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Where all life's hitters and its sweets, Where all th t life 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. Pitil‘ul in its tender mien, - Pitiful to the weary host That slumber silently unseen. A host of eager souls that bear Glad hope and tenebrous despair. —George Edgar Montgomery, in Harper‘s Weekly. ACQUITT'E D BY ACCIDENT. BY HENRY FIELDING. 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- known 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 irreproachable. 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 Ilarvy Dudley, a dark- faccd, sinister looking fellow, and to me in many ways objectionable. ' I knew that young Hood had an incipi- ent 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 been apprehended. I knew further that it 'was this Ilarvy Dudley 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 011 the jury on the hypothesis that Walter yet regarded him as his friend, but, nevertheless, 1 determined to watch him. “no trial commenced and as the evi- dence- for the prosecution proceeded I was fairly startled. One witness after another gave testimony, some of them very reluctantly, but all pointing to the. prisoner as the guilty party. Some credible witnesses swore that they had heard him swear 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 aboutthe 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. Ens 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. An d this was not all. The floor of the basement was damp, and some of the outer shavings to which the liO‘ht‘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. That house had been to him indeed an infernal region. Fina!- ly the prisoner was allowed to speak for himself. He said that he had threatened to burn the house down; that he had said all that he had been sworn to and that he was around the house on the night of the fire--indeed he was not ten rods oil‘ 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 eyes raised to Heaven, hecalled on God to witness that he was innocent. I knew Walter; I knew him so well that from that moment I believed him innocent. I knew his yery soul, and I knew there was no falsehood in the story he told. “My boy is innocent! nocent!” I heard the cry and saw his poor old mother, almost broken-hearted, sink back fainting into the arms of her com- My boy is in- 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. lie 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. I 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, Lasallc, and immediate- ly above the 2'si.gnature I read these words: “And now, clear 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 sheet which had been used in the burned house. I went back to the rack and found I had taken the paper from Ilar- 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. Ilarvy 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. IVithout hesitation he handed it to me. It was Walter Ilood’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 ten minutes or so it was ascertained that eleven of the jury were 'bent upon returning a verdict of guilty, though most were fa.- vorable to recommending the prisoner to mercy. But Ilarvy 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- plained Ilarvy'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 upwind would have seized it, but he was held back. Word was sent to the judge that the jury could not agree. Ve 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 locked her in one of the rooms before setting 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 get the paper and the knife. It was he who had robbed “falter, 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 pin ce he did not notice what it was, and even 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 VJalter’s pocket and put it in his own, using it on the night of the fire to pry open the 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 Harvy sentto 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 here for six months to obtain it. if he continues on with evil compan- ionship he is not safe—Banner of: Gold. : «Tm :EVENING' GAZETTE ' f . Disturbances In Armenia. COXSTANTINOPLE, March 27.—The out- break at Killiz is more serious than sup- posed. The town is now surrounded by troops. and no one is allowed to leave or enter the place. The officials of Bitlis are preventing, the American missionaries from distributing aid. The British em- bassador, Sir Philip Currie. has had an interview with Tewfik Pasha, the minis- ter for foreign affairs, on the subject. Trenton Mhn’s \Vife Divorced. PERRY, O. T., March 27.——Mrs. Howard M. White, wife of a well known bicycle rider of Trenton, has been granted a di- vorce here, although the husband had first filed suit for separation ,and had lived Mrs. White is the daughter of C. E. Stahl of New Jersey, one of the leading G. A. R men of the country. A New Lightship Launched. BATH, Me., March 27.—Lightship No. 56 was launched successfully at the Bath _ Iron works today. Nearly 3,000 people were present. Mrs. Savage, wife of In‘ spector S. A. Savage, named the vessel. l‘helightship will be ready for duty on May 20. She will be stationed at Nan- tucket, New South shoal, off Cape Cod, Mass. An Outbreak of Natives In South Africa. CAPE TOWN, March 27.—The Matabeles of the Inseza and Filabusi districts have revolted and massacred the white settlers. Including Commissary Bentley. The fugi- tive whites are flocking to Buluwayo and Gwelo for protection. A detachment of 75 volunteers with a. maxim gun has been dispatched against the natives. Many Hands Out of Work. GREENVILLE, N. H., March 27.—The Old Colony mills of Wilton, N. H., oper- ated by Messrs. C. .T. Amiden &. Son. have shut down indefinitely owing to dull times. A large number of hands are thrown out of employment by the suspen- sion. Turkey Shows Her Anger.» CONSTANTINOPLE, March 27.—The re port that Mavroyeni Bey, Turkish minis- ter to the United States, has been recalled is confirmed by information obtained at the foreign office here. Terrible Explosion of Fire Damp. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, March 27.— A terrible explosion of fire damp has taken place in a mine at Brunnerton. Five per- sons were killed outright and 60 more are antombed with no hope of being rescued. Carpenter Succeeds Judge Doe. CONCORD, N. H., March 27.-—Hon. Alonzo P. Carpenter has been appointed Jhief justice oftbe New Hampshire su- preme court, to succeed the late l-Ion. Charles Doe, deceased. 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