Litchfield enquirer., 1870-06-23

dered out of court during the evidence of the other
 The first man was put in the box, and duly examined. remembered his face, and that was alL
 He stated that he was on the lookout that night. and that just after eight bells, he heard two men come out on the fore castle. They were dispu:ing, and he knew by their voices that it was the prisoner a1d deceased. He was behind the sail which stretched across the forecastle, so that, though he could be seen as they came up into the forecastle, they could not see him when on it. The dispute continued some half a minute or so, and then the prisoner drew out of his pocket the belaying pin, and struck the deceased over the head with it, and as he was falling, pushed him, so that he fell overheard. The witness made no alarm, it took him so by surprise; and the other witness, Patrick Murphy, then came up, and told him to hold his TOW, and they should get pull on the young Britishsr by keeping it quiet. He wanted to tell the captain; but Murphy said if he did he'd loose his time, and per haps get locked up as witness, and get nothing for his trouble. That was all he knew. He had not tried to get anything out of the Britisher; Murphy had told him it was better not to try.
 My counsel then rose, and asked him
 how he came to know that was the other
 person. Because of the voice, and because
 at the time the moon was shining full on my face. so that he could not take any
 mistake. He was quite sure it was the prisoner. ,gs
 The next witness was brought ina pale
 red haired, sallow-faced wretch, with very
 small pinkish eyes, white eyelashes, a large, wide, straight mouth, and one ot
 those unpleasant noses which look as ii some violent blow with sharp instrument
 had cut it in two, horizontally just above
 the tip. +e< a
 | He stated that he was sitting under the
 overhanging part of the forecastle. All
 the rest of the watch were asleep about the
 deck, except himself and the lookout. He
 saw the prisoner and the deceased man
 come forward, and mount the forecastle
 and he heard them disputing about the
 row at dinner, and he then went up and
 looked at them from the leach of the fore
 castle, with the lookout. The last witness
 and he saw the prisoner strike the deceas-
 ed on the head with the brass belaying pin and then pushed him overheard. As he
 fell, he heard the splash, and was too much
 surprised for moment to give the alarm
 aud cry out; and when he recovered him self, he thought it best to say nothing
 about it. Smithson was nothing to him. Did you propose to make money out of the prisoner by holding this secret oVel
 himT
 ! T did. Smithson was nothing to me- And no considerations of justice lnduc
 cd you to give the information?' ? tN~.oo Uhnk do aopo fop .iTrSkI0AY | we-u havo vpouud our naoaths, wa shnulf have been looked after all the rest of ou
 voyage, and instead of our having our larl ashore, we should have been hanging
 abott this court for week or two. for paltry dollar day, or thereabouts. If Jus tice wants me she must pay me.
 And during ten years, you have beel
 quite silent on thts matter? ; Yes. lost sight of the prisoner, ant didn't think much about it, for I've beel south and on the Gold Coast, and we didn'
 think so much of putting man unde } there, as you seem to do up here What induced you to come forwar> , now?' 44@. T saw the advertisement, and. says l Now. that's. something like; one thousand dollars is something. Justice is doing l } handsome, and no mistake
 And to whom did you first give inform ation?'
 } .To MT. Sharper, and he promised if th prisoner was hanged, as hope be will be and my mate should have double tn ) amount.
 An irrepressible cry of 'shamer her rose from the body of the court. , sSilence! Silence! said the ushers. } One more question, your honor. and have done with one of the vilest beings
 has ever been my lot to question. Are you ] remembering that you are on your oath prepared to state that the prisoner was tn , man who struck the blow? How do yo' } know it?'
 3 I saw him, I tell you, in the brigh moonIight-it was full moon-as light day.
 You may go down. |, "The officer in charge of the case VII l see to it that the witnesses do not leav , the court until it is concluded said tn judge.
 : their case. This time, the imping, hah } ing junior was replaced by the glib, conf 3 dent. smiling and well-to-do senior. H ? went carefully over the facts of the case 1 dwelling minutely on that accursed quarre 7 attributed no malice beyond that arisin l from the irritation left by the dispute, an' 3 concluded by asking the jury ito remembe ) that though ten long years had been pass ] ed-though the bones of the victim ha ] been strewn by thousand currents on tn shores of the world-though silence an l darkness had covered up this deed of vic r lence for all these years-yet, the fact r were as plain, and the guilt as great, as ] the ghastly face of the murdered man ha . but that moment sunk from their gaze ? below the waters, with his clenched ham r uplifted in silent prayer to Justice t
 avenge his most cowardly and brutal mul . der b1 > ea As he sat down felt almost guilty. . was almost convinced that in some horribl e moment of frenzy had done this dee s without knowing it.
 a My counsel rose to reply, and said all h
 could. He dwelt on the long silence, 8
 lily accounted for; on the character of tn
 witnesses; on my own; and called on tn
 jury to remember that this tale had onl leaked out under the inducement of larg
 reward d-warning them to remember th
 number of cases in which evidence Of thl
 hind had been finally rebutted and chow
 to be false. He did what he could; but
 could see, long before the judge rose, tha ! II was doomed man.
 The judge summed up temperately, dis I passionately, until he came to the consld . S-.A:oo oe +ho 1ox,oo of time since the deed