Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-01

~one of the hardest jobs I under took was to win over the three rufians whom Franklin had employed so often to our side of the case, or rather to induce them to tell the truth. suggesed to Mr. Everett that he should call upon the mayor and tell him plainly that by the action in | disrnissing me from the force and giving Peters Rest immunity he had played into the hands of the real murderer of John T. Wright by pre- venting the arrest of three very sus- | picious characters who were doubt less implicated in the murder. I also suggested that he should hint to the mayor that this sort of thing if con- tinued would not look very well when brought out in court. MT. Everett adopted my suggestion and carried itt out SO well that on the day upon l which this trial was begun these three men were all quietly arrested by the mayors orders and taken to | iail, where the jailer was told to place them in separate cells and allow no one to see them except such persons as1 he should designate. The jailer l 4 were witnesses in very important ease and that it was imperative that they should not be allowed to com municate with each other. I knew that the first thing these rascals5 would do would be to try to send word to Franklin. Permission was secured for mo to visit them, and | did so, casually as 1t were. I was strolling in the corridor, and each of them recognized me and called to me. Each of them separately asked me to tell Franklin of his arrest so that ] he could get out-for they never l doubted their chiefs ability to- l free them. They did not know what they had been arrested for. I let them infer that I would give their messages to Franklin and then left, satisfied that they had no communi- cation with each other. The next day I returned, and again conversed with them separately. told, them that Franklin was displeased with them for some reasor--in short, that he washed his hands of them entirely and said that they might get out as best they could. told Tom and his partner that I thought the charge against them was two-fold, the at- tempted murder of Irving Warde, and participation in the murder of John ] T. Wright; and that thought Frank ] lin saw in their arrest way to have J his crimes showed off on them, and that he would deny all association with them. l told the red flannel shirt man that it had been discovered that he had placed in young Wright's house the pistol with which the older Wright was killed; and that there was a strong case of circumstantial evidence against him as the suspected murderer. I told him also that Franklin washed his hands of the case, and was very we'll pleased to have the crime fastened on him. I even intimated that the colonel would probably be the attorney to prose- cute them. I assumed considerable indignation over the way they had been treated by their associate and leader in crime, and told them that had lost all confidence in Franklin, and would never again undertake any transaction with him. Each asked my advice as to what he should do, and I told them that the truth was not so bad as the case suspected against them; I advised them to tell the truth and in this way to get even with the man who had so shamefully deserted them. I told Old Tom and bis, pal that I had no idea Irving Warde would try to prosecute them If they made clean breast of it; and easily persuaded the other rascal that the truth was his safest course. I believe that is all of my story"
 Fenton's testimony was the sensa- tion of the trial, and it furnished for many days to come the material for the city. The cotton magnates looked a little foolish when they found that they had been spending their money on a detective instead of a great capitalist, but they soon put aside their crestfallen air in the admiration they felt for man who could do such clever work as Fenton had accomplished. Some of the off, cers who had been unwittingly lend. ing themselves to the concealment of a great crime kept very quiet for a while, and tirnid moral lesson was drawn from the revelations concern, ing bossisua in politics.
 In the general excitement people forgot to watch the countenance ot Franklin, upon which deathly pal. Tor had settled. But the keen eyes were full of fire. It was the supreme moment of his life when, the gaze of the court room being attracted to. ward him, he faced it with diaboheal 3uryA
 (To be continued)