Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-20
CHAPTER V.


 seemed on the point of saying some thing condemnatory of her father, but the tragic character of his death restrained her. Her self-possession was faultless in it's frigidity, and she answered all the questions put to her with the dearest precision.
 After the usual preliminary ques- tions she was asked: "What were the relations existing between your father and your brother?"
 My father entertained feeling of the most uncompromising hostility toward Herbert; in fact, he seemed to hate him more than he did any being on earth" .
 ''And your brother-how did he feel toward your father?" asked the coro- ner, promptly.
 ''That you had better ask him."
 ''Did he ever express himself vim dictively toward your father in your presence?"
 .'No; he has complained at times of my fathers treatment, but that was alI.''
 'tDo you know of any reason why he should have been interested in bringing about your fathers death ?"
 ''I do not. He could hardly have ex- nected my father to leave him any thing.''
 Have you examined your fathers will?,
 ''No, sir; I have not given the sub ject thought
 'sYou do not know then, whether he left will or not?"
 "I do not"
 'sDo you know, Miss Wright" asked the coroner, quietly, "what kind of watch your father had2"
 ssYes, sir.''
 Describe it's
 sIt was a plain gold watch with out any ornamentation whatever. I don't think it had even his name on 1t. It was presented to him 8 few years ago by Creole friend of hts.''
 Was there any sort of inscription on it?''
 w..tY Yes; the French word sAmitie' was engraved inside the case"
 ''You would know the watch then if you saw it?
 Certainly"
 From small bundle which had been handed him by the chief of pc lice the coroner took out two watches. One of these he examined for a moment and then passed it to the. witness with the question: sCan you identify this watch?''
 '.Yes; it is nysfat ther's."
 "Did this other one Rilsso belong to him?'
 A second watch of a handsome de- sign was handed to her, which she was positive she had never seen be- fore. This watch had no inscription of any kind, but it bore the number e.999 and was of a Swiss make. The coroner then handed her pair of sleeve buttons, diamond pin and pocket knife. Miss Wright identi- fed the sleeve buttons and the knife as her fathers, but did not think the pin was his. He never wore jewelry of any kind, and she had never seen the pin before.
 While this part of the examination was going on, Miss Wright was nerv- ous and wore startled air, which might be interpreted either as an admission that she had been subject ed to q line of examination that she had not expected, or fear that she was giving testimony to the detri- ment of her brother in some way which was inscrutable to her. Crop ing thus in the dark, she was growing more and more agitated, and her self possession was near to breaking down completely. Fortunately she was not e.1I11i ta1 %o process, and, half dazed with fear and uncertainty, she left the stand and quilted the room, casting as she did so glance full of questioning de- Spair upon her brother.
 The full significance of this testi- mony was now brought out by plac- ing on the stand Detective Fenton. He told a very plain and damaging story.
 Yesterday afternoon" he said, bHerbert Wright was arrested on suspicion, and, as is customary, he was taken to the police station and searched. All the papers and articles found on him were taken charge of. Among these were two pawn tickets. These tickets did not arouse the slightest suspicion in my mind, for there are hundreds of poor people in the city who have such tickets in their possession. It has, however, al- ] ways been custom of mine to take the pawn tickets found on all pris- oners and ascertain what articles have been pawned. This has in good many instances enabled me to bag some very important criminals. More from force of habit than any thing else I went to Rosenthal's and Neckar's pawnshops. At the first I eound that the ticket called for a watch, n pair of sleeve buttons, a 1 Tiamond pin and a knife. The clerk l who took in these articles remem- | bered that they had been brought in 1 by seedy looking young man named l Abraham Jowatt about six o'clock on l the day the murder was committed. l The clerk was just getting ready to | close up shop when Jewatt came in, |