The cashier's own bank testified its gratitude by endeavoring to show (but humiliatingly failed in it) that the peerless servant's accounts were not square, and that he himself had knocked his brains out with a bludgeon to escape detection and punishment.
George Benton was arraigned for trial.

Then everybody seemed to forget the widow and orphans in their solicitude for poor George.

Everything that money and influence could do was done to save him, but it all failed; he was sentenced to death.

Straightway the Governor was besieged with petitions for commutation or pardon; they were brought by tearful young girls; by sorrowful old maids; by deputations of pathetic widows; by shoals of impressive orphans.

But no, the Governor--for once--would not yield.
Now George Benton experienced religion.