The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-11

to kill Terence she thought thai to re-
peat this would be to hang Paul herself,
and she remained mute. For he first
time her ewes raised and searched the
court till she saw Paul before he in the
dock, sitting forward, with suchhn ex-
preston of tender anxiety for hG in his
strong face as could make TIN heart
bleed. Their eyes met and seemed to
sink into each other, and while tie coun-
sci Numbered at her these two tere ap-
parently oblivious of everything ave the
holiness of their love and the extremity
of their necessity. A faint sml e came
to her sweet, suffering mouth, fnd then
she seemed as if she were totterhg, and
the Judge directed her removal q an adj
joining room.
The priest now very kindly offer
ed her his arm. jumped to ny feet.
''My Lord, l object to his reverence
going near the witness" But efore a
direction could be given he hadgot in
word to her, and then we heard Norah's
voice ring out: "They have deceiv'd mel"
I never could find out from North what
this meant, but we saw her give herself
a sort of wrench, as she turnd back
into the box aud said to the Grown cOun-
sci, $50 onp' She then denied every
question that followed, her eyes fixed on
her lover with a Look that seemedto say:
81 have sold my immortal soul aud am
contention loves sake" Whata look
like that of an angel who hadehosen
to leave heaven.
But the angel would have to bdlrish.
None else would have the courage
OF course, Norah was dismissed sOon
But while she was denying things ], who
! Ill, - Lon, at,rr nlNNtf ri
ing the progress of case, was ovir lean
inc against the woodwork that siuts off
the crowd. While there listening to her
denials, | heard some one close to my
ear say, under his breath, as NTah de-
MED something: YOU'RE liar"
Now, most men in that coirt were
fighting to retain their composue. The
very atmosphere seemed charged, tingl-
ing with sympathy for that sweet girl.
Everybody knew she was lying, but |
thought (perhaps l am over foolish about
Norah) that no one but murderer
could have addressed her in his heart in
that coarse way. / take some impress
sions very strongly and quickly, and on
finding that the speaker was the bali
brother of Norah, | had clerk issue
warrant to detain him as a witness.
After some further evidence for the
Crown my defense came on, an( two
gunsmiths who had examined the evol-
yer at the inquest swOre that atthat
time it had not been fired off for along
while. Judging by the condition q the
powder rust in the barrel, they we're
positive it had not been fired off inside
of six months at least, and most likely
not for a couple of years.
The flattened and torn bullet taken
| from the murdered mans head wal pro-
duced and had a gunsmith weigh the
| lead in court on a chemists scales. Not
counting what may have been detained
| from the bullet in its passage through
the head, it had still slightly crater
weight than the whole bullet of the
regulation cartridge for Paurs revolver,
and of course, greater than the bullets
of the undischarged cartridges remain
ing in the pistol. Four other gunslliths
swore that bullet of the usual cSnica
shape containing as much lead rs the
bullet produced could not be fired from
Paul's revolver. But some doubJ was
raised by the Crown counsel as tt
whether flat-headed bullet containing
the same amount of lead might not have
been made for the occasion, and bring ;
bit of sportsman himself, he made {
clever fight for it in showing how desira
BILE it is to have a heavy bullet in ordel
suddenly to stop any charging animal
by nervous shock rather than By quicl
perfOration.
This over, called aloud that requir
ed the arrest of Michael Leary as wit
ness. This wac pure bluff. By my oil
r.ctions this young gentleman received
ut that moment heavy slap on tie oacl
from a constable in uniform. lie wa
also dragged to the box, which he mout
ed, trembling in every limb. Somehow
knew then had the right man, and h
knew knew it. | made him believe tina
he himself had been followed on tn
night of the murder, and that his onl
chance was to say why lie fired that shot
He was too panic-stricken to grasp tn
idea that was only 'blutiing' the trutl
out of him. had three well-known de
tectives standing beside me at the time
with whom | exchanged words, as
they were supplying me with intorma
ton. He tumbled into the trap and be
lieved they knew all about him. At frs
he whimpered out that he had had moth
ing to do with it. | really felt like teal
ing him to pieces. And did.
Finally he lost all control of himsel
and admitted as follows "The man wa
dead before l got there. Paul was o
TOP. and he had the other choked t
death; and fired my pistol through tn
hedge at Paul to save Terence's life. An
| missed Paul and hit the dead man.
After all the addresses the jury retil
ed, and Norah, sat with her hands clinch
ed as they came in again. She was sti
convinced that Paul was guilty, an
when the jury delivered their verdict G
Not guilty. she tainted away, this tim
like one dead, and without waiting 70
his formal discharge Paul leaped fror
the dock to catch her as she dropped.
constable rushed after him to drag hiI
back, but the Judge called out, mo, nj
constable! Prisoner, you are discharf
ed" and he stood up and pulled dow
his waist-coat and remained there watcf
ing that strong Paul Beamish carryln
Norah out of the court in his arms. w
were all very human that day!
1t was. afterward discovered that Ten
ence Maher had found out Micky in som
affair too disreputable for repetition, an
also that Micky had been secretly a.
ranging to elope with Terence's youn
sister, who in case of the b. others deaf
would be sole heiress. Altogether, I'll
cause of Ireland had seemed to requil
the removal or Terence. Micky, a
you all remember, was hanged. 81
then did not defend him.-N. Y. Time
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