The Irish standard., 1889-03-23

"There can be no oftense in the exercise
Of legal mission. invite you to answer
me and to do it politely"
"Set me the example by not mixing your
self in my affairs without being asked"
"Ia am obliged to mix myself in your at
fairs,'' answered the prosecutor, becoming
impatient; 'before going farther in this af-
fair had wish to talk with you in the
hope that the explanations that you might
have given me would put me in a position
to calm the anxiety Of justly alarmed
family; but your. answers justify all sup
positions"
"What suppositions do you allude to?'
asked Gustave Brownlow.
(" You have killed your wife,"
"You are impudent, SIR"
"Take care, sir; you insult me-"
eft was you who insulted me first by
throwing in my face an allegation unbe-
coming among wellbred people. Name two
of your friends; will put them IN relation
with my own and to them we will submit
our difference"
"Whatl A challenged! You may retire,
sir. / shall find q way to make you speak. I"
SIT was not worth while to disturb me it
you had nothing else to tell me-"
The two interlocutors coldly separated.
The public prosecutor was indignant and
exasperated. He was used to speak to
humble people who endeayored to please
him and always were respectfully submits
sive in his presence, and he could not admit
the pretension of this man to treat him as
an equal. He had been on the point Of hav-
ing him arrested on the spot, upon the &C.
cusation Of insulting law officer in the ex-
ercise of his functions; then he was afraid
a iS1ni
dent. It is always disagreeable to acknowl-
edge that we have been treated disrespect-
fully. He had, besides, perfectly regular
understand that one can not thus attempt
to battle justice; it was to allow the pro-
ceedings to follow their normal course. The
very same day he sent the papers to a
Judge, with his own brief to the court, and
the next day an inspector of police, accom-
panied by two detectives, presented him
self at the house of Mr.. Brownlow with a
warrant of arrest. The prisoner made no
resistance and no observation. In conform
ity with the law he was taken within TWEEN
ty-four fours to the Tombs and submitted
to first interrogatory.
Asked as to whether he wished to answer
Che complaint, the prisoner declared that
the warrant of arrest had modified the stu
alton. So far be had been citizen acting
in the fullness of his liberty; he had de-
termined not to be forced to answer ques-
tions which no one had right to ask him;
he had become anG ry at his visitors. Now,
as he was in the hands Of the law, he had
no reason for refusing to answer. He did
not consider himself when before the judge
as man in the presence of an equal, but as
prisoner standing before the representa-
tive of the law, and he was disposed to
answer the questions that might be adj
dressed to him in SO far as they bore d.
rectly upon the accusation.
Consequently he told his name, first
name, age, profession, his address and
place of birth. He affirmed to the Judge
who questioned him that he could read and
write, and that he had never been arrested
before, and that he had satisfied his obligar
tions as citizen. But when the magistrate
asked him if he had killed his wife he sim.
ply answered.:
emo"
"Where is she's"
"I do not know"
"When did she go away?''
ION Tuesday, the 18th, between sever
and half past seven o'clock"
"What circumstances have caused her
department
GAS to that, I do not owe any account to
any one"
The Judge remarked to him that this sys-
tematic refusal to answer singularly aggrac
waited his case, and even constituted, to tell
the truth, the only serious charge against
him. He replied with an imperturbable
GOODNESS that he could not be prosecuted for
the simple fact that his wife had left his
bat ho nv7{v
knowledged.
"You accuse me Of having killed my
wife," said be- 81 deny it. 1t is for you to
furnish the proof. Show me her body. /
can not prove that have not killed my
wife. Prove to me that have killed her."
"But what reasons have you to refuse the
explanations which would save you from
an Indictment Of murder? If there is any
thing of a delicate nature concerning the
honor of your name you must have con-
fdence enough in the justice Of your coun-
try to know that it will not be divulged. The
personal duty of the magistrate, as well as
his professional honor, is q guarantee to you.
If YOU d O not answer it is because you have
something to hide. It is in your own inter-
est to speak, for whatever you have to hide
could never be as grave as that OF which
you are accused"
ST shall answer no question which has
not direct bearing on the actof which am
accused. State your proofs; I shall discuss
their value. My wife's disappearance IS not
a proof that have killed herr
After this interrogatory the Judge made
out warrant Of arrest against Brownlow,
who was committed to prison.
CHAPTER Ill.
As soon as it became known that Brown
low had not only been arrested, but that he
was under formal accusation, and that his
trial for murder would soon take place, the
excitement which pervaded the neighbor-
hood Of his handsome house on Fifth
avenue aoated. But the newspapers threw
themselves with all the more earnestness
into the mystery Of clearing up the disap-
pearance of his wife. Their reports were
sent out in every direction, and at times
they supplemented the work OF the detect
ives, and at times they went into investi-
cations on their own account in charac~
teristic way. The families Of both Brown
low and Champion were successfully in
terviewed and emissaries of the press were
constantly logging the heels OF the police
and presenting themselves at headquarters
to find the latest clew. Certain enterpris-
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