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We had been discussing a recent cause celebre in which, upon purely circumstantial evidence, a man had been convicted of an atrocious murder —although many of those most famil iar with the circumstances of the case entertained the gravest doubts about the justice of his conviction—and had been swung off into eternity protesting his absolute innocence with his latest breath and calling upon God to send his soul straight-way to hell if he was not telling the truth. As most of our party were lawyers, the conversation, naturally enough, drifted into a discussion of the dangers arising from convicting accused persons whose own mouths were closed, upon purely circumstantial evidence in the absence of any direct and positive proof of guilt, and case after case was cited in which, after conviction and execu tion, the entire innocence ot the sup posed culprits had been clearly demon strated. Most of the laymen present agreed with the distinguished lawyer whoso veiy positive expression of opin ion has been quoted, while a majority of the lawyers contended, with that earnestness for which lawyers are no ted when advocating their own side of any question, that justice could never miscarry when careful judges guard against the possibility of unsafe ver dicts by refusing to permit aconviction except when every link in the chain of circumstantial evidence has been estab lished beyond doubt and the whole chain made so perfect and complete as to leave no room for any consistent hy pothesis of innocence. 'The first murder case I ever tried,' said one of them, 'was stranger than fiction, as you will admit, and is quite as remarkable as any of the cases you have referred to where innocent men hare been wrongfully convicted upon circumstantial evidence. It ought to have been reported as an example of the unreliability of the direct and posi tive testimony of eye-witnesses who tell what they believe to be the truth.' lie then related the main points of what was certainly a most remarkable and dramatic trial, and which consti tutes a fair off-set to some of the mem orable cases to be found in every work on circumstantial evidence. Tte nar rative produced so strong an impres sion upon my own mind that subse quently, with his consent, I put it into the following shape, having first care fully compared it with bis notes uf tes timony taken upon the trial of the case. It can be relied upon as absolutely cor rect, with the exception that I have used fictitious names, for reasons which will readily be appreciated when it is known that most of the actors in the drama are still living. One winter evening about eight o'- clock, in the early days of the war, in the quiet little town of , while pa troling the streets to pick up stragglers from the camp on the outskirts of the town, Corporal Julius Fry was shot and killed by one of three men of bad character who were in company and upon terms of open enmity with the soldiers. The men were arrested, com mitted to prison and brought to trial at the next term of the court. Two of them were gamblers and desperadoes and supposed to have more than once had their hands stained with human blood. The third, whom I shall call Short, though bearing an unenviable reputation, was regarded as one unlike ly to slay a fellow man except under compulsion of circumstances. On ac count of the character of the men and the trouble they had already brought upon quiet, law-abiding citizens, the sentiment of the whole community was strongly against them. In order to clearly understand the force of the testimony given upon the trial and the subsequent result it is im portant to bear in mind the physical peculiarities, dress and general appear ance of each of the three prisoners. Short was a small man of not more than five feet six inches in height, slen der, weighing scarcely 130 pounds, with bright, fiery-red hair and side whiskers, and at the time of the mur der wore a white felt hat and an old light-blue army overcoat. Ryan was fully six feet in height, of robust frame, with black hair and mus tache, dressed in dark clothes, and wore a black Derby hat. Grey was a heavy, broad-shouldered man of medium height, weighing fully 200 pounds, with a full, black beard reaching nearly to his waist. But as the evidence subsequently showed that he had not fired the shot, it is unneces sary to describe his appearance more minutely. Certainly it is difficult to imagine two men more unlike than Short and Ryan or less likely to be mistaken for each other even by strangers, much less by their acquaintances. There was no possibility here for a case of mista ken identity. Short and Ryan were tried together with their consent—Grey having asked for and obtained a separate trial—and each was defended by separate counsel. After the preliminary proof relating to the post-mortem examination, the cause of death and the identification of the body of the deceased as the person named in the inpictment, the Common wealth called as its first witness a wo man, Mary Bowen. She bore a bad reputation for chastity, but nobody questioned her integrity or her purpose to tell—reluctantly, it is true—the whole truth. The prisoners were all her friends and were constant visitors to the drinking saloon of which she was the proprietress. She was a wo man of powerful physique, almost mas culine frame, great force of character and more than ordinary intelligence From her testimony it appeared that a colored woman with whom she had had some dispute had hit her on the head with a stone and ran, and the three prisoners, coming up at the mo mhnt, started with her up the street in pursuit of the fugitive. Although the | night was dark there was snow on the i ground, and a gas lamp near by gave sufficient light to enable one to recog nize a person with ease some feet away, i After running about one hundred yards the pursuers came to the corner of aD , alley and stopped under the gas lamp, ' being challenged by the deceased, who was in uniform and in company with I one of his squad. She swore that when the Corporal called 'halt,' Short, whom ; she had known intimately for years, re plied, 'Go to h—l,' and—while stand ing at her side, so that their elbows were touching, both being immediately under the gas-iight—he pulled out a pistol, pointed it at the deceased, who was four or five feet from him, and fi"- ed and then ran down the alley, the deceased pursuing him. She heard four or five more shots fired, and imme diately the deceased returned, wound ed, and Short had disappeared. While t'le shots were being fired she saw both Rvaa and Grey standing at the corner some feel away from he. 1 , add after that they separated and she went alley was bounded on either side by high fences difficult to climb, and led down to a stream of water about fifty feet wide and three or four feet deep. No traces of footsteps were found in the snow except those of one man lead ing down into this stream, and it was evident that the person who had fired bad not climbed either fence, but had waded through the stream and disap peared on the other side The next witness was the soldier who stood close by the deceased when the first shot was fired, and who, not knowing either of the prisoners, de scribed the person who had fired and ran down the alley as the man with red hair and side-whiskers, dressed in a light-blue army overcoat and white soft hat, and upon being directed to look at the three prisoners immediately identified Short as the man whom be had seen do the shooting. The testimony of these witnesses was in no wise shaken upon cross-ex amination. Then the sworn ante-mortem state ment of the deceased, taken by a mag istrate, was read to the jury. He said that he had known Short personally for some lime, but had never had any difficulty with him. He fully identified him as the man who had fired the first shot and then ran down the alley, fir ing one shot after another until he fired the last and fatal shot almost in the face of the deceased. He also fully de scribed the clothing worn by Short as it had been described by the other wit nesses. These were all the witnesses to the occurrence except the prisoners them selves, and of course they could not be heard. The case against Short seemed to be as conclusively made out as though a score of witnesses had sworn that they had seen him do the shoot ing. Neither the Judge, the jury nor the spectators entertained the slightest doubt of his guilt, and when the Com monwealth, at this point, closed its case it seemed as though the fatal rope was already around his neck and his escape was impossible. Ryan heaved a sigh of relief which was audible tnroughout the whole court room, for he was safe; there was not one word of testimony against him or any circumstance tending to show any previous arrangement or concert of action between him and Short. After a whispered consultation be tween the counsel for the defense, one ot them arose and moved the Court to direct the jury to forthwith return a verdict of "not guilty" as to Ryan, in order that he might be called as a wit ness for the other prisoner. This was resisted by the District Attorney ; and after lengthy and elaborate arguments the Court decided that it was bound to grant the motion, and accordingly Ry an was declared "not guilty," and the verdict was recorded Then came a sceDe as dramatic to those present as anything ever wit nessed on the stage. Without any opening speech by Short's counsel Ry an, in obedience to a nod from his at torney, stepped out of the prisoners' dock and into the witness box, looked around the court room, took up the Bi ble and was sworn to tell 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth ' Every head was bent forward, every ear was on the alert, every eye fixed on the winess—something start ling was expected. Would he attempt to show that Short had done the shoot ing in self-defense ? That seemed the only thing possible. But how could he be believed in the face of the posi tive testimony of three witnesses, two of them living and in the court room, one of them dead ?—murdered ! Ryan stood for a moment looking down, and then slowly lifting his eyes to the bench in a silence in which the falling of a feather might have been heard, he said: 'May I ask the Court a question ?' The venerable Judge, evidently sur prised at being interrogated, looked at him and said : 'Certainly, sir.' 'I understand that I am acquitted,' said Ryan, pausing for a moment and then continuing, 'I want to know from the Court whether anything I may say I now can ever be used against me in any way.' What did he mean ? What need for that question? Everyone looked at his neighbor inquiringlv. The flushed face of the Judge show ed that he, at least, understood what it meant—an attempt to swear his i guilty companion out of the hangman's I grasp Then, in a tone of unmistaka | ble indignation, came the answer: 'I am sorry to say, sir, that nothing | you may say now can be used against j you; that is, on a trial for murder. | You have been acquitted.' Ryan's face grew pale and then red, and he said, slowly and distinctly: 'lt was I who fired all the shots— I not Short.' M9 each; Est ray, Caution an 4 Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines, each. From the fact that the Cmzxs is the oldest established and most extensively circulated Be publican newspaper in Butler county, (a Repub lican county) it most be apparent to business men that It is the medium they should use in advertising their business. NOJS was told bodily to the Lord in the presence of the congregation ! The lecturer would have cared nothing about it if the audience had not been preseut, for as the author has found out, there were many things io that lecture that nobody knew, not even the Lord, because they were not true. Then came the lecture, a sort of earthly echo of the heavenly dissertation. It was a state of melancholy collapse. Years have gone, and in the ashes of the writer's extinguished indignation there now blossom grotesque pansy faces laughing in a quaint way over the predicament be was in, his guns all discharged in prayer-time, and not another shot in the locker! There are things as sadly misplaced in men's petitions as an astronomical lecture, but wasn't it absurd to a degree ? 'Let us unite in prayer,' said the preacher and away he went, measuring heights and distances like a Government Surveyor, whisking the congregation —and some of them were seventy years old if they were a minute— around the rings of Saturn as if they were circus-riders, darting in and out among the constellations, stirring up the bears, Major and Minor, and caper ing around the zodiac like Capricornus, when 'the star of Bethlehem' was about all the astronomy he had any business with in his petition. 'And all the people said'—not 'Amen,' but •why need we pay a man from foreign parts to preach science to us, when the Elder here at home can pray it all io twenty minutes, and no extra charge?' TIPPING THE HAT. We bad a call the other day from a —monkey. His face was smutty and bis coat was red. He came at one end of a long string, and stood upon the d >or-stone. Tbe other end of the string was in tbe hand of a miller-who was grinding out 'Bonaparte Crossing tbe Rhine' from a very wheezy organ. People are generally ashamed of them selves when they see these jokes on the human race, that make such a man as Darwin possible. WelL the monkey got the dime he came for, and then tipped his little bat forward with a quick monkey motion, and went his way. Tbe lifting of that bat startled me, it was so like the salutation of a certain strain of high-toned young men about town. Did the men get the fashion from the monkeys, or the monkeys from the men ? However this may be, it is but a pert and monkey-like mimicry of courtesy. There is no more politeness in it than there is in the snapping of a snuff-box lid. The hat is lifted up with a tilt to tbe front, and then shut quickly down again, as if tbe castor worked on a binge at the forehead, and there were something effervescent to escape, says ideas, but there never is anything ex cept a faint suspicion of bay-rum or pomatum. Watch the gun lock pro cess tbe next time y u have a chance, as if when they tip it up something bit, and when tbev lot it down some thing was getting away. State Fair an