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the jury, without leaving their seats, returned an immediate verdict
of "Guilty of murder in the first degree." Soon afterward the unhappy
wretch received sentence of death, and was remanded to the county jail
to await the inexorable vengeance of the law.
In the meantime, the noble behavior of "Old Charley Goodfellow," had
doubly endeared him to the honest citizens of the borough. He became
ten times a greater favorite than ever, and, as a natural result of the
hospitality with which he was treated, he relaxed, as it were, perforce,
the extremely parsimonious habits which his poverty had hitherto
impelled him to observe, and very frequently had little reunions at his
own house, when wit and jollity reigned supreme-dampened a little, of
course, by the occasional remembrance of the untoward and melancholy
fate which impended over the nephew of the late lamented bosom friend of
the generous host.
One fine day, this magnanimous old gentleman was agreeably surprised at
the receipt of the following letter:-
Charles Goodfellow, Esq., Rattleborough
From H.F.B. & Co.
Chat. Mar. A--No. 1.--6 doz. bottles (1/2 Gross)
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Charles Goodfellow, Esquire.
Dear Sir--In conformity with an order transmitted to our firm about
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