THE TIMES NEW BLOOMFIELI) TA., JUNE 14, 4881. A Lawyer's Story. . fTUI K fi1 lowing glory .tolil by a lawyer, 1 shows the Unreliability of uiroiim utantiiil evlilente:, , V ; v ;,'Vi. One winter evening hbotit 8 o'clock in the early days of the war., In the ijulet little town of ..while iatrolUiR the streets to pick up stragglers froiii , the flmp on the outskirts - of the town, Corporal Julius Fry wits shot and kill ed by one of three men of bad character, who were In company and in open enmity with the soldiers. The men were arrested, committed to prison uud brought to trial at the next term of court, . Two of them were gamblers and desperadoes and supposed to have more than once had their hands stained In human blood. The third, whom I shall call Bhort, though bearing au unenvia ble reputation, was regarded as one unlikely to slay a fellow-man except under compulsion of circumstances. On account 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 trial and the subsequent result it is importaut lo bear in mind the physical peculiarl-' lies, dress and general appearance of each of the three prisoners. Bhott was a small man, not more than live feet six inches in height, slender, weighing scarcely 130 pouuds, with bright, tiery-red hair and side-whiskers, and at the time of the murder wore a white felt hat and an old light-blue army overcoat. Ryan was fully six feet in height, of robust frame, dressed in dark clothes and wore a Derby hat. Grey wa9 a heavy, broad shouldered man of medium height, weighing fully pounds, with a full black benrd reaching nearly to his waist. But as the evidence subsequently showed that he had not fired the shot it la unneces sary to describe his appearance more minutely. Certainly it is difficult to Imagine two men more unlike than Short and Ityan or less liable to be mistaken for each other even by strangers, much less by their acquaintances. There was no possibility here for a case of mistaken identity. Short and ltyau were tried together, with their consent Grey having asked for aud obtained a separate trial aud each was defeuded by a separate coun sel. ' After the preliminary proof relating to the post-mortem examination, the cause of death and the identification of the body of the deceased a9 the person named in the indictment the Common wealth called as its first witness a woman, Mary Bowen. She bore a bad name for chastity, but nobody question ed her integrity or purpose to tell, re luctantly, it is true, the whole truth. The prisoners were all her friends aud constant visitors to her drinking saloon, if which she was proprietress. She was a woman of powerful physique, almost masculine frame, great force of charac ter and more than ordinary intelligence. From her testimony It appeared that a colored woman with whom she had some difficulty had hit her on the head with a stone and ran, aud the three prisoners coming up at that moment, started with her up the street in pursuit of. the fugitive. Although the night was dark there was snow on the ground, and a gas lamp near by gave sufficient light to enable one to recognize a person with ease some feet away. ' After running about one hundred yards the pursuers came to the corner of an alley aud stopped under the gas lamp, being challenged by the deceased, who was in uulform, in company with one of his squad. She swore that when the cor poral called "halt" Short, whom she had known intimately for years replied, "Gotoh 1," aud, while standing at lier side, so that their elbows were touching, both being Immediately under the gaslight, he pulled out a pistol, pointed it at the deceased, who was four or five feet from him, and fired and then ran down the alley, the deceased pursu ing him, she heard four or five more shots fired and immediately the deceased .returned,' wounded, and Short disap. geared. While the shots were being tired ehe saw both Ryan and Grey etand- iug at the corner some feet away from her and after that they separated and she went home. It was also proved that the alley was bounded, on either eide, by high fences, difficult ' to climb, and led down to a stream of water about fifty feet wide and three or four feet deep. Xo traces of footsteps were found in the buow except those of one man leading down into. this stream, and it was evident that the person who had fired had not climbed either fence, but Lad waded through the stream aud dis appeared on the other side. Th next witness was the soldier who stood loi!e by the deceased when the . first lot wag fired, and who, not know lag the prisoners, described the person who fired and ran down the alley tm. the man wltii red-half and sld(j.whiskeiB, dresnedlu a Jlght-blud army .-overcoat and white soft bat, aud' Upon being directed to look at the, three prisoners immediately IdeutiOoil'Short as the man whom he had seed do the shooting. , Tlie testimony of these witnesses was in uo wise shaken upon cross examina tion. . , V , . Then the.. .sworn, antl-mortem state ment of the deceased, taken by a magis trate, was read to the Jury. He said that he had known Short personally for some time, but he never had any diffi culty with him. He fully Identified him as the man who had fired the first shot aud then ran down the alley, firing one shot after auother until he fired the last and fatal shot almost In the face of the deceased, lie also fully deecrlbed the clothing worn by Short as it had been described by the other witnesses. These were all the witnesses to the occurrence, except the prisoners them selves, and, of course, they could not be heard. The cuse against Short seemed to be as conclusively made out hs though a score of witnesses had sworn that they had seeu him do the shooting. Neither the Judge, Jury, nor the spectators en tertained the slightest doubt of his guilt, and when the Commonwealth, at this point, closed its case,, it seemed as though the fatal rope was already around his neck aud his escape Impos sible. Ryan heaved a sigh of relief which was audible throughout the whole court room, for he whs safe; there was not one word of testimony against him or any circumstances 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 of them rose 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 culled as a witness for the other prisoner. This was resisted by the District Attorney, aud, after lengthy aud elaborate arguments, the Court de elded that it was bound to grant the motion, aud accordingly Ryan was de clared "not guilty" aud the verdict recorded. Then came a scene as dramatic to those present as auy thing ever witness ed on the stage. Without any opening speech by Short's counsel, Ryan, In obedieuce to a nod from his attorney, stepped out of the prisoners' dock aud into the witness-box, looked around the court room, took up the Bible aud was sworn to tell "the truth, the whole truth." Every head was bent forward, every ear was on the alert, every eye fixed on the witness something start ling was expected. Would he attempt to show that Short had done the shoot lug in self-defense V 'That seems the only thing possible. But how could he be believed in the face of the positive testimony of three witnesses, two of them living and in the court room, and 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 1" 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, aud then contiuuing; "I want to know from the Court whether anything I may say now can ever be used against me lu any way V" What did hejiieau ? What need for that question '( Every one looked at his neighbor inquiringly. The Hush of the Judge showed that he, at least, understood what it meant an attempt to swear his guilty com panion out of the hangman's grasp. Then, in a tone of unmistakable indig nation, came the answer ; " I am sorry to say, sir, that nothing you may say now can be used against you ; that is, on a trial of murder. You have been acquitted." Ryan's face grew pale, aud theu red, and he said, slowly aud distinctly : " It was I who fired all the shots not Short." Most of the faces in the court room wore looks of incredulity ; Borne of In dignation at the hardened wickedness of the man who had Just been declared Innocent aud who, by his own state ment, wag guilty of murder, if he was not guilty of perjury. But, quietly aud calmly, without a tremor, as coolly as though he was de. scribing some trivial occurrence which he had casually witnessed, Ryan went on step by step, detailiug all that had occurred, aud wheu he had finished his story there was probably not a person present but who was fully couvinced not only that Ryan had told the simple truth, but also that he himself fired the fatal shot In self-defence, or at least uuder such circumstances of danger as would have led thejury to acquit him. He detailed how he had fired the first shot from a small, single-barreled pistol in the air without auy purpose except to give his challenger a scare, aud theu ran down the alley and upon ' being closely pursued by the deceased with sabre drawn aud ready to strike, he wag compelled to pull out a revolver and fire several shots towards his pursuer, who was rapidly gaining on hliu, go as to keep him back ; ami that when he had but one shot left he stumbled over a large stone and fell on his knees, and at thin moment the deceased struck at him with the sabre, cultiug him slightly lu the cheeks, aud, being thus pressed, he aimed and fired the last shot, which subsequently proved fatal. lie further told how, upon recovering his feet, he ran, waded though the stream aud find ing that he had lost his hat wheu he fell, retraced his steps, recrossed the stream, found the hat and theu went to a hotel, where he wa9 seeu by several witnesses to dry his wet clothing. His manner, his bearing aud his story Itself convinced his hearers that he wag tell ing the truth. But, so that nothing might be want ing if any doubt remained lu the minds of the Judge or the jury, witnesses of undoubted veracity who were called corroborated him as to the condition of his clothing and the cut on his cheeks within fifteen minutes after the occur rence. Besides it was shown that although the mau who had tired had waded through the stream, Short's cloth ing was perfectly dry. It is unnecessary to say that Short was promptly acquitted and warmly congratulated on one of the narrowest escapes ever made by any mau In a courtroom. Nothiug could have saved him had the court refused to direct the acquittal of ltyau and allow him to testify. The deceased corporal, the soldier and Mary Bowen were mistaken. That was all there was about it. So much for the occasional unreliabil ity of the direct testimony of honest eye witnesses. And so much, also, for giving the accused1 an opportunity to be heard on the witness stand, the denial of which by the law is one of the relics of bar barism which still disgrace its adminis tration lu some States at this late day. The Young Woman's Front Hair. THERE is no season of the year when a young womau doesn't have all the trouble with her front hair that anybody ought to have with anything lu this world, but lu the soft summer weather the management of the front hair or bangs, or frizzes, or whatever It all may be called, is quite too awfully discouraging for anything. During the cold and solid weather a youug lady's hair will stay anywhere she may put it; she may eveu hang it over the gas fixtures or on the towel rack and It will remain as complacently and uuru tiled as may be desired. The bandolinlug compounds know their place in the .winter time and maintain their dignity. They can always be relied upon. But when the water comes It is different. All front hair melts down as everything else melts. The baudolining glue won't hang together and the young woman who goes out in good order has no idea where she will find the most of her nice frizzes and bangs au hour hence They have likely melted aud run all arouud her forehead aud into her eyes aud scattered back toward her ears and gen erally given her a wild and horrible look which isn't pretty. She knows she is a fright; she says so a thousand times a day. This is a very severe trial to a young woman, but she endures It with a forti tude that would give way at the sight of a mouse. Anybody would suppose that one duy's experience of this thing would be enough. But don't for a moment deceive yourself with the notion that it Is. No sooner does she escape from the public in this melted aud demoral ized condition than she makes arrange ments to go through it all again. She pastes her front hair lu place with a patience and skill which would win her fame if devoted to some durable work; she wraps au old and faded veil about her head to keep the pasted fragments lu place while in the house, and finally she goes out again, knowing as well as Bhe knows anything which is some times suspected to be not very well that iu a very short time ehe will be in a state of trouble aud con f union about that front hair, as she has Ueu mauy, many ti mes before. The young women will go on doing this as long ag it is the fashion. It never occurs to them to do a sensible or a neat aud tasteful thing iu the way of fixing their hairs unless it ia the fashion for them to do so; and sadly enough It must be said that any thing so seusible lg hardly ever fashion able. The consolation which auy suf fering young woman hag unquestionably is that nearly every other youug woman is about as much of a fright as she is. Co-operative misery, so to gay, is alwayg the most endurable. Every observing human being who goes where youug women are on these summer-like day must be 'convinced, however, of the great need of some divl!e w hich shall in gome measure mitigate the horrors of the feminine front hair. Iu I ta present unprotected condition it rulus the pleas ureof life during the warm days and destroys" the prettiest pictures of the drawing room and the promenade.- There can be no real happiness, until front hair has been educated to stay where It is put at all seasons of the yeHr, or until young women have been - edu cated not to put it where It is impossible t) expect it to stay. . , r r The Ram at Church. Molile had a little ram, fleece bluck as rubber shoe, and everywhere that Mollle went he em i grated too. He went with her to church one day the folks hl-la-rlous grew to see him walk demure ly into Dea-con Al leu's pew. The wor-tuy deacon quickly let his angry passions rise, aud gave it au un christian kick between the sad, brown eyt. This landed rammy in the aisle; the deacon followed fast, aud raised his foot again; but ah! that first kick was his last. For Mr. Sheep walked slowly back about a rod, 'tis said, and ere the deacon could retreat, it stood him on his head. The congregation theu arose and went for that 'ere sheep, but several well di rected butts just plied them in a heap. Theu rushed they straightway for the door with curses long and loud, whi'le rammy struck the hindmost man and shot him thro' the crowd. The minister had often heard that kindness would subdue the fiercest beast, so "Ah!" he says, " I'll try that game ou you." Aud so he kindly, gently called: " Come, rammy, rummy, ram; to see the folks abuse you so, I grieve and sorry am !" With kind aud gentle words he came from that tall pulpit down, saying, " Rammy, rammy, ram; rammy, ram my, rammy, rammy, ram best sheepy lu the town." The ram looked meek, and on he came, with "rammy, rammy, ram; rammy, ram, ram, rammy, rammy, ram ; the uicey, pretty ram." The ram quick dropped its humble air and rose from off Its feet ; aud when the parson lit he lay beneath the hindmost seat. And as he shot out the open door, and closed it with a slam, he named a California town I think 'twas "Yuba Dam!" A Snake Kills a Dog. A few duys ago a dog belonging to Timothy O'Neil, Birmingham, Dela ware county, was over, iu a swamp when it suddenly started for home at a furious pace. When it arrived there and threw itself down in the yard its master saw what was the cause of its terror, and well might it have been so scared. Around the dog's body was wrapped a large black snake and five minutes after the dog had thrown itself on the ground it was dead. Timothy at once proceeded to kill the snake while it was still on the dog, but the reptile succeeded In getting ofF the dog's body before it was finally killed, which was not accomplished without some diffi culty as the snake showed considerable fight. - EST A preacher whose delight it was to startle his hearers said that there were three things which a woman should both be and not be at the same time. First, she should be like the snail, al- ways keeping within her own house; but she should not be like the snail which carries all it has upon its back. Second, she should be like an echo and speak when she Is spoken to; but not be llkean echo, which, always manages to have the last word. Third, she should be like the town clock aud always keep time and regularity; but she should not belike the town clock, which speaks so loud that all the town can hear It. C38TIt costs more to avenge wrongs than to bear them. How to Save. 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