Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-12-06
CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XVIII.
At O'Clock on the night of the lt,.
Hattie DeRosette was seated IN the Ii
brary of her home, the very room in which
her father had so recently been murdered.
Notwithstanding the fact that the bank
er had there been stricken to death, this
room had been his favorite, and his daugh-
ter found fond memories clustered about
it. 1t was apparent that the young heiress
had been weeping, and little wonder. For
three days she had been seated in the
court house listening to the evidence that
she felt to most minds condemned the man
she loved as the murderer of her father.
She had listened to the evidence of Her
man Craven and reluctantly had spoken
words that substantiated his statements.
She had noted with feelings better I'M
agined than described that the stern, liked
features of the jurors seemed to admit Of
little doubt as TO what would be their YER
dict
The statement of the prisoner, unsub
stantiated IS it was, seemed to bear little
weight.
The States Attorney dispelled that lit
tie in his long argument for conviction.
He drew a terrible picture of the crime
enacted in the room IN which she was
seated. and stated that the evidence was
sucn as not to admit OF a single doubt az
10 who committed the horrible murder.
NO other living soul!' he exclaimed, as
he pointed his shaking finger at the pris-
oner, mad a motive: inns man hao-
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and hi. loved d.uyb,er man and wife. In
all this gentlemen of the iurv- the daugh-
tar.s cv;danca corroborotes that of the
principal witness. with the execution that
she had no knowledge of the fact that her
father hoped one day to see her welded tc
the young man who is now president of
The Cape Fear Eank.' Her father had
never expressed that wish to her. Why,
gentlemen of the jury? Because of her
tender years! May there not, gentlemen,
have been also q motive here on the part
of the prisoner for the removal of the
murdered man? Did he not fear the bank
er, living, would thwart him in his design
to make the daughter his wife? Remem-
Der, gentlemen, that if Herman Craven
and Miss DeRosette had been one moment
later in entering the library they would
have found before them naught but the
lifeless body of the murdered banker! The
fend that murdered him would have made
his exit from the house. And who shall
say, not without hope, nay, belief, that
the nephew would stand before the bar OF
justice, charged with his murder! MUIR
DER, so paipapie ana pam that even LANE
Seiiars, the sieal Sou,nn
whom ne had urged 10 take MS case' aoah
ooned MIN.
There was amazement throughout th'
court room at the calm appearance OF the
prisoner during the TRADE OF the prose
cutting attorney
Not an exclamation left his lips. He SAT-
pale and silent, with clenched hands and
tightly compressed lips, until Lawyer
Robbins Md taken his seat.
Arthur Dobbs plead long and well fol
the life of his client; but no denuncia
tions of Herman Craven left his lips.
The ground he dwelt on was that no liv.
Ing soul had seen the blade Of the sheath
knife driven home to the bankers heart,
and that the evidence against the prisoner
was entirely circumstantial.
In his closing plea the district attorney,
an old and experienced lawyer, ridiculed
the idea of the proof being of circum-
stantial nature, and in closing his address
used these words:
..There he sits, gentlemen! There il
the prisoners box-caught red-handed in |
his murderous act, Do your duty, and !
free the Old North State of fiend unpar |
alleled, Take the case"
Tho iudye,s charge had occupied m,
49, ond + was annarent that be enter.
80, " o do,,h. 81 tbe nrisoner,s c,il,
Wot bolf an bour nrevious RI the finn.
no ed W;ss Hattie seated in tho I;brarv
W, - tba wv nod rot;rad from tb.
-. roor, had she loft the court bouse
,,d tban only after rho indigo had an
,ni .tnt tha ,ordict would bo doIir.
lraa - onor court at 10 o'clock tho fnr
owing day
..Tbat is" said his honor. ..if the iurv
,pree and they undoubtedly will. l trust" |
"a added. that YOU will not be uncom- |
-ortabIe in the iury room: but owing TO |
illness in nv family. I am unable to re-
main and take your verdict tonight"
Il would have said more, much more"
hought Miss Hattie. as she pondered owe,
he matter, but for the caution OF Mr..