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to our marriage was well known, md
Henry was suspected also Of having had
an eye to his money. 1t was found. ILL
deed, that my father had more money
than | had known myself.
Henry owned to having driven into
our yard that night, and to having missed
the ribbon from his whip on his return;
but one of the hostlers in the livery stable
in Digby, where he kept his horse and
buggy, came forward and testified to
finding the yellow ribbon in the carringe-
room that Tuesday night before Henry
returned from his drive. There were two
yellow ribbons in evidence, therefore.
and the one produced by the hostler
seemed to fit Henry's whipstock the more
exactly.
Moreover, nearly the exact minute Of
the murder was claimed to he Proved by
the post norton examination; and Ey thc
testimony of the stablcmcn Us To the
hour of Henry return and the speed of
his horse he was further cleared of sus-
Dic;on: for if the opinion of the medical
experts was correct, Tenry must have
returned to the livery stable too soon to
have committed the murder.
He was discharged, Mt any rate, al
though suspicion still chung to him. Many
people believe now in his gult-those
who do not believe in mine; and some
believe we were accomplics.
After Henry's discharge | was arrest
ed. There was no one else left to accuse
There must be a motive for the murder;
was the only person left with a mo-
tive. Unlike the others. who were dis
charged after preliminary examination,
was held to the Grand Jury and taken
to Dedham, where | spent four weeks in
Jail awaiting the meeting of the Grand
Jury.
Neither at the preliminary examination
nor before the Grand Jury was allowed
to make the full and frank statement that
l am making here. | was told simply to
answer the questions that were put to
Inc, and to volunteer nothing, and
obeyed.
l know nothing about law. | wished to
do the best / could-to act in the wisest
manner, for Henry's sake and my own.
l said nothing about the green silk dress.
They searched the house for all manner
of things, ut the time of my arrest, but
the dress was not there-it was in Phoebe
Dole's dye-kettle. She had come over
after it herself one day when was pick
ing beans in the garden, and had taken
it out of the closet. She brought it back
herself, and told me this, after had re-
turned from Dedham.
81 thought I'd get it and surprise you"
said she. ITS taken beautiful black"
She gave me strange look, half as if
she would see into my very soul, in spite
of me, half as if she were in terror of
what she would see there as she spoke
do not know just what Phoebe Dole's
look meant. There may have been a stain
left on that dress after all, and she may
have seen it.
| suppose If it had not been for that
flour.paste which had learned TO make
] should have been hung for the murder
OF my own father. AS it was the Grand
Jury found no bill against me, because
there was absolutely no evidence to con-
vict me; and | came home free woman.
And if people were condemned for their
motives, would there be enough hangmen
in the worldi
They found no weapon with which
could have done the deed. They found
no blood stains on my clothes. The one
thing which told against me, aside from