The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-07-04

time stormy interview was gong Tor
ward between the prisoner and the
counsel that Mr.. Eyre had engaged on
her behalf.
1t had been incomparably more bril-
liant than his own, for he had character
istically said that being guilty she
should have the best advice, and so had
secured in her service one of the finest
criminal pleaders OF the day.
1t had been only by the most urgent
questioning that her counsel had been
able to extract single fact upon which
to base her defense, but when in the
teeth of the mornings evidence, she
still refused to furnish him with any
information, he more than half felt
himself justified in abandoning her to
her fate. For this was case upon
which the eyes of the civilized world
were fixed, and to bring her safely
through would be triumph that he
might not easily forego.
But his utmost stress Of urgency could
elicit from her no account of the events
on the night Of the murder. From the
time she had left her lodgings in Synge
Lane, at eleven O'Clock, TO the moment
when she was arrested with the body
of the child in her arms, all was blank.
In vain her counsel declared that the
penalty OF her silence must infallibly
be death at the gallowS; she was indif-
ferent to the prospect; she saw beyond
it DOdy'S welcome, and his mothers
kiss, as she said, Il misunderstood you
once, but now understand" and the
utmost confession he could wiring from
her was to the effect that when she had
come to Lowell in search of her servant,
Janet Stork, she had no conception that
it was the dwelling-piace OF her child's
father.
Against Mr.. Eyre she would say moth
ing. but there was determined ret
icence in her manner that spoke OF re-
serves of knowledge to which her ques-
tioner was not admitted, and it was
with conviction that in his speech for
the defense he must draw OH magma
ton rather than facts, that he left her.
Hester sat for awhile alone after her
adviser had left her, and looked around,
fixed, like Janet, in the resolve to die,
should justice command it.
AS she sat with her head on her arms,
thinking of that beyond in which her
own child and his brother might per-
chance come to meet her. approaching
footsteps warned her that it was time
to ascend to the dock above.
Entering the court with that soften
ed look still on her face. she produced
more favorable effect on the public
than she had yet done; while Mr.. Eyre,
perhaps by contrast with Frank, had a
harsh, repellant air that denied sympa-
thy, and made him look to the life the
character assigned to him by his deeds.
A murmur of admiration was audible
when Frank entered-for in the eyes of
many that one lie OF his was sufficient
to efface any past sins that he had COM
mitted, and open to him the gates of
Paradise-but at sound of it he colored
deeply, and felt the impulse to turn
back, but lie would not leave Mr.. Eyre,
and for the remainder of that day, and
all the next. stood beside him.
Some minor evidence, including that of
the prisoners landlady. who swore to her
having left the cottag, at Synge Lane
at about ten o'clo:6 on the night OF the
murder, and that she never again re-
turned there, closed the case for the
prosecution; and. amid breathless ST.
lence, and in a court packed TO suffoca-
ton, the counsel for the defense rose to
address the jury on behalf of the prison.
er.