The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-01-01

per, "and Let our counsel ask him whose
writing that is.
I did so. Bledsoe took the paper in
his hand, run his eye keenly over IL, and
in answer to the question, said that this
was undoubtedly Jacob Shelmire's hand
writing.
I Hooked again at my clerk.
"Ask him, " he whispered, ''if he is as
sure of it as he is that the writing in the
will is Mr.. Shelmire's."
Tmade our counsel ask the question,
and the lip of the witness curled under
his mustaehe. Certainly he was, he re-
Piled; there could be no doubt of either.
looked again at viii,
"Let him go" he whispered, ''and go
through the same with Passmore.
I did so, and Passmore clinched the
evidence of Bledsoe. He said that the
writing in the order that I had produced
was Mr.. Shelmire's beyond question. He
would know that writing anywhere. And
Mr. Shelmire often wrote such orders
and sent them By him. Had he ever
taken any to Mr.. Greggl Yes, very
often. Might he have taken this9 Very
easily; in fact he remembered this par
ticular order.
Mr.. Passmore went down with an air
Of easy insolence; and viii, his eyes
beaming with delight, leaned over and
and whispered again in my ear. He did
not utter more than four words, but
they operated upon me almost like the
shock of an electric battery, and the
weight that had lain at my heart for six
weeks was rolled away. In one instant
our victory was insured.
I whispered to our counsel, and he
called the name Of VIM. Wayman.
Disposing of the preliminary ques-
tions as to who he was, his occupation,
&c, our counsel asked: "Was this paper
in your possession before I exhibited il
here, just nowl"
''It was"
"Do you know who wrote that orderl'
81 do.
"Tell us about it. "
81 wrote it myself last night, for the
purpose of drawing these two gentlemen
into the trap they have SO cleverly
walked into. And 1 believe if you'll
look close you'll find my imitation o
poor old Jacob Shelmire's writing grea
deal better than theirs"
This was virtually an end of the case
The jury began to cast indignant look
at Mr.. Bledsoe and his companion, boil
of whom turned white and red and look
ed very uncomfortable. The Judg
simply told the jury that it remained TO
E them to say, from the evidence, whethe
Jacob Shelmire had executed the will il
dispute; aud, without leaving their seats
they found that he had not.
One of the most remarkable thing
connected with the trial was the suddei
disappearance of Bledsoe and Passmore
Within fifteen minutes after the verdic
/ had q warrant for their arrest on
e charge of perjury and forgery in til
8 hands of the police, but they never foun
D them. They had fed, secretly and pre-
4 cipitately, and we never heard of ther
again. can only say that 1 have fuI
faith in the truth of the words, eth
: way of the transgressor is hard"
I Some days after the trial, 1 said to m
o clerk, "Well, Will, my client, yirgini
] Garvin, will not be of age for som
/ months yet, and it is necessary to hav
r an administrator and a guardian al
Il pointed. Doyou know whom she woul
i prefer"
T. 81 have no doubt, sill" Will solemnl
replied, "that she would preferme. An
! as 1 am to become her husband in tw
il weeks, you will concede the proprietyc
n hesuggestion. ana.
o L did more; I shook the splendid fe
n low by the hand, and wished him who,
d century Of happiness. And was NJ
/. above acknowledging to him, then an
Y there, that his adroitness had saved vi
/ ginia's case, and that there was a peculii
+ fitness in her choosing him for her lii
If guardian. ,n ,-a-a I.iaiyr. .'