was in a state of stupor. At last, he wound
up his sentence by praying us to prepare ourselves for the awful change,
by an appeal to that heavenly Father. "Father!" exclaimed I, in a voice
which electrified the court, "did you say my father? O God! where is
he?" and I fell down in a fit. The handkerchiefs of the ladies were
applied to their faces, the whole court were moved, for I had, by my
appearance, excited considerable interest, and the judge, with a
faltering, subdued voice, desired that the prisoners might be removed.

"Stop one minute, my good fellow," said Ogle, to the gaoler, while
others were taking me out of court. "My lord, I've something rather
important to say. Why I did not say it before, you shall hear. You are
a judge, to condemn the guilty, and release the innocent. We are told
that there is no trial like an English jury, but this I say, that many a
man is hung for what he never has been guilty of. You have condemned
that poor young man to death. I could have prevented it if I had chosen
to speak before, but I would not, that I might prove how little there is
of justice. He had nothing to do with the robbery--Phill Maddox was the
man, and he is not Philip Maddox. He said that he never saw me before,
nor do I believe that he ever did. As sure as I shall hang, he is
innocent."

"It was but now, that when appealed to by him, you stated that you had
seen him before."

"So I did, and I told the truth--I had seen him before. I saw him go to
hold the gentleman's horse, but he did not see me. I stole his bundle
and his stick, which he left on the bench, and that's how they were
found in our possession. Now you have the truth, and you may either
acknowledge that there is little justice, by eating your own words, and
letting him free, or you may hang him, rather than acknowledge that you
are wrong. At all events, his blood will now be on your hands, and not
mine. If Phill Maddox had not turned tail, like a coward, I should not
have been here; so I tell the truth to save him who was doing me a kind
act, and to let him swing who left me in the lurch."

The judge desired that this statement might be taken down, that further
inquiry might be made, intimating to the jury, that I should be respited
for the present; but of all this I was ignorant. As there was no
placing confidence in the assertions of such a man as Ogle, it was
considered necessary that he should repeat his assertions at the la