The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-08

apprehended, but posi- lively denied the
charge. Morgan as positively affirmed
it. Morgan deposed that he saw his
master on the bed strangiing the stran-
ger. Harris declared that he found the
man in fit, and tried to assist him.
Morgan further said that he had after
wards seen his master rifing the pockets
of the deceased.
Harris denied everything, and med
ical evidence was brought forward to
prove that all the marks on the body
might have arisen from natural causes.
The innkeeper was on the point of be-
ing discharged, when the maid-servant
requested to be sworn. She deposed
that almost directly upon Harris COM
ing down on the morning of the travel
er death, she (being in back wash
house, unknown to her master, saw him
go into the garnet, take some gold from
his pocket, wrap it up, and bury it un-
der tree in a certain corner. Harris
was observed to be confused at this in
formation. An officer was sent with
the girl, and he dug up packet con-
tanning $50 at the spot which she indi-
Gated. Harris then acknowledged hav-
ing hid the money, but he did so with
such reluctance, and with so many eva
sions, that he was instantly committed
for trial
AT the trial Morgan again deposed
that he had seen the murder committed.
The girl again swore to the concealing
of the money, and the constable proved
having found it according to her state
ment.
Harris had nothing to say except that
Morgan's evidence was entirely false,
that the cursed money was his own, put
away for better security. The judge
summed up the jury found the prisoner
guilty and he was condemned to die.
Harris seems to have taken his sem
tence meekly. He persisted in his inno-
cence, and only lamented the sordidness
of temper which, he said, had led him
into general distrustfulness, and into
such ways as this of hiding his money,
which had proved his ruin.
After their master's death Morgan and
the maid were married. They lived
very unhappily, and atlast the wife dis
closed the whole story. They had both
known their masters misery tenn, er,
and the girl had found out that he buried
money in the garden, fact which she
reported to Morgan. They resolved to
let him go on doing so until it should
amount to a considerable sum, when
they purposed to seize it and to decamp.
One day Harris and Morgan had a
bitter quarrel, and the master struck
the man, whose sullen temper instantly
formed a resolution to revenge himself.
At this crisis the blacksmith arrived.
The next morning Morgan himself found
him dead in his bed. With diabolical
inspiration he resolved to charge his
master with the murder, and to plumber
that masters hoard while he was in
prison, thus at once gratifying his hatred
and his greed. Of this scheme he ap-
prised the girl, and secured her appro-
val. But when she found that the &C
cusation was not sufficiently supported,
while some words dropped in court led
her to fear that if her master was re-
leased her lover might be apprehended,
she resolved to sacrifice both the money
and her master to secure the safety of
the wretch Morgan.
After this confession she and her hus-
band were both thrown into prison, but
escaped their public punishment by
dying of Jail fever. 1t was afterward
found, by some quite unexpected infor-
nation, that the blacksmith had had
two previous attacks of apoplexy, and
had never, at any one time, owned as
much as five pounds in money.