The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-08-27
CHAPTER XVII

tives that l now took the secret
stand did in Miss Tuttles favor.
| chung to my convictions with an al
most insensate persistence, inwardly de-
claring her the victim of circumstances
and hoping against hope that some
clew would offer itself by means Of
which l might yet prove her so.
Had Mr.. Jeffreys alibi been less com
plete he could not have stood ND
against the suspicious which now ran
riot. But there was no possibility of
shifting the actual crime back to him
after the testimony of so frank and
trustworthy a man as Tallman. If the
stopping of Mrs. Jeffreys watch fixed
the moment of her death as accurate
ly as was supposed l never heard
the least doubt thrown out in this re-
| gard-he could not by any means of
transit then known in Washington have
reached Waverley avenue in time to
fire that shot. The gates of the Gene
terry were closed at shutdown. Sun
down took place that night at one min
ute past Z, and the distance into town
is considerable His alibi could not be
gainsaid. So his name failed to be
publicly preached in connection with
the shooting, though his influence over
Miss futile could not be forgotten
suggesting to some that she had acted
as his hand in the deed which robbed
him of an undesirable wife But this
would not believe. preferred to ac-
| e&o 90, fI,ok he I,od efo
, ped short of the library door in her
suspicious visit there and that the rib
bon tying, which went for so much
had been done at home.
Finding myself, with every new con
sideration of the tantalizing subject
deeper and deeper in the Quagmire Of
doubt and uncertainty, sought en-
lightenment by making a memoran
DUN of the special points which must
have influenced the jury in their yer
dict, as witness:
First-The relief shown by Mr.. JET
frey at finding an apparent communi
: cation from his wife limiting at suicide
= Second.-The possibility, disclosed b.
> the similarity between the sisters
handwriting, of this same communica
: ton being forgery substituted TO
u the one really written by Mrs. jeffrey.
Tbird.-The fact that, previous t
: Mr.. Jeffrey's handling Of the book l
II which this communication was said
. have been hidden, 1t had been seen l
y Miss Tuttle's hands.
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g Fourth.--That Immediately after thi
she had passed to the drawer wher
II Mr.. Jeffrey's pistol was kept.
is Fifth.-That while this pistol had nc
been observed In her hand, there wa
is as vet no evidence to prove that 1t ma
rs been previously taken from the draw
As er, save such as was afforded py NJ
own acknowledgment thar she na
cd tied some unknown object presumap
p the pistoI. to her sisters wrist De1ol
TO that sister left the house.
Sixtb.-That If this was so, the pl
toll and the ribbon connecting II WI
We Mrs. Jeffrey's wrist had been handi'
on again before the former was dischar
en- ed. and by fingers which nao III
We touched dust, of which there W
ito plenty in the old library.
is, saventb.-That Miss Tuttle had o
Is mitted. though not till after much p
to varication and apparent supterlu'
ed that she had extended her Walk
SO that fatal night not only as far as
in Moore house, but that she hao eno
Try ed 1t and penetrated as FAR as the
ter brary door at the very moment
18th shot was fred within. =,
E,qbth.-That in acknowledging
be she had emphatically denied having
hat sociated the firing OF thls sno' :"
hat onv idea of harm to her sister,
Ipt- wos known TO have gone from {
ich house in a condition OF mind 50 SCI
be that she failed to recollect tne PA
ing sbe visited or the streets she pas
My through til she found herself az
ex- T., nor sisters house face to race
an officer. 90
Nine.-That her first greeting ol
oe,cer was a shrek, betraying kn.
edge of his errand Deiore ne
utterance to a word &,
Ten.-That the candles Iouhu Az !,
Moore house were similar 10 u
hougbt nv Mr.. jeffrey and aiper"
delivered at his kitchen door. -,
EIeyen.-Thst she was the Only .,'. =,
q Der Of the household besides ., .ps !
M Who was IN the kitchen az u.s !.
M and thst Il was immediately allsr !,
NJ departure from the room that Ins =
sge containing the candles D''
a.. missed, ,....,,.s al
me twelve. That oppor'uplp.s,s w.
eh lac 10 az understanding wv ~
'sni FREY after his wife's ossw Ia '.sv
besn lacklng, aud u Was MOI ppe
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