The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-04-27

hear him speak"
The Judge said there could be n
objection to that, and told the prison
er to address 4 remark TO the witness
''Ah, Admiral, do you remembe
what happened to DermOtt Rooney
COW on her birthday" said the pris
oner.
The reminiscence was plainly iii
yerting one, for the Admiral LAUGHED
outright, and said it was the same fun
ny fellow beyond all doubt. And
strange as it was, the jury seemed too
And the Admiral was allowed to re
tire without further question.
Call Miss Bridget Malone" saiG
Mr.. c..
I A very pretty, Iady-like young wO,
man stepped into court, accompanied
by her mother.
"You are the daughter of Mr.. Ma,
lone, the banker of Belfast >" said Mr.
! C.
'Yes, I am"
''DO you remember travelling Il
Belfast by the coach from Waterford
on the 23d of January?"
"Yes, sir"
"Had you any fellUw-travelers ?'
"Yes," said Miss Bridget, with a
smile, that gentleman" pointing tC
Power, "was with me-"
"All the way?"
eyes"
"Was he agreeable?"
every pleasant, sir"
Have you everseen or heard Ofhim
since?"
] tGNCo s;r sa,,- IN od,-ort;sa,,,a,,t >
/ in the Belfast newspaper which /
knew must be from him, and so am
here to-day"
"When did you arrive?"
"Only few hours ago."
"Did you know why you were want
ed here ?"
''Not in the least"
"You have no doubt it is hep"
"He is not easily forgotten, sir, "
said the girl innOeently, but with q
blush.
'tDid he makelove toyou, then?" in
terrOgated the opposite counsel.
''No, sir, unless with his eyes. You
know how, sir"
-''I wish did," said the functionary
''There was nothing more tender be-
tween you"
"Oh-yOu mistake altOgether-we
were very happy. That was all, and
L was sorry when the journey was ov-
"And so was l." interposed the
prisoner.
ayes that was his voice. If you
make him say, oft in the stilly,' my
Lord" said the girl, "you would un-
derstand."
"ShalI 1 ask him to sing it," said
Really said the Lord Advocate,
''this is quite unusual and irregular. 4"
'No," said Mr.. c., sit is a case
of identity. Identity of voice may be
as important as that of feature. Do
you wish to be confirmed in your opin-
ion by hearing his voice ?"
"I have no doubt about him. But
he says il very sweetly."
prisoner" said the Judge, "yOu
have beard what has has passed. Can
you say any of the verses ?"
Thus adjured, Power recited the Sec
Ond verse of that sweetest of all
BIOOFe's IHSIOuI15, N IsII sr0sss Ss-sVz esIEsI
expression. The witness listened
with delight, and at the end exclaim-
ed, 81 am sure of it. No one ever
said 'all but me departed but him
self"
He had said so, and the evidence
was irresistible.
The waiter at the Western Club, the
clerk at the coach office, and the guard
of the mail, all spoke of his having
been in Glasgow on Monday until
four o'clock and having left it by the
coach that evening. He arrived ir
Edinburgh, as the Crown witnesses
had said, at nine that night. The
chain was complete, and all idea of
concert was excluded by the fact that
none of the witnesses knew when they
came into the court the reason of
their being summoned. The case
looked like one of mistaken identity;
but the remarkable thing that the stu
dent had never denied that he was
the student inf question, and seemed
from the first to be familiar with all
around him.
The Crown had no choice but to
abandon the prosecution, and the
prisoner was acquitted; but the mys-
terry which the trial had thrown over
the whole affair created an unpleasant
impression, and he left Edinburgh the
next day.
Very shortly after fact transpired
which rendered it at least doubtful
whether the crime had been commit
ted at all. Two medical students, who
were friends of Johnston, resided at
the top of the same staircase. Both
of these students had left Edinburgh
rather suddenly, Immediately after
this event, and it was not known
where they had gone. But it trans
pired that they had been in the habit
of making experiments in strangula-
tiOn on themselves-nOt an unusual
thing at that time; and it came to be
believed that Powers counsel, at the
time of the trial, had information that
Johnston came by his death in that
way, and that the others in their ter
ror had laid down the body at Powers
door.
The nine days wonder soon subsi-
ded, and gave place for new topics;
and it was many years afterwards that
I heard the true version of this singu-
lar story.
1t seems that there were two broth
ers, twins, of the name Of Power, who
were left orphans and almost without
relatives or connections when they
were mere children. They were so
wonderfully alike that those who
knew them best coud rarely distin-
guish them, and the old paternal
grandfather who reared them took
care that they should be educated sep
arately. Reginald, assumed the name
I, -FTnnaadlad 70. q m
property through his mother. The
brothers after the death Oftheir grand
father, being all alone in the world,
had the most devoted, even romantic
affection for each other, although at
the time of this story they had not
met for several years.
Reginald had received a writersbiD
to India, and when the events I have
spoken of occurred, was on his way to
pay his brother a farewell visit
Johnston and Powers had met that
afternoon, and Powers had knocked
him down, and was Mortified an hour
afterward to find Johnston dying at
his door. In his alarm he immediate
" started of by the coach which left
for Glasgow at o'clock, to meet his
brother and consult as to what was 20
be done. The coach stopped at stage
post where it met the other, and there
the brothers resolved upon theroman-
tic course of changing their identity
Power going to London as Reynolds,
and Reynolds going TO Edinburgh as
Power. The rest is easily conceived;
but Reynolds remained Power to the
end of his life, and would never hear
of resuming either his name or his es-
tate. He went out as a medical man
to Australia; rose to great eminence
and only died a year or two ago, leav-
ing an enormous fortune. He left a
widow and her maiden name was
Bridget Malone.
Recorder Wolf, of Washington, has
published an address to the Jewish
ladies of the United States, to com
plete, or assist to complete, the wash