Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-01-02

u liked me because sne thought was better
/ treated than she. She is cook / was
chamber maid" She pointed Nancy
| Luther out to me- She was stout, bold
! faced girl. somewhere abolt twenty-five
pug nose aud thick lips. l caught her
/ eye at once. as it rested on the fair, young
! prisoner, and the moment | detected the
look of hatred which | read there | was
! convinced that she was a rogue.
Nancy Luther, did you say that girls
name vast" l asked, for a new light had
broken in upon me.
Yes, sir
left the court room and went to the
prosecuting attorney and asked him for the
letters l had handed bim-tbe ones which
had been stolen from the mailbag. He
gave them to me- and having selected Que
| returned the rest and told him I would
see he had the oae kept before night. l
then returned to the court room and the
case went on.
Mrs. Nasty resumed her testimony.
She said she entrusted the room to the
prisoners care and that no one else had
access there save herself Then she de-
scribed about the missing money, and clos
ed BY telling how she found twenty five
dollars in the prisoners trunk. She could
swear it was the identical money she had
lost, in two ten, and one FIVE dollar bank
notes.
"Mrs. Nasby,r l said, when you first
missed the money had you any reason to
believe that the prisoner had taken the
money!
"No. sir" she answered.
"Had yop ever detected her in any dis
honestly"
NO, sir"
"'Should you have thought of searching
her trunk had not Nancy Luther advised
and informed youf"
''No, sir"
Mrs. Nasby left the stand, and Nancy
Luther took her place, She came up with
bold front and cast defiant look upon
me, as if to say, "Trap me if you can"
She then gave her evidence as follows:
She said that on the night the money
was taken she saw the prisoner 90 upstairs,
and from the sly manner in which she went
up, she suspected that all was not right, so
she followed her up. Elizabeth went to
Mrs. Nasby's room and shut the door after
her. | stopped down and looked through
the keyhole, and saw her take the money
and put it in her pocket. Then she stoop-
ed down and picked up the lamp, and, as /
saw she was coming out, I hurried away"
Then she went on, told how she informed
her mistress of this and how she proposed
to search the girls trHnk. l called Mrs.
Nasby back.
'eYou said no one save yourself had ae-
cess to your room. Now couldn't Nancy
Luther have entered the room if she
wished7"
Certainly, sir; meant no one else had
any right there"
/ saw that Mrs. Nasby, though naturally
hard woman, was somewhat moved by
poor Elizabeths misery.
"Could your cook have known, by any
means in your know edge, where your
money wasi"
Eyes sir; for she has often come to my
room when I was there, and / have often
given her money to buy provisions of
marketmen who happened along with their
wagons
zone more question: Have you known
of the prisoner having used money since
this was stolenl'
''No, sir"
now called Nancy Luther back and she
began to tremble little, though her look
was bold and defiant as ever
Miss Luther said /, ''why did you not
inform your mistress at once of what you
had seen, without waiting for her to ask
about her money!
Because could not make up my mind
to expose the poor girl" she answered
promptly.
'.You say you looked through the key
hole and saw her take the money!"
eyes, sir"
'TWhere did she place the lamp when
she did so7"
''0n the bureau"
''In your testimony you said she stopped
down when she picked it up. What did
you mean by thatH" The girl hesitated,
and finally said that she did not mean any
thing, only that she picked up the lamp
every well,r said 1; GLOW long have yor
been with Mrs Nasbya"
"Not quite year"
''How much does she pay you weekY'
"A dollar and three quarters
"HaYe you taken up any of your pay
since you have been thereY"
eyes, sir"
'How much2"
II don't know, sir"
''Why don't you knowf"
Glow should II | have taken it at diff
ferent times just as | wanted it, and KEEP
no account"
"Then you have not laid up any money
since you have been theref'
"No, sir; only what Mrs. Nasby may
owe me"
"Will you tell me if you belong to thi
Slater
~ do, sir.
'1n what town"
She hestated and the bold look forsool
her. / next turned to Mrs Nasby.
'Do you ever take receipt from you
girls wien you pay them"
always"
''Can you send and get one for mef'
"She told you the truth, sir, about th
payment
ooh, don't doubt it," I replied, 'Bu
particular proof is the thing for the court
room. So il you can | wish you woul
procure the receipts" She said she woul
willingly if the court said so. The cour
did say so and she went. Her dwellin
was not far off, and she soon returned an
handed me four receipts, which took an
examined They were signed by strong
staggering hand by the witness.
, ''Now, Nancy Luther" | said, turnin
to the witness and speaking III quic
starting tone, at the same time lookin
her squarely in the eye, "please tell th
Court and jury where yon got the seventy
five dollars you sent in your letter 10 you
| sister in Somert." At this she started a
though volcano had burst at her feet
She turned pale as death and every liml
shook violently. / waited until the peopl