The Shasta courier., 1869-01-30
NUMBER 46.
cy's slowly spoken words produced.

cy's slowly spoken words produced.
The whole vast audience uttered mur-
mur of surprise and curiosity as one man
.and then remained breatbless awaiting
further developments.
Cushman had grown pale as death, and
the white hand with which he clutched at
the arm of his chair quivered like a leaf.
"I demand the recall to the witness
stand of Miss Elizabeth. Atherton," said
Darcy there is a little more evidence
which l wish to offer"
After some slight demur Miss Atherton
again took the stand, and testified that on
the fifteenth of October there had been
picnic in Mackay's grove. She had been
escorted thither by Matthew Doane. In
getting into the buggy Matthew had torn
his "white overcoat with the black but
tons, and she had offered to repair it
He left it with her that night. and it had
remained locked in her clothes press ever
since.
Covering like criminal, changing from
red to white and from white to red Cush-
man sat and listened He made several
Intellectual attempts to speak, but his voice
died upon his lips.
Darcy turned toward him and bent his
glittering eyes, which seemed to hold in
the depths some strange mesmeric power
which bent the mans will to the behests
of his own mind, he said, pointing at him
his long skinny finger:
Mr. Leonard Cushman, you have heard
the evidence of the witness just up. You
are proved guilty of perjury, and before
Heaven and in the presence of this Court
l accuse you of the murder of Dennis
Kirby. Listen while 90 over briefly the
motives which actuated you," said Darcy
speaking rapidly, and utterly disregarding
the attempts of the Court to bring him to
ORDER. " You are gambler; so was Kirby.
You played together and he won. You
had fine property out of which he wheed-
led you at cards. He cheated and took
advantage, and, by my soul Mr. Leonard
Cushman, you were not so much to blame
when you murdered him as you might have
been"
No, curse him." muttered Cushman,
thrown of his guard, fatally.
He threatened you with exposure and
imprisonment" went on Darcy. He knew
that you had forged the name of your en-
ployer for a considerable sum; he held the
secret of your guilt You decided to put
him out of the way, and you die it. 1t
was necessary to throw suspicion on some
one, and Matthew Doane was selected,
partly because you hated him that he dared
to be an honest man, and partly because
be had won the love of the woman whose
money you wanted"
"Who told you this ?" asked Cushman,
tremblingly.
My common sense told me something
the parties l secretly employed to work
up the case told me something more"
F." 1t is useless to contend" said Cush-
man abjectly. "I did the deed This
cursed sharp blade has got it all cut and
dried, and l might as well own up
Loud and long were the cheers which
burst from every throat, and though oc-
cupied in hurrahing and throwing up nv
hat, | did not fail to see that Miss Ather.
ton was weeping on Matthew's shoulder.
and that in spite of all the lockers on he
was kissing the tears away.
Cushmah was arrested and placed in
Jail, but in the morning he was gone. He
had been aided to escape, and though the
search was long and vigorous, he was never
found.
Matthew Doane gave up his pride and
married Miss Atherton, and if you want to
be caned go to Major Atherton and hint
that his son-in-law is nor what he shouId
be and you can be gratifed.