Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-04
[ brooklyn Sunday SUM-

IBrooklyn Sunday SUM-
Except Major McKinstry, the Quar-
termaster-General under Fremont in
Missouri, no witness has ever been kept
so long on the stand In any recorded
American trial as Mr.. Moulton has been
Major McKinstry was under examina-
ton before a coJlrt-martial for thirteen
days. During all that time he never
contradicted himself, and yet the court
found Major McKinstry guilty, and
cashiered him.
In the celebrated English case, the
claimant to the Tichborne estates was
under examination for six weeks, and
during that time he cleverly managed TO
afford grounds for an indictment for per-
jury against himself, and of the perjury
he was found guilty, and is now serving
his seven years sentence of penal servi-
tude.
In contested will case tried before
Judge Pennafeather, in Dublin, the first
witness as to the authenticity of a viii
was examined for two days. After him
the number of witnesses examined ON
each side reached a hundred and twenty
one Counsel were about to commence
the summing up, when suddenly Judge
Pennafeather, seeing the first witness
still in court, recalled him. His lord
ship said to him:
"My friend, you have been examined
and croSs-examined by as able counsel
as any in England Ireland, yet my
failing faculties now fail clearly TO recall
your testimony. Listen, and tell me if
/ understood its substance Alright. You
say you were with the testator the nigh
he died."
Eyes, my lord"
Judge-And you state further tina
while you were with him he signed this
viii which 1 have in my hand2
Witness-Yes, my lord.
Judge-He was very sick, Jon said
Witness-Yes, my lord.
Judge-Now tell me how lie saw to
sign this Will.
Witness lit a waxen bougie.
Judge-Where did you get it
Witness-From a secretary or bureau
in the room to which he directed me-
Judge-And the pen and ink
Witness-I got those from the same
bureau, my lord.
Judge-(Still holding the viii in his
hand and looking at the bottom of it,
This handwriting is strangely firm to
have been written on such yielding
foundation as the coverlid of the bed in
which the sick man lay.
Witness-Oh, my lord, I placed
checker-board ON his knee, and placed the
viii upon it. held the ink in M left
hand, dipped the pen in it with my
right. He sat up in the bed, took the
pen, and signed the viii.
Judge-Yery well, very well, my
friend, 1 understand you thoroughly.
But this viii is sealed. Where did you
get the WAKE
Witness-I got it for him from the
same bureau where he kept all his writ
ing materials.
Judge-How did he manage 70 seal it?
Witness-After he had signed it, /
put the pen and ink back into the bureau,
took out piece of red wax, and taking
the bougie In my left hand, melted the
wax. 1 forgot to state 1 had handed him
his seal from the bureau when the wax
dropped on the will he dropped the seal
upon it.
Judge-What color did you say the
wax was
Witness-It was red, my lord.
Judge-Gentleme OF the Jury: This
viii is sealed with wafer.
Counsel made no summing up of the
case and the jury, without leaving the
box, found for the defendant, who was
the legal heir of the deceased.
As the throng was hurrying from the
court room, the old Judge slowly rose
from his seat, and pointing with his
skinny forefinger at the quailing witness,
said: 4" Officers, arrest that man. Her
majesty's government has a charge of
perjury to prefer against him, and be-
heve L am one of the chief witnesses in
the case"
The quicksands on the shore, the sur
ging waves of the sea, the clouds that
hurry before the wind, are not more I'M
reliable than personal testimony has been
found to be, from the days Of Cicero to
those of William NJ. Evarts.
THE THREE BROILED CHICKENS
The Wakefield (Mass.) Citizen says
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