The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-04-26
ELKTON, MARYLAND SATURDAY, APRIL 49, B79

hearSthe new witness, whose evil
demo prisoners favor he declared
to beportant to be delayed for
singlent. After Il short collcquy
betwe judge and barristerS on
eithahe court decided to continue
the
Thss, appearing i'll the box,
provea young woman iii delicate
healtthe evening when the pris-
oner il his visit to the lady she was
in tbs service as housemaid. The
day a had been permitted Cby pre-
viouss ment with her mistreSs) to
take q holiday. and to go on a visit
to helts in the west of Cornwall.
While she had fallen ill, and had
not bag enough since to return to
her elent. Having given this pre-
limin;Gnt of herself the housemaid
than the following extraordinary
partica relation to her mistress
clock:
On rning of the day when Mr..
Duboucalled at the house she had
been cithe mantelpiece. She had
rubbctrt of it which was under the
clock 81 buster, had accidentally
struck dulum, and had stopped it.
Havingbefore done this. she had
been screproved. Fearing that
repetitiflence, only the day after
the clooeen regulated by the max
er. migberhaps to the withdrawal
of her l'absence. she had detemin-
ed to prrsright again. if possible
by herst
After, under the clock in the
dark, an. to set the pendulum GO
ing agairly in that way. she next
attempttt the clock and give it
shake. setin a marble case. with
hronzeon the top. and it was so
heavy tlMas obliged to hunt for
somethirh she could use as a lever.
The thind to be not easy to find on
the spur moment, Having at last
laid her what she wanted. she
contrivedftthe clock few inches
and dropn on the mantelpiece as to
set IL Soli. more.
The necessity was, of course, to
move theon.. Here again she was
met by arle. There was difficult
ty in opehe glass case which pro-
tected the After uselessly search
ing for sot'ument to help her, she
got from tnan (without telling him
what shed it for) small chisel.
With thisened the casc-after ac-
cidentally ing the brass frame Oft
and set DIS of the clock by guess.
She was tht the time fearing that
her mistred discover her. Later
in the daYnd that she had over
estimated rival of time that had
passed whwas attempting to put
The clock She had. in fact, set it
exactly q lof an hour too fast.
No safe nifty of secretly putting
the clock nin. had occurred until
the last thight. She had moved
the hands the right time. At the
hour of tbs" when Mr.. Dubours
had calledmiStress she positively
swore thatck was a quarter of ali
hour too fahad pointed, as her mis-
tress had { to twenty-five minutes
to nine-tt time then being, as
Mr.. Dnbod asserted twenty min
utes past e
Question why she had RETAINED
from givinMtraordinary evidence
at the inquire the magistrate, she
declared the distant Cornish vii
lage to whhad gone next day, and
in which hs had detained her from
that tin:e.y had heard of the in
quiry or til Size would &c. have
been presere the vitality important
cirel;nsfanhich she had just sworn
if the prisTin brother had not
found her the previous day, had
not questioif she knew anything
about the and had not Clearing
what she hsD insisted on her tax
ing the jourh him to the court the
next mornlr
The evide tally decided the trial.
There Vas burst of relief in the
crowed assehen the woman state
ment had ccr and.
She was .roSS-eXamined. as Il
matter of c6Her character was IN
quircd into: orative evidence (rela-
tive to the eli the scratches on the
frame was Sor and was obtained.
The end of hat. at a late hour on
the second the jury acquitted
the prisoner. leaving their box.
1t was too n,ay that his life had
been saved bother. His brother
alone had p from first to last, in
obstinately sing the clock-for
no better real that the clock was
the witness vserted the prisoner
guilt. He hatd everybody with his
incessant inqie had discovered the
absence of use-maid after the
trial had begne had started off to
interrogate Throwing nothing and
suspecting ntsimply determined
to persist i'll Everlasting question
with which lecuted every body:
"The CLOCK iso hang my brother:
can you tel42 thing about the
clock -
Four monththe mystery of the
crime was clep. One of the dis
reputable cons of the murdered
man confessed eathbed that he had
done the decide was nothing in
tereSting or role in the circum
stahcnS. Chalich had put inno-
cence in peril, fered impunity to
guilt. An inf wonan, . Jealous
quarrel and ane at the moment of
witnesses on tlthese were really
the commonplterials which had
CQm0osed the