<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/74/Marguerite_Tuerny_14.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Marguerite Tuerny<br/><strong>Date:</strong>May 4, 1876<br/><strong>Time of Day:</strong>Morning<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Courthouse: Judge Warwick's office<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Judge Warwick, Closed<br/><hr/>She thought over his suggestions, particularly his speculations about her effects.<strong>"There was a travel vanity."</strong>She suggested.<strong>"Not particularly valuable, though it was worth more than $300.  Senior Deputy Hunter retrieved a few papers and my family photographs when he arrested Eklain, but the vanity was not among those effects.  It was my mother's and her mother's before her.  The box and all the pieces were stamped with her family crest.  The rest of the effects... "</strong>She fluttered her hand in a motion waving off the belongings as she added.<strong>"... are really of no consequence. I could identify them if I saw them, particularly the dresses and accessories.  But I don't particularly care to have them returned.  I would however,  very much like to recover that vanity. Besides the photographs, it was really all I have left of her mother." </strong>She knew what a distant hope that was.  But if it was in Gomorra, perhaps she could buy it back from whoever currently possessed it.<br/><br/>She read the papers he presented in their entirety, often paging back to earlier clauses when they were referenced later in the document.  She asked few questions, but those she asked were pointed and specific.<strong> "We were not married.  And we were not betrothed.  Though he pressed his proposal many times, I never agreed."</strong>She laid a foundation.<strong>"So I do not believe he committed a crime in abandoning me, penniless and in the middle of the wilderness."</strong>She considered further.<strong> "I believe the crime of horse theft is a capital offense because it leaves the victim helpless and diminishes their chances to survive in the harsh wilderness?  Wouldn't depriving me of my transport - the train in this case - in the middle of untamed wilderness have the same legal foundation?  Even if he did not push me off the train, he certainly withheld aid that could reasonably be construed as life-saving."</strong>She frowned as she thought through the matter.<strong>"The fact that I did survive of course diminishes the quality of that argument, but I do believe survival was the less likely outcome given the situation."</strong><br/><br/>She scowled then, and shrugged the whole mental exercise away.<strong>"I want to charge him with theft, in an amount in excess of three hundred dollars."</strong>And that is the charge she put on the petition.<strong>"Regarding the mine.  As soon as I can arrange transportation and adequate protection, I will accompany the inspector myself."</strong>She signed both petitions.<br/><br/><strong>"This window you mentioned - how long do I have to produce fundament?"</strong>She asked as a final question as she sipped her tea.  She eschewed the pound cake, as she had already eaten and had no desire to weigh down her metabolism further.