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practical illustration OF the fact.

practical illustration Of the fact.
BY an unlucky accident, he inflicted a
terrible wound on himself. The friend.
afraid to leave him to call assistance, strove
proved fatal, and the visitor became Allied
with horror lest he should be accused Of
having caused the death Of his friend.
He stole quietly from the house and
actually took a passage to New York and
fastened to hide himself II, one OF the
widest parts Of the States.
on the second innocent MANTLE lodger:
A lady who lived at 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
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 a violent tempered man, and that ne
had been heard to quarrel with the 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
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
misleading circumstances. Gill, having
served his time as apprentice to butcher
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 pony
and driving two cows. The stranger was
taking the cattle to London, he said. and,
a.. fNr M
place, he told him that he would give him
live shillings if he would drive the cattle
for him to Westminster Bridge. where he
would find a man awaiting him.
Gill was delighted and undertook the
job readily, and the stranger, most agree
many instructions as to not overdriving
the beasts, and so on. For some hours
Gill drove the COWS in peace. but at Wands-
worth he was, to his surprise and indigna-
ton, bounced on by the police on charge
of ha wing 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
happened to him, and no way Of preventing
that occurred to him than by giving fal se
name and conceaing his identity by series
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 a man or woman in a terrible posi-
ton. The same result may attend having
articles stolen from one. Karl Franz,
young Germe n. 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