Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-11-03

pairing Mr.. Mauleverer's medicine, ana the
other the chance that Mauleverer may have
committed suicide. But I do not think l
ever had a stronger case to meet nor have
ever been compelled to trust to more worth
less straws than these"
heard him vita dread that seemed to
render me voice.ess
EYES," he continued, 1--WE n:ust not deceive
ourselves. Everything is against ua But
am anxious to save this poor child II can
I do not believe her to be guilty, and hope
that something may yet turn up to prove
her innocence. heard all that you have
told my learned friend here, and wish to
give you some advice You must move
heaven and earth to find out, first, what has
become Of the strychnia which Miss STAN
cliffe bought-for do not believe that it has
been destroyed-and next where the man
Gregson, Of whom you have told Mr.. Hard
ing, is to be found. In my opinion he pos
sesses the key to this mystery. But the first
step you should take is to obtain power of
attorney from Miss Stancliffe enabling you
to act in relation to all her affairs as fully
! as she herself could do This must be OBJ
tanned, If possible, before her conviction and
Mr. Bryce, who has an order for an inter-
view with her, will get it from her tonight"
Then the great man shook me by the hand,
and, expressing his desire to help me in
every possible way, politely bowed me from
his room.
have no heart to write Of the events Of
the next day. There was again the eager
crowd of sightseers in court, and again all
the actors in the dismal tragedy appeared In
their old places The jury looked jaded
after their night OF confinement at neigh
boring hotel; and was conscious that not
merely upon myself, but upon my darling,
the awful ordeal Of the previous day, and Of
the sleepless night which followed, had told
heavily. But she preserved the same air of
sweet serenity which had distinguished her
from the first
Mr.. Hawks speech for the prosecution was
the coolest, clearest and most merciless expo
sition Of the facts that could by any posi-
bility have been laid before the jury. He
was no novice at his work, and ! shudder
ingly felt when he sat down that he had not
left q loophole by which Daisy could escape
That Mr.. Mauleverer was undoubtedly poi
soned by strychnia on the night OF October
"a. that the prisoner was the person who
must have committed the crime, and that
she had strong motive for committing It
these were the three points which he labored
to establish beyond the power Of refutation,
and 1t was only too clear that he did establish
them In the minds of nearly everybody In
court
Mr.. Belmore took very different line.
His desire evidently was to get away as far as
possible from the evidence, and in speech
f,,1I ~ {v,,po coioy, cd and o1onpnnf
pleading he dwelt upon the difficulty OF i'm
agining that young girl like Daisy could
ever have conceived, much less could have
carried out, so deadly plot against the life
of her relative and benefactor Nothing but
absolutely convincing evidence could justify
the Jury In finding verdict against her. But
in this case where was there any absolute
demonstration Of her guilt Who could say
that Mr.. Mauleverer had not, under the influ-
ence of the excitement from which he was un-
doubtedly suffering, committed suicidea and
in that case everybody knew the proverbial
cunning with which a madman sought to
hide the traces Of his acts; but even if this
hypothesis were to be rejected, was it not
possible, and even probable, that weak,
muddle headed DR.. Carrick might have
made another mistake, and by inadvertence
given strycnia instead OF bromide Of potas-
sium to his patienta At all events, with
these two possibilities staring them in the
face, the jury would incur q terrible re-
sponsibilitY il they returned a verdict of
guilty against the prisoner.
/ think that If the jury had given their
verdict then it would have been in Daisy's
favor. But the summing up OF the judge,
clear, careful and impartial, destroyed the
effect of Belmore's eloquent special plead
ing.
sat as in q dream, while the tedious
formalities connected with the retirement Of
the Jury were carried out And then came
half an hour of awful supsnse, during which
everybody remained in court save my darling
and the judge still recall with sickening
sense of horror that sudden lull in the hum
of general conversation, which told US that
the jury were returning to deliver their ver-
dict see the judge hurrying lack to the
bench; l see the twelve men, with their
grave, set faces slowly filing into the box;
hear, as though from a vast distance, the
calling over Of the names, and the demand
of the clerk, @How say you, gentlemen; do
you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty!"
And then l am on my feet, with arms
stTolSuCo ouo w '" "hcA my AoFS oeoao'b NSeA'J
white, but more beautiful than ever, with
hands clasped and eyes turned toward
heaven, which has juss heard the mon
strous verdict that is to brand her
name wi b infamy and cut short her life
upon the scaffold. For the jury have re-
turned verdict Of "Guilty," and our last
hope has be: n destroyed
Some one draws me. back into my seat,
and implores me, for her sake, to remain
calm. try to obey, and l sit trembling
from head to foot, amid the dread silence
which now falls upon the crowded court
while. in The fewest possible words, the man
to whose hand the welding of the awful
sword Of justice has been intrusted pro-
nounces my darling's doom.
And then I wake as from trance. Daisy
is gone; the Judge has departed; counsel and
solicitors, jurymen, witnesses and spectators
are all hurrying away, as though from the
theatre when the play is ended. Some one
takes my arm It Is Harding, who has had
time to doff his wig and gown, and who now
leads me unresistingly from the hateful
spot.