The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-06
Tragedy Of a
Third Smoker

II abominate detective stories,'' said the
Q. c., laying down his GU, along the conner
of the billiard table ar going across to
the shelf where the cigar boxes stood
You see, when a man makes a detective
story to write down on paper, he be gins
at the butt-end and works backwards. He
notes his points. and manufactures his
| clews to suit EN-. so it's all bound to
work out right. In real life it's very diff
| ferent''-he chose Partaga, looking at
it through his glasses thoughtfully-"a and
ought to know. I've been studying the
criminal mind for hall any working life"
But" said 0'Malley "a defending
counsel is a different class of animal from
| the common detective"
"Ob, is he?" said the Q. c., that's all
you know about it's lie dragged one Of
the big chairs up into the leep chimney
corner and settled himself in it, after
/ many luxurious shruggings; then he spoke
on. between whiffs at the Partaga.
Now I'll just state you case and you'll
| see for yourself how I'VE sometimes have
to ravel out things. The solicitor who put
the brief in my hands was, as solicitors go,
q smart chap. He had built up big busi-
ness out of nothing. but criminal work was
!
| up this case to oblige an old client and
must say he made an uncommonly poor
show of it. ! never had such thin brief
| given me in my life.
| THE prisoner was to be tried on the
capital charge; and if murder really had
! been committed, it was one of a most cold
| biooded nature. Hanging would follow con-
| viction as surely as night comes on the
| heels OF day, and a client who gets the
! moose given him always damages his coun-
! sells reputation, whether that counsel de-
serves it or not.
"As my brief put it, the case fined down
! to this:
Two men got into an empty third-ciass
| smoking compartment at Addison Road.
One of them Guide was drain contrac-
| tor; the other Walker, was foreman in
! Guides employ The train took them past
! the Shepherds Bush and Grove Road Ham
! mersmith Stations without anything being
reported; but at SALISBURY Road Walker
was found on the floor stone dead, with.
wound in The skull, and on the seat of the
carriage was a small miners pickaX with
one of its points smeared with blood.
1T was proved that Guide had been seen
| to leave the SALISBURY Road station He
was disheveled and agitated at the time,
| and this made the ticket collector notice
| him snecially among the crowd of outgoing
! passengers. After il was found out who
he was, enquiries were made at mis- nome
| His wife stated that she had not seen him
| since Monday-the morning OF Walkers
| death. She also let out that Walker had
| been causing him some annoyance of late,
| but she did not know about what Suisse
| Quently-on the Friday, four days later
| Guide was arrested at the West India
| dock. He was trying to obtain employ
ment as coal trimmer on an Australian
steamer, obviously to escape from the
quietly remarkine that he supposed II
was all I'M with him
.sTbat was the gist NJ NV case and tho
solicitor suggested ta,t should enter
n1ea of ineanitv
"Now wbe, ia cornad tho ayidance
-oddi,;nnaI a,;denna 20 ,,hat pye tnId
,o,, ~. 81, ,n,d;na - ~ sa,,a "a
oa,,o ~ +ha oonn,,,sior, ~, c,,;da ,,,as os
So &c anY ~ ne aun ana M as a.
80 o., VI 70 a. 80. ~ % -,
ien.e ,,,,n ~ouiuI ns ,es 70 o.
upon. me leiiow. l saiu' hsa niuch pe ,,-
yer ehter pea ol gum! anu ie' nie pi'e
up long iist OIL e@tenuatlhs CIR
sauces Stances, Jury VIII ai~ays hs.eh "
tiioss' anu ieeIine sletelui ioi oei i
cused long ana "earisone trlai wiz rec
omfneho 70 mercy on, OF sheer gratitude'
wrote note TO this eHect. On lts re
ceipt the solicitor came 10 see me-Dy the
way, ne was Barnes, man oil my own
year at cambridge
NY oear Hrayson' said ne i IN not
sHogeoher TOOL hho" as wen as you
40 that uulue "ouIu nave .he Dsst ehance
IL ne pieaaeu suiisy out cue uiihou,t POI
vi II - that ne Iiatt' ieiuse' 70 w nns
a , tnihe u " Nv me-, an.
tnis ~" CIV. M. 10. ~. ~, ,o',idr,t
po.n'eu ou. ~ Inn . It, hi-rsoI,
~, oUn ,'o. Iii o,,ar a., ,ha ~ ~ he
haaa go M ob,ionsIv haen tba resuIt
~ moe, tarr;fc bIow A. the p NJ n
was ebou,n thar walkers skuII was of all
,or,,aI tbicLpaes and the force renuired
IN drIve through If even a heavy sharp-
pointed instrument like the pickax must
have been something tremendous.
Il tell YOU. Grayson, | impressed upon
the fellow that the case was as black as
ink against him, and that he'd only irri
tate the jury by holding out; but | couldn't
move him. He held doggedly to his tale
he had not killed Andrew Walker
=" He's not the FIRST man whos stuck 10
an unlikely lie like that. remarked
" The curious part OF II Is, SAID barnes
l m convinced that the man oeleNes hihi-
sen 10 De teIlihs .ne - - ~ =,
Then what explanation mas ne 10 Oh
ien n.,, ,,starir, IN uo ou.,s
None worm ls'ehiis ~. ne oNhS
tnat ne anu NaiNei n 'i, '.,r.I. auai g.
over money ii"'.e mn 'eu -,
pc, Soii"I 80 .tls boad ,rhicb d.zod bir, anJ
one blow on the heau wlisn ua1eu nun, anu
iahcies ne mus h'.Ne Nau a seoo'u Viii Viii
reuuceu nm 70 - t,,i,o -.
next he kne" what was happening ne sS"
Walker lying Oh me hoor' stone deau'
though he was sun warm ana supple. On
he nj q nf c