Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1879-01-23

s izlIboss, whose sestfmssy no ole In
esaches, swear that he was In The habit
4 s;siling her I've, six and seven times
aF. md others swear to have seen
&m Walking tOgsther in the streets 1t
Al Exchanging notes. and coming
a 4 again to each others houses.
nald she pay S4.25 for that
lilfle nirEori Why should
nsiaea I have known bis
essensiae tbe Ms I
6< bouId she xchange notes ai The
ssofs. IN presence pc Mr.. Mills and 9TH
ess, il she was not infatuated with the
mahs II this man Bishops story was
fabricated on a basis Of carefully az
ranged facts and dates, he would not
have made the perfectly natural little
slip about the operetta of "DOn Munio"
being played on . certain night, when,
in fact It had been played Q month be-
fore. The facts show that on the night
mentioned an operetta was played ia
the same place by the same cast as
"Don Munio" had been. A perfectly
natural slip Of the memory like this in
q matter Of small importance was one
Of the best proofs in the world that the
whole Of his story was true. Again,
this man in the Jail there on the hill,
carefully guarded from the newspapers
and from every one, said that there was
aconite in that body, and one Of the
very first poisOns to be detected by the
chemists was aconite. The Tuesday
before her husband died, when he was
already, so to speak, on his deathbed,
and begged for little more other CON-
pany, this innocent wife is seen by
three difFerentpersons walkingon School
street with her husbands murderer.
She tries to bring witnesses to account
for her time until haIf-Past nine that
night. Even then she admits herself
to have been guilty Of the grOssest neg
lect of duty in leaving her dying hus-
band, to loiter about in the society oi
her friends Of that secret organization,
the Victory Lodge.
while the counsel was speaking, the
prisoners mother, Mrs. Waterman, sal
by the side Of her daughter, with the
hand OF Adele clasped in her own. Her
face was ashy pale and wore troubled
look. Mr.. Ripley turned toward heI
and continued.
ait was to be expected that the prs
oner's mother should be an expert al
falsifying, with the life OF her child al
stake. II is a terrible temptation foI
ordinary humanity to withstand. But
that she should teach her little grand
child to utter a lie, to PeIure herself
before that God whom she acknowl-
edges will punish her for Ialsehood, II
something too horrible TO contemplate
What was the meaning Of these secret
attempts at communication in the jail
if there was not guilty secret between
this couple, il they were not partners
in crime. Before the arrest she would
allow this grocer's clerk to visit heI
four and FIVE times day, from fifteen
minutes to an hour at time, yet there
was nothing between them. TheiI
crime was not merely one of lust
Bishop swears that he was not crimi'
nally intimate with her until three
months before her husbands death, anC
il that was their sole object they had
already secured it before the murder
Hut they wanted something more. They
lIad 'afinities' for each other. Theirs
| whs kind Of fdevil'sreligiOn-nOt mere
| II lust Of the body. but lust Of th'
sSuI as well. Il was this frightfal thing
| nat they called love, and it was TO fur
Aher crafty il and eonsummaie il b.
marriage that they resOrted to these hOr
rible assassinaiaOns. II began with th'
woman herself. and when she found Ou
that their passion for each other wa
| becoming town talk, she stealthily sen
word to Bishop, We're watched by tb'
neighbors.'
Mr.. Ripley closed with an elOquen
appeal to the jury to put their prejudice
and sympathies behind them, and 6n'
| . true verdict on the evidence.