The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

Ills lace Teuueneu. Ou Uue contrary the
face of M'Kissen was pallf3.
The first witness l called was Peter
Brown. His evidence was as follows:
About fourteen months before that, he
had gone to st. Louis to purchase some
goods, and while there had ordered a new
set of blank books, journal and ledger,
from bindery. The day before he left he
went to get and to pay for them. The binder
offered to treat him, and then and there
made pitcher of iced punch. Brown was
not much given to mixed rotations, or as
he explained to the court and jury-"gen-
orally took his liquor reverend, )" but, as the
book binder was "a friendly sort Of per-
son." accepted his offer Whether his
want of familiarity with the drink, or its
inhibition on top of deal Of "reverend,"
or undiluted liquor that day, affected his
| nerves. he did not state, but merely hat he
| spilled some OF it on a ream of tinted paper.
The lemon juice in the punch took out the
color where it fell. He offered to pay for
the damage, but the binder merely laughed
| and said it was an outside quire of the
ream, and would go among the casse-pa-
| per. In reply to an inquiry he was told
| that casse-paper was made up of creased
outside quires and spoiled sheets, and was
| generally sold for a trihe to those who
wanted cheap writing paper. Thereupon
he bought lot of it, that quire among the
rest, and had it packed with the books.
| This particular quire, being larger, thicker,
and finer than the remainder, was not used
at first One day, however, having occa-
sion to make a blotter, he picked this out,
and placed it on the counter, intending to
sew it together, and put cover on it.
| While it lay there, M'Kissen came in to get
some ink. A few minutes after, PRESCOTT
walked in and asked for some tobacco. Not
being served at once, he lounged against
the counter, and, taking a pen from the
| desk, wrote his name on the outside of the
| book quire. Brown, seeing it, snatched the
: paper away, and chided him. PRESCOTT re-
! piled that he made great fuss about a
| good looking name on his ''map of Italy"
-alluding to the stain over which he had
written-and, getting his tobacco, went off.
| Brown took the spoiled sheet from the 9TH
| ers, leaving it on the counter, put the rest
away, and went to serving other CUSTOM
! ers. M'KiSSen went out shortly afterward,
and Brown thought no more about the
written sheet, and made a blotter of the
rest. The.next time he saw the sheet was
in the Clerks office in the shape of this
| deed. That was the sheet, and that was
the name Prescott wrote.
The Judge put a question here:
| "Mr. Brown, can you explain how you
so certainly identify both the sheet and
| signature?'
| "Certainly, your honor have brought
| the sheets that were left, in this blotter.
| The thread has been taken out. You will
| see the same STAIN a little smaller in each,
| on the first three leaves. BY smoothing
| the creases, and turning the deed, you will
! see it just fits on them. Then, [ identify
it by the ink. The ink | sell | buy ready
made. 1t is cheaper than | can make. The
ink use in my books make myself, after
a recipe used in the British Exchequer
office. 1t is pale when you write with it,
| but gets very black in time The ink | sell
is apt to get rusty in time. Then, my own
| ink has gum in it, which makes it glossy.
| Hold the deed slantwise, and you'll see the
difference between Trescott's name and the
rest of the writing. M'Kissen's name and
all the rest of the writing is written in the
| ink sell, and TrescOtt'S in the ink make"
| But M'Kissen has Sworn,'' | said, ''that
| he wrote his name with the same lux Tres
| colt did"
That's not so. You can see for your
self"
But where was M'Kissen when Prescott
wrote his name"
"In the store"
The deed and the book underwent a criti-
cal examination by judge, jury and coun-
! sci. At the end of it Spencer was about to
| commence a cross examination, when the
| Judge said:
"One moment, Mr.. Spencer. Sheriff, see
that those men do not leave the room with
out permission of the court"
But "those men" had quietly slipped out
while we We're all intent on the deed,
mounted their horses, and rode off. ] pro-
| duced the contract of sale to M'Kissen, Of
which | had spoken in my opening. Moses
| had used it for a marker in 'Hood," and
had inadvertently left it there The case
was submitted without argument, Spencer
| being disguised, and the jury found for us
at once, under charge of the Judge. In
| course of time filed bill, and the convey
ance was formally set aside.
| That was my turning point. 1t gave me
practice, and it gave me a wife; for after
! ward married Marion Prescott. The Four
! Section Purchase is now the southern part
of the town and pretty well built on. 1t
| has secured the fortune of our children,
| though they would be tolerably well off
| without it,
As for Cuyp and M'Kissen, the tool was
| punished, but not the hand which held it..
| M'Kissen was convicted of perjury and
| forgery, and served out his term of SEN
tence. Cuyp escaped to South America.
| He sent from New York power of attor-
ney to his wife, and she made a compro-
mise by which we saved the old homestead
| and two of the farms Then she Joined her
| husband in Peru, where, at the last dates,
| they were living, "much respected."-
| Thomas Dunn English, in N. \. IHdepeRd-
| eBt.