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MOONLIGHT.
I—COUNTRY.
Over umbrageous fields and hills,
Where birds were j >you:. throughout the day.
And warbled their melodious trills
In their own swee;. melodious way.
The moon, the gel-ion summer moon.
Turns darknese to an argent noon.
' A ghostly silence 11112; the earth.
A hush of golden strain and song;
There is no sin;;‘. : scan-:1 of mirth
Through all the ten-Jorful night long.
And soft. win-ls quiver through the trees.
Salt with the odors of the seas.
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Down shrouded lines or populous streets
And boisterous gas-lit avenues. .
Where all life's hitters and its sweets,
Where all th t li-e desires or rues,
All that love holds and all it mars.
Wakens or sleeps beneath the Stars—
The moon shines down like some far ghost,
Pltilul in’its tender mien,
Pltiful to the weary host
'lh it slumber silently unseen,
A he .0 of eager souls that bear
Glad hope and tenebraus despair.
——George Edgar Montgomery, in Harper‘s
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BY HEN RY FIELDIN G.
The case to be tried was one of arson
~a capital offense at. the period to
which this story relates—and the pris-
oner at the bar was one of the best-
l~;nown young men of the town in which
he resided, by name Walter Hood. He
had a widowed mother dependent
upon him for support, to whom he was
devoted, and in most respects his con-
duct was irreproachablc.
The trial commenced and we twelve.
men took our seats in the jury box.
Of the eleven men with me there was
only one whom I did not like to see
there. That was Harv y Dudley, a dark-
faced, sinister looking fellow, and. to
me in many ways objectionable. I
knew that young Hood had an incipi:
cut failing. He was becoming addicted
to drinking, and had been known, while
so excited, to visit questionable resorts.
It was for the burning of one of these
houses that he had bccn apprehended.
I knew further that it was this Ilarvy
hhudley who had been his most con-
stant companion; who had done more
than anyone else to lead him astray,
and who had accompanied him to these
undesirable haunts. I could only ac-
count for his being on the jury on the
hypothesis that \Valtcr yet regarded
him as. his friend, but, nevertheless, 1
determined to watch him.
The trial commenced and as the evi-
deuce for the prosecution proceeded I
was fairly star tlrd. One‘witness after
another gave testimony, some of them
very reluctantly, lint all pointing to the
prisoner as the guilty party. Sonic
credible witnesses swore that they had
heard him swcar he would burn the.
house down; others heard him say re-
peatedly that he wished it were burned
down. Then came others who had seen
him lurking about the premises on the
night of the fire. On the score of mo-
tive it was shown, on his own admis-
sion, that he had been ill-treated in the
house and that he had said he would
have revenge; furthermore, it was
proved that he had been heard to say,
that the salvation of his soul depended
upon the destruction of the house.
Next came testimony stronger still.
The fire had originated in a back
basement room, where shavings and
other stuff for kindling were kept. 13n-
trance had been gained by means of a
back window, which had been partly
pried open with a stout knife, and on
the floor had been found the blade of a
knife which had been broken off in the
efforts to raise the sash. That blade
was recognized as belonging to a knife
the prisoner had owned. A maker of
cutlery had made that knife for him
and positively identified it. And thiswas
not all. The floor of the basement was
damp, and some of the outer shavings
to which the light had been applied had
not burned, and just at the edge, where
the fire commenced, lay a piece of paper,
rolled up and half burned. From the
position in which it lay and‘ its appear-
ance it was evident that this piece of
paper had been ignited by match and
then applied to the shavings. The shav-
ings had blazed up at once, but the
piece of paper lying on the damp floor
had not wholly burned up. This piece
of paper was found to be a part of a let-
ter addressed to the prisoner and re-
" ceived by him only a week before.
The case looked very dark. Many
witnesses were willing to testify to the
prisoner’s good qualities, but no one
could swear that he was not dissipated
and degraded. T hat house had been
to him indeed an infernal region. Final -
ly the prisoner was allowed tolspeak
for himself. He said that he had
hreatened to burn the house down;
that he had said all that he had been
S‘NOI‘D to and that he was around the
house on the night of the fire-indeed he
vas not ten rods off when the flames
burst forth and he was one of the first
to give. the alarm. He had uttered one
cry of “fire ” when he noticed Where the
fire was and the thought came to him
that if he was found he might be sus-
pected of having started it, so he ran
away. He also said that three nights
before the fire he had been in the house
and robbed of everything his pockets
contained, including forty dollars in
money and some valuable papers. He
had gone there on the night of the fire
in the hope of getting something back,
but seeing some one enter whom he did
not wish to encounter he hung about
awaiting that person’s departure. That
was an hour before the fire broke out,
but of setting the place on fire he was
innocent; he knew nothing of it, and
clasping his hands, with his tearless
9. yes raised to Heaven, he called on God
to witnéss that he was innocent.
I knew \Valter; I knew him so well
that from that moment I believed him
innocent. I knew his very soul, and I
lrnew there was no falsehood in the
story he told.
“My boy is innocent!
Docent!"
. 'I ’heard the cry and saw his poor old
mother, almost broken-hearted, sink
My boy is in—
back fainting into the arms of her com- .
p
panion. All this, however, had little
effect on the spectators. The prisoner’s
course of dissipation; his many threats
against the house, and the very fact that
he had been robbed there were heavy
against him. The attorneys delivered
their pleas and the judge gave his
charge. ' He told us, of course, that if
there was a lingering doubt in our minds
we must give the prisoner the benefit
of it; but I could plainly see that there
- was not the least shadow of doubt in
his mind. The jury were" conducted to
our room and locked up. A silence of
some minutes occurred, which Harvy
- was the first to break.
"Well,” said he; “I s’pose there ain‘t
any need of our being here a great while.
Of course, we all know the prisoner
must have set fire to the place.”
There was something in his manner
as he said this which excited my curi-
osity. 1 will not say it was suspicion
then, but my curiosity. He spoke with
a forced effort at calmness, and the
more I looked at him the more I became
nervous and uneasy. I wondered why
he should be so anxious to get rid of
the case and have Walter convicted. I
knew he had also frequented the house
and that he had also done much towards
tempting Walter into dissipation. and I
knew, from what Walter had told me,
that he was in that house when the rob-
bery had taken place. .. ‘~
Presently the foreman suggested that
we should each take a piece of paper
and write down our opinion and then
compare notes. I went to my over—
coat, which was hanging on 'a rack with
the rest, and took out a sheet of paper.
I had got half way back to the table
when I found that I had got half a let-
ter from another man’s coat. I was
about to turn back when the name of
the writer caught my eye. It was
signed Samuel Lasalle, and immediate-
ly above the signature I read these
words: '
“And now, dear Walter, if not for
your own yet for your dear mother’s
sake, let me hope you will do better.”
I started as if I had been shot. I had
in my hands the other half of the shcet
which had been used in the burned
house. I went back to the- rack and
found I had taken the paper from Har-
vy Dudley’s coat. I looked to see if I
had been observed; I had not. I put
the piece of paper back and took an-
other piece from my own coat, which
was hanging near. Then I returned to
the table and sat down. liarvy occu-
pied a place beside me. He had already
written his opinion and had taken out
a knife to sharpen his pencil.
“Let me take your knife for a mo-
ment, please," I said to him.
"v’ithout hesitation he handed it to
me. It was Walter Hood's knife—the
large blade was gone! I had all I could
do to restrain myself, but having sharp-
cncd my pencil I returned the knife to
him with a mere thank you. I learned
afterwards that the accident of his hav-
ing that knife in his possession was at-
tributable to the fact that he had not
worn that pair of trousers since the
night of the fire, and now used the
knife without remembering the loss it
had sustained doing a very peculiar
piece of work, to the execution of which
it had been made subservient.
After deliberating some tcn’minutcs
or so it was ascertained that eleven of
the jury were bent upon returning a
Si erdict Of guilty, though most were fa-
vorable to recommending the prisoner
lo mercy. But IIarvy was inexorable.
He would extend no mercy.
Presently I started up and pretended
to be faint and asked to be excused for
a few minutes. I kicked at the door
and the sheriff came. IIe let me out,
and when we had gained a safe distance
I told him what I had discovered. He
went away and brought back the dis-
trict attorney and Walter’s counsel. I
told them what .I had seen and ex-
plaincd IIarvy’s conduct in the jury
room, his former connection with' the
prisoner and his known character. The
lawyers retired for a. little while and
came back attended by a constable and-
a freshly-drawn paper. They desired
me to point out the coat immediately on
entering the room, and together we
went in.
I pointed out the coat, the sheriff tak-
ing it and demanding to know to whom
it belonged. Ilarvy jumped up and
would have seized it, but he was held
back. 'Word was sent to the judge that
the jury could not agree. We were
summoned and discharged, and then
Harvy was searched, the knife being
found in his possession, and his be-
havior at once exposed his guilt. A
new jury was impaneled and Walter
was acquitted. -
Shortly afterwards Harvy was tried
and it was plainly proved that he had
set fire to the house; that the woman
who kept it was to have been burned
in it, as he had loci-zed her in one of the
looms before scitirg fire to the place,
because she had incurred his displeas-
ure in some way, and this. was his rc-
\enge. Not only she, but two of the
girls living with her had suspected him
from the first, but they dared not com-
plain lest he should not-be found guilty,
and then would be sure to murder them.
The hardened villain confessed his
guilt after he had been condemned, and
then it was that he told how he hap-
pened to getthe paper and the knife.
It was he who had robbed Walter, and
.when he took the old letter, which he
had found in Walter’s pocketbook, to
use as a torch in setting fire to the place
he did not notice what it was, andeven
when the burnt half was produced in
court he had entirely forgotten that he
had put the other half in his pocket, as
he must have done. As to the knife, he
had also taken that from “’altcr's
pocket and put it in his own, using it
on the night of- the fire toppry openthe
window, and then, broken as it was, re-
turned it to his pocket Without think-
ing anything more about it. -
Thus‘ was Walter saved by an acci-
dent and I-Iarvy sent to his due punish-
ment; and the moral of the story is that
while a. youth can make all the good
resolutions thought can‘ suggest, yet
if he continues on with evil compan-
ionship he is not safe—Banner of Gold.
mil Llfl CHEESE.
Burglars secured an entrance into A.
W. Chicbestel’s store on Boutou street,
at Whistleville, betWeen 12 and 6
o'clock Sunday morning.
The first intimation the police had of
the burglary was when Mr. Ohichester
advised them about 6 30 o’clock that his
store had been entered bv thieves, and
an attempt made to break open the safe.
Chief Vollmcr accompanied him back
to the store and found that the front
door had been pried open with a chisel.
Further investgiation showed that.
the burglars had smashed the lock on
the money drawer and had secured 81
in pennies and a few dollars in bills,
They had helped themselves to pic,
canned goods and a few pounds of
cheese.
In a small room in closejuxtaposition
to the store was the safe. The burglars
had succeeded in drilling two holes in
the same, one of which thev filled with
explosives and fired off, with the result
that only the upper portion of the safe
was blown off, and they were unable t )
complete their work, being, as is sup-
posed, frightened away. .
The work was evidently lhat of ama—
teur burglars. thev having done the
drilling in the safe at a part that would
not meet with the success that would
have been a sure thing with a profes-
sional. But even had they gained en-
trance to the safe they would have had
their trouble for naught, as there was
nothing of value in it. I
The burglars left a jiinmv, a brace
and a bit, a heavy hammer, a few
wedges, and an open door as evidence
of their intention to make a big haul.
HE HELPa'jIMSELF.
Some weeks since there arrived in
Wilton afimau who gave his name as
Benjamin Will-eta. He was seeking a
place to board and was accommodated
at the home of Mrs. Henry W. Mitchell.
He did not appear to have any visible
means of support but paid his board re-
gularly, and that was all that could be
reasonably expected of a boarder.
But then it is always the unexpected
that happens. '
Monday night the boarder disappear-
ed and Tuesday morning Mrs. Mitchell
found thataroll of money containing
about $100 was missing from a bureau
draWer where she had placed it.
Oflicer Morehouee was advised of the
theft that morning and was given 9. fair-
ly good description of the man suspect-
ed of having stolen the money. It mav
be that the fellow will be foolish enough
to come here to “blow in” his ill-gotten
gains but it is the more probable that
he willplaee a greater distance between
himself and his remunerative boarding
house,
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W. H. Starbuck Dead.
William H Starbuck, sixty-one years
old. died Sunday of heart disease at
his home, No. 8 East Sixty-first street,
New York.
Mr. Starbuck was born at Nantucket,
Mass, in 1835. He became president
of the Housatonic railroad in 1888, and
held the position until 1892, at which
time he was also a direct it in the New
York and New England reduced. In
1892 he took the Oregon Improvement
Companv out of the receiver’s bands
and became its p::esident, which posi-
tion he held until last June, when he
retired from relive businebs. {1e leaVes
u wid »w and two sons.
Acting treasurer A. H. Cusp of the
Fairfield County Savings bank was in
Fair Haven on Saturdav and conferred
with Postmaster Beach in“ reference to
the lease of a store wanted for post-of-
fice purpcses and owned by the bank.
shots.
STOLE H|_8_TllOU8ERS
Burglnrs visited the residences of
James L. Grifl'etb: Eben Eaton and
James E. Wixon at an early hour Mon-
day morning. ' All are residents of
West Main street. _
They first attempted to gain an en-
trance to James Griffeth’s house by
using a pair of nippeis on the key in
the door on the east- side of the house,
and succeded in turning the tumbler of
the look, but the door was boiled and
they could not open it.
' They then went to the west side of
the house and tried the nippers on the
key in the look. This door leads into
Mr. Grifieth’s sleeping room, and there
was a light burning. Mr. Grifi'eth
heard them and getting out of bed se-
cured his revolver, blew out the light
and wentt) the door. Evidently the
burglars heard him moving about, for
they hastilv ran off from the stoop and
before he could get a shot atthem were
out of pistol range.
hben Eaton’s house was also visited
by the gentry. An unsuccessful at—
tempt was made to get into the house
by the way of the front door. Failing
in this they went to the bay window,
tore open a blind and with some instru-
ment or other succeeded in breaking
the window-catch. '
They crawled through the window
into the sitting-room and found their
way about by the use of matches. Mrs.
Eeston awoke and her attention was at-
tracted by a smell of burning matches.
She awakened her husband to whom it
quickly became evident that there
were burglars in the house, and he
started to investigate, With the result
that he saw two men dash through the
room into the kitchen and out of the
door. Returning to his room be dis-
covered that the burglars had taken his
trousers With them, and that they had
also helped themselVes to two shirt
studs which were of little value. The
trousers were found in the dooryard.
but the pockets had been rifled of about
$1 in each and some small trinkets. -
The residence of James E. Wixon
was also entered much in the same Way -
as at Mr. Euton’s, a catch in the bay
window being forced off, after a vain
attempt to turn the key in the door
with a pair of ninpers. The thieves
were evrdently hungry as they helped
themselves to meat and other edibles
in a liberal manner, not forgetting milk
with Which to wash the food down
their throats. Partially burned matches
Were strewed about the flier. Nothing
of value was found to be missing.
Burglary at Brookfield.
Bennett’s grocery store at Brookfield
was burglarized last night. The bar-
glars were discovered by a. local con-
stable who exchanged revolver compli-
ments with them. Neither party aimed
to kill Judging from the resuitlof the
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