Evening star., 1898-11-05

Next afternoon went down to see Guide
IN the waiting room at the Old Bailey. He
was mlddle-aged man, heavy-faced and
evidently knocked half stupid by the situa-
uon in which he found himself He was
perhaps as great fool to his own interests
as one might often meet with. There was
no settlns the simplest tale out of him eX-
cept by regular question and answer cross
examination. What little he did tell seemed
rather to confirm his guilt than otherwise
though, strange to say, | was beginning to
believe him when he kept on assuring me
between every other sentence that he did
not commit the murder. Perhaps it was the
s,ohd earnestness of the fellow in denying
the crime which convinced me. One gets
10 read good deal from facial expression
when man has watched what goes on in
the criminal dock as long as l have done,
and one can usually spot guilt under any
mask.
But tell me- / said what did you
quarrel about in the first instance?'
Money said Guide, moodly.
Thats vague. Tell me more. Did he
owe you money?
No, sir, twas tother way on
Wages in arrear?'
No, it was money he had advanced me
for the working of my business. You see,
walker had always been a hard man, and
he'd saved. He said ne wanted his money
back ne knowing that l was pinched bit
just then and couldn't paw Then he tried
10 thrust himself into partnership with me
in the business, which was thing | didn't
want I'd good contracts on hand, which
expected would bring ME in matter OF
to.oOO, and | didn't want to share it with
any man, least of all him. 1 told him so,
and that's how the trouble began. But it
was him that hit me first
But persisted, Walker couldn't very
conveniently have murdered himself
No, sir, mono, he couldn't. / thought
of that myself since | been in here, and l
said to Mr.. Barnes that perhaps somebody
come into the carriage when 1 was knocked
silly and killed him: but Mr. Barnes he said
that was absurd. Besides, who could have
done it,?
Don't you know anybody. then, who
would have wished for Walkers death?'
There was them that didn't like him.
said Guide dreariIy.
THAT was all l could get out of him, and
| vert away from the prison feeling very
dissatisfied l was stronger than ever in
the belief that Guide was in no degree
guilty. and yet for the life of me did not
see how to prove his innocence. He had
not been man of any strong character to
Degln with, and the shock of what he had
gone through had utterly dazed him. 1t
was hopeless to expect any reasonable ex-
pianation from him: he had resigned him
self to puzzlement. If he had gone melan-
choly mau before he came up to trial l
shouId not nave been one whit surprised
brooded over the matter for a couple
or days, putting all the rest of my practice
out of thought, but l didn't get any for
Warder with 1t. hate to give anything
up as a bad job, and in this case felt that
there was on my shoulders huge load of
responsibility. Guide. 1 had thoroughly
persuaded myself, had not murdered An
drew walker; as sure as the case went into
court, on IT'S present grounding, the man
would be hanged out of hand: and I per-
suaded myself that then ], and | alone.
should be responsible for an innocent mans
death.
''At the end of those two days only ono
course seemed open to me. 1t was foreign
10 the brief L held, but the only method left
10 br1ng IN my clients innocence
mus ff,,l
the man l must try to implicate some
third actor in the tragedy
TO begin with, there was the railway
carriage; but a little thought showed me
thdt nothing was to be done there The
compartment would have been insnec.tad hy
the ponce, and then swept and cleaned and
garnlshed. and coupled on to it's train once
more, ana used by unconscious passengers
ioI weeks since the uproar occurred in it.
All tnat had to go upon were the notes
ana relics held at Scotland Yard
me police authorities were very good
~ u course, they were keen enough to bring
OH me prosecution with professional eclat.
but they We're not exactly anxions to baa;
over poor wretch to the haneman if ha
was not thoroughly deserving of a dane
on o,i hotning. They placed at my disposal
every scrap or their evidence and said that
they thought the reading of it was nlain
Dsyono dspute. l thought so, too. at first
Ihey sent an inspector to my chambers as
their envoy f's
a n
thought, did not quite agree with tben,
neld grfsly relic in my hand gazing at If
lAediy. II was portion of Walkers skull
ture in the middle.
AND so you think the pickax made that
mole, l said to the inspector
aoh think there can be any doubt
about 1t, Mr.. Grayson Nothing else coI,id
have done it, and the point of tba ,ic, ,'.d U.iu
smeared with blood PANh "d'
But would there be room to sv,;n, s,,ob
way carriage? aii-
We thought of that, and at srs+ {.
seemed poser. The roof is low. and hotb
Guide and Walker are tail men. h,,t -
W 1uius nag snpped the shaft by the end
SO, with his right hand pretty near agains,
the mead, 50. he'd have had heaps of ron,,,
- - urive II with a sideways swing l tried
IIe thins Tor myself; 1T acted pe.rfectIv
SELF N0h sec LOT Your
uia see and 1 wasn't satisfied: hut 7
u.un ... tell the Inspector what 1 thought IT
-. oleaIeI 10 me than ever that Guide had
tbe the Eominl,t,eo ;ns the murder. What / asked
tie Inspector was this: Had either Of tba
mn got any luggage in the carriaeep
me inspector answered, with a Isueb
1t here 'ou "ouio see
Then 1 took on paper a rough outline os
tnat fragment of bone and an accurata
sketch OF exact size of the cash in r. ami
tne inspector went away. One thing bis
'-~Al I4ou Hle. Andrew Walker mac
not slain by blow from behind bv tbe
pickax. "' 'he
met Barnes whilst 1 was nibb,ipg
luhch, and told him this He heard me
aouotiuily- You may be right said he
but m bothered If 1 see what you have to
go upon 'o
said. % hhe!
Certainly
"A cross-section of one of the blades
would be what%
Square-or perhaps oblope.'
quite so. Rectangular What want
10 get at Is this: 1t wouldn't even be dia
mona shape, with the angles obtusc and
acute alternately "A''
Certainly not. The angles would bo
claan right angles o
Very good. Now look at this sketch of
the hole In the skull. and tell me wbat you
see.' ''N Jou
Barnes put on his glasses and gazed at
tentlvely for minute or So, and then
looked up. The pick point has crashed
through without leaving any marks of :ts
edges whatever - KS
That is to say. there are none of your
right angles showing
None But that does not go to proya
anything ~ Po'e
No. It's only about tep+b Of WV