Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-18

my hand, eyed me anXlously and III,
quiringly; so that generally contrlVed
to glance through it when she was alb
sent. | never permitted her to touch It
for this prohibition was that | feared
lest some chance alluson to the mysteri-
Gus and undiscovered crime might dis
treSS her. Her own far-fetched fancy
that another might be accused of it gave
me not moments uneaslness.
SO / turned and doubled, back the
broad sheets. | ran down the topics OF
the day. [ skinned the leading articles;
glanced at the, foreign news; PAID
scant attention to law reports, and disre-
garded altogether the money-market in
telligence. AT last | turned my atten-
ton to the provincial news column. a
name caught my eye; cold shiver OF
dread ran through me. My cigarette
fell o. the marble pavement. and lay
there unheeded, as, with agitation which
no words can describe. | read a short
paragraph placed under the heading of
the principal town of the county in which
Roding was situated. Read!
William Evans. the main accused of
the murder Of Sir Ieryyn Ferrand,
Bart, IL January last, will be tried at
these Assizes, which open on the twenti-
eth. The case, which eXcites considera-
bic interest, will be taken on the first
day. 1t is reported that although fresh
evidence against the prisoner will be
forthcoming, it will be of a purely cir
cumstantial nature
Every word of that accused paragraph
seemed like blow falling upon my head.
I or some mlhutes sat as one stunned.
H. Lev NY i leeln G1atteFlng. III kneW
rnn;f,I 49, I 1,d piaan a -
l lal,s dfeao had come 70 pass. An
p1neisi "a llAlocent nah-Was bearing Inc
o!alne OIL hef own MAD act. Dazed, stu
liu' nId,c.ly a a 70 cohlpfenend WhaI
must mus pe me Iull e1Iect OF what l mad
JtlsI iea'', sat motlohless, with my eyes
Inc sG ,! Oh my motnefs peasant
voice calllhg 70 fhlllppa at last aWoke
me from my stupor., Ihey We're coming.
| could not face them. doubled up
the newspaper, thrust It into my
Pockel, ana rusneq out INTO the street.
ms iIltelllgence might mean to US. |
~ u.s. IIVe l9lls hours OF solltude, III order
20 eecloe Wha5 course should De adopted
~ lace Ills, tn Ne, lasl, the worst peru.
T PASSED s tH tnrough me IRON gate.
h WIZ up '1 h narloM sIreet at pace
when must nave mage ali VINO saw me
lllnk 1le mao. w mtnef d!d go! L
Scarcely remember think 1t must have
Deen 10 one OF the puDllc gardens; but
III that nouf al sense or localty lett me.
| went lnstlnctlyely III search of solitude.
! round, l 40 not know now O, where,
the anguish or my heart, amid the wreck
OF my sand-founded happiness, | threw
myselt on the ground, and dug my finger>
nails into the cry soil.
At first | thought [ was going or had
gone mad. The thoughts which rushed
through my mind We're disjonted and
wanted Conference. An innocent man ac-
cused with the crime! To be tried on the
twentieth! The twentieth and now it is
the sixteenth! Fresh evidence forthcom-
ingi The f0ols-the utter fools This
the boasted detective skill, To arrest on
suspicion. to bring to trial a man who
must be ignorant OF everything connected
with the murder! What is to be done?
What can be done? Oh, my wife! my
poor darling wife,
- Inen, l peneye. | Grled IKE ,G cnlid.
- setlll 4 70 me lnas an Was losl. 1nere
W. VIZ ~ uire Ms NJ ~ ne coillse
solf m to G d ~ h, rte el
froo th; IIosS
in nerii Of HE 5fo She n,nSt ~ hoa,. +ho
shame of tho trial and +r,1st 70 b1n,an
iustice and thp mercy which she had ]
TIGHT To eynect Oh if was nitiful niti-
fuIl For = long while no alternative
course suggested itself TO me.
Human Justice. What is Justice? See
how it can err! It can arrest. try, and
oh, horrible thought perhaps condemn
to death an innocent man. How then
Wouku II Iu1c Win Hilippd! w ~, uOV
that marriage has sealed my lips, was
there to prove her madness when she
STEW that man l ragged at the thought;
II seemed 10 me tnat we were nara ana
1asl III tue tolls. hight, II IS lrue, can
l,llam' my servant 10 swear ';f3 1nat n hef
;e.ht "aS s,ta da allu VII upon adlal
+bo+ IT, &C. ~ ~. ~ P,U
rncovorino from an at+oci- If n1on;n R1,3
Womb thev ha credited2 Wnuld not a
clever LAWYER soon convince twelve or.
binary men that # was not her madness
which prompted the crime. but the crime
which produced the madness? We were
indeed meshed and bound: hemmed in on
every side. helnless and. + seemed. home
lessi
And pbil;nna n,nc+ ho Told +bis, 7 ,nus+
III ~, ni Lp1 nus 1d oT todu us iu -
aeat nj - + 10y vouIu h 10y 'elf ~
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