Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-22

Mr.. 0orsuch proved, unnistakably q Cosn
that ON EridaY morning, At s o'cleel, he VA
"neet'so ffos-hunters, when he saw the Onaker
whom he most graphically described, sitting or
the fence. "He beckoned 20 me. and tried q
20, e uIdnt do IL; and when Ibid gS, her ME,
the old chap had got out OF sight,
The States attorney only asked Gursnch 4
QUE sion OF two; and now witness after Nitness,
school children, Old people, neigAbors alsl
strangers, TO the number Of more than a ,iozen,
came in one after another, and testified TO see
ing the strange Quaker at various intervA ais,
but none had seen him except upon the fence,
pale and beckoning, or else entering or depart
ing from Jake Moo els door. The crowded au-
dience was fairly electrified with excitement
and woBaer; the jury looked both pa z zied and
cones rned; and even Jake Moore, rousing out
Of his sto!id indifference, showed an eager in
terest IN the testimony. Evidently, lie was as
much perplexed as any one else. DR.. Beard " a
r. called; and, when he had carefully repeated
his testimony, q distinguished surgical expert
told us that, upon showing, it was impossible
for death to have taken place so late as Friday
morning or Thursday evening.
glanced at Grandson. He cast a searching
'Call Sarah Moore"
simple. quiet, unreserved way, told the same
story she had told before, softe ming the recital
of her fathers faults, and giving emphasis to
the interview with the Quaker. Every word OF
believed il, where none of them would have
placed the slightest faith in it, had 1t not bee
prefaeed by the mysterious confusion in the tes-
tim0ny.
"Do you want to argue it," asked the States
attorney. "I'll submit it. IL you say so. for I
can't make out Chinese puzzle"
-. I've only word to say" ! said glancing at
line which was tossed to me by Grandson As
rose. "Gtre EN- the superintendent js,fes be-
liere in ghosts-aRd this judge does" was the
skePtic's admonition
warned you in advance, the evidence on both
sides can neither be controverted nor recon-
ciled. There is doubt As to the murder; GER
tainty that 1t was not committed by Jacob
Moore. You cannot doubt that little girls frank
blue eyes and untripping tongue. 1 told you the
defense had no theory as to this case; but /, as
an individual, hare theory. believe that the
unknown deceased went to Jacob Moore's and
took that knife, Is represented, with the pur-
pose OF committing suicide, j believe that he
walked to that dreadful ravine, on that We'd
nesday afternoon, and there and then cut his
until II was found as you have heard. believe
nevertheless, gentlemen of the jury, and know
that In your secret hearts You believe with me,
peared as has been testified by the various wit
nesses. Why, gentlemen OF the jury? Why
should that quiet ghost have returned from the
regions to which it had just now fed in de-
HE came back to fix it on Jake Moore,
guess" said the prosecutor, laughing
''Ah, gentlemen OF the jury, 1 said, eve may
not go beyond the grave in search Of motives
1t boots us little to vex the inscrutable with Our
questions, but that, at least, did not bring the
unhappy specIer back. Jake Moore was al
ready convicted, by the knife and the purse,
before that shade came back. May We not ra-
Their assume"-I put it timidly-''that, i'm the
newborn prescience of another existence, it
was Seen that by taking the knife and leaving
the purse an innocent mans life was put in
peril? May not the dead mans spirit have
dragged itself YEARLY back To the world of trou-
bles, not to convict, but to acquit; not for VEN
geance, but in mercy and justice; not to follow
up criminal, but to save the hunted life OF the
innocent and unfortunate man before YOU?
Gentlemen of the jury, ask yourselves that
question, and bid your own hearts furnish the
Well, Jake Moore was acquitted. of course.
The jury declined even to leave their seats.
When the applause that welcomed the verdict
had ceased, Mr.. Grandson arose and said:
"May it please your honor, while I should be
sorry to see the evidence OF ghosts taken often,
in this or any other court, against the evidence
OF hard facts, am happy in being able to show
IN the most satisfactory manner that the con-
clusion to which the jury has come, in the pres
sent instance, is the right one. Since We have
been sitting here, have seen an officer from
Canada, who has given me the history OF the
the Society OF Friends, person Of consequence
and property, Philip Dingle by name, and a
most amiable gentleman, but, unhappfly, sub
ject to occasional attacks of mental alteration.
IL was in one of these fits he wandered off and
destroyed his own life i'm the manner described
TO you. That he himself committed the deed.
We know from a letter written by himself i'm
the neighbOrng city, and there mailed dav or
two previous to his appearance in Humberg, i'm
which he avOws his intention i'm unmistakable
language. That letter was sent to his nephew
and heir, living IN Australia and it has been
the means OF tracing up Mr.. Dingle and estab-
fishing his identity in an undOubted way
knew these facts before the case was given to
the jury, may it please the court" concluded
Mr.. Grandson; ''but was confident the prs-
Oner would be acquitted, and had not the i'm
pudence to interrupt the brilliant and ingenious
defence contrived by my young associate, who,
as need not say TO your honor, has this day
shown himself an ornament and light to our
profession"
'.Well, the ghost was of no use, after all. -
said LightbOurn 1.-the man would have been
acquitted without his interpositiOn.'
'.But how could have got into practice with
out his inv aluable aid?" rejoined Knox.
What became Of Moore and little Sally?''
asked Bertha.
..Moore never drank a drop afterwards; it
was enough to be warned by ghost, he said,
and he is now an owner Of some land, and doing
well. Sally is a buxom farmers wife, with q
household OF children. 1 see her Often.''
''There!" cried Bertha, "say the ghost did
no good But for him, lake Moore would have
died drunkard. Tbelieve in ghosts myself"
EDWARD SPENCER.