Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-05-18
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Doubtfng Ciroum stantial Evidence.
81 don't believe in circumstantial
evidence after the experience / had
with it, said very prim. angular
looking woman to n companion on
I the elevated. Just let me tell you
You know Miss H, don't your
"Ob, yes
"Well. she came to see me on
Wednesday evening about three
weeks ago. and we had nice little
chat together. and made arrange
ments to go TO a concert the next
week. and it being quite late before
she went we joked some about the
late hours we were keeping.
Now, just week from that night
[. not having seen her since, sent her
short note. heading it My dear
friend. and in the note itself remind
ed her of the concert, telling her to
be sure and call for me, and also max
ing some reference to the lovely time
we had last Wednesday night, but l
didn't sign my full first name, but
just j. B, and in addressing the
envelope put my friends initial in
the same way Well, by some mis-
take or other that letter got sent to
l21 West - street instead of 121
East - street, where it see1ns there
was a family of the same name as
my friend.
"The man of the house got it and
thrust it into his pocket, and there
his wife found it, and as it happened
that he had been out the very
Wednesday evening ] referred to in
my letter, she jumped to the c0nclu-
sion that her husband had been max
ing love to some other woman, and
as my address was in the note she
rushed around to my fiat at -,
- street, and raised (h6re the
speakers voice sunk to q whisper
and her friend looked hor1iiied) All
this happend while | was down at
the school.
"She wept, told the janitor and
the other tenants that l had been
stealing her husband, and then went
out on the sidewalk, called for the
police and shTieked and threatened
me with all sorts of things, to the
great delight of all the neighbors, of
course. At last the janitor, to get
rid of her, told her was teacher in
a public school and gave her the
number of the school and sent her
around to find me, and so that after
noon she walked into my classroom
and asked for Miss B.. and just as
the principal happened to be in the
room too.
"Of course | didn't know what was
the matter, and / said that's my
name Then she glared at me for
about a minute without saying a
word, and then she said again, This
is Miss B--T said Yes; what do
you wantG
''She commenced to abuse me like
a pickpocket; said l had stolen her
husband, and taking a letter from
her pocket and holding it up before
me said, Look, have the proof /
said: That's letter l wrote to my
friend. How did you get it2' And
then she shrieked, 4 am his wife
and found it in his pocket and then
burst into tears.
81 tried to explain, but the more !
explained the more mixed up got,
but Just then who should come in but
Miss H, and between the two of
us we convinced the old fool that /
had not stolen her husband and had
no intention of stealing him, and at
last she departed, looking as if
world of sorrow had been lifted from
her heart, and perhaps it had.
"Of course l told all my friends
the facts of the case, but some of the
people in the neighborhood-whom !
don't know and therefore cannot ex
plain to--always smile as if they
knew an awful lot. / hate such peo
pie, don't your"
"Twenty-third street," yelled the
guard, and the two old maids de-
parted, leaving me to ponder upon
the uncertainties of circumstantial
evidence. New York Recorder.