The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-11-23

No, sir; no, no, he couldn't! l
thought of that myself since l been in
here. and said to Mr.. Barnes that per-
kaEs somebody come into the carriage
when was Knocked silly and killed
him, but Mr.. Barnes he said that was
absurd. Besides, who could have done
it,?
Don't you know anybody, then,
who would have wished for Walkers
death?
""There was them that didn't like
him. said Guide drearily.
That was all could get out of him,
and went away from the prison feel
ing very dissatisfied. l was stronger
than ever in the belief that Guide was
in no degree guilty, and yet for the life
of me did not see how to prove his in
nocence. He had not been a man of
any strong character to begin with,
and the shock of what he had gone
through had utterly daZed him. 1t was
hopeless to expect any reasonable eX-
himself to puzzlement. If he had gone
melancholy mad before he came up to
trial, should not have been one whit
surprised.
II brooded over the matter for
couple of days, putting all the rest of
my practice out of thought, but l didn't
get any forwarder with it. hate to
give anything up as a bad job, and in
this case felt that there was on my
shoulders huge load of responsibility.
Guide, l had thoroughly persuaded N.Y.
self, had not murdered Andrew Wal
ker. AS sure as the case went into
court on its present grounding the
man would be hanged out of hand. and
persuaded myself that then l, and
alone, would be responsible for an in
nocent mans death.
cat the end of those two days only
one course seemed open to me. 1t was
foreign to the brief held, but the only
method left to bring in my clients in
nocence.
81 must find out who did really MUIR
der the man. must try to implicate
some third actor in the tragedy.
ITO begin with, there was the rail-
way carriage, but a little thought
showed me that nothing was to be
done there. The compartment would
have been inspected by the police and
then swept and cleaned and garnished
! and coupled on to it's train once more
and used by unconscious passengers
for weeks since the uproar occurred
in it.
"All that had to go upon were the
notes and relics held at Scotland Yard
"The police authorities were very
good OF course they We're keen enough
to bring off the prosecution with pro-
fessional eclat, but they were not eN-
actly anxious to hand over poor
wretch to the hangman if he was not
thoroughly deserving of a dance on
nothing. They placed at my disposal
every scrap of their evidence and said
that they thought the reading of it was
plain beyond dispute. II thought so,
too, at first They sent an inspector to
my chambers as their envoy.
ION one point. though. after lot of
thought, l did not quite agree with
them. |. held a grisly relic in my
do1N, S51LlaS5 az IL dACulS. II w uo a
portion of Walkers SKULL disk of dry
bone with a splintered aperture in the
middle.
And so you think the pickax made
that hole?' said to the inspector.
81 don't think there can be any
doubt about it, Mr.. Grayson. Nothing
else could have done it, and the point
Of the pick was smeared with Blood
But would there be room to swing
such a weapon in a third class metro
politan railway carriageY
"'We thought of that, and at first
it, seemed a poser. The roof is low,
and both Guide and Walker are tall
men, but if Guide had gripped the
shaft by the end so, with his right
hand pretty near against the head, so.
he'd have had heaps of room to drive
it with a sideways swing. tried the
thing for myself. 1t acted perfectly
Here's the pickax. You can see for
YOURSELF
II did see, and wasn't satisfied,
but l didn't tell the inspector what /
thought. 1t was clearer to me than
ever that Guide had not committed
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