The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-06-25

the affirmative.
81 dropped in at Uncle Dicks cabin
to get warm" he said, land after
I had left him and was going to the
city, I met Herbert Wright between
there and the city"
"Who is Uncle Dick?"
HE is an old hunter who lives by
himself in a cabin in the Bayou
Woods. Doesn't have much to do with
the world, but he's always very glad
to see anybody who comes to his
place.
"Where is his cabin?"
'It's on the long road through the
Bayou Woods"
you know Herbert Wright?"
Eyes; I have known him since we
were boys"
did you stop and talk any?"
at was bitterly cold, and he
seemed almost frozen. I spoke to him
and asked him where he was going;
that was ALL"
did he reply?" F.,
"He did"
what did he say?"
He said he was going to Uncle
Dicks"
What time was it when you saw
him?"
ut was about a quarter past five,
1 think"
Did you notice any weapon or
bludgeon about him?"
Il think he carried a stout stick.'
While this witness was giving his
testimony, a detective came hurriedly
into the room and called the chief of
police aside. They engaged in eager
conversation for some minutes. When
the chief returned to his place he
whispered something into the ear of
the coroner, who listened attentively,
bowed, and then resumed the proceed
ings.
A witness was next produced who
had seen Herbert Wright in town
about $50 O'Clock of the day of the
murder. The witness was in a saloon
at the time, had seen Wright enter.
pour out a very large drink of whisky
and gulp it down. =
did he pay for it?"
eyes,"
What was his appearance?"
ID was either nervous or very
cold. He had a bundle under his arm
which L took for groceries,"
After this witness had been ex-
amined, Warde whispered the chief
that he considered it a pretty lame
case against young Wright.
"You still banker after the mysteri-
Gus a~rctics, do you?"
Eyes"
"Of course your theory is more
sensational and picturesque, but as a
general thing murder is a rather pro-
sale affair. Wait till you hear all the
testimony and 1 think you will say
that we have made out a pretty fair
case"
Warde himself was next called upon
to testify. He told all about his in
vestigation of the footprints in the
snow, but his testimony was received
with a smile, and it was evident that
the auditors looked upon his dis
coveries as of no Importance, and con-
sldered him a harmless young man
who labored under the impression
that he was cleverer than other peo-
pie. Even Col. Franklin did not APP
pear to attach any Importance to
Warde's Investigations. So the mys-
FERROUS arctics walked out of court az
a joke.
There was a moments pause ere
the next witness answered the sum
mons, and an expectant hush fell on
the crowd when Miriam Wright, the
daughter of the deceased, stepped
into the room. Decidedly her appear
ance OH the stand was thus far the
most interesting event of the trial.
Warde studied the face of the young
woman with not a little curiosity, for
the secluded life which her taciturn
father had forced his family to lead
made her the object Of much specu-
lative curiosity throughout the com
munity. She was slender and graceful
OF figure, with a rather pale face, re-
fined features and dark gray eyes.
Although dressed in mourning, the
expression of her face was naughty
n se]f-possessed, rather than sor-
rowful. 1t would have been somewhat
difficult to imagine her as having shed
many tears owe the crime that had
been committed. Warde fancied that
her features contained the proofs of
a domestic tragedy; for the face that
ought by right of youth and beauty
to have been soft, was somewhat cold
n ~emotionless; and one gifted with
Psychologist powers might have been
able to construct a family history
with its secrets, its injustices, it's
cruelties in the set lines of that young
girls fair and beautiful face.
1t was soon evident that whatever
sympathies she had were enlisted in