The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-06-03

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OF the doctors the council only asked
q few questions.
"You spoke about strangulation. How
was it produced?"
II cannot tell"
pressure on the throat produces
strangulation?"
''It does.''
"Any sort of pressure?"
tight"
Hanging produces strangulation?"
eyes"
"Was the man hanged, doctor?"
s'No, of course not"
"Why, 'of course not2'"
"Because there is no reason to think
he was"
'Any other reason for 'of course
not?'"
'No."
"You may CO." and go he did. after
saying more, and implying much moro
than he meant.
The case looked very black, and was
closed by the Grown reading the nolan
dian made when Power refused to answer
the sheriff's questions.
The audience were greatly excited, but
the prisoner himself maintained de-
meanor perfectly tranquil. He was
rather moved when the witnesses de-
scribed the grief of Johnstone's family,
but except at this stage of the trial, he
evinced no emotion whatever.
"Call Admiral Seymour" said MI. G.
A tall, weather-beaten man, somewhat
stately, stepped into the witness-hox, and
was sworn.
admiral, do you know why you have
been asked to come here?"
"No, sir, do not; and I think it
would have been more civil to have told
me. I know nothing about Mr.. Power,
or any of that name"
sNo one has had the civility to ask you
what you wero going to say?"
Eyes; gentleman came from tho
Grown Office; told him he knew as much
MS did"
81 believe you left Belfast by the
Sunday, the oath of January?"
81 did"
''Do you recollect q conversation you
noes?"
''I remember it and him very we'll.
He was very intelligent fellow, and
we talked together most of tho night"
"Were you fellow-t travellers up the
Clyde to Glasgow"
eve were."
"When did you arrive in Glasgow?"
"About o'clock in the afternoon"
"Where did you part from him?"
81 took him to the Western Club, Of
which I am member, and gave him
lunch, and we parted there"
| (To the prisoncr) "Stand up, if you
please. Is that the man?"
''It is"
"Have you any doubt of that?"
'None, whatever"
| The Grown rose to cross s-examine.
"There must be some mistake, admi-
ral. Look at him again."
"There is no mistake. That is the
man. should know him anywhere.
''Did you see any one like him?"
"Not that remember. But since you
are so pressing, I should like to hear
him speak"
The Judge said there could be no OBJ
lection to that, and told the prisoner to
address n remark to the witness.
"Ah, admiral. do you recollect what
happened to Dermot Rooney's cow on
her birth-day?" said the prisoner.
| Tue reminiscence was plainly divert
ing one, for the admiral laughed out
right, and said it was the samo funny
ACiioW, OCJ all dOuOt. huC,
as it was, the jury seemed to think so
too. And the admiral was allowed to re-
tire without further question.
"Cnll Miss Bridget Malone, said Mr. G.
And q very pretty, lady-like young wo-
man stepped Into court, accompanied by
her mother.
"You are the daughter OF Mr.. Malone,
the banker Of Belfast?" said Mr.. G.
"Yes, am."
"Do you remember travelling to Bel
fast by the coach from Waterford, on the
23d Of January?"
| eyes, sir"
"You travelled inside?"
| "Ycs. sir"
"Had you any fellow-travelers?
"Yes," said Miss Bridget, with smile,
''that gentleman" pointing to Power,
"was with me-"
"All tho way?"
eyes,
"Was he agreeable?"
Every pleasant, SIR"
"Have you ever seen or heard Of him
since?"
mo, sir. saw On advertisement in
| the Belfast newspaper, which 7 knew