The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-12-26

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WITNESS SAID HE colLo NOT SAY
and he left the box. We'll, he had beer
stabbed; he had been obliged to 90 into
court aud to state that fact. What coot
would it Go to 20 into other matters
People must not be stabbed even b1
girls who have been deserted. Person.
ally, he was horribly vexed about the
Whole business, not to speak of the pain
caused by the wound. But what could
ne 90: lie was ve:y sorry for the girl
but il would not help him if all the story
! OF MS ENHANCEMENT was proclaimed in
| open court. Observe that when Young
! gentleman like Mr. Harry Stoke behaves
! III this kind O. way ii is alvuvs an en-
! tanSlcmcnt into which he has fallen.
and, among his female relatives, the
other party cntangled is always the most
crafty, the most subtle, the most design
ing, the most foresecin!r., the most far
reaching she devil that ever walked
ABOUT with intent TO cEtlap and destroy
the sons Of women.
The next witness was the horse
keeper at the chambers, Who deposed
that, being engaged in the adjoining
room, she heard voices in dispute; that
one OF them Was Il woman's voice; that
sho hoard scuiie Of feet and a heavy
1all, followed by a woman's shrek;
that she ran into the room and saw Mr..
stoke lying on the floor in pool Of
blood, and the prison r standing over
him. the dagger DIR piping with blood in
her hand, and that all she said was.
! have killed him! I have killed him!"
Another witness was the medical man
Who had examined the wound. He said
that he was called in about half-rast
seven that evening ana found a man
lying on The floor unconscious and
bleeding from Il wound, of which he
proceeded to give a minute description,
which caused the conduct of the Essas-
sin to seem very deliberate. and even
scientific. Had the weapon passed an
inch more to the right or to the LETT, or
to the north or south, it must have gone
through the heart, or severed the peri
cadl#c artery, or pierced the vascular
a. ~ :, ~'ANAA'1 Va lSANtitGtu liz lCuOIcGl
tissues, III which case death would have
surcrvened. He said, however, that
there was nothing to prevent tho wound
having been accidentally caused by a
scutlie and q fall.
The counsel for the defense dwelt
strongly On this possibility. The
wounded man, he said, had no recollec-
ton OF any such sculle; on the other
hnnd, he had no recollection OF the
events at all after the girl had taken up
the knife. He caleb on the jury to
give the prisoner the benefit OF the
doubt.
The counsel for the Crown ridiculrd |
this theory. Here was girl, probably
with grievance, al or fancied-it !
was not for him to plead that grievance,
and his learned brother lad not thought |
proper to advance it. she waited for
The wounded man on q Sunday after
noon when nobody was atout-probab!y
she reckoned on being able to walk off
lnsecn--and she attempted to murder
him. Nothing could be more clear: she
had made no defense; she refused to
lake advantage OF the power to give
evidence on her own behalf; she had
1othing to say; her counsel would plead
nothing but a possible-and very i'm
obabe-accident.
With that the counsel sat down, and
he Judge summed up. He, too, had
nothing to say in favor of the prisoner.
It is difficult for person 10 speak who
efuses to speak, or. 10 let others speak,
or herself
The jury, without leaving the box,
ound the prisoner guilty Of stabbing.
During the trial. there was another
sitting in the body of the court beside
he solicitor for the prisoner. Another
'irl. evidently friend of the prisoner,
or she was in deep DISTRESS and sat
With her handkerchief to her eyes near
y all the time. But the prisoner
howed no sign Of any emotion When
he man whom she had stabbed went
nto the box she looked up curiously;
fter that she remained perfectly still;
or head was bent, her hands were
rossed, her eyes were raised; she re-
eived her sentence, and she walked out
f the dock afterwards with the same
pparent callousness. 1t was the other
irl in the body of the court who, when
he Judge concluded, shriekcd aloud,
nd fell iainting on the floor
MIR. Harry Stoke walked quickly
way. This was the end of that roman
&c episode into which he had crammed
Il the passion Of which his heart was
apabie, end all the treachery and viii ]
.iny Of which mankind at large is capa- I
le. Probably in his Doyhood he had ,
ead of great monsters-men whose =
lace is low down in those fearful rings !.
flame and boiling pitch aud devilish I
whose sutferings and pun