The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-04-09

"That's it." returned the foreman
eve jest made up our minds tha
Abe was committin' perjury. cause
that's his nature. He was afraid he'C
hang. knowin' how we all felt abou
him, an he was lyin' to get off easy
Milledgeville devoted day or SO tc
thinking about this, and Milledge
vile was troubled. Regardless oi
legal evidence, it was satisfied of the
guilt of the two men, and it wanted
to see them punished. If both could
not he reached by the law, at least il
would be some satisfaction to reach
one of them and this view coming
to the notice of that ambitious public
servant, the prosecuting attorney, he
promptly gave the town its fourth
sensation.
we'll send Abe up for perjury, "
he said. Its all as clear as day
light. If he didn't help to rob and
murder Enos Marley, he lied on the
witness stand, and that's perjury; il
he didn't commit perjury, why, it
stands to reason that he helped to kill
Enos. One way or the other, we've
got him sure"
This reasoning seemed so clear and
convincing that Milledgeville at once
took heart again. There was no get
ting away from the fact that Abe was
either murderer or peUurer. Any
one could see the absolute futility of
trying to escape this conclusion and,
as the jury had decided that he was
not concerned in the death of Enos,
he must be guilty of bearing false
witness against both himself and his
friend.
I'VE got him sure, now" said the
people, when Abe was put on trial
the second time; but his lawyer-the
same lawyer who had assailed his
credibility when he had made his con-
fession-now pictured him as man
of truth and veracity, and insisted
that he actually had been guilty of
the crime of which he had been ac-
quilted previously. In consequence,
Milledgeville became confused, and
the confusion became greater and
more distressing when Jack Thornton
took the stand and repeated his testi-
mony of the first trial to the effect
that they had not killed Enos and
that Abe had deliberately lied when
he said they did.
IA feller's got to have a set of
books to keep track of this here case, !"
asserted Ben Haskins. First the
two is together, an then Abe is try
>in' to hang Jack, an, now Jack is try
l., to send Abe. to the penitentiary.
Well, guess it's Goodbye, Abe
The jury believed Jack in the first
trial, an he's tellin' the same story
now. Leastwise, it won't make the
smirch in justice so bad if we can
land one of 'em fer somethin'.'
IT amt just satisfied with Jack, F"
retorted Tim Calder. looks 10 me
like he's tEui,,,,- to .Get-auer,. an, he's
The second jury seemed to take
this view of the affair, for it brought
IN verdict of ssNot guilty., aid
Milledgeville was aghast.
1.-The jury" said the people, has
found that Abe didn't lie, an so he's
guilty of helping to kill Enos. There
amt no way round it. But the other
jury has found that he didn't help to
kill Enos, an so he's liar and per-
jurer. There amt no way round
that, either. Anybody can see that
we got him one way or the other, but
here he is walkin' the streets free
man."
cit looks to u.s." explained the
foreman of thesecond jury, like Jack
was squaring up with Abe fer the
other trial, and we didn't want to
send man to the penitentiary on the
word of such feller' as Jack. We
thought he was lyin'.'
At this a ray of hope illumined the
face of Ben Haskins.
Course we can't try them again
fer MURDER he said, "but it's sure
that one of them is lynn and you've
decided it wasn't Abe"
That's right" admitted the fore
man.
"Then. it looks to me" continued
Ben, like its up to us to try Jack for
perjury when you let Abe CO."
"Yes," said the prosecuting attor-
ney, land the first jury just about
convicted Abe of perjury when it
let them both go, but what good did
it do?"
"I'm clean bamboozled," admitted
Tim Calder. 1--WE got to take time
to think this thing over. Somethin's
wrong, but I can't make out quite
what. I reckon we got to have a
new constitution or the country's
goin' to the dogs. We better all
write to our Congressman an tell him
how close failure we're gettin' when
the great jury system throws us down
an tramples on u.s."
"You write" urged one of the
others, can we'll all sign it.
So Tim went to work while the
others waited. After little while,
he looked up from his work and shook
his head solemnly.
"I'm tryin' to get this straight" "
he said, AN it's hard work. As I
figure it out, they didn't kill Enos,
so Abe lied, an Abe didn't lie, so
they killed Enos, an, if they killed
Enos, Jack lied but Jack didn't lie,
so Abe did, an, Abe not bein' guilty
of perjury. why, darn it all, Jack"
He shook his head solemnly again,
scratching his head with his penhold-
er, and asked suddenly, Say! there
wasn't none of those juries found
Enos wasn't dead, was there?"
mo" was the reply.
"That's mighty queer. but I'm
tellin' the Congressman it leaves a