up any
money since you have been there!"
"No, sir, only what Mrs, Naseby may
owe me"
"Then you did not have any twenty
five dollars when you came there"
"No, sir; and what's more, the money
found in the girls trunk was the money
Mrs Naseby lost. You might have
known that, if you'd remember what you
asked her." This was said very sarcas-
tically, and was intended as q crusher
upon the idea that she should have put
the money in the prisoners trunk. How
ever, was not overcome entirely.
"Wil you tell me if you belong to
this State?'
81 do sir"
SIN what town.
She hesita,ed, and for an instant the
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