The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-27

presenter of the forged check. Forum ately for the accused, he was able to bring forward a small army of hAs comrades tos prove most positively that at the hour named he was in their so- ciety. and that he could by no possibil- ity have been at the bank as the clerks described Justice Crompton found the exculpating evidence so conclusive that he suggested to the counsel con- ducting the prosecution that 1t was useless to proceed, and the charge was withdtawn In this case the really guilty presenter of the forged order must by some strange chance have borne a striking resemblance to the unfortunate officer charged.
 Mistake Prevented Hanging.
 Baron Platt used to declare that the worst false alibi to demollsh was one in which witnesses for the defense ali spoke to actual facts. but to facts that happened on some day other than the one actually in question. In the case of two men charged at the Central Criminal Court with housebreaking, a remarkable altbi of this kind was pre- sented. The men were accused CT nav ing broken into a house upon the night of a certain Sunday, and they were positively identified by three persons who swore that they saw them going to and coming ITOHl luS nOuSS AA d SANR drawn by a brown pony.
 On the other hand, numerous wit nesses were called for the defense to show that the prisoners were at home and remained there all that night. All these witnesses agreed In thelr detaiIs of what happened during the even ing. and the fiercest efforts of the coun- sel for the prosecution failed to shake them in any particular In reply to a question as to what was the particular State of the weather on that Sunday night the witnesses unanimously de- cIared that 1t was dark. rough and wet
 By an almanac that was brought it was shown that there was full moon, pui none in the court could remember wha' the weather had been. The jury r@- turned a verdict of not guilty, ana the prisoners were released. Subsequent inquiry proved that the night in ques- tion when the housebreaking had taken pIace was fine and bright, but that the night of the previous Sunday had been a1I that the witnesses described Theil evidence had clearly related to the wrong Sunday.
 Murder of Mrs. hTilsOn.
 A case in which an innocent man was able to establish an altbi and refute a mass of extraordinary circumstantlal evidence against him was that Of the cannon was the housekeeper to a large firm with premises in Cannon Street, in which she lived. Upon the night of the murder a man whose duty It was to lock up the building after the bands had left closed the place and duly de- livered the Keys to Mrs. Milson. The housekeeper and a woman who acted as cook were the only persons in the place The cook. in her evidence, stat ed what happened. Mrs Nilsson was sitting in the dining room and the cook was in the bed room when, about ten minutes past g. there came a ring at the door bell. The witness was about to go down to answer it when Mrs Milson called out to her:
 "Elizabeth, the bell is for me; I will go"
 The cook stayed in her room, but later went on downstairs. when she was mortified to find Mrs. Milson ly- ing dead in the corridor, just inside the door.
 An arrest was made and the prisoner was defended by Sergeant Ballantyne and Mir. Montague Williams.
 The defense was able to prove, by the evidence of witness after witness. that the prisoner was at Eton and Windsor upon the night of the murder at times which rendered 1t impossible for him
  maker and the bootmaker's son, for whom the accused man worked, had seen and spoken to him there. The alibi was incOntestible, and the pris- oner was acquitted. The murderer has remained undiscovered to this day.
 Where a Murderer Was Tipped.
 A young girl who lived with her par ents in a lonely part of Kirkcudbright was one day left alone in their cottage while her father and mother were har- vesting. On their return the girl was found murdered. A surgical examina- tion revealed the fact that the injuries inflicted must have been the work of left handed man. and the police dis covered fin the soft ground around the the imprints of the boots of running man. These impressions cor responded exactly with the boots of a young laborer named William Richard son. who was acquainted with the dead girl and who was also Ieft-handed. Richardson, on being asked where he was on the day of the crime, declared hat he was employed the whole day in he work of his master. a farmer some distance away. This fact was borne witness to by the farmer and Richard Ion's fellow servants. and the police l were baffled.
 The alibi in spite of all the other ! suspicious circumstances against the i