Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-07-13
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/ ! Without hesitation he did SC
| took it-7itaoas Charles 4mbold
j knife !-Ae large blade aoas gone
With all the powerT possessed
: restrained my deep emotions; an(
having cut my paper, hande(
/ back the, knife. arosqa jssil So
5 b Why should he have that knit
so boldly about i'm | afterward
} learned. lie had notworn thes,
pantaloons before since the nigh
of the fire ;, and now he used the
knife probably without the leas
, remembrance of 5the loss it haC
sustained during very peculiar
, piece ofPWork, to the execution
4of whichgitswas made subservient
dS We talked for some ten minutes.
, and I found that eleven OF the iu
ry were bent ON rendering a yer
tdict of guilty; though most of
i them were in favorof recommend.
ling the prisoner to mercy, Moul:
.ft0n Warren was decided. !, He had
mo mercysat all
h Presently l started up, and pre-.
.Ftending teTbe faint, | said L must
Igo out for aS@few moments.
Kicked atsthe door and the deputy
sheriff came. sHeheard my plan
and let me out. As soon as we
had got a sa(edistance, i told him
all. He was astonished and went
away; when he came back he
brought the district attorney and
the sheriff. L told him again
what had seen-I assured them
THAT / knew that it was no mere
suspicion: And l explained, too,
lWarren'sg manners in the jury
room, and his former connections
with the prisoner, and his known
iClaracter.l sa = - ? -
The officers vent away, and at
the end OF ten minutes they re-
turned, a constable added to their
number, and this constable had a
freshly.written instrument in his
Ihand. The sheriff babe me to
point o1t the hat to them as soon
as he entered the room. The sher-
if took it and asked whose it was.
Warren leaped TO bis feet and
seized II, but was held back. il
Word. wasinstantly. .ssent to the
Judge that the jury could not1a a.
gree. They were discharged, and
then Moulton Warren was search
ed, The knife, found upon him,
and his behavior, atgpnce exposed
his guilt. The presence of that
letter was accounted for by him in
Ia dozen different ways within an
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A new jury was impanelled, :
and Charles AmboId was acquit-
ted. Shortly afterward Warren
was tried. 1t was plainly proved
that the woman who Kept the
house was to- have been turned
IN IN IT. as- he coT}trived TO lock
her into her room shortly after
setting fire. She had incurred his
displeasure in several ways, and
this, was his revenge. Not only
she, but two Of her girls had sus-I
pected him from the first, but they
dared not complain, for fear he
would not be convicted, and would I
be sure, to murder them /
The hardened william confessed
his guilt after be had been con-
demned, and then it was that he
told how he happened to be SO
careless inregard TO the paper and
the knife. 1t was he who had
robbed Ambold, and when he took
the old letter from his hat to use
it for a torch in setting the fire,
he did not notice what it was, and
even when that partly burned
half had been. exhibited in court,
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he had entirely forgotten that he
had, torn off the other half and put
it back into bis hat, as he must
have done. The letter had been
found in Ambold's pocket, and he |
had, ,keptit because in it the youth
was warned against his influence.
He confessed that he had q slight
idea ofcalling the writer to an &C.
count when it should become con-
venient. With regard to the knife,
it was as I have before stated.
He took that also from Ambold s
pocket, and put it in his own; and
on the night. of the fire he used it
to pry up the sash, and when he
had broken it he put it back in
his pocket and forgot it ]
Thus was Charley saved-and
saved from more than ignominious
death, too. He was saved to be
a noble, virtuous man and his
mother once more took ample de-
light and JOY in the love and ten
der care of her only child.
When Charles Ambold knew
that Moulton Warren had expia-