The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-29


The coroner shifted his ground
"Will you make the same reply when
I ask if the like forhearance was
shown toward your wifes name in the
conversation you had with Miss futile
Immediately afterward|
miss futile was Mrs. Ieffrey's half
sister. The bond between them was
strong. Would would I-be apt
to speak of my young wife with bit
terneSs?"
"That is not an answer to my ques-
ton, Mr.. Jeffrey. I must request a
more positive reply"
"There were no determinations ut
Tered Mrs. Jeffrey had dlspleased me,
and | said 50, but | did not forget that
was speaking of my wife ana to her
sister"
As this was in the highest degree
noncommittaL the coroner could be eX-
cused for pcrSisting.
THE conversation, then, was about
your wifeY'
ut was"
'In criticism Of her conduct"
"Yes."
"At the ambassadors ball"
Eyes"
Mr.. Jeffrey was poor hand at lying.
That last yes came with great effort.
The coroner waited, possibly for the
echo of this last yes" to cease; then
he remarked with coldness which
lifted at once the veil from his hitherto
well disguised antagonism to this wit
ness.
IF you will recount to us anything
which your wife said or did on that
evening which, in your mind, was
worthy of all this coil, it might help Us
to understand the situation
But the witness made no attempt to
do so, and while many of Us were
ready to pardon him this show Of del
lcacy others felt that under the crcum.
stances it would have been better had
he been more open.
Among the latter was the coroner
himself who from this moment threw
aside all hesitation and urged forward
his inquiries in a way to press the wit
ness closer and closer toward the net
he was secretly holding out for him,
First, he obliged him to say that his
conversation with Miss TuttlG had not
tended TO smooth matters, that no rec
Cnciiation with his wife had followed
it and that in the thirty-six hours
which elapsed before he returned home
again he had made no attempt TO
soothe the feelings Of one who, accord
ing to his own story, he considered
hardly responsible for any eXtraya-
ganccs in which she might have in
Obliged.
Then when this Inconsistency had
been given time to sink into the minds
of the jury Coroner z. increased the
effect produced by confronting Jeffrey
with witnesses who testified to the
friendly, if not l0verIike, relations
which had existed between himself and
Miss futile prior TO the appearance of
his wife upon the scene. closing with
a question which brought out the de-
NAL, by no means new. that an en-
gagement had ever taken place be-
tween him and Miss futile and hence
that bond had been Cancelled by his
marriage with Miss Moore.
Some hint Of what The coroner con-
templated had already escaped him i'll
the persistent and seemingly inconse-
quent questions to which he had sub
icctcd this witness. But tho time had
now come for more direct attack,
and the interest rose corrcspondingly
high when the coroner, lifting again
to sight the scrap OF paper containing
the few pitcouS lines 50 often quoted
asked Of the now anxious and agitated
witness if he had ever noticed any
similarity between the handwriting of
his wife and that Of Miss futile.
An indignant mo" was about to
pass his lips when be suddenly checked
himself ana said more mildly: There
may have been a similarity. | hardly
know. have seen too little of Miss
Tuttlc's hand to judge
This occasioned a diversion. Speci.
mems OF Miss Tuttlc's handwriting
wcreproduced, which, after having been
duly proved. were passed down TO the
jury along with the communication
profcsselly signed by Mrs Jeffrey.
The grunts Of astonishment which en-
sued as the knowing heads drew near
over these several papers caused Mr..
Jeffrey to flush and finally to cry out
with startling emphasis:
II know that those words were writ
ten by my wife"
But when the coroner asked him his
reasons for this conviction he could or
would not state them.
81 have said" he stoldly repeated,
and that was all.
The coroner made no comment. but
when after some further inquiry which
added little 70 tie general knowledge
be dismissed Mr. Jeffrey and recalled
Loretta there was that in his tone
which warned Us that the really seri-
Gus portion Of the days examination
was about 10 begin
ITO lie continued)
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