The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-11-12

uucuioh Vook place Dy tne oruers OK mr.. MAUI
leverer."
"Now. upon your solemn oath. did you not
think that the deceased was not In fit state
! of mind to manage his own affairsl and was
not that the real reason why you never COM
pleted the execution of the willl" 81 GER
tainly thought him very much excited and
prejudiced on that particular point and
| felt that on the whole il would be better to
| give him time for reflection before complet-
ing the willF'
I'm fact, you are prepared to swear that
when you left him. two weeks before his
death, he was so much excited that his mind
was not in its normal condition. al
| think So"
Fosdyke was the last witness of any inn
portance. 1t was now five o'clock, and
everybody in court was exhausted. No one.
therefore, was surprised when the judge an
nounced that at this point the trial would be
adjourned till the next day. Daisy was in
simultaneously spirited out Of the dock; but
before she left the waiting room below /
was allowed to have momentary interview
with her She was wan and worn; but her
sweet composure enabled me to keep up my
courage in her presence, and to assure her
that. so far as knew, all was going we'll
Alas! any delusions l might have enter
tanned on that point were only too quickly
dispelled l had hardly finished my simple
| dinner at the Station hotel when Harding
| appeared at the door of my room to tell me
that Mir. Bemore desired to have an i'm
mediate interview with me.
followed my friend to the room Of the
great advocate who was also staying at the
hotel found Mr. Belmore and our solicit
tor, Mr.. Bryce, in serious consultation.
IL sent for you. Mr. Fenton," said the
famous lawyer, "that l might have little
frank talk with you. l understand that you
are really the principal friend of Mss STAN
cliffe, and have heard of the relationship
in which you stand to each other Now I
want to tell you at once that she is an al
most desperate position. We shall do our
best for her tomorrow, of course; but
| must say candidly that l see no hope Of
! avoiding a conviction l have only two
| points to make-ons is the possibility of
blunder on the part Of the doctor in pre-
pairing Mr. Maulevercr's medicine, and the
other the chance that Mauleverer may have
| committed suicide But ! do not think I
ever had a stronger case to meet, nor have L
ever been compelled to trust to more worth
| less straws than these.
heard him with dread that seemed to
| render me voce.ess
EYES," he continued, 1--WE must not deceive
ourselves. Everything is against U.s. But
am anxious to save this poor child if / can.
do not believe her to be guilty, and L hope
that something may yet turn up to prove
her innocence. l heard all that you have
tod 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 l 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 a 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 coldest 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 l shudder-
| ingly felt when he sat down that he had not
| left 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 q strong motive for committing it
these were the three points which he labored
to establish beyond the power Of REPUTATION,
| and it was only too clear that he did establish
them in the minds OF nearly everybody in
| court.
| Mr. Belmore took a very different line.
| His desire evidently was to get away as far as
possible from the evidence, and in q speech
which was full Of impassioned and eloquent
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 infu-
ence of the excitement from which he was I'M
doubtedly suffering, committed suicide! and
in that case everybody knew the proverbial
cunning with which a mailman sought to
| hide the traces of his acts; but even il this
hypothesis were to be rejected, was it not
possible, and even probable, that weak,
middle headed DIR. Carrick might have
made another mistake, and by inadvertence
given strycnia instead of bromide of potas-
sum to his patients AT all events, with
these two possibilities staring them in the
face the jury would incur terrible re-
sponsibility il they returned verdict of
| guilty AGAINST the prisoner