The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-02
practical illustration of the fact

practical illustration Of the faot.
By, an unlucky accident. ne inflicted q
terrible wound on himself. The friend
afraid to leave him to call assistance, strove
proved fatal, and the visitor became filed
with horror lest he should be accused Of
having caused the death of his friend.
He stole quietly from the house and
actually took passage to New York and
widest parts Of the States.
In the meantime suspicion had conferred
on the second innocent Inan-the lodger.
A lady who lived at q house opposite and
who occupied herself in knitting at an open
window and observing what went on in the
street, swore most positively that no one
had during the fatal morning entered
the dead mans house. The deed must
have been committed, then, by some one
inside.
A knife in the lodger's possession. with
some bloodstains on it. and some blood
discovered on his clothes, the fact that he
was violent tempered man, and that he
had been heard to quarrel with thet dead
man, together with his agitation when
he was accused, and some obvious lies he
told to show that he was out that morning,
all contributed to prove his guilt, He was
hanged. The truth became known many
years later when the man who had run
away to America returned to Ireland.
An unfortunate countryman named Gill,
who found himself in the dock Of the Cen
trail Criminal Court, was another victim Of
served his time as apprentice to q butcher
at Monkwearmouth, set OF to visit an
uncle at Portsmouth, and from that place
commenced to walk to London Between
Guilford and London, very early one morn
ing, he came upon man riding q pony
taking the cattle to London, he said, and,
finding that Gill was bound for the same
place, he told him that he would give him
five shilings if he would drive the cattle
for him to Westminster Bridge, whore he
would find man awaiting him.
Gill was delighted and undertook the
job readily. and the stranger, a most agree
able person, rode OF having given Gill
many instructions az to not overdriving
the beasts, and 80 on. For some hours
Gill drove the COWS in peace. but at Wands-
worth he was, to his surprise and indigns-
Of having stolen the beasts.
In such an unlocked for situation Gill lost
his wits. His great anxiety was that his
friend should know nothing Of what had
to him. and no way Of preventing
that occurred to him than by giving false
of very maladroit falsehoods. He was CON-
victed and sentenced but before he had
suffered long the true facts came to light
through the capture OF the actual thief. He
had stolen the pony he had been riding
and various other articles, and at the time
Gill CHANGED to overtake him had come to
the conclusion that he should never be able
to get the cows away safely. He therefore
handed them to Gill.
Having stolen things foisted on one may
place man or woman in q terrible posi-
ton. The same result may attend having
articles stolen from one. Karl Franz, a
young German. had his pocket picked Of
packet Of papers belonging to him. The
next he heard Of the packet was that it
had been discovered beside the dead body Of
a woman who had been murdered by bur-
glars at Kingswood Rectory. Franz was