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While Freaiöent Urant waa wauuermg down...

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
March
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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While Freaiöent Urant waa wauuermg down tlie niisty corridors of bis tion, a sort of oldest inhabitant who never recolleots any thing, Babcock's Dodson and Fogg were parading their great American witness who alwavs remembers everything. This phenomenal witness is a letter-carrier whoremembers that in February, 1875, Joyce induced hirn to take out of the mail the very letters that he had just induced Everest to put into the mail. Mr. Magill cannot teil a lie- he did so with his little post-office key. The box waan't in his route ; he diJn't reeeire f roía Joyce the blank flllcd out in Buch cases ; he didn't report the occurrence ; he never mentioned it. But there the etidence Rlumbered, like the precious water in the bosom of the rock, till the predestined Storrs emote him with a subpoana acd he nished forth. We do not hint that Mr, Magill lied ; we cannot believe that he was mistaken. We can only admire the providence that watches over the good man struggling with the storms of fate, and moves in a terious way liis innocence to demónstrate. While the prosecutipn have been vainly straining every nerve to find some one who could recollèct delivering a message, or identifying a signature, here comea Mr. Magill, whose memory nors p-ecisely the two letters that it was imiortant should be eiiminated from the record. Mr. Stoirs, witli exquisitely artistic taste, rested his case ■with the depositions of the President, who knew nothing about everything needful, and the postman who kr.ew everything about the one thing needful. But does not this eridence cast new light upon the sacredut-ss of the mails, and is it not rather too much to ask the Treasury to convict thieves with the White House, the General and the I Postoflice banded againat it ?

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Old News
Michigan Argus