Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-02-19

sent. Her trouble was that she knew
Paul had killed Terence, and the knowl-
edge undermined her resolution and
gave the priest great additional power.
The first witnesses called were the
three gentlemen who had arrived In the
carriage az the time OF the murder.
They had found the prisoner near the
corpse in a somewhat daZed condition.
They had thought it their duty to hand
him over to the police. He had not re-
sisted They had warned him that any
admission he made would be used
against him. He mad said nothing. On
being asked where his pistol was, he
had taken from his pocket his revolver
now shown in court, three cartridges
OF which had been discharged.
The marks on the road and on the
clothes of the deceased and prisoner
showed signs Of terrible struggle hav-
lag taken place. The doctors and
others swore that when found the face
of the corpse had an asphyxiated lock.
From this and marks OF fingers that had
gripped the throat they would have
thought the man had been choked to
death had it not been for the bullet
through the head.
Then NOrah Carney was brought in.
She assembled the box meekly. The mem
tai trouble OF the past months had re-
fined the luXurlance OF her figure and
had given her pallor that only In
creased her beauty and was we'll In keep
ing with the unnerved, hopeless, pa
thetic mouth. Every one knew that for
FIVE months she had been literally
bounded day and night TO give testl-
mOny which they thought would take
away the life OF the man who was all
the world TO her. She told her story
with eyes cast down, and somehow even
the account of her climbing down the
tree to meet her lover failed TO create a
smile. In the crowded courtroom tears
>werAtoo near to the eyes.
\She told the story up 20 the time she
andPaul were behind the tree, emitting,
however,, having seen a revolver in
Paups possession. But as her eyide nee
proceeded TO where she heard Pau
threaten to XIII Terrace she thought
that TO repeat this would be to bang
Paul herself, and She remained mute:
For the first timS her eyes raised
and searched the court till she saw Paul
before her in the dotS, sitting forward
with such an exyrSssion OF tender
anxiety for her in hiSN strong lace as
could make the heart bind. Their eyes
met and seemed 90 sink i2So each other'
and while the counsel thuYuered a5 her
these two were ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF
everything save the holinNS OF their
love and extremity of theiA necessity.
4 faint smile came to her swe&t' suffer
ing mouth, and then she seen$u as II
she was lettering, and the Judge d.
rected her removal to an adjNn'Qg
room. Ma
Tho priest with the bland face SRHu
beetllng brow, who had had so M uch 10
fluence over her, now very kihaly
offered her his arm. jumpeN 10 lhy
feet, "My Lord, l object TO his reVer-
ence going near the witness" But be-
fore a direction could be given he mad
GOT in a word to her, and then we heard
Norah's voice ring out: You have de-
ceived me-" ' never could find out from
Norah what this meant, but we saw her
give herself sort OF wrench, and she
turned bacl; into the box and said to the
Crown counsel $50 on,' She then de-
MED every question that followed, her
ewes fixed on her lover with look that
seemed 10 sag: ~ have sold my immor-
tai soul and I am contention loves
sake" What look.-like that OF an
angel who had chosen to leave heaven,
Bnt the angel would have 10 be irish.
None else would have the courage.
of course, Norah was dismissed soon.
But while she was denying things, !,
who have a bad habit of longing about
during the progress of case, was over
leaning against the wood work that
shuts off the crowd. While there, lis
teuinC to denials, l heard some one
close TO my ear say, under his breath,
as Norah denied something. You're a
liar"
Now, most men in that court were
fighting to retain their cOmpoSure. The
very atmosphere seemed charged, ting
ling with sympathy for the sweet girl.
Everybody knew she was lying, but |
thought (perh0ps l am overfoolish
about Norah) that no one but muir
derer could have addressed her in his
heart in that coarse way. l take some
impressions very strongly and quickly,
and on finding that the speaker was the
half brother of Norah | had a clerk
issue warrant to detain him as wit
ness.
After some further evidence for the
Crown my defense came on, and two
ounsmiths who mad examined the revolt
YER at the inquest swore that at that
time il had not been fired off for a long
while. Judging by the condition OF the
uowder rust in the barrel they were
positive it had not been fired of inside
of six months at least and most likely
not for couple Of years.
The llattened and torn bullet taken
from the murdered mans head was pro-
duced and had q gunsmith weigh the
bullet in court on chemists scale. Not
counting what may have been detached
from the bullet in its passage through
the head, it had still slightly greater
weight than the whole bullets OF the
regulation cartridge Of Paul'S revolver,
and. of course, greater than the bullets
OF the undiScharged cartridges remain
inc in the pistol. Four other gun
smiths swore that bullet OF the usual
conical shape containing as much lead as
the bullet produced could not be fired
from PauPs revolver. But some doubt
was raised by the Crown counsel as
to whether q flat-headed bullet con-
tanning the same amount OF lead might
not have been made Tor the occasion,
and being a bit of a sportsman himself,
he made a clever fight for it in showing
how desirable it is to have a heavy bull
let in order suddenly to stop any charg-
ing animal-by nervous shock rather
than by Quick. pertOration'
This over, l called aloud that ! re-
Quired the arrest Of Michael Leary as