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the world. She soon however learned, that the Jurors
were not permitted to speak to any person during
the trial, in relation to the result of which
she felt great interest, from an honest desire
to see public justice administered. Day
after day & night after night the jurors eat
at her table. She tried to read from their countenances
what was the state of their feelings
& what would probably be their verdict, but to no
purpose. The verdict was rendered late in
the evening. William Starnes, one of the jurors
being seated at the supper table, "broke silence"
& said to her, I can speak to you now
Miss Peggy, the trial is over. She rose to
her feet & darting at him, a look, that could
have annihilated a man of ordinary sensibility,
said to him "You shan't speak
to me, you perjured old scoundrel. You
have said on your oath, that R. K. A. is not
Guilty of the Murder of Thos P. Taul - You
are all perjured, and you know it - Get out
of our house, this moment, it shall not be
polluted by your presence."

This Lady possessed talents & virtues, that
might have been an ornament to her sex,
but she has been peculiarly unfortunate.
She is now the wife of a worthless vagabond
who has has treated her badly.