The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-27


band and 1CuSltedit off,"
tracted his attention thither. as it wa.
the old mans habit to sleep in dark
ness. Thus he had no cuffs on wher
he examined the body, but put them or
! again before going out to the police
station"
He is shrewd, Mr.. Barnes, very
shrewd. This is point of which j
have often thought. The prosecution
says, Prisoner, there is blood upon
your garments Prisoner foolishly re.
plies. That is not blood but rust, or, il
blood. 1t is chicken Blood Then the
expert stalks in and testifies, 1T is
blood. human blood But this young
man disarms the prosecution at the
outset. He says, Yes; it is blood, the
blood of my father Then he explains
plausibly how it happens to be upon
him.
An, yes. very good, Mr. Mitchell!
But if he We're really innocent why
should he wash or attempt to wash the
stain off. and why should he stop to re-
place his cuffs if he We're really in n
1A''is " iSPoi " llle ponce
so! He had attempted to wash
away the blood. That was an error. |
fear. But they all make mistakes.
How did he answer these questions
that is, if you asked them?"
Yes; asked them. and he replied,
Mr.. Barnes spoke rather reluctantly.
He said that he had noticed the blood
upon his wristband and washed it off
because he thought some fool of a de-
tective might conceive the idea that he
had killed his father; that he had put
on his cuffs because he was in foo
great hurry to stop to change the
shirt. and he had hoped that the cuff
would hide the fact that the wristband
had been washed"
BY heavens. Mr.. Barnes, a brilliant
answer. very brilliant answer!" Mr..
Mitchell laughed heartily.
ut may he brilliant" retorted Mr..
Barnes. but it is false, and will
prove it so if it be So"
IF it be so! All. wisely added, Mr..
Barnes-if it be sou
You of course agree that the crucial
point in this affair is the conflicting
statements of the Waterman and Young
Mora. The Waterman asserts positive
ly that he saw the son enter the house
and leave it again. He has been in the
employ of the deceased for several
years and was acquainted, therefore.
with his sen. Yet the young man
stoutly denies that he was at home be-
fore o'clock in the morning. Evil
dently one If these men is lying"
Pardon me, Mr.. Barnes, but Won
say that one of the men lies because
you think that young Mora is tellip. a
falsehood You do not mean that by
any possibility the Waterman is w.
ing, yet it may be that Mora tells the
truth and also that the Waterman be-
lleves that his own statement is ac-
curate"
You mean that the Waterman was
perhaps mistaken and that it was some
other person who entered the house,"
Precisely so. II is possible"
possible, yes, but far from proba
Die. 1T seems that Mora has been
wearing peculiar brown plaid suit of
ate. The material he procured in
scotland, and it is not likely that an.
'ther bit of cloth like it could be found
this city, The Waterman was famil-
ar with this suit of clothing and
wears that the man who entered The
louse that night wore that suit of
scotch plaid. Yet in the face of this
positive assertion young Mora denies
nat he wore that suit ut all that night
M suggests that the murderer, after
the crime, may have dress
q himself in this suit, wearing it over
us own clothing. He claims that the
vatchman may have been mistaken
bout what was worn by the man 60
ng in, though he seems to have been
ute accurate about what was worn
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