The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-05-05
Perfectly replied Bloch.

K Perfectly replied Bloch.
s go ahead, Jean, snsweri Tell q
who killed your master, the oil
}. Jew?n
: The domestic did not reply.
: This man appears to be uuabl'
: to speak," said the surgeon. who ex
: amined Muller attentively. at msy
: be that this murder has struck hin
in q terrible and unexpected manner
We have celebrated examples Of suct
cases among the witnesses Of bar
, rowing scenes.n
That is we'll enough for witnesses
bat do you think the same effect cat
be prodused on an assassin once hil
crime is accomplish ed ?n
THAT / do not know"
bot will the Law admit this weak
circumstance? We can judge of il
very soon. You must know tha,
menta, arrangement and dumbnest
are two great ways Of vindicstins
culprits. | have seen crimiusls pre-.
, tend insanity tor entire months, 10
such manner ss to defeat science
J aod physicians and to avoid thus the
capital punishment they 60 greatly
merited"
81 cannot, however, believe it q
crime" responded the surgeon.
"ln waiting the trial, the law
which | represent, and which ought
to protect society, arrests and i'm.
prisons Jean Muller, accused until
further proof of the crime of homo.
eide, Intentional and perhaps premed.
itated, On the person of his master
Samuel Stsuffer, merchant and bro.
ker, is obtained.n
i The domestic suffered himself to
be led without manifesting the least
emotion. The police surrounded
MIN TO protecS him from the insults of
the mob
| The cuckoo to which the uufortu.
nate man was hung was carried to
the prison and disappeared behind
the heavy door aud massive bolts of
the Jail.
On the day after they buried Sam
ueI Stsuffer. bis goods We're sDld at
auction, for be left no will or heirs.
But they could not fnd a purchaser
for the house, which was closed sod
passed Immediately for sinister aud
dangerous dwelling. Ii was strictly
avoided when night fell. and often
the grocer Bloch, who dwelt oppo.
site, would shiver with agony be-
tween the sheets, believing be heard
shouts behind the blinds of the late
Samuel Stsuffer
Two months sped by-two long
months, during which lie bad re
taken its habitual course-two
months in which Thousand Incl.
dents of the act had accumulated
slowly on the terrible event which
took place the night of the storm
Tue little house at last found pur.
chaser, when they had almost de.
SPARED of ever fioding one 1t was
an old jew, pedler. who announced
ais intention 10 take the business of
Samuel Stsuffer. Bot he had not
opeded shop yet.
The little town of IL was 10 .
perfect hutter of excitement. Toe
people crowded and pressed around
the courthouse Jeaa Muller was
about to be tried. and the curiosity
which had been increasing day bv
day had now reached its culminat-
ing point.
Jean bad not Yet spoken. His
lawyer himself had not been able to
draw him from bis obstinate dumb.
ness which seemed almost supernatu.
raj What could he hope for? The
law face to face with the horror of
the crime would be pittiless toward
such stubbornness-st least ualess
the insanity of the unfortunste
young nan could DO proven, and j.
was this course which had been
adopted by his lawyer, who Not only
saw no other way to save him, but
be had come to believe il himself.
The trial began the judges and
jurymen took their places Hanging
on the wall was the fatal cuckoo. IL
mad become an instrument of death
"a certain proof of the crime There
il was, o silent, sinister witness
marking the hour of three. This
clock was little larger than are
usually made. which explains how it
could support the weight of man
A sort OF niche in the wood work
hid the bird from sight who sung the
hour. The public could not look at
it without fear Every one felt the
influence of the mystery, and ell
thought that the trial would not
throw much light on it. unless the
accused could be made to speak
The prisoner was ordered to sD
pear. The crowd swaved like q Geld
Of wheat 10 the wind. All beads
were turned toward the same place
the little door by which Jean Mul-
ler entered Every sound ceased sDd
a silence like death weighed on this
multitude. 80 restless, SO tumultuous
but an instant before
Muller advanced between two
guards, tall, thin and fair, With q
gentle look; his eyes troubled sod
bis head lowered. He walked with
out knowing what be did Not 3
sound escaped his lips: bis move
ments were those of an idiot! bis
glance was fixed on the ground
The witnesses gave their testimony
it .all tended toward Q crime. H
was alone in the house with biz mas
ter; be was hidden when they made
the discovery; he bad neither co.,
fessed or denied The murder. Oop
question alone rem aimed to decide
his fate. Had be committed the
murder io cold blood or in fit of in-
sanity.
Jean Maller had not raised bis
eyes. lie seemed neitter to bear or
uoderstsnd. Il was like torsh ex
tinguisbed
Suddenly in one corner of the ball
there arose Q murner, which increas
ed little by little till it reached the
front ranks.
A man traversed the crowd. using
his fists and elbows to make himself
free passage. and arriving near tie
prisoner be looked at him with .