Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2)

confess that I did regard that personage with sentiments of disgust and indignation; but, nevertheless, I was very loath to appear against him when summoned (as I was, soon after leaving my sick-bed) to give evidence on the charges preferred against him. These were two in number, and affor

I had finished that unhappy gentleman myself; and I knew also, in the second, that my admitting this fact would, without doing Mr. John Smith any good, produce a decided inconvenience to myself:-not that there was any fear I should be arraigned for murder, but because nobody would believe me. I rememb

ere only accused of assault with intent to kill, he had in reality committed a murder; which if I had affirmed, as I must have done

reater was my embarrassment. A feeling of integrity within me (for Zachariah Longstraw was a man of conscience) urged me to

hould prove backward in court. And, sure enough, his prediction was verified; for, not giving a straight answer to any one question when the trial came on, I received divers reprimands from the court, and was finally committed for a contempt to prison; where I lay two or three days, until called into court again to give evidence on the second endictment, Mr. John Smith having been found not guilty on the first. This was owing in part, I presume, to the testimony of several surgeons, who deposed that there were no marks of violen

I did not affirm, I must beg to despatch the second trial by relating that I was packed off a second time to prison for contempt, but that the evidence of the watchman, and my late wounds

anity, and a perverted, Quixotic conscientiousness, such as are common enough among persons of the persuasion I then belonged to. This, and perhaps the circumstance t

Jonathan, and, of course, before I had well begun my career of philanthropy. Of that caree