She is not guilty of theft! I unhesitatingly assert, that if to act as she has, and under the circumstances she acted, be theft, then such a thief would I become to-morrow; and in my own conscience, of the opinions of the world and confident in the forgiveness of an Almighty Father, would I commit such a theft as she has--just such an offence.

I pleaded 'not guilty,' and it may surprise you that in the face of such a plea, I should acknowledge that she took the money.

Again I repeat my plea.
She is not guilty of theft, and to you who have hearts to you who sympathize with the sufferings of a soldier's wife--to you, whose wives and children may to-morrow be placed in a similar position--to you, I leave a verdict.

But one word yet ere I am done.
"The money which she took, to what use was, it placed?
To purchase a _coffin_ for her child! To place the lifeless body of her daughter in its last home ere it is covered by the dust--this, and this only, was the good which accrued from it.

And, gentlemen, he--Mr.Elder--is the MURDERER of that child.