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Although this county has been most fortunate in having the duties of sheriff discharged by many of our first citizens, yet no one has exceeded Col. Maynard in all the qualities that make up a good and reliable officer. The writer is reminded just here of a little incident which shows how determined he was to carry out faithfully, and to its legal consequences, all his official business. The writer had a young man in his employ who fell under the suspicion of petty theft, and to satisfy himself, and to detect the thief, if such he proved to be, some bank notes were marked and left in a cash drawer, to which this young man had frequent access. The money was taken. Accompanied by the sheriff, I went to the young man's boarding house, search was instituted, and the marked bills found upon his person. The colonel thought it his duty to take the young man to jail. I was reluctant to place him in so deplorable a condition, as I knew of no other departure from a virtuous life, and hoped and believed that if allowed to escape punishment then he might reform. Taking him into another room, receiving his most solemn assurance that he would thoroughly reform, if permitted to escape, I gave him money to carry him back to New York, opened the door, and he vanished in the darkness. As a palliating circumstance connected with the legal error I committed, I may say, that though I have never seen the young man since, I am assured by a credible person who knows him well, he is a man of unsuspected Christian character.
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