The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-02-06
ltFrom Every Saturday.
UNCERTAINTY OF HUMAN TESTIMONY.
[Continued.l
PART THIRD.

All these details panied me nexpressibly.
The Kings prosecutor had sent to kerdroguen
for a boy, who, you would have said, was II or
L., wears whose business was to take the grain
to til. mill and the flour to customers. 1t
turned out that this child was twenty years
old and the point of drawing in the
CONSUMPTION. He was respectable witness.
He knew the Nayls, to whom had often lent
his horse, wien returning without Il load, and
when they had made IL long distance on foot,
for it five good leagues from Saint Alloues-
tire to Bignan. AT the outset of the eXatnina-
ton he tried to feign Ignorance, aud pretended
that he not acquainted with any OF the
brothers: but in this attempt he broke down,
for it was proved to him, clear as day, that
he knew them all three perfectly WELL AS was
proper, he was threatened with punls hment Tor
false testimony. Alarmed at this, he distinctly
ayowed that three had eaten supper i'll his mas
ter's house the evening of the crime, that each
of them had gun that they-~cnt away with
the band to go to the mayors, that he had even
accompanied them a part OF the way, but that
at the entrance of the bnrg he had been or
dered back, and that stones were thrown ut
him to forge him to return the quicker t" the
mill.
that it had been made unwllingly; so that the
presence uf the prisoners with arms mt the
place of ths crime positively proved. 1t
could not indeed be demonstrated that they
had themsaves laid violent hands on the un-
h,nnv B,oAard and we were all fully pcrsuad-
ed that thjr only completely in the asstssIni-
ton was tlsir presence ut it; but what could
their advocate DO aCtultIal WIS lnilos>ipit
and condensation could only be condemnation
to death orto hard labor for life.
When sailed upon NJ. Jouran, who had
Charge of the defence, found him very much
disd,uraget. "They claim to be innocent, he
said to me" they declare that they were car
riejby forse into the chamber of the victim,
and that they struggled with the assassins;
bult in a weak defence, which hardly dare
to lit forwtrd. Before having seen them,
thokht m.sef able to establish an ah6'; !
conEed on heir youth, on their previous good
ct but their statement e1 .ss renders msp oWd
u | NH not be able to prevent conviction"
u y my effotts to gain admission to the jail
j b futile. 1t had been foreseen that the
AI ars would beg to~see their comrades, and
III "a had been issued to refuse all permission
n snowledse that my soul was distracted.
~ e giant crime so near me appalleS me. l
;. myself if one could feel sure o. ones
Y. LEfafter having witnessed transformation so
" Rlets and deplorable. Sometimes s1ied
u bnvince pyself that political tanaticisn
n I'm excuse; but my conscience spoke in-
+ sAately and SO forcibly, that blnshed 10
~ ~ besitated. l felt painfully affected oe-
- shame, horror, and the remains OF PITY
. IS in vain that endeavored to resume my
Il Has. nv spirt was weighed down by TINS
= 4ftpy trial: / dreamed of it day and nlgnt
! when could have been able to forget IL,
, st4snear me a spectacle which recalled 1t Ill
natly-the Nayl family,
lpHy them daily They had only me 10 WIS.,
! tlis-would could say anything to cohsoit
hhrds six in the evening was freed IRON
tuuatious of the day, and nsed TO Z" I'M =
nRrL.Iy TO their inn. ] remember q hat al
gEGsEtsna""d' my steps on the way thither, il
DE- Re of learning something new, aud that
sE reached the foot of the STAIRS stoPPe'
e1p t;,,,.s n ouartcr of an hour withou
~ ,,n nm, l was sure of finding then
~ T for they vent out bat for Or, an h hon n
the i 4i TG ih 1e'h %ot Tas s al
ech nn - stool by the fireplace. For til
fMuSN ;n.ia,y. I can never express the re
dnraton with which she f insf fron
naahnRied\ tirid labor and washing and hem IN
ga, She 4S'T wore the ugly costume of IL, tn
of Saiut Allouestre and Saint yea
Ot%Hay along stiff head-dress OF starcps