Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14


lawyer.
"Now, you young fellows he be-
gan brusquely, GIVE come to get you
out of a mess, if l can. | must know
all about the affair this morning"
told him my story as | have writ.
ten it here. His first question sur.
lrised me.
"Can you bring anyone forward to
prove that you got into that train at
Chorley, and not at Stevenham?'
After taxing our recollection to the
full, Hinton and | came to the conclu
sion that we could not find witness
to prove this. The station master
after giving Hinton his change. The
door leading onto the platform was
locked when we reached it. At Choir
ley we had not gone through the
booking Office. The guards van was
in the front of the train; the porters
we're on the platform, and we were
not seen till the moment when We
were helping the lady to descend.
Kennel Hooked grave.
"Now, give me your account, Mr..
Hinton" said he.
Hinton went over the facts again.
"Do you know where the young
lady is now?'
eyes, but [ must decline to tell you
until ! know your reason for asking. p"
"ATy reason for asking! That's sim
pie enough: ] wish to save you from
criminal prosecution.
We gasped ''What crime has been
committed?'
"Murder !"
"Murder!' we echoed aghast.
"The handkerchief that lay beside
the dead man is found to have been
saturated with chloroform.
Good heavens, Kennel, do you
think we carry chloroform about with
u.s."
''You are medical students"
Hinton and | stared in blank be-
wilderment.
"Of course you don't believe the
young lady committed the MURDER"
Kennel said, addressing Hinton
elbow on earth is such thing pos
sible? She had her wrists handculied,
and muf on her hands"
$50 much the worse for you. The
man is murderct, and the respon-
sibility lies upon you two young men
and that young woman. OF course,
| believe in your innocence, but that
counts for nothing Your fate will be
decided by a jury, and not by me.
Now what is the evidence that will be
laid before them? One of you is found
in third-class carriage with the dead
man, and gives up frst-clGss ticket
from Stevenham, the station at which
the policeman got into the train with
his prisoner. The other young man
gets the young woman out the train
at Chorley, pays her fare, and whisks
her out OF the way in fly. A hand
kerchief saturated with chloroform is
found beside the dead man, and you
two are medical students. What is the
presumption? That you, seeing this
attractive young woman put into a
third-class carriage by policeman at
Stevenham, get into the same carriage
with her. The young woman fascin-
ates you and excites your sympathy.
On nearing Chorley the policeman
dozes, and one of you, intending,
possibly, only to prolong his sleep,
applies chloroform. The effect is more
serious than you expected, and while
one saves the young lady, the other
remains with the policeman to use
such means of restoring him to life as
your experience suggests. However,
YOU had better let me see this young
woman Mt once. If we can prove her
guilt"
"Then you shall not see that young
lady," cried Hinton, in fierce fury.
of you think I'm going to get out of
the difficulty by shifting my response
bility onto the shoulders of a woman
you are III error !"
"Then you may prepare for twenty
years of penal servitude. said Ken
net, brutally.
In all probability We should have
got the punishment, but for an event
that never entered into our calcula-
tions.
Inc young lauy with the IRON brace
let had assured Hinton that in three
days or four at the outside she could
clear her character if only she was se-
cured from misapprehension in the in
terval. The infatuated young man
sent her to his mother Mt st. Albans
with touching letter that appealed
to the old lady's sympathy-of course
she regarded her son as faultless in all
things The young lady was treated
as an honored guest The first thing
she did was to send kilograms to Lon
don.
The old lady seems to have been MS
enchanted rs her son by the lady OF
the iron bracelet, and at nighttime
they separated with affectionate re-
gard.
When the servants came down in the
morning they found the street door,
which had been carefully bolted over
night, open, and the plate gone
Later they found that the lady with
the iron bracelet was missing also.
In the evening man was arrested
on suspicion OF having committed