Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-03-26

She started as though she had re-
ceivcd n blow, and instinctiyely threw
aside her veil.
AID the beautiful. pale. agonizcd
! young face was revealed TO the whole
assembly.
A murmur of compassion moved.
breeze-like. through the hitherto pitt
less crowd, and a single haif-sup-
| pressed cry was heard from h An
chorage party.
That cry came from Amelia Wilder,
who then for the first time discovered
| the identity between her friend Miss
| Miller and the accused Eudora Leaton.
ATTEND to the reading of the in
dictment," continued the clerk, adj
| dressing the prisoner.
Eudora Immediately obeyed by lift
ing her frightened eyes TO the
cold. business-like face Of the speak
or, who commenced reading the form
liable document he held in his hand.
setting forth. in consecutive counts,
how the prisoner. Eudora Leaton, be-
ing impelled by satanic agency, with
malice prepense. ut certain times and
istration of certain poisons and deadly
istration of certain poisons and daddy
drugs, did feloniously procure n ef-
feet the death Of the Honorable Aga
that Leaton, ETC.. etc, etc.
prisoner at the bar, arise and hold
up your right hand ordered the
clerk, when the reading was finished.
Eudora, pale, faint and trembling,
obeyed.
prisoner, you have heard the
charges against you. Are you guilty
or not guilty of the felonies with
which you are accuSed?'
Not guilty, as l shall answer at the
last day before the awful bar of God"
said Eudora, in a low, sweet, solemn
voice, that thrilled the hearts of the
whole assembly, as she sank back
into her seat.
The attorney general who had come
down from London to prosecute this
most important case arose in his
place, took the bill of indictment from
the clerk Of arraigns, and proceeded
to open the case ON the part of the
Crown.
He commenced by saying that his
duty III the present case was extreme
ly distressing in it's nature. but, for
tunately, simple in its course; that
the case he stood there TO prosecute,
dark as it was with the deepest guilt,
was yet so clearly illumined by the
light of evidence, that happily 1t need
not occupy the court long; that wheth-
or they considered the tender youth
of the criminal, the cold-blooded atroc-
ity OF the crime, or the high worth of
the victims, this agonizing case n
no parallel in the long experience OF
the Oldest barrister living, or the
- 49,. IS .ys -, t.Anl IN igN N1sIN
dence: that he need not recall to mem
DRY the celebrated cases of Borgla,
Essex. Brinvilliers or Lafarge TO
prove that youth, beauty, womanhood
and high rank combined were no. in
compatible with deep guilt and dark
crimes in their possessors: that he did
not mean to draw any comparison be-
tween the female fiends he had men
toned and the prisoner ut the bar,
for he should soon prove Eudora Lea
ton had succeeded in reaching Il
much higher point upon the bad en-
inence'' of criminal fame than had
ever been attained by Lafarge, Brin-
v%illierS, Essex or Borgia.
."The prisoner" he said, 'of Indian
pareDtage, was the only child Of the
late Honorable Charles Leaton and
his wife. Oolah kalooh, of Lahore,
and, doubtless. she must have derived
from her mother all those subtle, Sc
cretive and treacherous elements of
character for which the East Indian is
noted, while she gained from her faith
err all that rare. dangerous botanical
knowledge of the deadly plants of the
country, the study of which had once
been his favorite pastime and the ac-
q%uaintance with which had been re-
Gently her most fatal medium Of de-
struction.
by the death of her parents" he
continued, "she was left an orphan
mt the early age Of sixteen years. Her
uncle, the late Lord Leaton, as o
as he received intelligence of her con
dition. dispatched a special messenger
to India to bring her home TO his wi
house. Upon her arrival he, rs well
as his whole family, received the or
phan with the utmost tenderness,
placing her at once upon an equal
footing with his only daughter and
sole heiress."
"But how" inquired the prosecutor.
has the bencvolence. confidence and
affection of this honored family been
repaid by their cherished protege?
They have been repaid by the black
est mSratltuue, the IOuieSC treaclery.
the deepest guilt: they have been re-
paid with ~death-the insidious, prot
tracted. dreadful death of slow poison
poison administered by her whom
they received into the bosom Of their
family.
"And what" he asked. tempted
this young, beautiful and high-born
girl TO plunge herself into this deep
Gehenna of guilt, misery and infa-
my?
THE basest motive that could infiu-
ence human nature-thc love of lucre.
She knew that in the event of the
death of Lord and Lady Leaton and
their daughter. she must he the sole
inheritor of the whole Leaton estate;
and for this inheritance she has per
petrated crimes unequalled in atrori-
~ by her most notorious predecessors
of criminal celebrity.
"She has sacrificed her nearest kind.
red in this world. and her dearest in
tcrests in the next. She has destroyed
those who sheltered her. Yes, she
whom they received into their homes
and hearts. warmed ut their house.
hold fire, cherished within their hos.
Om'S love. she druCCed their daily