Assassination of Lincoln

ISBN: 9781333265427 出版年：2018 页码：36 Charles Chiniquy Forgotten Books

Now came the greatest trial of Mr. Chiniquy' s life. His enemies, rich, powerful, high in position, scrupled at no means and left no stone unturned to cruch him. At the last trial so positive was the perjured evidence that when it was once heard the Chicago papers were telegraphed that he would be convicted. Yet this: very circumstance saved Mr. Chiniquy' 3 being a vic tim to his foes. A lady in Chicago reading the papers said it would be too bad, for she knew Mr. Chiniquy was innocent. Not being able to go to Ur bana, her husband prevailed on another lady who knew the same facts to go in her place. Upon her arrival the whole plot was exposed that Mr. Chini quy was saved — the witnesses leaving town before court opened the second day for fear of being lynched. Indeed, so grave was the case and so strong the evidence that at the close of the first day Mr. Lincoln said to Mr.