Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-23
ury the testimony of experts would have no

jury the testimony of experts would have no effect upon my mind, and I do not think would vote for conviction on the strongest chain of merely circumstantial evidence; certainly would not if the offence charged were a capital one. The list of men who they were innocent is too large for me to add another name to it.
 q suppose" he continued, 'sthat one nev- CT knows how much his line of thought through life is influenced by incidents occur ring in his youth In both my study and practice of law have seldom attempted to weigh the value of testimony that was not of positive nature without thinking of an in cident of my boyhood days which produced 8 strong effect upon my mind. was stu dent in large seminary in a small country village in New England. The government of the boys and girls there was of the pa ternal' character-in the strictest sense in which that word can be used. Every motion was regulated by rule from rising to retiring, and the discipline of the school was based upon the theory that no one could by any reasonable possibility do right unless he were compelled to do so and every chance of do- ing wrong were taken from him. Dr. Dor say-he didn't become Doctor till afterward and he was known among ourselves as Old Dorsay, had risen to the presidency of the seminary from no cause that one could dis cover except his ability to govern. The school was made up largely of farmers sons and daughters, who went there for study and who didn't dream of doing any wrong. In the two years passed there no pupil was ever guilty of anything worse than a techni- cal violation of some arbitrary rule-visiting & neighboring student at wrong hours or taking walk beyond the prescribed limits in the country. But whatever was done, however quietly or at whatever hour, Old Dorsay' knew it, and would give the full par oE ;% %o ha were invited to remain after prayers the fol- lowing morning.
 ssThsre were four of us, near of an age, who were intimately associated in our stud ies and ou1 rscreations. We were discussing one evening the strange knowledge which Old Dorsay' had of all our movements, and were speculating on his apparent ability to be in several places at the same time, when George exclaimed: 'Tll tell you how it is. Every fourth student is spy This seemed a reasonable explanation, and we immediate ly began to pick out the suspected spies and to designate each of them among ourselves as fourth one.' Thinking the meaning or this term known only to ourselves we used it in public, and especially directed it against one boy, who we were very sure was the most active of the informers In our private con ferences George was very bitter h speaking of this particular fellow. Strangely enough, we did not think of the possibility that all PAOSANS~e'
 "One evening we were returning to our rooms from a walk when MT Dorsay met me at the door and invited me to his room. Charles he said, looking me sternly in the face, T am sorry to see you in such low com pany.' You are mistaken,' l replied, my friends are gentlemen. There is nothing low about them T refer to George he said He is unfit for you to associate with and will be expelled in few days. In the meantime forbid you to associate with him. Read this' He handed me letter, addressed to the unsuspected spy, accusing him ot being one and couched in the flthiest language l ever read But what staggered me was the fact that it certainly appeared to have been written by George, whose penmanship was very peculiar I read it and studied each turn of every letter, and handed 1t back. You think that George wrote this,' l said, but he did not How dare you say SOP re- torted MT. Dorsay. I have heard your talk about - and your threats, and here is a letter written by George, without even an at tempt to disguise his hand. think I shall expel all four of you, but George will cer- tainly 20, The evidence is conclusive. You will accompany him if you speak to him again.
 "'The letter was never written by George, maintained stoutly. I have been intimate with him a long time and never heard him use vulgar word. Then he would not have done such thing without consulting me. If you have overheard our conversations, as you say, you must know that? Well, George had sort of star chamber trial. The wri- ting master compared the obnoxious letter with private letters, compositions and his diary taken from his desk and pronounced him guilty. Mir. Dorsay had heard enough of his private abuse of - to understand his feeling clearly enough and so in a day or two it publicly announced from the chapel pulpit that the offender had been ex- pelled in disgrace, and the event was made the occasion for very solemn lay sermon to the pupils. The system of espionage still
 went on and this time it resulted in real good. The actual author of the letter was discov- cred and the first draft of it was found in his desk. His expulsion was accompanied with much less pomp and circumstance than
 the former; he was quietly told to leave town by the earliest train on the following day. But few days later letter received from a lawyer in neighboring city, after ward United States Senator, which caused MT. Dorsay to proclaim the innocence of George as publicly as he had announced his guilt.
 tThis was my first acquaintance" contin- ued the old lawyer, sswith expert testimony and circumstantial evidence, and the lesson taught me was a useful one. I don't see how jury, with the facts before it which MT. Dorsay had in his possession, could have failed to convict, but George was innocent, just the same."
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