Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-06

of any accompllce; ana, peslees, atver
the manner in which the theft Of the
blue diamonds had been bruited abroad
aud advertised, it would be impossible
Tor the; thief or thieves to dispose of
them for quarter of their real value,
if indeed at all. In which contention,
OF course, there was some truth.
The recorder summed up at consid-
erable length-a careful, equipoised
summing up, as remember thinking
at the time, balanced, like the SEN
tences-in q. Greek dialogue, with per-
petual sson the one hand" and "on the
other hand;n impartial, no doubt, but
colorless, and affording no assistance
whatever to the jury. The latter, after
: considering their verdict for an hour
or SO, at length brought the prisoner
in ''not gailty" on this Indictment.
He was then sentenced on the other in
dictment. to. 90 months hard labor, the
i recorder observing that if anything
previous had hecn knownagainst him,
which apparently there was not, lie
should have sent him'into penal servi-
tude.
-pe Suck is a briefAa, very bfief-re-
capitulation of Robert Morris's trial
.snd d,sentsnce in connection with the
theft of the blue diamonds.
i now come to the important point
in in my story, the only part oft which is
not mere recapitufat t,on, ely-the
efucidafion of the mystery as impaired
to ne only n few weeks ago by Morris
himself. I may take-this opportunity
of saying that am the doctor who at
tended the ex-convict in his last i'll
ness; ;of which the fatal termination
came SO. recently rs. a fortnight since.
He died in. a lodging, in Bloomsbury,
in "miserably poor circur0s anees, and
being unable to pay Inc any fee, i'm
parted to me his secret TO do what I
could with, as sort of st,acknowledg-
ment of my services.
"Doctcr, he said tonne one day,
about week before he died, 81 shan't
leave any effects behind me TO pay
YOUR bill. But I can leave you a lit
tie secret, which YOU might turn into
nice i';Im sum Of ready, If you set about
it the right way. All! what fool I
was to 60 and make ducks and brakes
of all that oof! Do you know, doctor,
after 1 came out Of shop I was worth
eS0O0?"
"Eight thousandT I exclaimed.
''Then, you did steal the blue dia-
monds? How did HyouImanage to hide
ithem?'' go - .''.'' 80.
"That's- the secret Pm going to tell
YOU. All, doctor (he chuckled .glee,
fully; I'm not writing a moral tale;
Pm telling the truth, and the truth is
that Robert Morris was not in the
least peniteut, "I had the diamonds
on me when was caught; I had them
on me when I was searched at the sta
tion; Ighad them on me; when Event
before the lord mayor; I had them on
me when, I,was tried at the Old Bailey,
IT had. them on. Inc all the 20 months
was I'M the stone iug-aye, all the
blessed %time::'s, : =
& ..InapossibleH' cried.l "Gou could
Enot have concealed them.
aCouldn'tt I, though? All, doctor,
IIll show you. Bring me thai cup Oh
the washstand,. now. do you see
what's insit32 ga. ~ s-r,ss ,f
N oY6ure grinders, isaid, looking
down at the double set Of false teeth
lying. in the .cap. I...what about 'em?,"S
"Nice ones, eh?" he asked with 9
leer and wink. -, ~ u
E':5''very," T. answered. -
,sgade nf1nyseE,p he said, with
another chn RE. 1.-The p'lee'e knew
II T wasa dentists assistant, too. Wonde.
they never gaesse ''}}':aAs 'ssse: y .as's-t