“During the preliminary examination of this prisoner in October, she inadvertently furnished this clue, when, in explaining her absence from the station house, she stated that suddenly awakened from sleep, ’she heard the voice of one she knew and loved, and ran out to seek the speaker’.  Twice she has repeated the conversation she heard, and every word is corroborated by the witness who saw and talked with the owner of that ‘beloved voice’.  When asked to give the name of that man, whom she expected to find in the street, she falters, refuses; love seals her lips, and the fact that she will die sooner than yield that which must bring him to summary justice, is alone sufficient to fix the guilt upon the real culprit.

“There is a rule in criminal jurisprudence, that ’presumptive evidence ought never to be relied on, when direct testimony is wilfully withheld’.  She shudders at sight of the handkerchief; did she not give it to him, in some happy hour as a tender Ricordo?  When the pipe which he lost in his precipitate flight is held up to the jury, she recognizes it instantly as her lover’s property, and shivers with horror at the danger of his detection and apprehension.  Does not this array of accusing circumstances demand as careful consideration, as the chain held up to your scrutiny by the prosecution?  In the latter, there is an important link missing, which the theory of the defence supplies.  When the prisoner was arrested and searched, there was found in her possession only the exact amount of money, which it is in evidence, that she came South to obtain; and which she has solemnly affirmed was given to her by Gen’l Darrington.  We know from memoranda found in the rifled box, that it contained only a few days previous, five hundred dollars in gold.  Three twenty-dollar gold coins were discovered on the carpet, and one in the vault; what became of the remain ing three hundred and twenty dollars?  With the exception of one hundred dollars found in the basket of the prisoner, she had only five copper pennies in her purse, when so unexpectedly arrested, that it was impossible she could have secreted anything.  Three hundred and twenty dollars disappeared in company with the will, and like the torn envelope, two of those gold coins lifted their accusing faces in Pennsylvania, where the fugitive from righteous retribution paid for the wings that would transport him beyond risk of detection.

“Both theories presented for your careful analysis, are based entirely upon circumstantial evidence; and is not the solution I offer less repugnant to the canons of credibility, and infinitely less revolting to every instinct of honor able manhood, than the horrible hypothesis that a refined, cultivated, noble Christian woman, a devoted daughter, irreproachable in antecedent life, bearing the fiery ordeal of the past four months with a noble heroism that commands the involuntary admiration of all who have watched her—­that such a perfect type of beautiful