The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29

hundred times in search of something Il
prove him innocent, daily sending anC
receiving messages. One morning, a
she sat thinking bitterly of the sorrow
that had invaded her life, her ewes fell
on an old newspaper fallen under thu
desk. She picked it up and opened 1T
The Iren Trade Review. She esgerl,
turned to the second page. All WIN
had she forgotten these pictures
Strange black figures, etching of iron
nature-printed. Given this slight clew
her mind lesped to q brave resolve
She would bring science to loves rescue
How, she could not tell. She had 8
vague idea of what might be done, and
asking her tather to attend to the tele.
graph, she ran hastily out on the line
and down the road toward the village
Stopping at certain house, she found 8
young girl who was a good operator
and at once hired her 10 take her place
at the station.
Before night she had taken every del.
lar she had in the world from the savings
bank, and was on her way to the city
The moving cars seemed to drag toe
slowly, Why had she fingered 50 long
idle, and Samson in danger?
The day of Inc trial came on. Al
the trial all the testimony that we
already know, and much more of less
importance, had been offered by the
prosecution. The defence set up the
previous good character of the prisoner,
and that seemed about all that could be
said.
Mary Britton had given her testimony
early in the trial, and that seemed al
that she could do. She had more to say,
but was not yet ready to speak. All the
morning she had sat in the crowded court
room, watching the clock, and waiting
and looking for some one, q strong and
brave helper, to come to her assistance.
At the last moment she spoke to the
counsel, and asked for a slight DELAY.
There might be yet other witnesses
The defence began to talk against time,
and messenger was sent to hasten the
tagging aid.
|. The knight arrived. A pale, thin.
faced young man in glasses appeared
and demanded to give his testimony.
Behind him came a marvellous array
men with strange tools, lanterns of sina
gular construction, bars snd rods of
iron, and number of gentlemen who
seemed to be prosperous merchants and
manufacturers. There came also an old
German and q farmer from Barstow's
The young man spoke to Mary Britton
with the utmost Difference, and she con-
suited with him for q moment, and then
presented him to Samson's counsel.
There was a slight murmur of sur
prise at this demonstration, and then
Samuel Mayer was duly sworn. He
testified that he was an expert in metals.
He had examined the bar found under
the wrecked car, and was prepared to
prove that Samson Glider could not have
used it in wrecking the train. With the
permission of the court he would like to
have the room darkened, that, with the
aid of lantern, he might project some
nature-printed pictures of the iron used
in making the bar.
The prosecution objected. What
scientific juggler was this? The old
lantern Dodge familiar in cases of forgery.
The court overruled the objection, ana
the young man produced some pieces of
cloth, which his assistants quickly spread
over the windows, till tie room became
quite dark. A gas jet was alighted, and
in the dim light other men set up a
screen ard ime-light lantern as for
lantern projections. In a wonderfully
short time there appeared on the screen
strange fgure-a cloud or blotch of
blackness.
Samuel Mayer then testified that at
the request of Miss Britton he had planed
one side of each ot the two bars till
smooth surface had been obtained. A
portion OF this surface on each bar had
been etched with acid, and from this
etching had been obtained nature-printed
copies or prints in ink. This well known
method of etching gave prints showing
the disposition OF the particles of the
metal, and serving to show its qua ity.
Thee etchings and q vast number of
others taken from other bars and rods
made by the different iron makers OF the
country had been photographed tor Ian
tern projection, and, with the permits
sion of the court, some OF these would be
exhibited to the jury. The projection
now on the screen was from the bar pur-
chased by Glider and stolen by the
tramp.
Every eye was fixed on the singular
picture on the screen, and a murmur of
applause filed the room. Suddenly the
picture was removed and another took
its place. 1t did not require much at
tentiOn to show that this represented an
entirely different kind of metal.
This, gentlemen" said the young
man, " is a nature printed etching from
the iron bar found under the car. 1
have compared these two etchings with
great number of etchings obtained in
the same way from bars made by all the
iron men in the country, and l find this
one corresponds exactly with etchiDgs of
the Moorlow Iron company's metal. My
assistant will place a sample of the COM
pany's iron beside this."
At once another picture sprang up be-
side the one on the screen. The two were
exactly alike.
Another witness took the stand-the
president of the Moorlow Iron company.
He testified to tne facts of the exU ERR
ments and to the results that had been
obtained.
Another witness was called - the
buyer of the railroad company. He
testified that the company had never
used the MORROW compsny's iron. The
bar Glider had bought had been obtain
ed of Ross Duncan & Co., of Pittsburg,
from whom the railroad obtained all its
tools.
Another etching was projected; then
another appeared by its side. The two
were exactly alike.
"The picture on the right" said May
er, is "Ross, Duncan & Co.'S iron. That
on the LETT is the etching shown first and