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Fspt \ X . ? NhmL ??? ? * ? ?? ~ j ~ ,~"f lewis m. grist, proprietor, j Jjntojfntat JfamHj Ifrfospajpo:: Jfffr lj)? ^romofion of % |3oIitita[, jsorial, ^griotllnral anii Commmial Jntasfs of % Soutji. J terms?f2.so a year, in adyance. , "VOL. 33. YORKVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1887. ' ^O. 44. . j* ? J. Jtoial THE NINE OF HEARTS! BY B. L. FARJEON. PART T?lE FIRST. THE TRIAL OF EDWARD LAYTON. CHAPTER IV. THE EVIDENCE OF LI7MLEY RICH, DETECTIVE OFFICER?THE NINE OF HEARTS. Upon the reassembling of the court, the first witness called was Lumley Rich. The Attorney General?You belong to the detective force? Witness?I do. The Attorney General?On the 26th of March were you called to the prisoner's house? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?At what hour of the morning? "Witness?At 7 o'clock. ~ The Attorney General?"Was the prisoner in the house at the time? Witness?He was not. The Attorney General?Whom did yon see for the purpose of information? Witness?The prisoner's coachman, James Moorhouse, and Ida White, lady's maid and other servants. The Attorney General?What passed between you and the coachman? Witness?I asked him at what time on the previous night the prisoner returned home. He said at about 12:20, and that the prisoner entered his house accompanied by a lady, opening the street door with his latch key. I asked him if he had seen the prisoner since, and he replied that he had not. I asked him from what part of his dress the prisoner took the latch key, and he replied from the pocket of the ulster he wore. The Attorney General?Although the prisoner was not at home, was this ulster in his house? Witness?Yes; it was hanging on the coat rack in the halL The Attorney General?Did you takt possession of it? Witness?I did. The Attorney General?Did you search the pockets? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?What did you find in them? Witness?The latchkey of the street door and a playing card. The Attorney General?Nothing else? .Ik. The Attorney General?Is this the latchkey. (Latchkey produced.) Witness?It is. The Attorney General?Is this the playing card? (Playing card, the nine ol hearts, produced.) Witness?It is. The Attorney General?How do you recognize it? Witness?By a private mark I put in the corner. The Attorney General?There was absolutely nothing else in the pockets of th? ulster? Witness?Nothing else. The Attorney General?Did you see tht prisoner before you left the house? Witness?I did. The Attorney General?Describe what passed. Witness?The prisoner suddenly madt his appearance while I was questioning the servants and inquired my business there. I told him I was an officer, and that I was there because of hi? wife being found dead In her bed. "Dead!" he cried; "my wjfe!" and he rushed to her rooin. I" followed him. He looked at he* and sunk into a chair, fie seemed stupefled. I had his ul3ter coat hanging on my arm, and I told him I had taken possession of it He nodded vacantly. A moment or two afterwards he laid his hand upon the ulster, and demanded to know where I had obtained it. I informed him, from the coat rack in the hall. He cried "Impossible!" and as it seemed to me he was about to speak again, I informed him that anything he said might be used in evidence against him. "In evidence!" he cried, "against me!" "Yes," I replied; "there has been a murder done here." "Murder!" he cried; "and I am suspected?" To that remark I did not reply, but repeated my caution. He said, "Thank you," and did not utter another word. The prisoner did not cross-examine the witness; and this was the more surprising as it was remarked by all in court that upon the production of the playing card, the nine of hearts, he was greatly agitated. CHAPTER V. THE EVIDENCE OK IDA WHITE, LADV'l MAID. The next witness called was Ida White, an attractive looking woman about 3C years of age. The Attorney General?What is yoiu name? Witness?Ida White. The Attorney General?Do you know the prisoner? Witness?Yes, he was my master. The Attorney General?In what capacitj were you employed? Witness?I was lady's maid to his wife, my poor dead mistress. The Attorney General?Were you in her service before she was married? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?What was hex maiden name? * Witness?Agnes Beach. The Attorney General?When you flrsi entered her service were her parents alive? Witness?Both of them. The Attorney General?Do they still live? . Witness?Xo. Mrs. Beach died on my mistress' wedding day; Mr. Beach died in February of this year. The Attorney General?Was your latt mistress much affected at her mother's death? Witness?She almost lost her reason. She fell into a fever, and was scarcely expected to live. It was weeks before she recovered. The Attorney General?Have you any knowledge of the circumstances of your mistress' engagement with the prisoner? - Witness?She was very much in love with him. The Attorney General?And- he with her? Witness?I don't think so. The Attorney General?And according to your observation, not being in love with her, ho engaged himself to her? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Was she a good looking woman? Witness?She would not generally be considered so. The Attorney General?Is this a fairly good likeness of her? (Photograph of the deceased produced, which, after the witness had examined it, was handed to the jury. It represented a woman, very plain, with a face which seemed to lack intelligence.) Witness?It is very like her. The Attorney General?Was she strong minded? Witness?Xo, she was not ; but she was very obstinate when she took it into her head. The Attorney General?How old was she at the time of her engagement with the prisoner? Witness?Twenty-eight. The Attorney Generul?Do you know the prisoner's age at the time? Witness?My mistress told ?ae he was twenty-four. The Attorney General?Was she well formed? Witness?Xo. The Attorney General?Had she a good j figure? Witness?Xo. The Attorney General ? Many plain women have some peculiar attraction, either in manners or features. Had she anything of this kind to distinguish her? Witness?I cannot say she had. The Attorney General?But there might have been other attractions. Was she brilliant in conversation? Witness?On the contrary. She had very little to say for herself upon general subjects. The Attorney General?But sne was passionately in love with the prisoner? Witness?Passionately. The Attorney General?Did she limp? Witness?Yes. One leg was shorter than the other. The Attorney General?Had she known the prisoner for any length of time before the engagement? Witness?For a few weeks only, I believe. Tim Attorney General?In what way did ae make her acquaintance? Witness?He came to the house. The Attorney General?In a friendly way? Witness?He came first upon business. The Attorney General?To see whom? Witness?My mistress' father, Mr. Beach. The Attorney General?Upon what business? Witness?Upon betting business, my mistress said. The Attorney General?What was Mr. Beach's occupation? w luiess?no was a uuuh.muis.er. The Attorney General?A betting man? "Witness?Yes. He used to make large books. The Attorney General?On racing? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Was he an educated man? Witness?No. The Attorney General?Would you call him a vulgar man? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Did he move in good society? Witness?He did not. The Attorney General?But he was rich? Witness?Very rich. He drank a great deal of champagne. The Attorney General?You say the prisoner iirst came to the house upon business. Do you know upon what particular business? Witness ? It was something about horses, and bets ho had made upon them. The Attorney General?Bets which ho nad lost? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?How was it that your mistress became acquainted with him on that occasion, when the fact was that he came upon business? Witness?He was asked by Mr. Beach to stay to dinner, and he stayed. The Attorney General?Mr. Beach, you say, was not in good society. Had he any desire to get into it? Witness?He was crazy about it. The Attorney General?Upon the first occasion of the prisoner dining at Mr. Beach's house, did your mistress make any remark with reference to the pris >ner? Witness?She never ceased speaking about him. She said she had seen the handsomes "an in the world. The Attorney General?Narrate as briefly as you can what occurred between your mistress and the prisoner up to the time they were engaged. Witness?He came fivo or six times to the house, and every time he came my mistress was more and more in love with him. 1 understood from what she told me that he was in difficulties, and that he had lost a great deal of money at horse racing. The Attorney General?Did he keep racing horses? Witness?I did not understand that, but that he had been betting upon horses. There was money owing not only to Mr. Beach, but to other book makers as well, and the prisoner wished Mr. Beach to arrange the whole matter. "Those things are easily arranged,," I said to my mistress; "all you have to do is to pay." "But supposing you haven't the money to pay?'' asked my mistress. "I thought Mr. layton was a gentleman.'' I said. ' 'There are ] poor gentlemen as well as rich gentlemen," my mistress said, "and my papa gets a lot of money out of all sorts of people." That was true enough; I have heard him and his friends chuckling over it many times, and Mr. Beach used to call them a lot of something fools. I heard a great deal about "swells," as Mr. Beach called them, Iteing ruined by backing horses, and I knew that that was the way he had'grown rich. He used to say that he had got a lot of stuck up swells under his thumb. "I can arrange Mr. Layton's business with papa." my mistress said; 4 and when I found her practicing songs at the piano, out of time and out of tunc? for she had no ear for music?I knew that she was making up to him. It camo about as she wished, and one night she told me she was the happiest woman in the world?that Mr. Lay ton had proposed and she had accepted him. The Attorney General?Were there rejoicings in the house? Witness?A good many big dinners were given, but I can't say much for the company. My mistress was sometimes very happy, and sometimes very miserable. To-day she claimed that he was cold to her, to-morrow she would go on in the most ridiculous way because he gave her a flower, as though it were better than a big diamond. The Attorney General?Did he seem to be wanting in attention to her during the courtshin? Witness?He wasn't a very warm lover, as far as I could see. But my mistress I was so much in love that she put up with i anything. He had only to give her a smile or a pleasant word, and you would think she was in heaven. ' The Attorney General?How did the prisoner get along with Mr. Beach? Witness?I knew they had words on two or three occasions. The Attorney General?About what? Witness?About the settlements. My mistress told me, and she said her father was a screw. The Attorney General?A screw! What was meant by the word? Witness?That he was mean and sharp, that was what was meant. The Attorney General?Go on. That . her father was a screw" Witness?And wanted to bind Mr. Layton down too tight. He had couversa- 1 tions with her about it. The Attorney General?He! Who? Witness?Mr. Layton. [ The Attorney General?Did he seek these conversations? Witness?Oh, no; they were of her seek- ! ing. She was afraid that something might occur to break off the engagement. She said to me more than once: "If anything goes wrong I shan't care to live," I never in all my life saw a woman so madly in love as she was. The Attorney General?Do you know the result of those conversations about ' the settlements between the prisoner and your mistress? Witness?Both Mr. Beach and Mr. Layton stood out, and I don't believe either of them would have given way if my mistress had not taken it up. She i and her father had some warm scenes. The Attorney General?By "warm" do j you mean angry? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Whose money I was it that was in dispute? Witness?Mr. Beach's. lie was rich; Mr. Layton had no money to settle. My mistress used to say, "I know I am not very handsome, but I can make Mr. Layton comfortable all his life, and I am sure we shall get along very well together. Papa shall do whatever I want. The Attorney General?Then it is your impression that the prisoner paid court to her for money? "Witness?I don't think lie would have i looked at her else. The Attorney General?And that your j mistress was aware of it? Witness?She must have had some notion of it, but it couldn't have been a pleasant thing for her to talk much about, and it seemed to me that she was glad to avoid it. She didn't think she was as pluin as she was. No woman does. The Attorney General?How was the matter linally arranged? . Witness?The money was settled upon my mistress, and after her death it was to go to Mr. Layton. The Attorney General?Do you know what the amount was? Witness?My mistress told me it was ?20,000. The Attorney General?Which would come absolutely into the prisoner's possession when his wife died? Witness?I understood so. My mistress did say something else about the settle ment. "Therms one tiling I woulil lite put in about the money," she said, "and that is, that it shouldn't be his if he married again; but I would not dare to mention it." The Attorney General?Did she give you a reason for not daring to mention it? Witness?Yes; that he would break the engagement. The Attorney General?Now, about the wedding. Was it a private or public wedding? Witness?Not private?oh, no, not at all! there were at least a hundred at the wedding breakfast, and any amount of champagne was opened. The Attorney General?What kind of company? Witness?Mixed?very much mixed. The Attorney General?Be more explicit. Were there many of Mr. Beach's set there? Witness?They were all of his set. The Attorney General?But some of the prisoner's friends were there as well? Witness?Not one. There were words about it. The Attorney General?On the wedding day? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Words between whom? Witness?Between Mr. Beach and Mr. Layton. I heard Mr. Beach say, "I gave you thirty invitations to All up;" and Mr. Layton answered; "I didn't All up one of them. I didn't intend that a friend of mine should meet such a crew as I knew you would get together." "Not good enough for you, I suppose:" said Mr. Beach. "No," said Mr. Layton, "decidedly not good enough," and then ho walked away? The Attorney General?Did your mistress make any remark on tho subject? Witness?No; she was too happy to And fault with anything. She -was delighted too with the wedding presents. There was nearly a room full of them. The Attorney General?Many of them from the prisoner's friends? Witness?Not one. The Attorney General?Do you mean to inform the court that not a single friend or relative of the prisoner's was present, and that among the wedding presents there was not a single token from his connections? Witness?Not a single one. The Attorney General?Well, they were married, and they went away? Witness?Yes; they took the night train j to Paris. The Attorney General?Did you ac- I company them? Witness?No. The Attorney General?Did your mistress' mother die before they loft? Witness?No; some'hours afteward, and ' a telegram was sent to them in Paris, at theJHotel Bristol. The Attorney General?What is the next thing you remember? Witness?A telegram arrived from Mr. Layton, requesting me to como to Paris immediately. We received tho telegram . at about 2 o'clock on the day after tho wedding, and I went by tho night train. The Attorney General?Did any person meet you? Witness?Yes; Mr. Layton. He said my mistreess was very ill, and he took me to the hotel. She was in bed, and she remained there for several weeks. I attended her the whole of the time. The Attorney General?Did she have j good doctors? Witness?The best that could be got. The Attorney General?Was the pris- j oner attentive to her? Witness?Pretty weU; I shouldn't nave liked it. The Attorney General?What do you j mean by that? Witness?Weil, he never sat by her bedside, tor any length of timua^hei?pever held her hand; he never kissed her. Oh, it is easy to tell when a man loves a woman! The Attorney General?How long was it before she was able to get about? Witness?Quite three months. The Attorney General?Did she then re- I turn to England with her husband? Witness?Not for another month. They j went to Italy, and I went with them. The Attorney General?Did the prisoner's attention to his wife undergo any marked change after her convalescence? Was he more affectionate?more lovingly attentive? Witness?Not that I saw. All ha seemed to crave for was excitement. It j was nothing but rushing here and rushing there. Every night some theatre or en- I tertainment to go to; every day riding ; about, and dining out at different places, j The Attorney General?So that there j was not much of homo life? Witness?Not at all. The Attorney General?Was this state of things agreeable to your mistress? i Witness?I am not sure. Sometimes ; she suggested to her husband that they , should spend a quiet evening at home, but ' he always replied that he had tickets, or ! had taken seats, for some place of entertainment. When she spoke to me of the life they were leading, she used to say how attentive her husband was to her, and how he was always looking out for something to amuse her. But I did not regard it in that light; I thought it was more for himself than for her that he kept up such a round of excitemeiii. It helped him to forget. The Attorney General?To forget what? Witness?That he was a married man. ! The Attorney General?During those < early days were there any quarrels between them? Witness?Xo, not what you can cull quarrels. Sometimes she complained, or i found fault, but he seldom at that time I answered her iu any wny to cause a quarrel ?that is, so far as he was concerned. It. > was different afterward. There were oc- i casions during thear honeymoon?if you j can call it a honeymoon?aud at first- 1 when they were settled at home, when his j silence provoked my mistress, and made her madder than an open row would have done. But the more she stormed the quieter he was, and these scenes always ended in one way: Mr. Lay ton would ' leave the house,, and remain absent for a j good many hours. Then my mistress | would torment herself dreadfully, and j cry her eyes out, and rave and stamp j about like a distracted creature. "He | will1 never come back!" she would say. j "I have driven him from me! He will make away with himself! What a wretch lam!" A ring at the bell or a knock at the door would send her flying down j stairs to sen if it was her husband. I was j really afruid sometimes that she would go quite out of her mind. Then, when he . came back, she would rush up to him and < throw her arms round his neck, and sob, ! and full upon her knees to ask forgiveness. It was a dreadful life to lead. The Attorney General?In what way 1 would tluj prisoner receive these tokens of ' penitence; on the part of your mistress? Witness?In just the /same way as he j received her scoldings. The one remark I heard him make to her in those days? not always in the same words, hut always to the same effect?was: "You should i have more control over yourself." I used to wonder that a man could he so provoked and keep so cool. But a person may lx' cold outside and hot inside. The Attorney General?Do you think, that was the case with the prisoner? Witness?Yes, I do think so. The Attorney General?Well, they came home and settled down? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Now about the home they occupied? Did tliey rent it, or vwia it inujr f>\\ II jjrujjuriyr Witness?It was their own property. My mistress said it was purchased partly j with her own money, and that it was included in the settlements. The Attorney General?What do you. mean by ''partly with her own money?" } ?money she had saved or inherited? Witness?No; money she had won upon races. The Attorney General?Was she, then, in the habit of betting? Witness?She used often to put money on a horse. She would say: "Papa lias given me a good tip, and I am going to put ?20 or ?.10 on. If you like, Ida, you can have half a sovereign with me." The Attorney General?And did you? Witness?Yes, because she wished me, and. because I knew I was safe. Mr. Beach was a very knowing man. My mistress would back 41 tip he gave her at twenty-five to one. 1 have "known her back it at fifty to one. She would do this sometimes before the weights appeared. Then her father would say: "Aggie" (that is what he called her)?"Aggie, your horse is at ten or twelve to one. I am going to hedge part of your money for you." As my half sovereign was in my mistress' bet, of course I went with lier, and I more often won than lost. The Attorney General?Without going minutely into the technicalities of horse racing and betting, may we take it that the principle of the hedging you have spoken of is wise, from a gambling point of view? . t. Witness?Oh, yes. By backing a likely horse at a long price, as my mistress had the opportunity of doing through her father, and by laying against it if it comes to a short price, you reduce the chances of losing. That is good hedging. The Attorney General?Can anybody do that? Witness?Well, not exactly. Those who are behind the scenes have the best ad- | vantage. As a rule the people "who back horses are gulls. Thy is why the bookmakers make fortunes. They are playing at a game they know; nine out of ten who bet with them are playing at a game they don't know. That is how it is. 1 have heard Mr. Beach say: "The devil is on our side." The Attorney General?Meaning on the side of the bookmakers? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Were you fond of betting yourself? Witness?I hated it. I only did what my mistres. advised mt> to do to please her. The Attorney Genera,"1.?To return to tho house which was pai tly paid for with the money your mistress won. Did tho prisoner take an aceivo part in tho selection of tho furniture? Witness?Ho did nothing whatever. Everything was done by my mistress, and she was disappointed because he would not go with her to tho difl erent establishments she visited. But in tho end she argued as she always did when he was in question. Ho was quito right, she said; she could not expect him to trouble himself about such things; it was a woman's business, and by leaving ev erything to her it showed that ho believed, she had good taste. The Attorney General?When they were settled in London what Jkind of society did they keep? Witness?At first the same as used to come to Mr. Beach's house. Mr. Beach brought them, but Tdr. Layton was rude and uncivil to them, and after a time they stopped away. I must say, if he was rude and uncivil to them, they were quite as rude and uncivil to him, and if he had met them with the temper they displayed nothing could have prevented the occurrence of disgraceful scenes. He be haved to them in exactly tho same way he beliaved to my mistress when they disagreed. He left the house, and did not return till tney were all gone. The Attorney General?"Were they in the habit of coming to the Louse without receiving an invitation from, its master? Witness?I believe so. My mistress would say: "Papa is goi ng to bring three or four friends to d inner." He would look at her and say .nothing; and when the dinner was served Mr. Layton would be absent. Mr. Beach would then take the head of the table, nnd I have heard him, when he was filled', with champagne?he scarcely ever drai lk anything else but champagne nnd wh .isky?speak very angrily about "the stuck up pride of his fine gentleman son ru law. The other guests were not behindhand in abusing him. The Attorney Genera)?Although they were eating at his table and . drinking bis ? i wine? Witness?Yes. At other times in the evening, when Mr. Lnytcnn was at home with my mistress, Mr. Beach would make his appearance unexpectedly with his friends; but Mr. Layton would never remain in their company. It seemed to me that Mr Beach did tluse things to vex Mr. Layton, and that i!t was a kind of battle between them as t? who should bo master. The Attorney Genenvl?A battle, however, in which the prisoner did not take any violent part? Witness?But it ended in his being left the master of the field. The Attorney General?Explrtin. Witness?After twelve months or sd Mr. Beach's friends ceased entirely to come to the house. Then, when Mr. Beach came, he came alone. The Attorney General?On these occasions did the prisoner remain at home? Witness?Yes, whenever Mr. Beach was alone Mr. Layton remained in. The Attorney General?How did they pass the time? Witness?Playing billiards, generally. The Attorney General?Now, in all the .questions I have asked and you have answered, there are two subjects upon which no definite information lius been forthcoming. Give your best attention to them. Are you aware that before or at the time of the prisoner's engagement with your mistress he had been or was engaged to another lady? Take tima You have said that you were in the confidence of your mistress, and that she u sed to speak freely to you. At any period during these communications did she refer to another engagement? Witness?It was in this way, and I can't answer the question in any other. The Attorney General?Answer it as best you can. Witness?At one time my mistress said: 1'I wonder if Mr. Layton. before he saw me, was ever in love?" That was the way it was first introduced. I did not know how to answer her without running the risk of hurting her feelings, but she pressed me, and I was forced to say I thought it very unlikely that a gentleman as good looking as he was should not liave had liis fancies. She pressed me further until I said there were very few men of his age who had not been in love. She appeared distressed at this, but soon brightened up, and said: "What is that to me so long as lie is mine?" But itjweiglied upon her mind, as was proved by her telling me at another time that she had aslaid Mr. Layton whether lie had ever been in love and that ho would not give her any satisfaction, which, to my mind, wus quite as good as confessing that lie had been. These conversations between my mistress and me took place in the early days, and for some time after her marriage she did not say anything more about it. But when she was laid on a tdck bed?I mean within a few months of her being murdered The Attorney General?Do not say that. It is for the jury to decide. Say within a few months of her death. Witness?Well, within a few months of her death she told me at least half a dozen times that she had discovered that h had been in love with another lady, and that she believed he was so when he married her. She said it was wicked and abominable, and that if she saw "the creature" she would kill her. The Attorney General?Supposing this to be true, your mistress never discovered who this other lady was? Witness?Never to my knowledge. The Attorney General?As to your mistress' attachment to her husband, did it ever, in your knowledge, grow weaker? Witness?I don't exactly know how to describe it. She loved and hated him all at once. She was torn to pieces with love and jealousy. The Attorney General?Is that all you can tell us upon this subject? Witness?Thai is all. The Attorney General?I come now to the second subject. It is concerning the prisoner's family. You have informed us that not one was present at the wedding, and that not one recognized the union by sending a wedding present. Now, nro juu a?iuc >> iiuliici jiu xwa.1 pai^ju?, \jl brothers or sisters? Witness?All that I heard was that he had a father living. But I did not hear that till more than a year after the marriage. The Attorney General- Who told you then? Witness?My mistress. Although she confided nearly everything to me, she kept this to herself for a long time. The Attorney General?Did not her father, Mr. Beach, speak about it? Witness?I never lieard him; I ^bad very little to do with him. I had understood, at the time of the marriage, that Mr. Laytun's father was abroad, but I had reason to believe.afterward that this was not so?that h^ifras in England. The Attorney General?Did the prisoner ever speak of it? Witness?I never heard him. The Attorney General?Did the prisoneA father never come to the house? mtness?Never. T& Attorney General?Do you know whei&er he is alive at the present time? Witness?I heard that he was dead. My mistress said so. The Attorney General?Did the prisoner go into mourning? Witness?He wore crape upon his hat for several weeks. The Attorney General?Now, concentrate your attention upon the day and night of March 25. I wish yon to narrate, concisely, all tliat passed, within your own knowledge, concerning the prisoner and his wife from the morning ol March 25 until the morning of the 20th. Witness?At 10 o'clock in the morning of the 25th my mistress' bell rang, and I went tor tier room. My instructions were nefer tb'gfrter her f&Sttf'IfTthe - inorning until sue rang ior me. xiieru were t?u bell ropes, one on each side of the bed, so that on whichever side she was lying one of them was within reach of her hand. ^The Attorney General?Stop a moment. Did the prisoner and his wife occupy one room? Witness?Xo. The Attorney General?For how long had this been the case? Witness?For a good many months, Ever since things began to get worse between them. The Attorney General?Proceed. Yon heard your mistress' bell ring, and you entered licr room at 10 o'clock. Witness?She said that she had passed a very bad night, that she had had dread' fnl dreams, and that she was afraid something terrible was going to happen to her. She asked me if her husband was up, and I told her that he had just entered tlis breakftist room, that I had met him od the stairs, and that he inquired whether she were awake, as he wished to speak to her before he went out. My mistress said that she also wished to speak to him, and Bhe asked me if I knew where ho waj going. Of course I did not know, and 1 told her so. She often asked me questions which she must have known very well were not possible for me to answer. I washed her, and tidied up the room, and. then she desired me to go and tell my master to come to her. I knocked at tin door of the breakfast room three or four ~ononrnr T nnATlPfl times, umi icutnuijj h\J uuouvi, A It. My master was sitting at the table, and he sturted up when I entered, just as if I had aroused him from n dream. His face wus very pale, and he held a letter In his hand. I noticed that he had not touched the breakfast. I gave him mj mistress' message. He nodded and went to her room at once. The moment he entered my poor mistress began to talk, but he stopped her and ordered me out. "Keep in the next room," my mistress said to me; "I may want you." I went into the next room and remained there quite half an hour, until my mistress' bell rang again. My master rushed past me as I opened the door, and I saw mj mistress was dreadfully agitated. She was sitting up in bed, and The Attorney General?Stop! Whin you were in the adjoining room did you hear anything? Witness?Not distinctly. The Attorney General?Do you mean by that that you could not distinguish the words that were spoken by. your master and mistress? Witness?I could not distinguish the 5yords I could only hear their voices when they spoke loudly. The Attorney General?Did they spcai loudly on this occasion? Witness?Very loudly. The Attorney General?In merriment? Witness?Quite the contrary. Tlicj were quarreling. The Attorney General?That is your understanding of their voices? Witness?I could not bo mistaken. Nearly the whole of the time their voicej were raised to a high pitch. The Attorney General?Which of the two voices made the stronger impression upon you? Witness?My master's. I am certain ho was threatening her, as he had done many times during the last few months. The Attorney General?That is an improper remark for you to make. Confine yourself strictly to the matter in hand, and to the time you are giving evidence upon. When you entered your mistress' room she was sitting up in bed, dreadfully agitated, and your master rushed past you? Witness?Yes, and she called out aftci him: "Never, while I am alive! Yon wish I were dead, don't you, so that yon may be free to marry again? But I shan't die yet, unless you kill me!" The Attorney General?You are positive she made use of these words? Witness?Quite positive. The Attorney Generul?Did the prisoner make any reply? Witness?None; and his silence appeared to Infuriate my mistress. Slit cried out after him: "You are a villain! you are a villain!" The Attorney Generul?Did you see the prisoner again during the morning? Witness?No. In a few minutes 1 heard the street door open and close, and ray mistress told me to run and see whether it was her husband going-out. ] went to the front room window and saw him enter the carriage and drive away. I returned to my mistress and informed her of it. She was in a furious state, and if she had had the strength she would have dressed herself and followed him; but she was too weak, unassisted, to get out of bed. The Attorney General?Upon that point you are also positive? Witness?Quite positive. The Attorney General?Did your mistress make you acquainted with the causa of the quarrel between her and the prisoner? Witness?She told me a good deal. She said that when she married him it waj the worst duy's work she had ever done, and that he had deceived her from first to lust. All h? wanted was for her to die; but alth igh he had treated hei so vilely, she 1 .d him iu her power. The Attorn, y General?What did she mean by that? Did she explain? Witness ? Not clearly. She spoke vaguely about papers and acceptances foi money which she hud, and which ho wanted to get hold of. "lie should have them, every one," she said, "and do whatever he liked, if he would be true to me. But lie is false, he is false, and I will be revenged upon him." The Attorney General?Did you acquire this knowledge all at one time? Witness?No. My mistress spoke fit odd times durinc the day, wheii I went in and out of her room. The Attorney General?Nothing else said? Witness?Nothing that I can remember. The Attorney General?Did the prisoner return to the house during the day? Witness?No. The Attorney General?Did you leave the house during the day? Witness?No. The Attorney General?Or night? Witness?No. The Attorney General?You remained in attendance upon your mistress? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Did she make any inquiries about her husband? Witness?Oh, yes. In the afternoon and evening she usked me a dozen timet at least whether he had come home. The Attorney General?At what time on the night of this day did you cease attendance upon your mistress? Witness?At 'J o'clock. She told me J need not come into the room again unless she rang. The Attorney General?What then did you do? Witness?I went to my own room to do some sewing. The Attorney General?When you left your mistress' room was there a table by her side? Witness?Yes; it wns always there. The Attorney General?'There were cer- i tain things upon it? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?What things? < Witness?A decanter of water, a turn- , blcr and a bottle of lozenges. The Attorney General?Was there a i label on this liottle? i Witness?Yes, it was labeled "poison." The Attorney General?Were those the sleeping lozenges your mistress was in the habit of taking? Witness?Yes. i The Attorney General?What was their ] color? Witness?White. The Attorney General?How many of the lozenges were in the bottle? 1 Witness?I am not sure. Ten or a dozen I should say. The Attorney General?Being labeled , poison, it could not be mistaken that they were dangerous to life? Witness?1There could be no mistake. My mistress had told me tliut if a person took tl*ee or four of them at once he would go to sleep and never wake again. The Attorney General?Was it considered safe to leave such dangerous narcotics within her reach? ' i Witness?She was a very prudent woman. She was fond of life; she dreaded the idea of death. The Attorney General?Were there any other articles on the table? Witness?Pen, ink and paper and a book. The Attorney General?At what time did you go to bed? Witness?I can't be quite exact as to the time, but it was about 12 o'clock. The Attorney General?Where was your bedroom situated? Witness?On the second floor. The Attorney General?And your mistress'? Witness?On the flrst floor. The Attorney General?By going out of your bedroom door into the passage and leaning over the balustrade, could you see down to the ground floor? Witness?Yes, pretty clearly. It was a straight view. The Attorney General?You went to bed, you say, at about 12 o'clock. Before you retired had your master returned home? Witness?Yes. I was undressing when I heard the street door open and close. Then I heard a carriage drive away. I stepped out of my room- softly and looked over the balustrade to make sure that it was my master. At the moment I looked down I saw him turning off the gas in the hall. The Attorney General?And you saw nothing more? Witness?No. The Attorney General?And heard nothing more? Witness?Yes, I heard something. I remained in the passage on the second floor, bending over the balustrade, and it seemed to me to be a very long time before my master made any movement. I should say Ave or six minutes passed before I heard him, very, very softly, ascend the stairs to the flrst floor. Perhaps I was fandful, through being alone so long in my own room; but the silence in the house and then the sound of my master coming nn fbo ?tnir? much more ouietlv than was I usual with him made me nervous, I don't j know why. I fancied all sorts of things. The Attorney General?Never mind I your fancies. Did you hear any other i footsteps besides those of your master? "Witness?I am not sure. I can't say. I It never entered my mind that anybody | could be with him, and yet I could not j help fancying things. To speak the truth, I was so upset that I went into my own room and locked the door. I listened with ! my ear at the bedroom door, and I heard ! the handle of the door of my mistress' room being turned. The Attorney General?And then? Witness?I was already partially undressed, and I went to bed. The Attorney General?Did you sleep I soundly? Witness?No. I woke up suddenly ; with the idea that the street door had i been opened and closed again. I lay in I bed frightened, but hearing nothing moro I presently fell asleep again. The Attorney General?There were no j cries, 110 voices loudly raised? ! Witness?I heard none. The Attorney General?Did you sleep ! soundly after that? Witness?No. I was dozing off and I waking up the whole of the night?a 1 hundred times, it seemed to me. How I i have reproached myself since that when ! I saw my master put out the gas in the j hall I did not have the courage to go down ' to him! | The Attorney General?At what time j in the morning did you usually rise? 1 Witness?At 7:30, unless my mistress ! required me earlier. | The Attorney General?Was that the I hour at which you rose on the morning of 1 the 2Gth of March? Witness?No; I rose much earlier, at ; 0 or 0:15; I can't say exactly to a minute, ! because I did not look at my watch. The Attorney General?Then, after 1 dressing, did you go down stairs? Witness?Yes, with a candle in my ! hand. It was dark. The Attorney General?Any sound in j the house? j Witness?None. The Attorney General?Did you listen j at your mistress' bedroom door? Witness?I stood there for a moment, I but I heard nothing, i The Attorney General?After that what I did you do? Witness?I went down to the halL The Attorney General?To the street i door? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?On which side of t lie hull was the coat rack? Witness?On the left from the house, on the right from the street. The Attorney General?Did you look at it? Witness?Yes. | The Attorney General?What did you I observe? Witness?That my master's ulster was I hanging up in its usual place. The Attorney General?You arc positive that it was in its usual place? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Would you recognize the ulster again? Witness?Most certainly; it is a coat of i a very peculiar pattern. [ The Attorney General?Is this it? (Ulster produced.) "Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Was the pris- [ oner's hat hanging in its usual place? Witness?No, it was not there. The Attorney General?Did you look at ! the street door? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Did you observe j anything? i | Witness?Yes, something surprising. ; ; The Attorney General?What? < Witness?That the chain was not up, i < i and that it was not locked, as was always ! , I done by my master himself when he re- j , ! turned homo late. On other occasions it j j was done by a servant. Then, I thought, i . ! it. could have been no fancv of mine that I j | lieuril the street door open and shut in tho j i middle of the night. The Attorney General?Proceed with an | account of your movements after the (lis | covery. ! Witness?I was alarmed, and I con; sidered for a little while what I ought to ! do. Then it suddenly occurred tome that | the door of the bedroom my master occu! pied was not quite closed when I had j passed it on my way downstairs. I went j up quietly to convince myself, and I saw j it was not shut. I touched it with my ! hand very gently and timidly, and it j swung open. Thinking it my duty to acquaint my master with tho circumstances of the street door chain not being up, I ventured to step into the bedroom and to call, ''Sir!" I held tho candle above my head, and to my astonishment saw that there was no one in the room, and that the bed had not been occupied during tho night. I went boldly into tho room and convinced myself. No one wus there, no one had been there. The bed was just as it had been made on the previous day. Now really alarmed, I hurried to my mis- , tress' bedroom and knocked at her door. . There was no answer. I knocked again and again, and still there was no answer. ' I opened the door and entered. My mis- * tress was lying quite still in bed. I < stopped quietly to lier side and "bent oVer. My heart almost stopped beating as I looked at her face, there was something so awful in it. "Madam! madam!" I cried, softly, and I ventured to push her by the shoulder. She made no movement; she did not speak. I cried to her again, and pushed her again, and then a suspicion of the horrible truth hashed upon me. I raised her in my arms and she fell back upon the bed. I scarcely know what happened after that. 1 began to scream, and I think I became hysterical. The next thing I remember was the servants rushing into the room and me pointing to the dead body of my mistress. The Attorney General?Do you remember saying anything to the effect that your master had murdered her? Witness?I should not like to swear to it; but it may have been in my mind because of the cruel life they had led together, and because of what had passed between them on the previous morning. jfc The Attorney -^neral?After a time you became calmer and more collected? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Had one of the servants gone for a policeman? witness? i es. The Attorney General?Shortly afterward a detective officer, Lumley Rich, entered the room? Witness?Yes. The Attorney. General?What was his first question when he had convinced himself that your mistress was dead? Witness?He asked if anything in the room had been touched or disturbed, and I said, "No, nothing had been touched 01 disturbed." The Attorney General?In consequence of the officer's question upon this point, was your attention directed to the table by the bedside? Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Was everything upon the table as you had left it; at f o'clock on the night before, when you ceased attendance upon your mistress? Witness?The pen, ink and paper were there. The decanter was there, with ver j little water in it, and I was horror struck to see that the bottle of sleeping lozenges was quite empty. I made a remark to that effect to the detective. Turning tc the mantel shelf, I saw upon it the tumbler which, when I left my mistress1 room the night before, had been on the table by her side. The Attorney General?You say thai during the day of the 25th of March yoni mistress spoke vaguely about papers and acceptances for money which she held, and of which the prisoner desired to obtain possession. Do you know anything further concerning those papers and acceptances? Witness?Nothing. The Attorney General?Do you know il any were found after your mistress' death? Witness?I do not know. The Attorney General?You saw youi master when he entered the house at 1 o'clock in the morning! Witness?Yes. The Attorney General?Was he wearing an overcoat on that occasion? Witness?No. The Attorney General?What was his appearance? Witness?Very haggard, as though h< had had no sleep?as though he had passec a dreadful nitrht. The Attorney General?That will do. (In accordance with the plan of defense which the prisoner seemed to have laic down for himself his cross examination o: this witness was very brief.) Prisoner?You say that when you were in the room adjoining my wife's bedroon during my interview with her on the morning of March 25 you heard our voice; raised to a high pitch, and that of the tw< voices mine made the stronger impressioi upon you? Witness?Yes, I did say so. Prisoner?You mean, of course, by tha that f was speaking loudly and violently Witness?Yes, I do mean it. Prisoner?Do you adhere to that state ment? Witness?Yes, I adhere to it. Prisoner?And to your conviction thai I was threatening my wife? Witness?Yes. Prisoner?As I had threatened lie: many times before? Witness?Yes. Prisoner?You have heard me threaten her many times during the last fev months? Witness?Yes. ? Prisoner?In as loud and violent a tone as you say I used on this occasion? Witness?No; not so loudly and vio lently as on this occasion; but that die not make it less dreadful. Mr. Justice Fenmore?We do not warn your opinions. Confine yourself to the statement of facts. Prisoner?Are you aware that my life is at stake? Witness?Yes. Prisoner?And that the evidence yoi have given is almost, if not quite, fata against me? Witness?I do not know anything aboul that. I have said only what is true. Prisoner?Is it not possible that, having a prejudice against me, you may have al lowed your imagination to warp youi reason? Witness?If by that you mean that ] am inventing things against you, it is not true. I have only told what I heard. Prisoner?And you heard my wife, when I left the room, call after me the words you have already given in evidence, to the effect that she believed I wished her dead; but that she would not die yet, unless I killed her? Witness?I heard her say so. Prisoner?And that she called after mc that I was a villain? Witness?I heard her say so. Prisoner?In the description you have given of your movements on the night o: this fatal day, you say that, upon hearing the street door open and close, you came out of your bedroom, and leaning over the balustrade, lookecL|lown into the hall? Witness?Yes, that is true. Pricnnor? Aurl t),nf. van kjiav mr> riilttinc out the gas in the hall? Witness?Yes. Prisoner?You are certain it was I? Witness?Yes. You had your, ulstei on, and as you had to stand on tiptoi to put out the gas, your face was raisec to tho light, and I saw it plainly. Prisoner?You saw my face plainly? Witness?As plainly as I see it now. Prisoner (with a movement of im patience)?I have no firi-ther question) to ask you. The court then adjourned. ^ (to ?k continued.] No Microbes in Tobacco.?Then is one thing about tobacco that ha ilways surprised microscopisits, anc which is highly favorable to tha Jistinguished weed. It is the pures if all vegetables substances wher placed under a microscope. Then is an entire absence of micro-organ isms of every description. Whih ilmostall else in nature, even somt if the acids, are alive with ani mated substances?bacteria, animal iula?, microbesor fungi of some kindtobacco is entirely free of everything if the kind. It presents nothing t( the microscope but its tibersand texture?its organic structure. Nor does this condition appear to change. A1 through the different processes of it; manufacture, after being removet from the stalk, it presents the sam( appearance. The microbe appears t( shun tobacco, probably because of its destructive qualities to the lowei Drganisms. A quiet life often makes itsel felt in better ways than one th( world sees and applauds, and some o: the noblest are never known till the> and, leaving a void in many hearts Louisa M. Alcott. B&F During the last fifty years, the wheat production of England has been reduced one-half, while its value is not more than one third. This iccoqnts in a large measure for the decline in the rent of wheat lands. ^UisttMmicous ^catling. SNAKE BITE." The other day, while waiting at a little station in Hall county, for an Air-Line passenger train, the station | agent, who also looked after ttie efc^ press and was section boss, too, amr^ : the postmaster, who was the proprie- 4 tor of a small country atore, were J whiling away the time in talk, ing about snakes?especially rattlesnakes. A negro man aiew minutes before had killed whaf was unani, mously pronounced aTground rattlesnake, a variety unfamiliar to the writer. The dead snake was small, having only one rattle and a button, but it . was generally agreed that the varii ety never grew larger and seldom, if ever, had more rattles. Its bite was aeciarea Daa enougn, out not as latai as the bite of the larger rattlesnakes, the one generally known to people. "What would you do if you were "Well, I would send some one to Gainesville as fast as he could git thar, for corn whisky. You may i say jist what you please agin corn whisky, but for snake bites, and especially rattlesnake bites, thar is i nothing that I knows of'for sartin [ that can come anywhere near corn whisky." "But wouldn't you die before a 1 man could go to Gainesville?six ; miles?and back with the whisky ?" "Well, I expect I'd git sorter sick afore he could git back, but I'd git a : chicken, black chickens is regarded ! as specially effikashus in sich instani cea, and cut it open, and slap onehalf to the bite, and afore you knowi ed it you'd see that ar chicken a turn' in' green, and then you'd know it : was doin its work. Keep a putting 1 raw chicken to the bite until the [ whisky comes." "But suppose you did not have a i chicken ?" , "Well, I have hearn tell that sperits turpentine was powerful j handy. You jest uncork the bottle and put the neck over the bite, and I turn her up, keeping it pressed sort, er hard on the place to keep it from cnillincr nut. vrrn tnnro anr* thp wr,wl'^ VMV) ""v" J **,iv '"v : first thing you knowedyou'd see tnat ar pisen going right straight up that bottle in a thin green streak. I've seed hit myself; it goes up jest like* ; ile goes down in the water." "But suppose you had no turpentine, what then?" The postmaster thought long and 1 laboriously, and his friend, the section boss, grew nervous at the thought thar after all the biggest ; man in the settlement was going to be downed by a question from a stranger; but in a moment or so, the ! answer came. "I've hearn Aunt Sally Brooks, : over t'other side of the Glade, say that sweet milk and cuckle burs was a powerful remedy in such cases. I 3 haint never tried hit myself, but 1 Aunt Sally has a mighty good repuf tashum in the settlement for sich matters." 3 "Salt water is mighty good, too," i said the section boss, "butit's powerJ ful aggravative to keep it down in 5 sich cases. Uncle Billy Hulsey, last 5 May, three years ago, was bitten by J a rattlesnake that had thirteen rattles and a button, and he was skeer{ ed powerful nigh to death; thar i warn't no whisky in the settlement, and nobody thought of a chicken. . Tom Samson, hegot on Jim Purdue's gray mare and put out for Gainesville, and while he rode powerful i hard, he was nigh on to three hours gittin' back. I reckon Uncle Billy would a died, but his darter Jane, unr beknown't, sent over for Aunt Sally Brooks, and she took the snake and cut it up into a powerful sight of j pieces and took'en put one after another to the bite. It drawed out all the pizen, and Uncle Billy didn't . die, but he was mighty sick, specially after the whisky come." "Did he drink it ?" 1 "I'll be blamed if he didn't swallow nigh onto half a gallon, and it 6 took all the boys to keep him from J cleaning up the whole settlement." "My honest advice," said the postJ master, after a short pause, "is that these other things is mighty good , when you can't get nothing else, but I there ain't nothing like good corn whisky; it beats anything yit that is 6 knowed of fur snake bites." ! WOMAN'S INFLUENCE UPON MAN. ; It is better for you to pass an even? ing once or twice a week in a lady's . drawing room, even though the conj versation is slow, and you know the girl's song by heart, than in a club, a tavern, or the pit of theatre. All s amusements of youth to which vir, tuous women are not admitted, rely I on it, are deleterious in their nature. , All men who avoid female society have dull perceptions and are stupid, or have gross tastes and revolt against ?I what is pure. Your club swaggerers, who are sucking the butts of billiard cues ail night, call female society inf sipid. Poetry is uninspiring to a , jockey; beauty has no charms for a j blind man; music does not please a 3 poor beast who does not know one tune from another; but as a pure epicure is hardly ever tired of water, 5 sancey and brown bread and butter, I protest I can sit for a whole night talking with a well regulated, kindly woman about her girl Fanny, or her r boy Frank, and like the evening's ? entertainment. One of the great benefits a man may derive from a woman's society, is that he is bound to be respectful to her. The habit is . of great good to your moral men, dei pend upon it. Our education makes us the most eminently selfish men in the world. We fight for ourselves, we push for ourselves, we yawn for ourselves, we light our pipe and say we won't go out, we prefer ourselves 3 and our ease; and the greatest good 3 that comes to man from woman's so1 ciety is that he has to think of somet body to whom he is bound to be cont stantly attentive and respectful. 3 The Hessians.?The prejudice of our forefathers against the Hessians 3 or foreign mercenaries who were } sent to this country by the English - government to subdue the colonies, - was so great that these troops have - since always been spoken of withconT, tempt. They were really regarded ) among the best soldiers in Europe. The contract of England with the 3 Landgrave of Hess called for 12,700 I men, besides "three corps of artille3 ry," the latter probably numbering a I few hundred guuners in all. But 3 the Landgrave practiced the gross) est frauds, receiving pay for the full 3 number, counting incomplete battalr ions, deserters, the dead, etc. In addition to the Hessians, England employed 4,723 Brunswickers in the f revolutionary war. J 1 24. 2? ~ 11 i s&r Ana WlltJU lb is mi uvci, auu ' our feet will run no more, ana our . hands are helpless, and we have scarcely strength to murmur a last prayer, then we shall see that instead ! of needing a larger field, we have i left untitled many corners of our. single acre, and that none of it is fit s for our Master's eye, were it not for f the softening shadow of the Cross.? Edward Garrett. I