Year: 1878

not tella friend in New York that you hid
the jewelry and money taken from Mrs
Spencer in the same place where you hid the
child, until the excitement should die out9"


She answered "No" TO- the interrogatory,
but no on, believed her. The trial was a
short one, the jury eudered the verdict
"guilty"--without leaving the Scy. and the
Court sentenced her to twenty-five years
imprisonment, ,


The detectives got the reward offered for
convicting the abductor of the child, and
popular excitement on the subject subsidized.


But now, reader, let us take a glance into
the stricken home which had been robbed
of the jewel, around which a mothers first
love clung, So month of suspense followed
month, and hope. had sunk into despair,
and Mrs. Spencer had become an invalid
before whom the grave seemed to offer the
only haven of rest from her sorrow.


DR.. Spencer, who sits an anxious watcher
by her side, has shared her grief, and though
strong man looks but a shadow Of his form
er self. In his lap he holds o light boy
about two and o half years old-a waif-
who the doctor had installed into his home,
just after their own loss, hoping that its in
nocent pratte might prove balm to his
wire's spirits. . If .... .,


As this boy wait, becomes prominent ac-
tor in the remainder of our narrative, brief
history of how he came into the doctors
hands will not be amiss, ...r.,


His father was Johu Motzinger, q German
who had married Welsh girl. lie was one
of the employees of the mines. But John
had allowed the influence of the intoXicat-
ing cup to sweep over, and rfini him. He
lost his situation, and in aespaIr deserted Iiis
wife and child. -. ~


In her struggles with poverty, the mother
followed in the footsteps of the father, and
about collateral or n little prior to the
disaster to DIR. Spenper's family she was miss
ing, her child being found by neighboring
housewife almost starved with cold and hun
ger in the squalid tenement oyer which she
had presided. The neighbors said she was
off on "sprec." 20. ...


This fact came to the knowledge Of the
doctor and. impellcd by the instincts Of
charity, and for reasons before stated he took
the little child of misfortune to his own
house, to have it cared for until the mother
and father or either of them should come to
claim it,


In tie months of agony of spirit, in bearing
UP the exciting circumstances attending the
loss of his child and in watchingby the bed
side Of his sick wife, he became greatly at
tached to the little boy, and it was but a
paternal instinct that made him hope, secret
ly, that it might never be called for, and
that the little boy might prove God-send
to him, since he now saw in the future no
possible chance to retrieve his social fortune.


But the influence hoped for upon his wife
restoration of the little darling which had
been so ruthlessly snatched could satisfy her
heart and alleviate her sufferings. From
day to day she sank lower and lower, until
all hopes of her recovery were despaired of,


A short time after tho girl Mary Kerns
had been borne away to the dungeons ol
Moyamensing, another name was added to
the Spencer family monument in the ceme-
tery-that of a third wife.


Her last words, ere the spirit took its flight
to tho realms of eternity were;


" Husband; believe poor Mary is limo
cent"


CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.