The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-09

On II Wliu-SoOSe ClliSe.
mot altogether"
"Why. we haven't u leg to go on
| without the facts.
go. yes; one leg"
| ''What is it?"
"The truth"
| shrugged my shoulders.
"The truth will develop its own facts,
and that is where Mrs. Prineveau, like
all merely cunning people, Is little
| superficial. suppose We set out to as
certain If Mr.. Prineveau did not have
| two waistcoats of the same material,
| one of which it was alleged was pune
tured by a bullet and the other was
| not. and we wish to learn if Mrs.
Prineveau did not have the opportunity
when the body arrived home to change
the waistcoats, we shall be batfled by
her, for she has arranged for just such
| 4 contingency"
And away go our facts
"Yes, but in comes our truth. Why
does Mrs. Prineveau object to our
searching for that waistcoat|
Daryl gave his legs a stretch, .rammed
his big fists into his pocket and then
continued: Look here. old fellow, l am
right; that calm, self-possessed woman
is living with slow burning hell in
side, for fear somebody will bring an
intuition into this case and look past
the facts that she has arranged to the
truth that she can't alter.
I've got working hypothesis that
fits every circumstance. What we've
got to do is to keep this woman from
suspecting it till she gets on the wit
ness stand, and then pump it at her
and watch the results. The moment
she suspects that we have got the whole
secret-she will go to pieces" ?
Three weeks of the month of April
passed by and very little was done.
Daryl went to Washington and to all
appearances had made up his mind to
let things rest on his far-fetched
hypothesis. Gradually | fell into the
belief that it was hopeless case of de-
fense. l had learned nothing to
strengthen Daryrs theory. The prose-
cutiOn openly avowed that they had a
clear case. My friend John Greve
patrOniZingly told me to do the best
could and reminded me that there
was no chagrin in making a good
fight in a forlorn hope. / called
upon Mrs. Prineveau once and she
received me with the utmost cam
dor without a sign of perturbation and
offered to give me any assistance in
her power | felt when l came away
that Daryl had made a great mistake.
As the day of the trial approached the
newspapers referred to Clarkson as the
murderer whose guilt was unmistak-
able, and Clarkson himself in one or
two interviews had talked wildly and
desperately and hurt his own case ire
mediably.
think it was on the .26th Of April
when | got an absurd and very brief
letter from Daryl in Washington. This
was all it said: IF you get discouraged
go and see Mrs. Clarkson. VIII be on
with a fact or two on Monday"
The letter did not stimulate me, but
the visit to Mrs. Clarkson did. | found
her in improved but modest quarters up
town and much more hopeful than | eX-
pected She seized me by the hands and
said; 81 pray for you night and morn
ing-that Heaven will preserve you
till this is over ! tremble to think
something might happen to you. o, sir,
we never can pay you; but when you
see that poor dear with his children in
his arms once more / am sure you will
feel that you have not been wholly un-
paid"
| tried to let down the pegs of this
strain as softly as / could and tell her
that it would not do to be Oversanguine
of the result, but she said, with calm
assurance, that she had no fear of the
result now, and shortly afterwards her
two winsome children announced to me
with pltiable Importance that papa was
coming home again.
SO when Daryl arrived on Monday
told him that felt as If were the only
guilty party in the case. We had
allowed an estmable woman to build
up the most unwarranted hopes only to
cruelty destroy them in the end.
Daryl paid no attention whatever to
this. II have got an important fact"
he said. "The Prineveaus were abroad
in 1877. and staid two weeks at Geneva.
never should have known this but for
Mrs. Clarkson, who hunted up a letter
from Mr.. Prinevcau to Mr. Clarkson
that had contained remittance, and
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wv nat 90 you see Nv 'hat
Geneva Is ceieprateu lor lts watch-
makers. / sent a cablegram from the
washington bureau 10 ,he department
20 NJ prira,.oa,, r,srohonaa 'u 'otoh ~,
Ill t,,ara Itor, to tho ansn,a,. $40
,a1an 49, raad ,ho nmoiai ,,o,,,taan ta,n'
,"aI. a, ,,at santanoa vvhat ia =, .
YES. Nine. Prineveau purchased n
large silver watch of Bringdat Frere,