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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1873-05-02, Page 22 , TIM-irtiRetra - wystormt. MAY 2, 18 A GHOST WHO It HIMSELF haired wife, a puny, sickly baby it), a pig, his tools, and a wagon -lea OV j 'tit why illi4nId We suppose. each things rbried, L'' litbo impatientik ' " what d. is t ea ,thein?! wh e ood, dos ey d .'evi 4.),Pil kW -0 ,. , , , -.. ear of; viits ' ."' u.-..1 7wnything -not wore erevea • i. xame in,—such nice, neat -looking *beer ith him. He pushed me anaemia, and stands .by -the Shop &mar- over t counter, came out With and lays his hand on it, and a couple more glasses of O'er, *Id shod, riend, Will thee let thy girl lett* derieg Ind to a chair by ktable in ft cote nk of cont. Water from thy well?' mar, sat down, and ma& me do ike- 'closing telling you anything you didn't know, doing anything not to be done by ordin- arixens and common hands.? Where tii1WE-"FtWrintiagrelli% natur4. kaPottaes4traWslinteledakti911t1 have anyorbunit whatioavaitt? -What es -excuse -have thee irits for. elistur .usa • , ready? Whit do they givens as a corn‘ pensation for the drivel they compel us* to put up with? Is it not a pitiful farce all of it ?" !fa • e py,--he don't look up but %mites wise. ._ i e lige gentleman; and tells hint to "So den !" said. he; , er given me a -ti ' ' ' .c of there ! .So the stratgtagentle- - light, " I dells you so,- ings ! it:elltrik ver was going to say -sotnetbing mare,- ,Shake Moore not kil d` ;Queker, '7a. ! wn which, -and went out - and took my, mug and. weeitit he dells me 1 vas a pig fool ! Male 1 • fever, o dose of rum, ---et 6-14 beckoneckhim to be quiet; and. he I dells'Shon Pent so, de'"gonAtaple, und enlisted, coming back after it was over out the tack door, to the well, and vas bot I tink Shake Moore not kill das ataanalibialkaseaatcta*Tantimaksatadatiinalatiainkattilitta!Mritataailid'.-1Q1;keretee are= s : • • Bien. The wound, or something else, to him, just eti he was gehig through the , What Oa eeeu. mean ?" I asked, in • ' 4 r 7 •k -had changed his temper arid 'while he gate. Atiellici)..iftielas 'ffluink thcerl Ma I kleatleXeithlightf ...drank as much as ever, he was sullen, took the mug. And while he was " I dells you. I see das man, mein " aelfeetiet iiiitikega.lisgesialaabiatkiliftitatteelatakr ''.etaketaidliamotaitrailg Jateaaawits- amt4ittliiitithala"armY9)afara al - - 1 cl when she died , a yittt. or two "ter ain't it ? Arid he says, * ' Verily it vrom Mein brucier's, unt von I goes 'py later, Jake transferred His illetemrie, t to .. ,. • - * hie 'daughter, a frail, timid girl, when' he Lovelace gently shrugged his .s ou - 1.3eitt) sometimes so severely that the ders. ''-`4 Did: you ever hear madame neiglebors had to interfere.- , curs. He and his wife qaarrel0 savage- *shoe knife you've got in your hand from Humberg on de evening, pout dusk is, but I have need for it more than thee,- and 1 pray thee let 'the keep it.' 'Ana I saiis, Peppy% 'meat cut my livet out when he misses it, so you can't have it. And he says, did not mean to rob thee of ift, but to take it at a fair price andi will give theethemoneyto buya dozen like it.' '..A.nd with that he takes out his pocket -book and studies oaer the notes like, then says, kinder to himself, Nay, h.er needs- seem to be great, and _mine are none,any longer. Here child, , take and .keep it all, and, utay the Lord bless thee la And so he walked away, and I *didn't see hiniano more, only heard he was .found,evithla'as throat out. But peppy didn't do for he kept the house all that day, mail raved.so all night I oeuldiet sleep, *dearly in the morning I took a-dpillar out ef the strange gentle- pursca and. run to Mrs. Mefraas- land's, and gots the jug filled for him, an a that quaeted him ; and he wee home the sanie way, drinking and stap,d, un - .Friday might, ,When Mr. lBent, the constable came and took him:. And thataf ellAelenow about it, gentlemen, Duly that poor pappea badn'taanything to alo with killing the strange gentle- man I" te Botts' Leel preach I see das mann sit py de fence in de 'dusk, tint he peckon mit me to go'vay • unt I dry to ride close 'mit him on mein horse, to see vat he vas if 1 know him, unt vat the matter vas mit him ; unt you tink der fertamt here will not coorn to him, bot bronco, unt go pack, unt schweat, unt drimple, unt dum unt rfinned avay ; {la von I goes pack dere mit de horse pimepy, vhat you tink! das olt mann bin -gone! He vas pale like das wall, unt I tink it vas his own throat he vas cut, not Shake Moore." ." Wheii was that,?" " Vat dells you, mem friend. It vas Dursday efening." " Impossible ! You mean Wednes- day?" means vat dell you, mein friend, It vas Duritay in, de efening ! Vensday, , I vas thrash mein wheat, tuft dat Durs- tay 1 vas go to mein bruderai to get some butter ant eggs mit vas go to market dot night. I reckon I don't go reit de market- Wenetay night, Mein friend, Dot is Wein pissnes, to de market.' Ja !" " Who else saw himon Thursday ?" Plnlarete lecture?" said he. • . - Such were the anteCedents of Jake " No," quickly artswered Bertha; *ore; when, on the 5th day of"August, "but Itconsalted her once---" , 1850, the 'body of the itnknown stranger "Consulted her !" .crieeLightbourn, Was found in a 'ravine nefr the little looking sharply at hia4ife, streath-a" Pott's Level," it was callede- bah ! She told me my age,less fiveyears (woe& about a mile to the met of HUM- . of the fact, and my fortunee-eitawas not possible. Test -medium, she called her- self, and ---I tested her: A poor pale thing, who was ashamed to look die in the eyes lest her face should etonfess its fraud.' Why could beat her 0 -leasing myself I" " Strangely eloquent, on the rostrum," said Lovelace. " 0 yes ! a twetawritten lecture, well memoriaecl, SOMS skill in the commoper elocutionary tricks, some aassiene and. fervor of htr own, some of that strange firer that is born in the . hearts_ of most actors, when they come befere an midi- enee----it is all easy to malerstand. But the fact' stands," added' Lightbeutn, th aitthe spirits know Vothing, adeera pligh iiilthitere are of nifTarthly and • thetefbre diffeitec, mititely from all, other created things, that, to my, notion, -we would awe:no right' to believe in their existeiice,. even Were it brataigift palpably to the co4icticifflef our senses." 4'1 They are -not like ghosts; these thin and flimsy spirits," struck _in 'Knox.' it Ghosts are yery useful-. '..creatures ; somewhat itrange and artartlingtin their wayse- perhaps, but highly serviceable, when. theynchoose0 I have knctivea a ghost save a man's life ;- and; by the bye, that sameamiable spectre was the means of 'introducing rate to practice, thereby saving another life; perhaps, for I was half-starved and had no credit. al, Do tell us about it, Mr. -Knox !" cried Bertha, ; "I've read ever so many ghost stories, but never heaed one lield in all my life, and I know: trete, eata do it nicely." :And the little laay settled her- self in * attitucle.for listeting." " Yes," said Knox jauntily, ''1 in- tended to tell it,andI have the repute - tion of telling the best story ma, our cir- cuit. The jadge always sends for me when.he hasethe gout: nothing pate him into saga prompt; and hatmy sturaber a. one of my tales, he sap." William the Trumpeter was good waternaan aiteoted Lovelace. .. St 1" cried 'Berthaelifting a finger, and Knox began -- "Why not? abe is aldiatme-teller— ,that flawed through the meadows and belg. ' It viag stiff and cold When dis- one-ere& by two. screa,mmg schitol chil- dren straggling among the bushes after blackberries—stiff and cold, and fright- fully i'llIsfigured with a wouraltacross the throat nearly frata !ear to ear, ..frern -ivhich blood had poured80'copiotisly to stain the body from head: to feet,- and bespatter bushes, leaves andegress, for several -feet: around. . the- aberen soon spreads :and the constableemagistrate, :doctor, and all the population of Hum - berg speedily gathered around `the tinwonted -ghastly. spectacle. The body was that of a noticeably eldery man, ethoughi to be about ififty-five.,yeerte oId, iihort and stout, very neatly clad in a suit of sober drab, cut Quaker fashion, and was at once recognized: by several persons as the stranger who had been -eeenrin the village a day Di: twe before. aequet looking; yetwellao-do pedeetrian, :whose broaclebrimmea grey beaver, and --bream gaiters, and - respeetablenscant had heenereraaeked by all. Broadebrien and ,..cane "were near by, but Oar Man- was famed, and nothing a.beut his person gave any °We to his -identity. Who killed him ? A shoemaker's knife, bloody on blade aid handle, was found lin the, insbes e'er by,:and identified as Jake Moore's property. . the magistrate, act- ing - coroner, issued a search -warrant , 'Jake'vvies. `found in his . house, stupidly drunk, the girl. seared 'and tircoherent, and. In -a drawer in the livpigeroom a pocket -book was discoyered containing seventy or eighty dollars ; and the stranger was knovvn to halve carried] one like it, fdr he. had Paid for a ,pound of cheese and ilozne biscuit (Me of: the stores _in the village. Jake was at once coneirtitted. to jail, his daieChter being pewitted to accompany hien; sand the cormadi s jury rendered it; Verdict against him of wilful' murder of ttlie Then followed the indictment, and now the taial was: to corner-6ff, he mardered. pergola Meanwhile; ',having been buried without being idettified " 0 curse,it will be conaiction as the 'ea -4e now .stands, and the fellow vary .likely is guilty," said Grandison ; ." but it is -our besiziege to get him:off. I want you to visit Humberg, 'yieVsc the • locality, and sift thei witnesses,. If We can get clue to the Quakereete may find .that someame else was interested in his end, or atleast we may persuade the jury so." it' But the pocket-pook,". said I—isa't that a: eircuinstance which brings the tl3iag rigat home ?" "Oh no? The pocket -book may not be pesitivelyeidentified, and, if if should 'be, ie" proof -of eobbety' only: It may have lieenlost and found by Jake ; or Sakeenay have robbed. the meeit'after death' ; or, in short,' the pocket -book proves very little. - Jake could Varnish an alibi, there'd fie no trouble ; but the druhkert brute can furnish nothing --says guns " in thosealays, before bolities had. he aoirat recollect, and -don't care—is as t• • . I- had only been at athe bar a few months, but they had seemed weary, long ones. It had. taken all my mopey to furnish my office and: shelves, and pay the first thx _months' rent. Taen, I knew that Cherlette was waiting for me, and, if 'i;ractice `didn't come soon, my clothesswould become intolerably shab- by.. My best coat was- very --shinyeabout the elbows, anyhow, anid'where the next elle was to come from I ccepla not irn- , agine. Tit a county court theraie always a little help for juniors, hOivever, and I h act made enough by batteily and larceny cases, and by colleeiimis to pat, for a meagre sort of board. ailiat teas all s _and you may fancy hotaiiiyheert thamp- ed up into my thrbat w'hen tine , day Grandison asked me to assist 'him; in a . murder case ! He was one of our "big made- hula so fat and' lay, 'and was in- deed, barring some s -mall defects 'of man- ner, a great lawyer rand a noble -hearted gentleman. "Knox," said he to Me in his pompous way, ae 'he put his fat white hands on my shoulder, st. you do not push youraela enough, my young friend. I havebeen observing you, and I perceiveyou lack the essential quality upon which a. bright forensic career de- pends. Get impudence, friend KnOr ; inerease,your store of that iadispensible attribate of sucbetota or ,ptepare to be written --down a failare I Hp* would you like to -aid me in Jake Moore's case? There—eav no more—I see -how it is with you. :Coned to n.y effice to -night and talk A over with entea. - Jake Moor ets case L Ae. real murder, aria the only one thatshad." beeracommite ted in our coesety for years ! The most important tase cee the docket,: one that would, be repoited int ell the Mty papers, - too ! "Oh, ,I am not such a charitable fels some references to authorities which it low as you think," said Gran( 'son, as I will.be well.for you to overhaul between began to thauk jam at his, :0 ce • that this end the trial. Young )(levers are nighlte "1 ant busy,s and --lazy, always expected to spout text books to beven't time to `etucly up this case, and the court and jury, you -it needs study, 04' there's time myatery , I made little ,by •my visit to the pris- -aboit it; or my inatincts are at fault. oiler. Re Was carelese, tatiturra and Yeti:have application andambition, and refused. to assist either Grandison or me it is profitable to Uff Old: lawyers to serve to a knowledge of _the eireupestences. "1 .oarselvee by means of you youngsters don't_ knew anything about it—drunk *with your keen. eyes... I'll get all- the that •weekdrunk when -they fetched • glory of it, and you'll have the work to Inc inahere--wish I was drunk now—or do. Fact is, I took the case for you, dead t It clon't matter auwax-end, only and. for that Murderous rescal's little for Sally there." girl—curious force of . entreaty in her Sally sobbed, wept; wiped her eyes me /pathetic wide blue eyes ! By the way, . a dirty apron, mut whispered_ : •,` ale is will have to work for a ridiculously always that way,- since he could not get fee—don't tell anybody—and let's any whisk It is no good to telk with divide It's the preliminary process in him. But he did not kill the sara,nge every ea tnership case, as you'll find "Der, gentleman—no, indeed !" added, she, and bye- Ahem '—there's half Of it," looking up into my face. And he pushed. fifty dollars across the I A dirty, puny, unhappy -looking, sal - table to me. low girl of thateen was Sally, --yellow I did not know, until years after, that hair wild and allowed for, clothes tatterthie came outofhis own peeleet, and that ed and tilthy,—yet, what a pleadiag in- Jalie-Mobre bad not paid hina a cent of nocence and convincing frankness in her fee , Few people know the big heart wide, straightforward eyes that beats within'. the huge body of our Grandison beckoned her after him into fat eud insolent Seirator, after all. the 'corridor. "Now Sally,' said he, " "Never here nor ha* else:et fees, "telt this gentleman what you told young man !" cried he, it's fatal to me:" . yourself and injurious to the whole pro- " Pappa was drinking harder than fession. No good lawyer ought to think ever that wee, he'd got paid for some himself well paid, no matter what the work, and his jug was full on Itionday. fee. Good service ought to be 'always On Wednesday it was empty, and he invaluable. Now, to the ease." •setting on his bench, savage -like, so that id he briefly detailed to me the eir- I was afraid of him, half. He didn't eu stances under which Jake Moore had sleep none , the night before t and Mrs. beea arrested, and. the groads of suspi- McCausland wouldn't trust --me for the dee, against atm • • pint he sent me for, you know, and, that Jake Moore was a shoemaker it the made him mad. Then it was afte* din- villaee of Humberg, in the Western part ter, railer T had ,.none,—pa.ppy wouldn't of the county,—a worthless, drunken fel- eat, and I had'only a piece of - cold:corn- low, who worked at his trade about two bread for my share, —then the strange -days in the vveek, to get money fortnak- gentleman come in " ing himself drunk the other five. He That was Wednesday,afternoon ?" had drifted into the village some dozen asked Grandison years before :that, with a 'slattern, red- "Yes, sir, WelneSday, after dinner, friend into his little bar room, and drank - good dead" as -altve." " What -does the girl say ?" " Well—her testimony's worth noth- ing, and. of course she is not any. help. She saya that theastranger gave her the pecketabook, after asking her for a drink of water --aa very likely tale, of course ! -trowevet, he VP(as seen t by several to 'go .into the house." don't see how we are to defend him, Mr. Grasedisou." " Neither do 1; but if. we go about it -right we wilt see, before the ease is called. We have a week to prepare in, and a -good deal can be done in a week. To- morrow morning- we'll have a ,tatk with Jake and the girl ; the next day you'll take my horse, ride over to H.umbeig, and ascertain all the facts. .If you find a.clue, folio* it pp regardless of timeebr meney. I've a shot in the aooker there's need, and interest enough in the caurt to get a poitpondment should there he any occasion. That's alL .re are • .. It was agreed between Mr. Grandison and me that I should make: Sally's straight-forsaard, yet. very imnrobable tale, the basis of my inquiries at Hum. - berg, and,.if I. could in any way verify it, I was then to plash the search after the old. Quaker's antecedents. "But yon will fail, said he ; who ever . heard of a Quaker committing :suicide, much less stealing a knife to do it with:" ' If there is anti -thing to be found 'Mit, I will find it," sail .a.,Conadently,,a_apd tile next inoreink. rode over to Hum - berg. • , 'This forlorn Place was a` mere fripge of - • houses On eithenside of. a turnpike road, at a cross-roads, and did not deserve the name of a-, village. There were first ltars. McCansland's store, and opposite it Yoline's ; on the 'left again, a couple of dwellings and another store, kept by - 'Yingling ; on the right, the house of Bent, the constable; next below,: the - residence of Stehlniann, coachmaker, and his shop: Still on the right, the :next house Wag the old clismantled tavern, with its broken windows-. and creaking gibbet of a, sign -board ; below that came Dr. Beard's, a leng, -low house, as shab- by as its owner ; next, still on the right; was the house attached to the toll -gate, kept by Holmes ; then, in the middle. of tae road, at its fork, the weatheiabeaten log house' occupied byeTake Moore ; on the left of it, the conitortable domicile of tae carpenter; on the right, the little cottage oceupied by Miss Strait, .aeamstre.ss and gossip. Thefork of the road to the left from theturnpike led straight to the stream, Pon' evel, near where the body was iscov red. My inquiries established at; about noon of • Wednesday, 5th August,—it was very hot, still and sultry, ---the Stranger was first seen, cofising down the road, dressed as I have described; and all who saw him" noticed his white eravat, neatly tied, but with the bow a little awry. and almost under the left ear. He went into Mrs. McCausland's, bought cheese, showing the Pocket -book that Was ielentifled, rested, asked a few questions, "then crossed the road to Jenne's, where he bought• half a pound oabisciiits ; from there he `Went down the road. He gave no name, asked. for no person, and no one had ever seen him befor& He was seen 'by persons in Bents family, by Stehlmanu's heads, and by Yingling s clerk, to try the ptunp at the bld tavern, but, it being. dry,. he could, of course, get no Water. He'pass- thiough the toll-gata, Otncl was seen by 'Beard and his wife, by Holinee, by Miss Strait, by Williams and his Wife, and by several others, to open' Jake Moore's gate, ko .presently come out again, and turn dovvn the left-hand road. On Friday afternoon, after five, the body' was found by. two children, coming up the lane on their way home from sch.00l. Dr. Beard was convinced, by indubitable signs, that the stranger had been dead not less than forty-eight houfs when his body Was fouled. The knife was posit- ively identified ; there were several wit- nesses to identify the pocket -book, and Bent, the constable, was satisfied, from the position ;of the 'dead man; when l'found, that he could not possibly have inflicted witli his own hand the wouud of which he died. Tbe case aeemed perfectly made out against Jake Moore. Miss Strait was willing to swear she saw light in his house late that night, and mot:dens of ais shadow against. the wall, as if of a person. washing clothes. Mrs. Williams thought she had. seen him; on Thursday- evening, coming rapidly from the, direction of Potts's Level branch, and. looking. around him uneasily, as if to see ff he were watched. There was apparently a per- fect and inexpugnable harmony in the evidence. I rode on through the village, and a Mile or so along the turnpike, pon- dering the case, and grieving Over its hopeless aspects. There 'was absalutely no chance that saw,. eithet to save Jake Moore from the gallows, or to gain atten- tion to my own merits as a lawyer. It was a perfectly blank wall, up which climbing was impoggible. " Hallo, dere, mein freind !" flocked. up to see who called in such a harsh and broken bass. It was a German, a tall, broad -shouldered. fellow, with a heavy stoop in the back, who stood uuder the porch of a little tavern by the roadside. He beckoned to me, and I rode up to him, ".Ja !" said he, in, his ractious tones, I see you up dere shoost now, didn't it?" pointing towards Humberg. I nodded assent. " So ! I tink so, den. Lawyer,' eh, vrom court ?--coom for Shake Moore's piseness--ah ? So den ! I tinks so ! Shamp down a little, 'and (lake -; a class bier mit me; I dells you sometneas about um, I talks ! Ja! I see uin ! I see um ! Mein Himmel, ja I •Fleinrich, dake de shentlemench's. horse a leetle beet ! Cdone. des bier is goot I dismounted, •followed my German My friend of the la rebeer tavern took the stand, and made the ttaternent I have already given. 1 inskited.upon hie giving an: unmistalteahle °Utile person --*he had seen on Thursday cvcnig, ud he swore grap1iCa113T to the wliite oravat -.with the bow a little aweete- ` f4arsday — lie nlCaflS Ireanes evening, of course," s 'd -thee Sta,t,e4" torney, correcting. " No he don't !" said. 1; rnmer- mann avAsaiplettteringly positive that he knew Wednesday from. Thursda,y. " But, your Honor," said the State's attorney, " this is palpably a mistake. Te.1,1!4r4etetoOlitsP..10490: an, WedilekdaY77t- it could not have, taken piece latep; how then could the Man have 'been -seen:on Thursd.ay ! It is an absurdity !" " That is our detence." I paid quietly. "We Cannot prove an alibflor-thezis- oner, your Honor; but we can ahoiv; by his daughzer, that he was at home all day and tight Wednesday and Thurs- day, up to the arrest—" " Much , her testimony is worth !" sneered thelerose- t- cuter. "And M order to corroborate and strengthen her testimony, yonr /Honor." went on, "we propose to proi?e analibi for the deceased! Wt propose to prove -that he was alive, and. was seen several times, after the time when you .-have shown that he must have been dead 1" "Absurd !" said the State's attorney. "Your witnesses ninet needs be good ones, Mr. Knox, to show that," said the Judee significantly. "Wait and hear them, ye& Honor, if you please,' said Granclason. Call John Coen." - Cean, a well-known farmer, took the * stand. Mr. Coen, where were you on Thursday, Auentat 6, about 41 o'clock in the afternoon?" At thitgete-house in Ramberg, talk- ing to Holmes." . "How do you know it was that day A and hour ?" • • "1 asked 'Holmes the time o' day; as for the date, my cousin was buried that day, and I was just returning kora the funeial—here's a paper with the notice and dates; she died on Wednesday, and was buried on Thursday, on account of the heat. I can't be wrong." • "Well, while you were _talking with }lames, what did you see at Jake Moore's gate ?" "1 saw a little old Quaker come out, shut the gate, latch it, stand e minute, then walk slowly.off down the lane tow- ardPotts' Level branch. He wore a drabsort of gait, a wh-:te broadebrim hat, and his cravat was a white oneetied. up under his :ear, like. It was the same man as was ,leilleet, for I saw him on Saturday morning, during the inquest." There was a sensation m court. e " Well, what else ?" . " Efolrnes asked me something, I turned to answer him, ana when I look- ed back the old. man was out of sight. I went on home, down the lane, and. just by the branch, sitting oie the fence, who should I see but the old Quaker again ! He looked solemn, and. mon- strous pale, and 1 wondered who he could be. 3vcr the _branch, I looked back, but he wesn't in sight., ;Mr. Co* was .s6Tere1y.eross-eactunin- ed, but his evidence was not , shaken. The State's attorney looked. worried- and nuzaled. He could. not understand the thing at all, and seemed. to suspect a plot against him. The spectators were. nove M a tine, state of excitement, and I could see the most intease interest ori the part of the jury. `` Call Rufus -Gorsuch." " Mr. Gorsuch, where were you on Friday inOrming, early, of Augast 7th ?" Mr. Gorsuch proved, unmistakably as Coan, that on. Friday morning at 5 o'clock he was crossing Potts' Level branch, on his way to a !! meet " of fox- hunters, when he saw the Quaker; whom he most graphically described, sitting on the fence. 4. "He beckoned to me, arid I tried to ride up t� him, but my mare shied and cut up so I- couldn't do it; and when I did get her quiet, the, old chap had got out of sight The State's attorney only asked Gor- such a question or two, and no 'wit- ness after witness, school children, old people, neighbors and strangers, to the number of more than a ditzen, came in one after another, and. testified to seeing the strange Quaker, at Various intervals from Friday noon back to Thursday morning; but none had seen him except upon the fence, pale and beckoning. or else entering or departing from Jake Moore's door. The crowded audience was fairly electrified with hxcitement and wonder .; the jury looked 'both pia, zled and. concerned' and even Jake Moore, rou.ding out ofhis stolid indiffer- • " I don't knove, Mein friend ! I dells you -vat I saw .untivat 1 talk, utit Shake Moore vas not hill. das mann, otieel bin der pig fool vat -Shot Pent Vas call Me. Bub I tink dat IM ees Straidt, she dell you sometings sbout dat— she bin on de look out der ten years past, unt see all vat go py 1 Ja?•ja.-!= (lag) Holmes, mit de voodben leg, fie dells you sometings, I, tink: I pin nicht ein lawyer, mein friend, bot I -finks Shake Moore ish not =put das oldt Quaker's lighd out dis time ! Ja !" 1 • In helf an hour I was riding back to- wards Humbug in aivery different mood. Observinekreat caution, I. pushed my inquiries in every direction, and. in the course of two" days I had collected a mass of eeiclence, which, when I had analyzed it and laidit before Mr. Grandison, on my retiree surprised that gentleman amazinglY, and made him say, as he grasped my hand, "Knox, if you -can prove the half of that, our man will be acquitted !" ‘- I will prove it all, Mr. Grandison," answered. a - NaThen the ease of the State as. Jacob M. Moore was called, the next" week, it was in the presence of a large and curi- ous audience. Fora wonder, beta State and prisoner. were -ready for trial; the witnesses were all- 'Present, land a after was empanelled at duce. Jake = Moore eat in the box, stolid 'and impassive as ever, but something improved in. looks by a clean shirt and the use ,of a hair- brush. Sally, by his side, looked. like, anbther child. She- was washed and combed, and had on a neat new frock and apron which Grandison had bought and the jailer's wife made for her. All tke spectators were interested in her, and the hearts almost of•thein soltened toward the prisoner for her sake. The State's officer made a brief statement of the law of Murder, spoke of what he should prove, end claimed -a verdict of felonious' homicide of the highest gtade. Then Mr. Grandison arose, and, after accepting the prosecutor's law, and say- ing that he would leave the facts to speak for themselves, informed the court that he was suffering from aeievere head. - ache, that would prevent him from do- ing more than passively watching the case ; but that he had no scruples about it, lance his client's interests were per- fectly safe in the hands of his able and ingenious associate,. w hone he was proud to have as a co -laborer, ete. " Aha !" Whispered the State's officer to me; "the old fox knows he has no case, and wants you to take all the odi- um of a failure." " We'll see," I returned, oracularly, my face glowing andmy heart throbbing with gratitude toward Grandison for his evident intention to let the have all the credit of our singular defence. The case went 'on ; the facts were proved as I have already tolal you; and, as witness after :witness gave iri his state- ence, showed an eagerinterest hi the tes- ment, without any cross-examinatien by titaopy. Reiclently, he was as much me, I could see that the District .Ator- perplexed. it:tr any one else. Dr: Beard ney was beating his brains In a puzzled_ was recalled, and, when he had careful - endeavor to find out the line ef defence I ly repeated his testimaiy, a dAtinguish- meant to adopt. But this was precisely ed surgical expert tdld us that, upon that what I did not choose he should do. 1 showing, it was impossible for death to asked but very few questions, I made have taken place so late as Friday morn - all the witnesses give assurance that it Mg or Thursday evening. was positively on Wednesday- that the 1 gltinced. at Grandison. He cast a stranger had. come into Humberg, and. searching eye towards the Jury, tgen nod - had been seen to go into Jake Moore's: ded his head. 11 I made them assure- the jury that the "Call Sarah Moore.," body was found on Friday evening. I And Sally took the stand, and, in her carefully and plaitily established, by ex- plain, simple," quiet, unreserved way, haustive questioning of Dr. Beard, that told the same story that she had told be - the body, when found, Could not have fore, softening the recital alter father's - been dead less than two days. 1 estab- faults, and giving emphasis ta the inter- lished also, by Mrs. McCausland, that view vtith the Quaker. Every word of she had refused Jake More .credit for her narrative told • and I saw that whiskey on Wednesday,' and had sold the jury believed it, where none of them his daughter a gallon for cash early on would have placed the slightest faith in Thursday morning. This fact, so damn- it had it not been prefaced by theanys- ing, had not been elicited by the prose- terioug confusion in the testimony. , euting attorney, and -when I brought it out plainly, he stared at me full of won- Do you want to argue- it ?" asked the State's attorney. • •` submit it if you der. " Which side are 'you On ?" aeked he• say so, for I can't make out a Chinese . ouzzle. nie, that tbe dead age, either that or his tpee a s assurning that iniagea appeared .as been testified by the various witnetita jVhe, gentlemen of the jury Se. e should that iniquiet,ghost havcre frorn the regions to Whieh it lia,clitiefeee fled in „despair ?"-.i" "EC Caine bitek to fix, it .ease",:reee Moore, I guess,' said the prosecutor, laughing. Ah, gentlemen of the jury," 1 eaid, "we may not go beyond the gram search of motives it bouts etsaittle to vex the inscrutable with otit's'aueations, but that, at least, did not bring tthe happy specter back. Jake Moaribneas already convicted, by the tnife and the -purse, beforo that shade dal* back May we not rather assume "—a put a timidly—" that, in the new -horn pre. • science of another existence, it was seen that by taking the knife and leaving. tile - purse, an innocent man's life was put in pepil ? May not the dead On's epeee have dragged itself wearily back to the world of troubles, not to iconvict, but to acquit : not for vengeance but in mercy and justice, not to follow up a criminal, but to save the. hunted life of theinno- cent and unfoxtunate man before you? Gentlemen of the jury, ask yourselves that question, and bid: yoier.,own hearts furnish the answer !'' Well, Jake Moore, was acquitted, of course. The jury declined even to -leave their seats. When the applause that welcomed the verdict had ceased, tan Grendison arose and said : May A • please your Honor, -While r Amid be warty to see the evidence of ghosts taken oftep, in this or any other court, agaiiist the evidence of hard facts, I am happy in being able to show, in the most satis- factory manner, that the conclusion to which the jury has come, in the present instance, is the riglit oneSince we have been sittina here; I -have seen an officer tram Canadawho has !given me the history of the unfortunate deceased. He was a member of .'the Society of Friends, a person of coasequenee and property,. Philip Dingle by name and a most aniiable gentleman, but, ulihap- pily, subject 40 occasional attacks of mental aberration. It was M erre of these fits he wandered off and destroyed his own life in -the manner described. to - you. That be himself ..tonnnitted the deed we kneeifrom a letter writteibby himself, in the neighboring city, and there mailed a daypr two previous to his appearance in Humberg, in which he avows his intention in unmistakable language. That letter vas sent to his nephew h.ndheir, living in Australia, and it has been -the mewled -treeps' ig up Mr;Dingle, and. establishmg his identity in an undoubted. way. I lEnew' tAse facts before the case was given to the jury, may it please the Court," aonktud- ed Mr. Grandison; "but I was confi- dent the prisoner would. be acquitted, and I had not the impudence to inter- rupt the brilliant and ingetlio14 defence contrived by my young associate, who, I• need not sa4 to your Honor, has this day shown himselanneeneement and a liglit to our professiOn." t • You7 11 see tpresentletl" retorted I, d. I've only a word to say," I said, glancing toward Grandison, who smile glancing at a line which was tossed to benignant approval. The case for the State Was closed, 'and ,by'Graudison as I rose. (" Give 'em the supe) nally-al --all jurics believe in. ghosts, I rose to open for the defence. "May it please your Honor, and Gen- —adainntotittiltiosilj./)alge. does," was .tic. skeptic's tlernen of the jury," I said, "as there "I have only a word. to say gentle - are Mysteries in nature, no matter on men. AS I warned you M advanceathe what side you , view_ it, so there are evidence on both sides can neither be things in evideuce which are inexplic- controverted nor reconciled. There is a able, which it is folly to attempt to ex- doubt as to the murder' • a certainty that plain. We follow ne theory of defence it vies not committed by Jacob Moore. in this case ; we do not pretencl. to ac- You cannot doubt that little girl's frank count for either the facts already adduce blue eyes and untripping tongue. I told ed, nor for those which we shall adduceyou the defence had no theory as to this We simply give you those facts, in order, case, but. I, as an individual, have a by their own showing, to make it clear theory. I believe that the unknowa dc that, whether the unknown man, was ceased went te Jacob Moore's and took murdered or not, he was not murdered that knife, as representedwith the pur- by the prisoner at the bar, and could not Pose of committing suicide. I believe have beep murdered by 1;irn. I have to that he walked to that dreadful ravine, request. that the witnesses, both for on•Wednesday afternoon, and there cut State and defence, be removed, in order his own throat, and. died, and his body that all suspicion of collusion may be rusted there until it was found as you avoided." have heard. I believe, nevertheless, • it was so otelered. • '0aIl Jaekann Ammernaa,nn." in your secret hearts you believe with gentlemen of the jury, and I know that "Well, the ghostatwas of ate, after all," said. Lightbourn ; "the ma.n would have been acquitted without his inter- position." -- " Bat leitiea eould have" itiV into prac- tice without his invaluable aid ?" rejoin- ed Knox. t " What became of Moo= and httle Sally ?" asked- Bertha. • "Moore nevee lira* a drop after- wards ; it was enough to bewared by a.ghost, he said ; and heis now an own- er of some land, Ind dehig well. "Sally is a-brixoni farmer's wife, with a house- ful of children I seether afteliat a' There," cried Bertha, "say the ghost did. no good. ! But for him, Jake Moore would. have died a diamkard ! I -believe in ghosts myself 1" — Scribner's Monthlai.- .-.:coN . PitIZE py4ows AT - G. W ILLiAMpN'S OL O pTABLISHED MANUFACTORY, - HAVING ta -en the first prize. for Iron Beam Plows at the lat,e Exhibition held in limn ilton, and the fisf at the Westent Fair held in, London, besides a high recommendation on the sarne,Plow, I can, -with ,eonfidence, recommend my Plows for efficiency of work anklightness of dralt,,as being second to none in the Dominion. -The following is a list of Plows constantly on hand: Iron -beam with wooden landles, Steel Landside and Mouldboard, I=ron Plows, Wood Plows, Doph107-11fouldboard plows and. setunkaa, Iron Harrows, &c. . , An examination of my Plowic is respectfUlly solicited before purchasing elsewhere. Castings and Boards kept on hand for repahing "Grey Plows." 276 G. WILLIAMSON. PLOWS PLOWS'! :MUNRO '84 HOGAN,- P.1.40W-AlAKERS„ 'S M-UNRO & 110GAN desire to thank the farmers JJ -1- of the vicinity of Seaforth for the liberal patronage which has been alfordedi them since they began business here. They would also say that they are prepared and. that it is their intention% to maintain the excellent reputation -which their work during the past- season achieved, not only among the farming coMtaunity of Huron, but as well at every show andtexhibition where they ex- hibited. We make the following Plows, - (mei devote special attention to their nlantfacture our ex- Deriotee showing that they are the Icitils best adapted to agricultural purposes in -this section: IRON PLOW, IRON -BEAM PLOW (wooden handles) three styles, . 'DOUBLE MO ULD130ARD PLOW: IRON' AND WOOD SCITFFLERS, HORSE HOES. • Or The above nowt; we furnish at $20 and upward; and guarantee them to give satisfaction—if- upt, they- cau be returned. The Scutilers we furnish at$9 to $17, according to quality, umbels° guarantee satisfaction. GIIET'S PATTERN OF MOULD BOARDs AND 1 CASTINGS Always kept ozi hand. MUNRO & HOGAN, North Main -street, seasorte, MaNaught'S old stand. 275-18 'W. T. HUNTER, l3RUSSELS, , Horseslioer and Genercd Mack:smith, nanufaetttrer of Iron Harrows. Speeial attention to Job work and Horse Shoeing. TERMS R.E.iSONABL. wsynhnotvila ateliohpooen‘esuip.ea. by G. J. BAILEY, in rear of -270c18 • A. eceived a goftt hinges, from her father. l ot ,.. ..„..44eacirrinibiss:griYng:bilsm, anrewceasiptieadtelliyi ad_ , ,vertised for, and -described as haviiig : 3 Boman nose, lie won*t 1 e'l found. Such a nose as that will ], ne:trll-1P:‘ rim so thilrsty,MIK a4'bSoVv v°:lu'b?:eariela: work sad hisindustri:u'llsC'', feaathyst7.., 4 :0 Yo oe- I iv t.. rl know 00 nwe the pro pt eth.'" tnrdogaigdb -isi digging ig asked him, hIsn'°) he ansWered, 41:tarAitfiftelell:erl engaged 0110 day digging a hole by iiv-4ed nelxitteledror c°rEd:mit,e,,:rysvaon was Ipt h.: sens aftei', little boy ' With gravitt insisted upon singing at a party, th'in .fjnite." answered another. Don't be alar 11 with an u DM USical void. rnpest," I ..thilf —.... A lady " Whb.t doesshe call that 1" impair a guest. " The te ed," said an",old sea -captain. present. " That's no tempest ; it's only .2 squall, and will soon bccwer." --ats. ,spirit meeting the -other night * gentlenian requested mediumto ask what amusement! were most popular in the spiri; world. The reply was, " Readin, im of obituary noticeg0 A Norfolk- per contains the obituary et a gen . i tleman in that city, and conclude it with,the following words : inc writing the above we ate grs.tifie in being able t,0 state that he is . nt- yet dead, but he is very low, and 1i exp7,_aecAtend..etx6esbuarnvgievest.ay. : ,, la a rat road crash, - if von can be r ic- enough, pa one hAnd on the'ba- of the seat before you, and the oth on that of your own seat, and SW]. clear of .-the floor as high as * can." This is doubtless good advie , but it is calcuritted to do a. gre deal of mischief, for while there one-person- who veill follow it itta collision, there atre scores of Derv°, and injudicious people who will p sa. .. st i in practicing t at evety stops start of the train- _ Besides, it. is practicablerliay way. .No man put his hand on the backof his bE It)ie.ieda liec-, tlny-c.1.- founwork very a d to and swing in the air. 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