The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-11-04

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This occun 70 ms as a good opening 70
6 my faveriie ie1t Isaiah. wish yo,
{ would eontrive 70 do more for your ole
mother
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my best tossing the grass pieiuresquely
/ tried hard
Lucy had given men 10 understand that
Isaiah was the akish and rowing member
Of her family, indicted to singing about
the streets at night never going 10 church.
! referred to these facts in bis personal
history, Isaiah did not deny them. But
he made promises OF amendment |, for
my part presented him with an old coat
on the understanding that he was only 10
wear Il to church. He had pleaded his
deficient toilet as an excuse for his neglect
OF religious observances.
Not longer than woek after that our
town was startled by murder committed
on the street at night. the victim, an over.
bearing, quarrelsome youth OF the white
race, who yet elected in his death the sym.
pathies OF the whole community, so unpro-
yoked and dastardly was the way Of his
end. His murdereB were traced immed-
lately, and identified beyond reasonable
doubt. Alas, one Of those arrested en- sus.
pieion was the same Isaiah--Isaiah Car.
roll OF whom | have written above
i went to see Aunt Lucy directly, and
found her plunged in grief, But she was
confident of her boys innocence. She
bewailed the way of life which had caused
him TO be identified with the class Of
men by whom the murder had doubtless
been committed ] always tell him so,
she kept repeating. tell him his com.
pany wud be de ruin oh him. 1t war de
singing miss, she reiterated / alius
knowed no good wud come oh it
l followed the evidence carefully. The
feeling of the public was dead against the
suspected murderers from the start. /
who had my misgivings as to Isaiah, at
last was glad that the universal charity Of
the law gave the wretched prisoners a
chance 10 defend themselves. / was glad
to know that Isaiah would have an able
counsellor but all that could hear or
read was against him.
The line of defence chosen by all the
prisoners was 70 prove for themselves an
alibi. Observe that no one had seen the
murder committed The fact that the
three men accused of the crime had been
traced from point to point through the {
neighborhood, and on the night of the
murder, furnished the original grounds of |
arrest. Isaiah, it was shown by the pros. ,
ecution, had always been hand in glove {
with the two other pisoners, Smith and '
Quimby. 1t struck me, on reading the \
that it implicated the others far
more conclusively than Isaiah. But it was G
'hown that he had been standing about v
he street corners on the morning of the r
murder with the two Others accused and o
was also shown that for the last six b
months they had been an inseparable trio. |,
saiah had, beyond dispute, been com. h
'anion of thieves-if not worse. h
In spite of all which believed lie could /,
lear himself. Poor old Aunt Lucy did 81
OF see him through the trial. She could
My mourn for him and pray for him. W
'oor old Lucy a,
The day when / had ascertaiDed Isaiah o,
ould be questioned, myself, against all IL
y previous habits, went down to the CO
ourt house. 1t was quite a pitiful sight
hen Isaiah, confronted by badgering fe
wyer, infinitely more anxious to win his h.
'se than that the right should prevail, sa
as placed on the stand He was attired mi
bis best clothes, and he stood nervously in
wiring his hat in his hand, as / had seen
IN do on the occasion of our last meet. wl
g, when had bethought me TO advise I'm
m as to his moral and spiritual state. on
e had evidently been coached by his
wyer' and lie was prepared to go through ro
e examination as to his whereabouts on cl,
e day Of the murder with circumstantial tb,
ecision. He accomplished his lesson tb,
His honest air and heavy wa
ill-meaning expression were all in his tin
'or. My spirits revived. He appeared tat
me to have told plain, unvarnished vii
e enough. did not recognize any of tbs
e names or places be mentioned be did me
I bring in those relatives of his with m,
Iom vas acquainted-Milly, Lacy
there was an air Of heavy, dull yerisi- int
litude over his whole narration. tw.
Then the cross-examination began, we
'iah had accounted for himself on every al
ur Of the day Of the tragedy up to ten pa,
lock at night, the murder having been tbi
seven. He stood his ground quite well Z,
first, when he was called on TO repeat thi
statement, but on the redirect exsmi- va,
ion be suddenly broke down. / can cal
member having been in such state Of ho,
nd myself, when everything around me wit
all at once become q blank. Isaiah I
ked Abont him helplessly. Ii sudden. thi,
came over him that he had been betray- in
by his own eareleasness isto giving an ter.
cunt TO bis lawyer Of the day before the
rider He had been coached on that A
J dali, dependent intellect refused to ban
PIX and plan for itself on the spur oi inc'