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same. But I'm too DID weak to kill any
body. So am to be killed. This is in ac-
cordance with eternal practice
He looked at me with a glaring eye. His
words were hot with burning arraign-
ment There could be no mistake about
the earnestness and sincerity Of his emo
ton.
Either this man is innocent or mad"
said to myself, and then fastened to dis
avow the thought to myself.
IT tell you beforehand" he went on,
that you cannot do anything with the cir
cumstances. Did I go to Mr.. Prineveau
happen to have a pistol in my possession
whose bullets exactly correspond to the
one found in the mans body-yes. Did I
disappear after the deed-yes. Is my life
and character just such as would fit me
for such deed-yes. And yet tell you
that was not there, did not kill him,
and never had such an act in my mind"
Easy" I said. If you were not there
able to get at that"
Yes. we ought to, If we were not fight
ing against destiny. But just at the time
that I ought to have known where was
l was unconscious"
Then you might have been there un-
consciously and irresponsibly."
fes Some demon may have robbed me
OF myself and worked this thiag through
ter stick to that. You'll get some credit
for it after I'm hanged"
"Clarkson." said I, II met your wife
downstairs; she made me come up and
see you first"
He staggered against the wall In the
corner of the cell and broke down.
Poor girl! Poor girl!' he said, with
great sobs I've been the curse Of her
life.''
She believes in your innocence"
Of course. she does. She knows me,
poor old sweetheart. She knows that.
weak and worthless as I am, I never
killed even an insect"
She believes that was sent toto give
you valuable assistance"
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sion known. She grasped my hand with
her long cold fingers almost convulsively
and sweeping away the veil that had part
ly concealed her face looked at me SO
searchingly and imploringly with her sad
gray eyes that started a little.
"Oh. sir!' she said, bad as my husband
may be. he is innocent of this. and he has
two little children that he loves. You have
come to save him. I feel it,"
1 patted her hard and tried to SAY some
thing that was encOuragingly non-commit-
are often not as bad as thew look. 1 am
going to have chat with him. In the
meantime, save your strength. You are not
friendless.'
She paid no heed at all to what said
She was looking at me with those gray
eyes very much as If she saw something
behind me- and hangir 6 to my hand like
drowning person.
Eyes, yesp' she said, with sob: you
will save him." and then she began to cry
convulsvely.
1 had not the heart to tell her how hope
less it all looked. I wished that had been
spared this SO that my judgment could
come to the Interview with the accused
man unperturbed.
She made me go up and see her husband
first. She would wait.
1 found Clarkson to be the very antithesis
of his wife. He was large muscular and
slightly bloated fellow with a purplish face,
the result of debauchery, but withal
rather handsome man, or, what would have
been handsome man in normal conditions.
He sat on the edge of the iron bed when
I entered the CELL his head between his
hands, and he did not look up until l had
spoken to him, and then it was with such
a flabby despair that felt repealed.
Here was one Of those large vital natures
that appear to have no internal resources.
/ could see in an instant why his life had
been a failure. He was made up of I'M
regulated appetites and sensibilities with
out volition enough to control them. Just
the sort of man to do desperate deed in
the frenzy of drink. without motive be-
fore 1t or recollection after. it, but as de-
void of methodical vindietiveness as
mastiff.
I told him had come to talk with him
Bah" he said, there is no defense. Can
you defend me against God?"
Let me ask of you," l began, mot to
talk in that reckless manner. Try and be
cool. Blasphemy may relieve your feelings.
but it will not help your case"
MY case is helpless he said, with every
feshly indication that 1t was.
But If 1t is worth while to make plea
at all, it is not necessary to announce your
guilt in advance"
He sprang up from the bed-he was six
feet at least in height-and with a clenched
fist uplifted shouted:
Il am not guilty but might as well be,
for God has decreed that everybody shall
think so.''
A little CLEAN of hope suddenly had shot
out of the darkness of this reply The man
might be in some degree insane, and ire
sponsible.
IF you are not guilty there are possibili-
ties of defense. I don't think heaven Will
object to our awaiting ourselves of them"
Much you know of heaven" he re-
piled. NO man could have made such a
set of circumstances to fit into my doom.
1t requires the subtlety and cruelty Of a
god. l might as well have killed that man
and given myself up. The result will be the
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"POOr Girl, Poor GiFl,v He SObbcd.
Eyes. She believes in a good God. You
wouldn't think it, with such husband as
am. would you? So did l, till He wound
this mesh around mel!
Tut. tut. man! Pull yourself together
and let your reason work. Sit down there
and answer my questions
He wiped his eyes with his coat sleeve
and sat down again, helplessly, on the
edge of the bed.
Now. you don't know where you were at
4 o'clock on the afternoon of March 17?''
mo. The last thing 1 remember was GO
ing down Vesey street toward the river"
Where had you been?"
IT had been drinking on 9th avenue. at
several Places
And when you recovered your con-
seriousness, where were your
I'm Troy"
"Humph! Had you ever been to Troy be-
fore?"
No"
"Did you know anybody there?"
did you have the pistol with you that
was found in your house?''
NO never carried a pistol in my life"
Did not your wife then know that the
murder was committed uptown"
it, ""ou'
Where did you get it"'
Il took it in pledge from a little French
man who boarded in the house and who
wanted to raise money to go home /
threw 1t in chest of drawers saving 7
c c get y, on II any time at pawn shop.
Tor 1t was handsomely silver mounted"
How long was this before the murder of
Mr.. Prineveau?"
The man turned round and looked at me
with a blank face and said slowly: ''It
was about five days before, and the day
after had had the words with Mr. Prime
veau in the library"
I confess that both his looks and his
words had a knelI-lfke effect. In spite of
myself felt staggered
do you know of anybody whose interest
would be advanced by .the death of Mr..
Prineveau?'
He hesitated moment. Then he said:
mo; Mr.. PEineveau's death was a depriva-
ton to me- He was the best, and, in fact
the only friend I had
why did you go to him that night a
week before his death?"
ITO get money"
did you get it?'
''Yes. I always got it."
by threats?"
mo. 1t was absolute charity He gave
me $50 bill. He always felt sorry for me.
/ was flush with that money and bought
the pistol, not because I wanted it, but
because the Frenchman was hard up
Now tell me what the conversation was
with your uncle that night"
II cannot tell it clearly because I had
been drinking. and am ELUSIVE and fool
ish when have liquor in me-
WAS there not a quarrel?"
mo. He may have upbraided me; he
always did, and 1 may have talked fast
and loud. I always do, but there was no
other quarrel"
This man puzzled me completely. There
was nothing in his information that at all
removed the fatal circumstances. I had to
confess to myself that any gushing senti-
mental lout, however guilty. might present
this view of the case. But there was some
thing in the fellows face and tones that
went past my reason and awakened some
instinct that he was innocent.
T l@r% I. r IT, IL
Diary. could. not put my finger on piece
of evidence to be used in rebuttal of the
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Ugly LOOK.
made nv professional vanity little vim
dictive. so, So" 1 said to myself Il am
retained to defend Clarkson. Very we'll.
He shall be defended to the best Of my
ability"
When Daryl came to see me the next
evening I told him frankly that Mrs.
Prineveau had given me a $500 retaining
fee. He said he felt sure of it, and advised
me to send it to Mrs. Clarkson if it hurt
me.
And who is to pay your asked.
81 don't think either you or 1 will get
any pay out of this he replied "But we
are into it, and we might as well carry it
II am afraid" said. that we have
undertaken a hopeless task. Let's divide
it up"
cedents, and I will find out if Mr.. Prime
veau wore that vest with the hole in 1t
when he was killed. II he didn't, who
made that hole in it, and for what pur-
poser"
Rather narrow ground" said, some
what hopelessly.
"Oh, I've been on narrower and more
slippery and pulled out"
you invent that will enable Mrs. Prime
veau to kill her husband with a bullet on
his left side. while she is sitting on his
right?'
stretched out his legs, thrust his hands
into his pockets, and choked off yawn
ibid you read all the testimony at the
coroner's examination he asked.
Eyes, all of it."
did you notice anything peculiar in the
elements of time that entered into it?"
mo. I didn't"
He pulled out of his pocket a portion Of
the verbatim report. Let me read you a
little of it. This is the girl Rose Kenny's
testimony:
Q. What time was it when your master
and mistress left the house to rider.
A. Eight minutes Of 3.
Q. Wat makes you SO particular as to
the time?
A. heard Mrs. Prineveau call to Mr..
Prineveau and say that was the time just
as they went out.
@. Wasn't there a clock in the room?
A. No, sir. The clock is in the dining
room. 49,
There the question Of time stops. Now
listen to Mrs. Prineveau's testimony.
O.. What time was it when the shot was
ire07
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''Hhat woman Never Saw the Clock
BILE to think something might happen to
you: Oh. sir, We never can pay you; but
when you see that poor dear with his chill
dren 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 I could and tell her that 1t
would not do to be oversanguiie of the re-
suit, but she said. with calm assurance,
shortly afterward her two winsome children
announced to me with pitiable Importance
that papa was coming home again.
So when Daryl arrived, on Monday. 1 told
him that felt as If were the only guilty
party in the case. We had allowed an es-
Unable woman to build up the most I'M
warranted hopes only to cruelty destroy
them In the end.
Daryl paid no attention whatever to this.
II have got an important fact" he said.
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CHAPTER ".

This interview. when / came to think 1t
over, took the conceft out of me- and the
retaining fee of $500 had an ugly look
Daryl it was true, might be mistaken but
there was something in me that respected
his opinions. Why did Mrs Prineveau
have such confidence in me and such dis
trust of Daryl? Why was I sent to her to
be sized up. as it were? Evidently she
was the kind Of woman Daryl had insisted
she was. She had counted on just the
stupidity that had shown. This reflection
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Copyright, 1895. by Bachelor. johnson Bacheller
CHAPTER I.
BY NYM CRINKLB.

Copyright, 1895, by Bachelor. johnson Bacheller
CHAPTER I.
On the 18th Of March, 1873, Mr. Gustave
Prineveau was shot and killed in his pri-
vate conveyance while returning from q
drive with his wife. 1t was about o'clock
In the afternoon, and the carriage at the
time was between Goth and 9th streets on
4th avenue, in New York.
Mr.. Prineveau was seated on the left of
his wife in the carriage, which was two
seated phaeton. and was driven by their
man. John Teedson, who sat on the seat
In front of them. Mr.. Prineveau, who was
sixty-three, died almost instantly, and the
post-mortem, held the next morning at 10
o'clock, showed that he had been killed by
pistol bullet that had entered his heart
at the fifth intercostal space, glanced up
ward and severed the aosta. A small hole
was found in his vest on the left side cor
responding to the bullet.
The post-mortem examination was long
one. As 1t was impossible for either of the
other occupants of the carriage to have got
round to the left side of Mr.. Prineveau so
as to have inflicted the wound without &C.
complishing an unprecedented feat that
would have been seen, and as there was no
assignable motive for such an act. the
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The Warden Told Me Who She Was.
house, and the hall boy, who had been sent
on an Grand encountered him on the cor
ner and was there held in conversation by
him, Clarkson asking him. among other
things. If Mr.. Prineveau did not take a
drive usually in the afternoons.
These bits Of testimony led to the police
efforts to find Clarkson. Mr. Prineveau
was buried in the Trinity cemetery on the
10Th. His funeral was attended by many
old New Workers, and public attention was
turned to the efforts made by Mrs. Prime
veau to discover the perpetrator of the
crime.
On the 21st Clarkson's wife and children
were found In a miserable lodging place in
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CHAPTER III.

In my case suppose that something did,
for I got up and wrote a letter to Mrs.
Prineveau in which I told her that I ac-
cepted the case and would do the best
could for the accused, and that it looked
like hopeless affair. In response to this
I received a note of brief thanks, inclosing
a crisp $500 bill as a retaining fee. That
the pale face of the mans wife mad de-
termined me is not unlikely, for it came
back. to me in the night with the strangest
persistency and the same unwarranted look
of trust in the gray eyes.
The trial was set down to come on about
the LIST of May, and there was about
months time to get ready for 1t. wasted
about a week in the conviction that all
could do was to dispute the evidence inch
by inch. and in the last resort show that
Clarkson was given to emotional aberra-
lions and was at times Irresponsible. But
whenever my mind reverted to the matter
that miserable woman's face rose up with
an awful reproach in 1t. and then I fell to
excusing myself to myself as If had not
done right.
One morning with ain entirely inexplIca-
BILE impulse, ] went down to the place in
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circumstances, and vet I found some inar-
ticulate voice in me saying: THAT man is
innocent"
1 thought the matter over that night
without coming to a conclusion, and went
of Course. is yery much like saving in the
face of dilemma that you will toss a
penny up. In both cases there is an &C
acknowledgement that something outside of
your own will may determine for you.
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Continued ON Page 49,
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PART II.
Commissioners Sale of
Real Property.

BY virtue of an order made by the
Hon, ii. E. Cooper, Circuit Judge, filed
10 the Circuit ourt of the First Circuit,
in the matter of the equity suit between
Elizabeth X. Nahaolelua and husband,
plaintiffs. and Kaaahu (w) and others,
defendants, the undersigned, duly en-
powered so to do. will offer for sale at
Public Auction, on FRIDAY, JULY 5,
1895, at l2:i5 y. III. at the front entrance
of the Judiciary Building, all that land
situate at Kamanuwai, Honolulu, mau-
ka of Smiths Bridge ard on the Wal
kki side of the river, the same being
APANA 4 OF ROYAL PATENT No. 1888.
containing one acre and 1O4-l0OO Of an
acre Qess 1924 square feet of the same
sold to S X Kabai
This property being centrally located
in the heart of the town. offers special
Inducements to capitalists d,siring to
invest.
In the event of good road running
through the land the property Will be
enhanced in value, as there are now
several vacant lots on the land.
The lot of land known as the Chinese
JOS House, now occupied by Lai Say
(Ch) as described in deed from Kaaah hu
90 Lai Say, of record in Llber "a, page
220, will be sold separately, and the re-
mainder of the apana will lie put up as
one lot.
This sale to include all the improve
ments now upon SAID Apana 4, and the
same to be subject to confirmation by
the Court.
sB- Terms are cash and deeds to be
at the expense of the purchasers
For plan of the land and other par'i'
culars enquire of the undersigned at his
office in the Judiciary ljuilding.
HENRY SMITH,
Commissioner.
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LIKED BY THE PRESS.
TRIP OF PENCIL PusHERs OVER
THE NEW RAILROAD.
Through Beautiful Stretch-waians
Plantation a Very Pleasant
Day.

There was not a great deal Of in
cident to the press excursion over
the Oahu railway. The trip to the
end of the extension and back to
town was accomplished in good
time and without the slightest mis-
hap. As pilot Of the editors, Mr..
Fred Z. Smith, the enterprising
young ticket and passenger agent
won the friendship Of all. H. d.
Roberts, the master mechanic, was
at the throttle and gave some fast
running, especially over the new
road. On the extension the steel
is twenty lbs heavier to the yard
than on the old line. This makes
much steadier running. c. II.
Kleugel, the chief engineer Of the
line was along and ready with any
facts or figures desired. Contractor
Bickall modestly accepted compli-
ments on his work. All regretted
that Mr.. Dillingham; was absent,
but none forgot that to his energy
and foresight were due the success
Of the enterprise.
The extension opens up an in
viting stretch of new territory.
There are wide areas of fertile
land and the mountain and ocean
scenery are unrivalled in the group
An extra treat was given the
party at Waianae plantation by
Manager Ahrens. He provided
special train and most enjoyable
ride was had through cane fields
almost to Kaena point. The great
pumping plant was inspected.
After the trip over the plantation
lunch was served to the editors
in the Presidents car. The car
stood at the end of the line over
10 king the village Of Waianae, the
landing and miles Of beach and
hills.
Frank Godfrey conducted a
secret executive session of the
excursionists, with H. NJ. Whitney
as chairman and Geo. Manson as
secretary. The following was
adopted for presentation to Mr..
Smith and manager Ahrens:
| Resoined, That the thanks of the
Honolulu press representatives who
have this day been the recipients OF
the courtesies of the Oahu Railroad
and Land Company and the Wal
anae plantation are hereby tender
ed to the management Of both
companies, and especially to Man.
ager Ahrens for his kindness in
escorting the party over the plan.
tation, and to Fred c. Smith, who
| by his courteous care ana attention
has made our first trip over the
Waianae extension both a pleasanI
and memorable one.
After much persuasion the editol
of the '7issr was induced to with
draw his protest against the sena
torial method of procedure.
The Oahu railway will haul uI
this season for the Waianae Plan
tation 500 tons of sugar and i.
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handling all the freight of the
place. Besides this it reaches a
large number of settlers who have
heretofore used horses 1t is ex-
pected that a wagon road will be
ma lie around Kaena Point, thus
making a me tion with Waia'ua.
With but a re sonable delay the
extension is to be pushed on to
Waialua and Kahuku.
1t was a memorable day for the
moulders of public opinion. One
editor was made chairman of a
peace committee and with able as
sistauce averted bloodshed by diplo-
matically handling certain members
of the party.
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Quite a number Of the Kameha-
meha students work out of school
hours during term time. In vaca-
tion they are doubly anxious for
employment. 1t is likely that a
force of the lads will attack some
lantana and kulu thickets for the
Government this week.
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Health Agent Reynolds NOR
tuary report for June is out. There
were 81 deaths as against SO in
1894, 6S in 1898, As in 1892 and IS
in 1891. OF these a were nom
residents
Nauonalities - Hawaiian 5oi
Chinese 10, Portuguese 5, Japan
ese Q, American /, all others ?.
Unattended "a, under yea of age
IA.
Principal causes consumption
10, pneumonia 6, influenza s, old
age 4, dysentery 3, cholera infan-
tun 4.
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been demonstrated in auctual practice.
that the increased extraction of juice
has improved the trash as fuel So as TO
fully make up tor the additional use of
steam TO drive it.
THE CRUSHER is strongly built,
the rollers are made Of snlii steel rings
ON the shafts. The pinions are all OF
steel and the spurwheel is provided with
segment rim. Its speed is about the
same rs the mill rollers thereby giving
comfort and safety in running. 1t is so
constructed. that should iron parts, such
as bolts, car coupling links and pins.
cane knives, etc, go through, 1t will not
injure any of the parts.
The following are testimonials from
plantations where the crusher at present
is a. work:
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The Government band will play
this evening at Emma Square
at $50 o'clock, Prof. Heitmann
leader. Following is the program:
PART |.
March-"Americ Cadets. Hall
2. Overture-"Figaro's Wedding"
----.-....----.--. Mozart
3. Waltz-''Immurtel --.- -.Gungl
4. Medley-"B'yer's Annual Boyer
PART II.
3. Selection-"The Rose of Cas-
tlle- iphiie
9. pilgrim Chorus from Tam
hauser" "----------.------ Wagner
/. Evening Star from Tannhau-
ser" Wagner
8. Gallop-"Storm Bird ------ Faust
Hawaii Ponoi"
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tB-Entiies may bs made at the
Hawaiian News Company Entries
close at I O'clock, July I'd. 1925.
6e3-td cod
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PAIA PLANTATION, Marc 81, 1895
Honolulu Iron Works Co. CENT gEN: We
find tn. kraiewski Crusher advan ageOus in
the underno'ed items:
Stod'ig and euen feed Of The three roller min,
thus Causinga great d al less strain o. the
mill and a. the same time giving " from 5 to
per cent. better extraction of juiC
We are at present making Crusher
and explain its construction to any part
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n ATIONAL CANE
SHREDDER.


One oi these Shreddcrs has
recently been installed at the
mill OF the Paahau Plantation
Company, IIamakua, Hawai-.
and Mr., Andrew Moore. the
manager, writes concerning It