Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-08-10

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body that will do anything for her.
Oh, save her, and I'll give you all I've
got. / can't give you much, but | can
raise something
| reflected moment. l cast my
eyes toward the prisoner, and she was
at that moment looking at me. She
caught my eye, and the volume of hum
bic entreaty L read in her glances re
solved me in a moment,
/ arose and went to the girl and
asked her if she wanted me to defend
her. She said yes. then informed
the court that 1 was ready to enter
into the case, and the murinur of sat
isfaction that ran rapidly through the
room told me where the sympathies of
the people were. | asked for a mo-
ment's cessation, that L might speak
with my client. l went and sat down
by her side and asked her to candidly
state 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 said to me, 'and asked me about it.
l said L knew nothing about it. That
evening | knew Nancy Luther told
Mrs. Naseby that she saw me take the
money from the drawer, that she watch
ed me through the key-hole. They
went to my trunk and found twenty
five dollars of the missing money there.
But, sir, l never took it, somebody
must have put it there.
l then asked her if she suspected
any one.
Il don't know she said, who could
have done it but Nancy. She has
never liked me, because she thought
me better treated than she. She is
the cook. l was the chamber maid
She pointed Nancy Luther out to
me. She was a stout, bold-faced girl,
somewhere about fve-and-twenty years;
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 prisoner, and the mo-
ment I detected the look of hatred
which read there, / was convinced
she was the rogue.
Nancy Luther, did you say that
girls name wasp / asked, for a new
light had broken in upon me.
Yes sir
| left the courtroom and went to
the prosecuting attorney and asked him
for the letters I had handed him-thC
|
ones that had been stolen from the
mail bag. He gave them to me, and
having selected one, 1 returned the
rest and told him L would see he hac
the one l kept before night. l ther
returned to the courtroom and tn,
case went on.
Mrs. Nascby resumed her testimony
She said she entrusted the room 70 the
prisoners care, and that no one else
had access there save herself Then
she described about the missing mon
ey, and closed by telling how she had
found twenty-five dollars Of it in the
prisoners trunk.
She could swear it was the identical
money she had lost, in two tens and q
five dollar bank note.
Mrs. Naseby,' l said, when you
first missed the money, had you any
reason to believe that the prisoner
had taken it9'
mo, SIR she answered.
Had you ever before detected hel
in any dishonesty@
No, sir
Mrs. Naseby left the stand, anC
Nancy Luther took her place. She
came up with bold look, and upor
me she cast look of defiance, as if t
say, trap me if you cam She CAV,
her evidence as follows:
She said that on the night tn,
money was taken she saw the prisone
going up stairs, and from the sly man
ner in which she went up, she suspect
ed all was not right. She followe,
her up. Elizabeth went to Mrs. Nase
by's room and shut the door after hei
| stopped down and looked throug
the keyhole, and saw her take ou
money and put it in her pocket
! Then she stopped down and picked u
the lamp, and saw she was comm
out and l hurried away
l called Mrs. Naseby to the stant
you say that no one save yoursc
|, and the prisoner had access to you
room. Now, could Nancy Luthc
have entered the room if she wished
: Certainly, sir, I mean that no OIL
else had any right there