The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-15

I there confronting each other. Take
| that''-the words rang out sharply in
! the GREATNESS silence. THAT" was a
| sheet of paper which Sir Charles Rus
sell held out. Pigott took it-gazing
! the while at Sir Charles in blank be-
/ puzzlement. Everybody in court gianc-
| ed at every other. He has him."
| barrister whispered, turning round to
me. Write down livelihood Hkeli-
| hood your own name. 'prOSelytiSm,
Patrick Egan and his initials and
'hesitancy.' Which PigOtt did. smil-
ing the while, foolishly. and with a.
flushed face. 1t will be remembered
that in one of the forged letters Pigott
! had spelled the last word "hesitency.'
| II has often been said since. and by
experienced members of the bar that
Sir Charles initial tactics were a mis-
take. Was it not probable that PigOtt
warned by the early discussions about
the forgeries, would have taken care to
spell the word Alright? PigOtt might
have done it. But he didn't. Sir
Charles Russell had taken stock of his
man and considered the effects of d
surprise The subject suggests mill
tary analogy By the rules of war
Wellington. say the military critics.
ought to have been beaten at Waterloo.
But he wasn't-aDd there an end ont.
An ordinary advocate would not have
Russell was not on ordinary advocate
he was an advocate of genius. and
that first shot of his was decisive. [
can see PigOtt's round broad back as
he bends down latter screwing his
eyeglass into its place. to scrawl the
word ''hesitenCy;" and when he stands
up again, a short. stoutish. round
shouldered man, with a bald. shiny
head, bushy white whiskers and mus
tache, large irreSolute mouth, big,
f1eshy nose and smallish eyes far apart.
Many an amusing scene occurred in the
ss-examinatiOn which showed how
PfgOtt had tried to swindle both sides
-Parnellites and anu-Parnellites. But
the most amusing OF all were caused
by Pigott's admissions as to his per-
sistent efforts to sen information" to
Mr.. Forster. to Cajole and even bully
Mr.. Forster and by his excuses for not
emigrating to America with the help
of the money which, he said. kindly Mr..
Forster had given him more than once
for the purpose. Sir Charles Russell.
quietly helping himself to a cOntempla-
tive pinch now and again. Pigott MAX
ing himself more ludicrous every in
slant with his story of excuses to Mr..
Forster, and the three judges trying
hard to preserve a severe cOmpOsure-
made an ineffaceable picture. The
three judges were not equally success
Iul, Sir James Hannen compressed MS
lips Sir Alexander Smith thrust his
hands into his pockets and stared hard
at the ceiling. Mr.. Justice Day laughed
outright-reddened and laughed at each
fresh recital of Pigott's failure to emf
crate with poor Mr. Forster's money.
The only absolutely possessed man
there was Russell himself, now SEEM
ingly lost in a brown study, now tap
ping his snuff-bOX as if in search for
an idea, now taking a pinch and then
darting searching look at his victim.
with brief haH-confdential question.
Ihe emotional side of RusselIs nature,
his Unborn tenderness, his deep human
ity, revealed themselves in all their
unconscious strength on the magnif-
cent, historic speech in which he sum-
med UP his case, not merely for the
Parnellites, but for the Ireland of his
birth.