Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-08-16
VOL. XVIII.--N0. 3.
I pledged my word 10 lhe Court that obey

were neither, but had very important bear
ing upon the case and was allowed TO pro-
coed. repeated my question"
" I've a boy and girl"
"Pray, how old are they ~
1.-THE boys twelve and the girls nine, I
believe
"Ahl Well, suppose you are an affection
ate father, as well as kind husband. You
are not in the habit Of beating your wife and
children are your
I" don't sec what business II Is of yours.
No amt"
q" You don't knock your son about, for ex-
ample2"
"No don't" (Ie was growing DOWN
right savage, especially as the people in the
court began 10 laugh
g You don't pummel him with your fist,
eh ?"
"Nol don't"
Or knock his head upon the ground in
this mRnner2' (and raped the table with
my knuckles)
"N6?" Indignantly
"You never did such thing2"
"NoV'
"You swear to that?'
"Yeslp
can this time had never given him nm OPP
portunity of seeing my face | now turned
toward him and said-
9 Look at me, sill Did you ever sec me
before2"
81 lie was about to say No again; but all
at once he STONED. turned very white and
made M answer
THAT will do said stand down, cir.
| Nv Lord I shall nrove n vou that this wit
ness is not to be believed on OATH
| % then related what we had seen that
morning and putting my friend who had been
sitting behind me all the while, into the wit
ncss-hox he of course confirmed the state
ment
The cart Immediately decided that tho
man was unworthy of belief and the result.
was n verdict for The defendant. with costs.
and n severe reprimapd from the Judge 10
| MYERS. who was very near being committed
FIR neriury But for tho occurrence of the
morning Tho decision would inevitably have
been against us AS said before, it was in
n double sense fortunate for me. for il was the
meons Of NV introduction through Mr.. Trit-
Ten. TO an influential and lucrative connection.
| A SAD SroRY About month ago our tel
errnphic columns contained an account of II
horrible Indian massacre in Texas, in which
father and several children were brutality MUIR
dere5 and scalped while the aponized wife and
mother. holding in her arms another child,
almost an infant, looked heplessly on Tho
telegram did not 90 into the details Of The ter
riblc affair, nor enter into soul-harrowing
description of the terror and fearful agony Of
M mora If tbe roraor,,nh ,han The weary edi-
TORS and comnosjtors who arranged and nut IL
! In ,,ne hui ,ro ,y.,e re,,,inde1 ~ n md the
whole sccnc vividlv byo,,gbt nm beft,,e ua ~
,ho or,ivai in tbia ~ last wool, If Nrs
America uarlct win her littIe 8atphter tbe
snryivorz n tbai day of horror in Tcxoe ofono
month moo Mrs Hamlet could no, even If
o,hor ,hings had been oonvonjent bring her
| sair "a re,nain ma, a.. neor enot which
would ia 10 tba los, doy ~ her IiCe associated
onIv Win the feartnl massacre Of her family
90 a. ossitoa H., har Crinrds d;snnsoJ nr hon
Ii,a I nronerty in TEXAS and started With her
iit6c ganghtsr now all tb,, 10 lof, IN remind
her IF ber once ho,ny snnnv homo IN ioin
hcr relatives in Eastern VIRGINIA She was no
,n,ch c,t;,,,od IN har ar,ivoi n, mis- citv that
aithonab 60 near hcr aes,inat;on sbc conclnd,
a, 20 s,o, Nc a. a., H. ros, cron, ,he nor-
~ - H. I,',, o,,,na airoody acnomnl,ahad
ond ~ ,,o,har !, g1onr,,,, a. no ron,oindar
NJ it,,ni,t Il I, snidtIa ooed woman intel
liton, hn, ro,irine, ond ,e,icent ana ecome mo-,
~ roa,araa r., H. sbne. aS 10 toss -
hcr G,niIy sbe has iva In Tevos for nearly
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