The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-10-23

Cured [ was a young man., going On my
first circuits. / had not as yet been honor
ed with perhaps more than three or four
briefs, and these only in cases so slightly
productive of fees that was compelled to
study economy in my excursions. Instead
of taking up my residence at an Inn when
visiting-,a considerable seaport, where
the court held it's sittings, | dwelt in lodg-
ings kept by a widow lady, where at Il snal
expense | could enjoy perfect Guletness' free
from interruption.
On the evening after my arrival on the
March circuit of the year IT., was sitting
in my lodgings perusing a new work on
criminal jurisprudence when the landlady'
after tapping at the door, entered my room:
a am sorry to trouble you, sir" said
she " but a lady has called to see you
about a very distressing law case-very dis
tressing indeed, and a very strange case at
is, too. Only, if you could be so good as to
see her 2" l1s Be- eas-Q aa4 se. s-Ila.a "a
&c Who is she 2" sa5 s5fF % a5-r.g ta8.
.tAll | know about it is this She Is a
Mrs. Harvey. She and her husband and
children were to sail yesterday for Boston.
All were on board except the husband, and
he, on leaving the large hotel over the way,
was taken up for a robbery. Word was in
the evening sent by the prisoner to his wife
to come on shore, with all her children and
the luggage and so she came back in the
pilot-boat; and was in such a state of dis
tress that my brother, who IS on the pre-
ventive service and saw her land, took pity
on her, and had her and her children and
things taken to a lodging on the quay. As
nv brother knows that we have a London
lawyer staying here, he has advised the
poor woman to come and consult you about
the CASE ... I'LL. sa #se .s.t.
well, I'll see what can be done. Please
desire the lady to step in"
A lady was shortly shown in. She had
been pretty, and was SO still, but anxiety
was pictured in her pale countenance. Her
dress was plain, but not inelegant and
altogether she had a neat and engaging
appearance. '..
"Be SO good as to sit down. said 1, bow
ing " and tell me all you would like to
say"
The poor woman burst into tears but
afterwards recovering herself, she told me
pretty nearly the whole of her history and
that of her husband. la a.'s l4+ slsH
Lawyers have occasion to see much du-
plicity, that | did not all at ono give assent
to the idea of Harvey being innocent of the
crime of which he stood charged.
"There is something perfectly inexplc-
able in the case, [ observed, and it would
require sitting. Your husband, I hope, has
always borne a good character 2"
Perfectly so. He was, no doubt, unfor-
tunate in business but he got his certificate
on the first examination, and there many
who would testify to his uprightness." And
here again my client broke into tears, as If
overwhelmed with her recollection and
prospects. H#.
Il think | r%ecollect Mr.. Harvey's shop"
said l, soothingly. SIT seemed a very re-
spectacle concern, and we must see what
can be done. Keep up your spirits; the
only fear / have arises from the fact of Judge
A being on the Bench. He is usually
considered severe, and. if exculpatory evil
dence fail, your husband may run the risk
of being-transported." A word of more
terrific import, with which | was about to
conclude, stuck unuttered in my throat.
Z" Have you employed an Attorney"
added.
"No, | have done nothing as yet but
apply to you to be my husbands COUNSEL"
Well, that must be looked to. | shall
speak to a local agent to prepare and work
the case, and we shall all do our utmost
to get an acquittal. Tomorrow I will call
on your husband in prison."
Many thanks were offered by the unfor-
tunate lady, and she withdrew.
am not going to infIct on the reader a
account of this remarkable trial,
which turned, as barristers would say, on a
beautiful point of circumstantial evidence.
Along with the attorney, a sharp enough
person in his way, | examined various par
at the hotel and made myself acquainted
with the nature of the premises. The more
investigated, however, the more dark
and mysterious-always supposing Har-
vey's innocence-did the whole case appear.
There was not one redeeming trait in the
affair, except Harvey's previous good cha
and good character, by the law of
England, goes for nothing in opposition to
proved to the satisfaction Of a jury.
1t was likewise most unfortunate that A
was to be the presiding Judge. This man
possessed great forensic requirements, and
was of ~spotless private character but, like
the majority of lawyers of that day-when
it was no extraordinary thing to hang twenty
men in a morning at Newgate-he was a
stickler for the gallows as the only
reformer and safeguard of the social
state. AT this time he was but partially
from a long and severe indisposi-
tien, and the traces of recent suffering were
distinctly apparent on his pale and passion
ess features.
ti 9 ITO be coatinued.)