which he mentions? If so, his clerks or persons connected with him in
business must have known it; yet no witness is produced. Nothing can be
more important than to prove that he had the money. Yet he does not prove
it. Why should he leave this essential fact without further support? He is
not surprised with this defence, he knew what it would be. He knew that
nothing could be more important than to prove that, in truth, he did
possess the money which he says he lost; yet he does not prove it. All
that he saw, and all that he did, and everything that occurred to him
until the alleged robbery, rests solely on his own credit. He does not see
fit to corroborate any fact by the testimony of any witness. So he went to
New York to arrest Jackman. He did arrest him. He swears positively that
he found in his possession papers which he lost at the time of the
robbery; yet he neither produces the papers themselves, nor the persons
who assisted in the search.

In like manner, he represents his intercourse with Taber at Boston. Taber,
he says, made certain confessions. They made a bargain for a disclosure or
confession on one side, and a reward on the other. But no one heard these
confessions except Goodridge himself. Taber now confronts him, and
pronounces this part of his story to be wholly false; and there is nobody
who can support the prosecutor.

A jury cannot too seriously reflect on this part of the case. There are
many most important allegations of fact, which, if true, could easily be
shown by other witnesses, and yet are not so shown.

How came Mr. Goodridge to set out from Bangor, armed in this formal and
formidable manner? How came he to be so apprehensive of a robbery? The
reason he gives is completely ridiculous. As the foundation of his alarm,
he tells a story of a robbery which he had heard of, but which, as far as