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There had been a ht so," and then

the chairman spoke to the counsel for the prosecution "Mr Murray, can

you carry the case any further by other witnesses? At present I see no

case to go to the jury You will see that the witness not only does not

set up any case of embezzlement, but rather loads to an inference in the

contrary direction"

"No, sir," was the answer; "I a to the

case already presented to you"

Upon this, the chairman said, "Gentlemen of the Jury,--The case for the prosecution does not sustain

the indictment or require me to call on the prisoner for his defence,

and it is your duty to find hi a civil action, in respect of the large su lady, and for which he is still accountable to

her; nor by acquitting hi that he has not shown

himself a man of very questionable honesty, but only that the evidence

will not bring hiuilty of

embezzlement under the statute, and this because of the looseness of

the arrange ments, that had been iretted that with the best intentions and kindest

purposes, want of caution and experience on her part should have