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detain him. Badly as Friend Hopper thought of the man, he almost wished he had escaped, when he discovered that he had a wife and children to suffer for his misdoings.
His tender heart would not allow him to be present at the trial, lest his wife should be there in distress.
She did not appear, however, and Captain Dana made a full confession, alleging poverty as an excuse.
He was an educated man, and had previously sustained a fair reputation.
He was liberated on bail for fifteen hundred dollars, which was forfeited; but the judgments were never enforced against his securities.
Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
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