The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-20

was exactly Wnat IL SHOulQ ne auo
that no blame or reproach attacked
to him for The telling of what he had
seen.
Then DR.. Frank was called, and he
gave his brief testimony calmly and
clearly. He recognized it as one he
had seen and examined the previous
afternoon at Col. Brent's quarters on
the San Luis. 1t was lying on little
table in the front veranda. Ee had
closely examined it-could not be
mistaken about it, and when he left
it was still lying on that table. Who
were present when he left? "Other
than the immediate family, only
Lieut.. Stuyvesant." Had he again Wis
tied the colonePs that evening? He
had. He returned an hour or so later
to dine. The ladies had then left
their seats in the veranda, and he
noticed that the pistol was no longer
on the table; presumed Miss Ray had
taken it with her to her room and
thought no more about it. AS indi-
Gated by the inscription, the pistol
was her property.
Then Lieut.. Ray was called, but
there was no response. In low tone
the assistant provost marshal ex-
planned that the orderly sent to Pace
with message for Lieut.. Ray returned
with the reply that Mr.. Ray had two
days leave and was somewhere up
town. He as yet had not been found
A young officer OF artillery volun-
teered the information that late the
previous evening, somewhere about
ten, Mr.. Ray had called at the Guar
tel de Meysic, far over on the north
side. He was most anxious to find a
soldier named Connolly, who, he said,
was at the Preside at the time the
Eeutenant's quarters were entered
and robbed, and Lieut.. Abercrombie
had taken Mr.. Ray off in search of
the soldier.
Ray not appearing, the examine
ton of Assistant Surgeon Brick be-
gan. Brick was the first medical Of
fcer to reach the scene of the MUIR
der. Benton was then stone dead,
and brief examination showed the
hole of a bullet of large caliber-
probably pistol, Alright over the
heart. The coarse blue uniform
shirt and the fine undergarment of
Isle thread showed by burr and
powder-stain that the pistol had been
held close to or even against the
breast of the deceased. The bullet
was lodged, he believed, under the
shoulder-blade, but no post-mortem
had yet been permitted, a circum-
stance the doctor referred to regret
fully, and it was merely his opinion,
based on purely superficial eXamina-
ton, that death was instantaneous,
the result of the gunshot wound re-
ferred to. DR.. Brick further gave it
as his professional opinion that post
norton should be no longer delayed.
And then at last came Stuyvesant's
turn to speak for himself, and in
dead silence all men present faced
him and listened with bated breath
to his brief. sorrowful words.
He was the officer halted by the
sentry on Number and called
upon to come back. The sentry did
not catch his name and had to have
it spelled. He frankly admitted his
impatience, but denied all anger at
the enforced detention. The infor-
nation about the fire at Col. Brent's
had caused him anxiety and alarm
and as soon as released by the SEN
try he had run, had passed the patrol
on the run, but there had been no
alteration, no misunderstanding
even. The sentry had carried out his
orders in soldierly way that COM
PEELED the admiration of the witness,
and before leaving him Stuyvesant
had told him that he had done ex-
actly right. The news that the SEN
try was found dead five minutes
thereafter was a shock. Lieut.. Stuy-
vesant declared he carried no fire.
arms whatever that night and was
utterly innocent of the sentry's
death. He recognized, he said, the
revolver exhibited by Maj MacNeil
He did not hesitate to admit that he
had seen and examined it late the
previous afternoon at the quarters
of Col Brent, that he had actually
put it in his trousers pocket not two
minutes before he left the house to
go in search of Lieut.. Ray, but he
solemnly declared that as he left the
veranda he placed the pistol on
little table just to the right of the
broad entrance to the salon, within,
that apartment. and never saw it
again until it was produced here.
Frank, candid, open and above
board" as was the manner of the
witness, it did not fail to Danish in
great measure the feeling of an
tagonism that had first existed
against him in the crowded throng.
But in the cold logic of the law and
the chain of circumstantial evidence
they plainly saw that every state
ment, even that of Stuyvesant him
self, bore heavily against him. A
lawyer, had he been represented by
counsel, would have permitted no
such admissions as he had made. A
gentleman, unschooled in the law,
preferred the frank admission to the
distress of seeing Mrs. Brent-and
perhaps others-called into that
presence to testify to his having had