Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-10-17

imprisonment for numbering his
wife with arsenic. Twenty years af-
terward 1T was accidentally discov-
cred that the poison was given to
Mrs. Maley by the servant through
mistake for medicine and that, fright
ened at the result, she permitted
Maley to be convicted upon circum-
stantial evidence.
Edward III. Post, of Nordoff, n. j.,
was sentenced October 18th, 1898, to
10 years in the State prison for an
outrageous assault on Mamie Murphy
in the outskirts of Patterson. After
IA months confinement he was freed
it being proved to the satisfaction of
the court that he was not in or about
Patterson at the time of the assault.
or course Mr.. Post was glad to get
out of Jail, but should he not be rec
ompensed for the sufferings he en-
dured and the time he lost?
A few years ago John Funella was
released from the Auburn IN. W
prison, by virtue of Communication of
his life sentence. He was convicted
in Utica in 1856 of Numbering Joe
Petrie, and on circumstantial evil
dence. II was subsequently, devel-
oped that Funella's brother Micheal
committed the crime. Michael con-
fessed to the murder and escaped to
South America.
Samuel f.. Wayman was convicted
in 1890 of the murder of Emory
Thayer at Avon, N. Y, in 1885,
Nelson Schwartz, who swore against
Wayman, confessed on his deathben
in Auburn Prison in 1892 to the
chaplain that he alone committed
the crime and that Wayman had not
the slightest knowledge of it. Way
man had in the meantime been SEN
fenced to death, but before the date
for his execution arrived Governor
Hill commuted his sentence. A
"judicial murder' was prevented,
but still Wayman is in prison.
A French governess in a we'll
known family had a rather unpleas-
ant experience last year. A diamond
ring belonging to daughter of the
house disappeared. A search was
made, and the gem was found in the
top drawer of bureau in the gov
erness' room. She was committed
to the Tombs, and subsequently con-
victed. A few weeks later, the
mother of the girl who owned the
ring returned from the country and
proved the gOverness innocent. She
went into court and confessed that
she had been surreptitiously prowl-
ing through the governess' bureau
drawers and had dropped the rim z
without knowing it.
or course the governess was re-
leased by I" the angry judge" but
the woman had been locked up with
criminals for few weeks and was
subjected to the insult of being pho
tographed by person who said he
wanted pictures for lecture on
"Crimes and Penalties"
In May, 1885, John Crow myste-
riously disappeared from a little
Michigan town. 1t was supposed
that he had been murdered, and sus-
picion fell upon John Van Nimman,
brother-in-law of the missing man.
Circumstantial evidence governed
the prosecution of Van Nimman,
and he was convicted an sentenced
to life imprisonment. He served 10
years in the Jackson Prison, Michi-
gan. Crow was not dead at all. In
his wanderings about the world he
on day happened to read in an old
paper the story Of his murder by
poor John Van Nimman. There
upon in April, 1894, he set about to
get Nan Nimman out of prison.
The unfortunate man has presented
claim to the State for his 10 years
service.
Annie Waters was charged by
Clement Schwartz, Of Linden, N. j.,
with having stolen 5000 Of his money
on February 3rd, 1898. Mrs. Wa
ters protested that she had never
laid eyes on Schwartz, and that in.
stead of being in Linden at the time
OF the burglary she was in Bound
Brook. Her prOtestations of lnno-
cence availed her nothing, for she
was convicted and sentenced to sew
eral years imprisonment. After
wards it was found that her story
was true and she was released.
All of these cases have never fig
ured in the legal books. Most of
them are recent, and there are hun
dreds of others of which no men,
tion has ever been made. Some of
the famous cases in the books on
this subject are Hamilton and Saun-
ders, in Missouri; Bourns, In Yer
mont; Baxwell, in Gibralter; Mar
tin Guerre, In France; Morris and
Hildebrande, in Pontiac, ILL.,; Sorin
Ovist, i'm Denmark; and Wickliffe
and Blake, In Albany. They are
thrilling and blood-curdling, and a
study of them goes far TO make men
doubt that wisdom of accepting any
kind of evidence San francisco
Chronicle.
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" Memories Of General Count de Se-
gur," aid.de-camp of Napoleon, re-