The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-08-24
N OF GUILTY.


to jackson, Alabama, to attend court,
having been engaged to defend q
young man who had been accused Of
robbiug the mail. Tho stolen bag had
been recovered, ss we'll rs the letters
from which tho money had bson ri
fed. These letter, were given me
for my, examination, aud I returned
them 10 the prosecuting attorney.
Having got through my preliminaries 5
about noon, and as tho case would not
come of before tho next day, l went
into the court in the afternoon to see
what was going on. The first case
that came up was one Of theft, aad
tho prisoner was young girl not
more than seventeen years Of age,
named Elizabeth Msdworth. She
was very pretty, aud bore that mild
inn oceut look which Is seldom found
in culprit. She had been weeping
profuscly, but as sho found so many
eyes upon her she becnm, too fright
eped to weep more.
The complaints sgainst her set
forth that she had stolen q hundred
d olIars from q Mss. Nasby, and as the
case wsat on fouud that this Mrs
Nasby, . w.~i.iy .,idn- ,Ivin, In the
town, was the girls mistress. The
poor giil declared her Innocence II
tho widest terms but circum stances
we're hard against hor. A hundred
dollars in bank notes had been stolen
fren tsr uistss~'s room, and she wa
| the only one that had accefs there.
At this juncturc, when tho mistress
was upon the witness stand, u young
nan came and caught me by the arm
They tell me that you arc yer,
fno lawyer" he whispered.
~ am lawyer | said.
Then save her You certainly can
do it, for she is innocent
"Hss she 20 counsel p l a,ked.
"None that's good for anything
nobody that will do anything for her
Oh, save her and will give you sl
, that l have got. / cant givo yo'
much-but ! can raise something"
reflected . moment. cast m
| eyes toward the prisoner, and she wa
at that moment looking at me. Sh
caught my eye, and tho volume q
sntresty read in her glance resolve
0 me 10 moment. arose aud wcr
Q to tho girl, and asked her IL sho wisl
, , ed me to defend hor. She said ye
l then infoI med the court that WI
! ready TO enter the case, and was ad
mitled at oncs. The loud murmur
of satisfaction thst ran through tn
3 crowd, told me where tic sympathi'
3 3 Of the people were. asked for
. moments cessation, that I might spea
. to my client. Iwsnt and sat dow
8 BY her side, and asked her to stat
3 caudidly the whole case. She to
!. \, me she had lived with Mrs. Nass
" usarly two years and had new
had any trouble before. About tv
weeks ago, she said her mistress ha
% missed q hundred dollars.
4 "She missed II from her drawer
N the girl said to mo, land asked .
about it. That evening l know Ma
cy Luther told Mrs. Nasty that 81
q q saw me take the money from u
I. drawcr--that she watched mo throui
q e the ksyhois. Then they went to u
:, trunk aud found twenty-five dollars
the missing money there. But sir
never took II, and somebody mt
90 have put 1t there
g g Ithen asked her If sho suspect,
g. 2 any one.
~ aont know" she said. Nv
could hare done II but Nancy. 8
has never liked me because she tho'
!. I was bottsr treated than she. 8
10 the cook. ! Was the chambsrmsid
, She pointed Nanny Lnthsr out
ne. She was . stout, bold.faeed 8
H. sonsvhsss about 6vo and twer