Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 December 1857 — Page 5

THE EXPEBIENOES

A. R. IR. S E IR

BT WlBBtlf EW- 0¥ TH* Df5EB TEMPLE.

PART I.

THE MARCH ASSIZE.

Something more than half a century ago, ti perton, in going along Hclbom, might have seen, near the corner of one of the thoroughfares which diverge towards Rus"Bell Square, the respectable-looking shop 'of a glover and haberdasher named James

Harvey, a man generally esteemed by his neighbors, and who was usually considered well to do in the world. Like many London tradesmen, Ilarvey was originally from the country. He had come up to town when a poor lad, to push his fortune, and by dint of steadiness and civility, and a small property left him by a distant relative, lie had been able to get into business on his own account, and to attain the most important element of success in London— "a connection." Shortly after setting up in the wo^ld, bo married a young woman from his native town, to whom ho had been engaged fiver since his school-days and at the time our narrative commences he was the father of 'three children.

Jamcs'HarVcy's establishment was one of this best frequented of its class in the street. You could never pass without seeing customers going in or out. There was evidently not a little business going forward. But although, to all appearance, a flourishing concdrn, the proprietor of the establishment was surprised to find that he was continually pinched in his circumstances, No matter what was the amount of business transacted over the counter, he never got any richer.

At the period referred to, shop keeping had not attained that degree of organization, with respect to counter-men and cashiers, which now distinguishes the great lioudes of trade. The primitive till was not yet superseded. This was the weak point in Harvey's arrangements and not to make a needless number of words about it, the poor man was regularly robbed by shopman, whose dexterity in pitching* a guinea into the drawer, so as to make it jump, unseen, with a jerk into his hand, was worthy of Hcrr Dobler, or any other master of the.BubJimc art of jugglery.

Good na'.nrcd and unsvpieious, perhaps also not sufficiently vigihwit. UaiToy Ions in discovering hov/ ho was

lftgcd, tartwvigM, the

jihtiio

o* t-lic per-

son who was preying up?'-1 his employer, was not a young man.'^JHe was between forty and fifty years of age, and hml been ia various situations, where ho had always given satisfaction, except on iho. score of bctii'f somewhat gay and somewhat irritable. Privsitely, he war: a man of loose habits, ar.d for years his extravagances had been paid for by property clandestinely abstracted from hw too-eonfiding master. Slow to believe in the reality of such wickeiluess, Mr. Ilarvey could with difficulty entertain the suspicions which began to dawn on his mind. At length all doivbt was at an end. lie detected Cartwright in the very act of carrying off goods to a considerable amount. The man was tried «t the Old Bailey for the ofTcnce but through a technical informality in the in dictmcnt, acquitted.

V"nuble to find employment, and with a character gone, the liberated thief became Ravage, revengeful and desperate. Instead of imputing his fall to his own irregularities, ho considered his late unfortunate employer as the causo of his ruin nud now lie bent all tho energies of his dark nature to destroy the reputation of 'the man whom lie had betrayed and plundered. Of all the beings self-delivered to the rule of unscrupulous malignity, with whom it has been my fate to coiuc professionally in contact, I never knew one so utterly fiendish as this discomfitted pilferer. Frenzied with his imaginary wrongs, he formed tho determination to labor even if it were for years, to ruin his victim.—

Nothing short of death should divert him from this, the darling object of his existence.

Animated by these diabolical passions, Cartwright proceeded to his work, liar vev, he had too good reason to know, was in debt to persons who had made him advances and by means of artfully concoctcd anonymous letters, evidently written by some one conversant with the matters on which he wrote, lie succeeded in alarming the haberdasher's creditors. The consequences were—demands of immediate payment, and, in spite of the debtor's explanation and promises, writs, heavy law expenses, ruinous sacrifices, and ultimate bankruptcy. It may seem almost too marvellous for belief, but tho story of this terjriblc revengo and its consequences is no Action. Every instance in my narrative is r-t-r and the whole may be found in hard outline in the records of the courts with which a few years ago I was familiar,

The humiliated and distressed feelings of Harvey and hia family may be loft to the imagination. When he found himself ruined man, I dare say his mental sufferings were sufficiently acute, Yet ho did not sit down in despair. To re-establish Jiimself iu business in England appeared opeless hut America presented itself as scene where industry might find a reward tad by the kindness of some friends, he as enabled make preparations, to emi

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le withhis 'wife and children. Towards end of February. he quitted London or one of the great seaports, where ho was embark for Boston. On arriving there 'th hi* family, Mr. Harvey took np his eat a principal hotel. This, in a man

of Btraitened means, vu doubtless impru dent but he afterwards attempted-to ex plain the OhWrost&nce by saying, that as the ship in which he had engaged his passage was to sail Oil the day after his arrival he had preferred incurring a slight additional expense rather than that his wife who was now,

with failing spirits, nursing

an infant—should be exposed to coarse associations and personal discomfort. In the expectation, however, of being only one night in the hotel, Harvey was unfortunately disappointed. Ship-masters, especially those commanding emigrant vessels, were then, as now, habitual promisebreakers and although each succeeding sun was to light them on their way, it was fully a fortnight before the ship stood out to sea. By that time a sc-cond and more dire reverse had occurred in the fortunes of the luckless Harvey.

Cartwright, whose appetite for vengeance was but whetted by his firBt success, had never lost sight of the movements of his victim and now he had followed him to the place of hi3 embarkation, with an eager but undefined purpose of working him some further and more deadly mischief.— Stealthily he hovered about the house which sheltered the unconscious object of his malicious hate, plottirg as he afterwards confessed, the wildest scheme for satiating his revenge. Several times lie made excuses for calling at the hotel, in the hope of observing the nature of the premises, taking care, however, to avoid being seen by Mr. Harvey or his family. A fortnight passed away, and the day of departure of the emigrants arrived without the slightest opportunity occurring for the gratification of his purposes. The ship was leaving her berth most of the passengers were on board Mrs. Harvey and the children, with nearly the whole ot the lngg.ige, were already safely in the vessel Mr. Ilarvey only remained on shore to purchase some trifling article, and to settle his bill at the hotel on removing his last trunk. Cartwright had tracked him all day he could not attack him in the street and he finally followed him to the hotel, in order to wreak his vengeance on him in his private apartment, of the situntion of which he had informed himself.

ITarvcy entered the hotel first, and before Cartwright came up he had gone down a passage into the bar to settle the bill which ha had incurred for the last two

Kot aware of this circumstance,

^ytwriirlit,

in tho busllo v/liicli prevailed,

went up stairs to -Mr. Harvey's bedroom and parlor, in neither of which, to.his surprise, did he find-the occupant, and lie turned away discomfitted. Passing along towards the chief stalrecse, ho pnrcoivcd ft room of whic-h the dcor was open, and that on the table there lay a gold watch and appendages. Nobody was in the apartment: the gentleman who oceupicd it had 011I3- a few moments bcforcgone to his bed-chain bcr for a brief space. Quick as lightning a diabolical thought entered the brain of the villain, who had been baffled in his original intentions. Ho rccollccted that lie had seen a trunk in Harvey's room, and that the keys hung in the lock. An inconceivably short space of time served for him to seize the watch, to deposit it at the bottom of Harvey's trunk and to quit the hotel by a back st:-ir, which led by a short cut to'tho harbor. .The whole transaction was done unperccivcd, and the wretch at least departed unnoticed.

Having finished his business at the bar, Mr. Ilarvcv repaired to his room, locked his trunk, which, being of a small and handy size, I10 mounted on his shoulder, and proceeded to leave tho house by the back stair, in order to get as quickly as possible to the vessel. Little recked lie of the interruption which was to be presented to lis departure. Ho had got as far as the foot of the stair with his burden, when he was overtaken by a waiter, who declared that I10 was going to leave the house clandestinely without settling accounts. It is proper to mention that Mr. Ilarvey had incurred the enmity of this particular waiter in consequence of having, out of his slender resources, given him too small a gratuity on the occasion of paying a former bill, and not aware of the second bill being settled, the waiter was rather glad to have an opportunity of charging him with a fraudulent design. In vain Mr. Ilarvey remonstrated, saying he had paid for everything.

The waiter would not believe his statement, and detained him '-till he should hear better about it." "Let mc go, fellow, I insist upon itj said Mr. Harvey, burning with indignation.

I am already too late." "Not a step till I ask master if accounts arc squared."

At this moment, while the altercation was at the hottest, a terrible ringing of bells was heard, and above stairs was a loud noise of voices, and of feet running to and fro. A chamber maid came hurriedly down the stair, exelaiming that some one had stolen a gold watch from No. 17, and that nobody ought to leave the house till it was found. The landlord also, moved by the hurricane which had been raised, made his appearance at the spot where Harvey was interrupted in his exit.

"What on earth ia all this noise about, John?" inquired the londlord of tho waiter. "Why, sir, I thought it rather strange foV any gentleman to leave the house by the back way, carrying his own port-man teau, and so I was making a little breexe about it, fearing he had not paid his bill, when aty of a sudden Sally rueheB down the stair, and says as how No. 17 has missed

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his gold watbh.-atfd' tbkt hoone should quit the hotel" No. 17, an old, dry-looking imlitary gentleman,* in a particularly high passion-,

bow

showed himself on the scene, uttering terrible threats of legal proceedings against the house for the loss he had sustained.

Harvey was stupefied and indignant, yet he could hardly help smiling at the pother. What have Ijto do with all this?" said he.

I have paid for everything I. am surely entitled to go away if I like. Remember, •if I lose my passage, to Boston, you shall answer for it." "I very much regret detaining you, sir," replied the keeper of the hotel "but you hear there has been a robbery committed within the last few minutes, and as it will be proper to search every one in the house surely you, who arc on the point of departure, will have no objections to be searched first, and then be at liberty to go?"

There was something so perfectly reasonable in all this, that Harvey stepped into an adjoining parlor, and threw open his trunk for inspection, never.doubting that his innocence would be immediately manifest.

The waiter, whose mean rapacity had been the cause of the detention, aclcd as examiner. He pulled one article after another out of the trunk, and at length—horror of horrors!—held up the missing watch with a look of triumph and scorn! "Who put that there?" cried Harvey in an agony of mind which can be better imagined than described. "Who has done me this grievous wrong? I know nothing as to how the watch came into my trunk."

No one answered this appeal. All present stood for a moment in gloomy silcncc.' "Sir," said the landlord to Harvey on recovering from his surprise, "I am sorry for you. For.thoeake of a miserable trifle you have brought ruin and disgraco upon yourself. This is a matter which concerns the honor of my house, and cannot stop here. However much it is against my feelings, you mhst go before a magistrate." "By all means," added No. 17, with the importance of an injured man. "A. pretty thing that one's watch is not safe in ahouse like this!" "John send Boots for a constable," said the landlord.

Ilarvey sat with his head leaning on his hand A deadly cold pcrspirationiriokled dow.n his brow: His heart swelled and beat as if it would burst. What eliauld he do? His whole prospects were in an instant blighted. "Oh God! do not desert a frail and unhappy being give mc strength to face this new and terrible misfortune," was a grayer ho internally uttei-cd. A little revived, he started to his foot, and addressing himself to tho landlord, lie said, "Take ir.e to a magistrate instantly, and let us have this diabolical plot unravelled. I court inquiry into my character and conduct." "It's no use saying any more about it," answered the landlord "here's Boots with a constable, and let us all go away together to the nearest magistrate. Boots carry that trunk. John and Sally you can follow

And so the party, trunk and all, under the constable as conductor, adjourned to the house of a magistrate in an adjacent street. There the matter seemed so clear a ease of felony—robbery in a dwellinghouse—that Ilarvey, all protestations to the contrary, was fully committed for trial at the ensuing March assizes, then but a few days distant.

At the period at which those incidents occurred I was a young man going on my first circuits. I had not as yet been honor cd with perhaps more than three or four briefs, and these only in case3 so slijhtly productive of fees, that I was compelled to study economy in my excursions. Ii stead of taking up my residence at an inn when visiting a considerable seaport where the Court held its sittings, I dwelt in lodgings kept by a widow lady, where, at a small oxpeuse, I could enjoy perfect quietness, free from interruption.

On the evening after my arrival on the March circuit of the year 17—, I was sitting in my lodgings perusing a new work on criminal jurisprudence, when the laudlady, after tapping at the door entered my

room.

B^'so go6d as to Sit down," said I, bowing, "and tell me all you would like to

•The po6r

"lam sorry to trouble you, sir," himself and the extreme liklihood that she "but a lady has called to see you about a very distressing law case—very distressing indeed, and a very strange case it is too. Only if you could be so good as to see her?" "Who is.she?" "All I know about it is this she'is a Mrs. Harvey. Sho and her husband and children were to sail yesterday for Boston. All were on board except the husband, and he, on leaving the large hotel over the way, was taken up for a robbery. Wrord was in the -evening sent by the prisoner to his wife to come on shore, with all her children and the luggage and so she came back in the pilot boat, and was in such a state of distress, that my brother, who is on the preventive service, and saw her land, took pity on her, and had her and her chil

took pity on her, and had her ancinercnu-

woman

burst into tears but

afterwards recovering herself, she told me pretty nearly the. whole of her history and that of her husband.

Lawyers have occasion to see so much duplicity*, that I did not all at once give assent to-the idea of Harvey being innocent of the crime of which he stood charged. ""There is something perfectly inexplicable in the case," I observed, "and it wo'd require .sifting. Your husband, I hope, has always borne a good character7" "Perfectly so. He was no doubt unfortunate in business but hp got his certifi-. cate on the first examination and there are many who would testify to his uprightness."

And here my client burst into tears as if overwhelmed With her recollections and prospccts. "I think! recollect Mr. Harvey's shop" said Isoothingly. "It seemed a very respectable concern and we must see what can be done.

Keep up

your-spirits the-

only fear I have arises from the fact that Judge A being on the bench. He is usually considered severe,.and if exculpatory evidence fail, your husband may run the risk of being—transported." A word of more terrific import with which I was" about'to conclude, stuck uhuttcred in my throat. "Have you employed an attorney?' I added.

No I have done nothing as yet, but apply to you, to beg of you to be my husband's counsel." "Well, that must be looked to. 'I shall speak to a local agent, to prepare and work out the case and we shall all do our utmost to get an acquittal. To-morrow I will call on your husband in prison/^^J,^^

Many thanks were offered by the unfortunate lady, and she withdrew. ff.-% I am not going to inflict on the reader a detailed account of this, remarkable trial, which turn eel, as barristers would say, on abeautiful point of circumstantial evidence. Along with flic attorney, a sharp enough person in his way, I examined various parties at the hotel, and.madc-myself acquainted with tho nature of the premises. The more wc investigated, however, the more dark and mysterious—always supposing Harvey's innocence—did the whole ease appear. There was not one redeeming trait in the affair, cxcept Harvey's previous good character and-good character, by the law of England, goes for nothing in opposition to facts-proved to the satisfaction of a jury. It was like wise most unfortunate that A was to be tho presiding' judge:- This man posse's:-cd great forensic acquirements, and was of spotless private character btv.\ like the majority of lawyers of that day—when it. was no extraordinary tiling to hang,twenty men a morning at Newgate—he was a staunch stickler for the gallows as the only effectual reformer and safeguard of the social state. At this time he was but partially recovered from a long and severe indisposition, and the traces of rcccntsuffering were distinctly apparent on his pale and passionless fea

tures. ~"'t 3 Ilarvey was arraigned iu due form the evidence was,gone carefully through and everything, so far as I was concerned, was done that man could do. But at the time to which I refer counsel was not allowed to address the court in behalf of the prisoner a practice since introduced from Scotland—an'I consequently I was allowed no opportunity to draw the attention of the jury to the total want of any direct evidence of the prisoner's guilt. Ilarvey himself tried to point out the unliklihood of his being guilty but he was not a man gifted with dialectic qualities, and his harangue fell pointless on the understandings of the twelve common-placc individuals who sat in the jury-box. The judge finally proceeded to sum the evidence, and this he did emphatically against the prisoner— dwelling with much force on the suspicious circumstance of a needy man taking up his abode at an expensive fashionable hotel his furtive descent from his apartments by the back stairs the undoubted fact of the watch bcin^ found in his trunk the improbability of any one putting :t there but

the robbery was effected in a few moments of time by the culprit, just as he passed from the bar of the hotel to the room which he had occupied. "If, said he to the jury, in concluding his address,^ Vyou can, after all these circumstances, 'believe the prisoner to be innocent of the crime laid to his charge, it is more than I can do.— The thing seems as clear to me a3 the sun at noonday. The evidence, in short, is irresistablc and if the just and. necessary provisions of tho law are not enforced in such very plain eases, then society will be dissolved, and security for property there will be none. Gentlemen, retire and make

up your verdict." The jury was not disposed to retire. After communing a few minutes together.

dr™ and things taken to a lodgmgon tho Tho judsc assumquay. As my brother kndws "wo have a London lawyer staying here, he advised the poor woman to come and consult you about the case." "Well, I'll see what I can Ho. Please desire the lady to step in."

A lady was shortly shown in! She-had been pretty, and was so still, but anxiety was pictured in her pale countenance— Her dress was plain, but

not

inelegant, and

altogether she l^ad a neat and engaging appearance.

de] TCred

verdict it was Guilty The judge assum

ed the crowning badge of the judicial potentate—the black' cap and the clerk of arraigns asked the prisoner at the bar, in tiie usual form, if he had anything to urge why sentence of death

should

not be pass

ed on him. Poor Harvey! I durst scarcely look at him. As the sonorous vrords fell upon his ear, he was grasping nervously with shaking hands at the front of the dock. He appeared stunned, bewildered, as a man half-

awakened from a hideous dream might be supposed to look. He had comprehended thpugh'he had sc'arcely,heard, tho verdict, for on the instant, the voice which but a few years before sang to him by the brook side, was'ririging through his brain, and he could recognize the little pattern feet of his children, as, sobbing and clinging to their shrieking mother's dress, she -and they were hurried out of court. The clerk after a painful pause, repeated the solemn formula. By a strong effort the doomed man mastered his agitation his pale coun-tenance-lighted up with indignant fire, and firm and self-possessed, he thus replied to the fearful interrogatory: "Much could I say in th.c-.name, not of mercy, but of justice, why the ^sentence alxrat to be passed on me should not be pronounced but nothing, alas! that will avail me with you, pride-blinded ministers of death. You fashion to yourselves—out of your own vain conceits do you fashionmodes and instruments, by the aid of which you fondly imagine to invest yourselves with attributes which belong only to Omniscience and now I warn you—and it is a voice from the tomb, in whoso shadow I already stand, which addresses you—that you are about to commit a most cruel and deliberate murder."

He paused, and the jury looked into each other's eyes for the courage they could not find in their own hearts. The voice of conscience spoke, but was only for a few moments audible. The suggestions that whatgrave parliaments, learned judges and all classes of 'respectibility' sanctioned could not be wrong, much less murderous or cruel, silenced the 'still, small' tone and trauquilized the startled jurors. "Prisoner at the bar," said the judge, with his cold, calm voice of destiny, "I cannot listen to such observations you have,been found guilty of a heinous offence by a jury of your countrymen after a patient trial. With that finding I scarcely need say I entirely agree. I am ds satisfied of your guilt as if I had seen you commit the act with inv own bodily eyes. The circumstance of your being a. person who, from habits and" education, should have been above committing so base a crime, only aggravates your guilt. However, no matter who or what you have been, you must expiate your offence on the gallows. The law has very properly, for the safety of society, decreed the punishment of death for such crimes our only and plain duty is to cxccutc that law."

The prisoner did not reply: lie was leaning with his elbows on the front of the dock his-bowed face covered with his outspread hands and tho judge passed sentence of death in the accustomed form. The court then rose, and a turnkey placed his hand upon the prisoner'^ nrni to lead him away. Suddenly he uncovered his face, drew himself up to his full height—he was a remark ably tall man—and glared fiercely around upon the audience, like a wild animal at bay. "My lord," he cricd or rather shouted, in an excited voice. The judge motioned impatiently to the jailor, and strong hands impelled the prisoner from the front of the dock. Bursting from them, he again sprang forward, and his arms outstretch cd, whilst his glittering eye seemed to hold tho judge spell-bound, exclaimed,' "My lord, before another month has passed away, you will appear at the bar of anoth er world, to answer for the life, the inno cent life, which God bestowed upon me, but which you have impiously cast away as a thing of naught and scorn!" He ccascd, and was at once borne off. The court, in some confusion, hastily departed. It was thought at the time that the judge's evidently failing health had suggested the prophecy to the prisoner. It only exerted a few day's wonder, and was forgotten.

The position of a barrister in such circumstances is always painful. I need hardly say that my own feelings were of a very distressing kind. Conscious that if the unfortunate man really was guilty, he was at least not deserving of capital punishment, I exerted myself to procure a reprieve. In the first place I waited privately on the judge but he would listen to no proposal for a respite. Along with a number of individuals—chiefly of the Society of friends—I petitioned the crown for a commutation of the sentence^ Butbeing unaccompanied with a recommendation from the judge, the prayer of our petition was of course disregarded tho law, it was said, must take its course. How much cruelty has been exercised-under shelter of that remorseless expression.

I would willingly pass over the succeeding eventsT' "^Unable to save his life, I endeavored to soothe the few remaining hours of the doomed convict, and frequently visited him in the condemned cell. The more I saw him, the deeper grew my sympathy in his case, which was that of no vulgar felon. 'I have been a most unfortunate man,' said he one day to me. I feel as if deserted by God and man, yet I know, or at least, would persuade myself^ that Heaven" will one day vindicate my innocence of this foul charge. To think of being hanged like a dog for a crime at which my soul revolts! Great is the crime of those imbecile jurors and that false and hard-hearted judge, who thus, by an irre versible decree, consign a fellow-mortal to a death of viohnlce ftnd disgracc. Oh God, help me—help me to sustain that bitter, bitter hour!' And then the poor man would throw himself upon his bed and

weep.

the parting with his wife and children. What pen can describe that terrible interview! They knelt in prayer, their wo-be-gone countenances suffused in tears, and

with hands clasped convulsively together. The scene was too harrowing and sacred for the eye of a stranger.*""I rushed from the cell, and buried myself in my lodgings, whence did not "remove till all was over. Next day James Harvey, a victim of circuni3tancial evidence, and of a barbarous criminal code, perished on the scaffold.

Three weeks afterwards, the court arrived at a populous city in the west of England. It had in the interval visited another assize town, and there Judge A— had left-three for execution. At the trial of these men, however, I had not attended. So shocked had been my feelings with the mournful event which had taken place at that I had gone into Wale3 for a change of scene. After roaming about for a fortnight amidst the wild solitudes of Caernarvonshire, I "took the stage for the city which I kucw the court was to visit, and arrived on the day previous to the opening of the assizes. -Jt 'Well, are we to have rffleavy calender?' I inquired next morniog of a brother barrister on entering the court. 'Rather light for a March assize,' replied the impatient counsel as he bustled onward. 'There's Cartwright's case—highway robbery—in which I am for the prosecution. Ile'll swing for it, and perhaps four or five others. 'A good hanging judge is A ,' said the under sheriff, who at this moment joined us, rubbing his hands, as if pleased v. ith the prospect of a few executions. 'No chance for the prophecy yonder coming to pass, I suppose?' 'Not in the least,' replied the bustling counsel. 'He never looked better, llis illness has gone completely off. And this dav's work will brighten him up.'

Cartwright's trial came on. I had never seen the man bofore, and was not aware that this was the same person whom Harvey had incidentally told 111c he had discharged for theft the truth being, that till the last moments of his existence, that unfortunato man had not known' how much he had been a sacrifice to this wretch's malice. ft

him to the gallows. 'Inhuman, cxecrablc villain! «i cd the judge in extreme excitement. 'Cleverly done, though! Was it not, mv lord? rejoined the ruffian with bitter irony. 'The evidence, you kuow, was irresistible the crime a3 clear as tho sun at noonday: ar.d if, in such plain eases, the just and necessary law was not enforced, society would be dissolved, and there would be no security for property! These were your words, I think. How on that occasion I admired your lordship's judgement aud eloquence! Society "would be dissolved if an innocent man were not hanged! TJa! ha!—ha! Capital!—capital!' shouted lie ferocious felon with demoniac glee, as

to desist.

come. 'I suppose, my lord,' continued Cartwright in low hissing tones, as the shadow of unutterable despair grew and Bettled on his face— 'I suppose you know that his wife destroyed herself. The coroner's jury said she had fallen accidentally into the water, /know better. She drowned herself under the agonies of a broken heart!— I saw her eofrpso, with the dead baby in its arms and then I felt, knew, that I was lost! Lost, doomed to everlasting perdition! But, my lord,'—and here the wretch broke into a howl, wild and terrific—'?rc shall go -Sown together—down to where your deserts are known. A—h—h! that pinches 3-011, docs it? Hound of a judge! legal murderer! coward! I spurn and epit upon thee!' The rest of the appalling objurgation was inarticulate, 35 the monster,

a iud.iau

tol

foaming and sputtering, was dragged b} an

the dock.

officer from th 'Judjre A -had fallen forward on his

face, fainting and spcecliicss with the vi-'-,

olcnce

of his emotions. The black cap had

dropped from his brow. His hands were stretched out across the bench, and various members of the bar rushed to his assistance. The court broke up in frightful commotion.

Two days afterwards the county paper had the following announcement: 'Died at the Royal 'Hotel, 9n ^ie 27th instant, Judge A from an access of fever supervening upon a disorder from which he had imperfectly recovered,'

The prophecy was fulfilled!

The crime of which the villian now stood accused was that of robbing a farmer of the paltry sum of eight shillings, iu the neighborhood of Ilfracoinbc. He p^jaded not not guilty, but put in no defence. A verdict was recorded against him, and in due form A sentenced him to be hanged. An expression of fiendish malignancy gleamed over the haggard features of the felon a3 he asked leave to addiess a fc.v words to the eourt. It was granted L'1 ming forard, and raising his hca\} scowling eyes to the judge, lie thus began: 'There-is something on my mind, my lord—a dreadful crime—which, a3 I am to die for t.ho eight shillings I took from tne iarmci, I may as well confess. You remember Harvey, my lord, whom you hanged the other

day at What of him fellow?' replied the judge, his features suddenly flushing crimson. •Yvliy, my lord, only this—that he was innocent of the crime for which you hanged him as tho child yet unborn! did the deed! /put the watch in his trunk!' And to the unutterable horror of the entire court he related the whole particulars of the transaction, tho origin of his grudge against

Ilarvey, and his delight 011 bringing

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FOR SALE.

Till-*

undesigned wit-lies to soil all his Real and Pursonal psopcrty, consisting of a farm' containing 'J00 xcros, more or less, lyinir miles north west o'f Crawfordsville, lot) aercs, or more beinn'. now in cultivation. A llonsc mid Lot, No. original plat iu said town also, Mast hull' of hoisso and lot, No. 'J-J, Powers addition his stock of roods and other personal property. Persons wishing to purchase will please call and see said property. Anv, or all of which, can he had on reanonal.de terms. C. W. l'UATUJ'.U.

Sept. 1- '3Tv9nS-tf.

STATE OF INDIANA,

Montgomery

County,

ss.

Montgomery Circuit Court, March Term", A. D.,. 1857. Jolfn W. Peed vs.

Complaint for Divorce,

Jemiina Peed.

WIIKREAS,

on the 20th day of November,

A. I)., lSn7. said Plain till", John W. Peed, by Wallace and W'liite, his Attorneys, filed iixtho Clerk's olllco of said Court, his-complaint forli vorcc iu the above entitled cause, haid Plaintitl bv his said Attorneys also liled the uilidavit of a disinterested person setting forth tliatsaid Defendant, Jemima Peed, is not a resident ot the State .. of Indiana. Therefore notice of tin) filing and Pendency of said complaint, is hereby given tthe said- noil-resident Defendant, .lemi.na Peed, that she-may appear

011

the first day of Che noxt,

turm of said Court, to be holden in the 0onr5 Houso at Crawfordsv'IRo in said county of Montgomery, commencing on the Second Monday ol March next. (1S5S) and answer said complaint.

Attest, W.-C. VANCK.-Clerk November 21. nlSw-lpr's fee

1 Campbell, Galey & Harter,

1 the

f. Largest and Only "JZxchndvc

E A

HARDWARE STORE IN

'••.Montgomery County.

NO.

COMMERCIAL BLOCK,

C'RAWFOIJDSYILLK, IND.

Executor's Sale! is hereby given that we will sell atpub-

LN lie Auction, at the door of the Court House, in Crawfordsville. county of Montgomery, on Saturday the 12th of December. 1S."I7, the following described real estate, of which .lo.-eph Hart.on. d.*--seized .'situ ate in said County, ill tho eiirhborhood of Samuel Gilliland, to-wit: tlie east half of thiv oast half of tire north-east fjunri c-r of section in township 13. north of raiiire ." wc*t.

Ti.i:iis.—One third of the purchase money to

he marked the effect of his words on the y,u countenance of the judge. J, "j you want any of the standard Patent Med:'Ilemovc the prisoner!' cricd tho sheriff. 1 J1 ,.1 1 TF on want Pens, Paper. Pencils. Ink* or -. An officer was about to do so but the judge £r „0,0 kkow.vs. motioned him

His lordship's1

features worked convulsively. Ho seemed 'i'ri:int' Hni'shcH striving to speak, but words would not jp

IFnal

NOTICE

hft

paid in hand, one third in 0 months, and the residue in ciifhteen months from day of sale, the pi:r chaser-jiving his notes with interest from date and without relief from valuation laws.

A.(iADDKS.

One of the Executors of the estate of said Nov. li"o7v'Jnl7wi. I'AHTON[pr's fee, tir.-tjpublii-atii ?1.00-2d pub.

Blows

beugTstore]

3STO. s,

COMMERCIAL BLOCK!

}Ou -.Vftnt Good, Pure Cluap Me limine*, go f0.

HUOWN'S.

TFyou want Paint Hruchcc, Hair P.rnshos, iHrushcs, Stripers, Liners, Sa.^li Tool*. Art: '.'

y0u wantgood Tt

I'llO'iV.N'S.

jiwoo or CL'ars l'o JiKOWN'S. Wines for niedi- jk

hltoWN's.

you want pure Ilrandies purposes L'O to

IFin

yen wish to purchaser any article usif-liy ke^fc aD rug .Store and save inonw. ffo

No. 0, Commercial IIloci-:.

Nov. 21. 1S.V

vOniS-lm.

Notice to Heirs of Petition to sell Real Estate. STATE OF INDIANA,

.Montgomery (oniitw

is hereby given tl.nf .John L"C, AU ininistrator rE nos of the estate of ha ward Horn, deceased. hn.« filed "J1* petition to ?cl. the real estate of the decca^d, Ins i-ersona! being inefficient to pay his debts: and that ^.d ,^ it,on will be heard at the next term of the Lour, of Common l'lea« of said County. \NCF

C. f. p. Montgomery County.

Xov. 21 "'0 15 3 pr's fee. £2,25.

Guardian's Sale.

VfOTICF. is hereby given that the^indcrsigr.cd, iN guar

frunr liali of .lane" and K'den Full, minor huir of Michael

Fall, deceased, in pursuance of an or-

lcr of the Putnam Conrt- of Common P.eas, wi.i on Thnrsday. the 31t day o^ I'l-fjiuuv.. •, the town of Parkcrsburg, tho followi ig described real estate, to-w:t

il( of the

pIltn:ml

o^r at pnb!ic

December. 15i7, in

I 4 a 1

alul ^*0

pnrt

west

of the west half of the south

quarter of section thirty-two, in toiw^lnp

ee 011 teen 0 of rangofour we,!,, containing thirty-three acrcs out oi the southwest corner the said eighty acres of lanu—nil in .Montgomery conntv, Indiana. 1 i»,

Th'ms.

credit of six, twelve, and eighteen,

months will botriven Kn notrs with approve! Mcnrity- PHII-IP CaUPKNTEK, Ouar^an. November -21, lsi". nlsv.-Spr's fee

$3 00

1 ISOLD'S Black, Copving & Carmine Inks, for

sale by F&ANK HhAlO, May I] No. Empire

DK.2KANE'S

Arctic Exploration,just!rucei.v

cd and for sale by FKANK HKA rON. May lS57v8ntl-tf. No. 1. Empire ldocr.v