The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-02

driven to frantic terror BY the news and
made desperate efforts to hide himself. All
was in vain. however. The detectives ran
him down, and he was placed on trial. 1t
was only by train OF marvelously fortu-
nate circumstances that he was able to
show that he could not have committed the
murder.
Not SO fortunate was young fellow
named Gould, who was tried at Stafford
Assizes for stealing pocketbook. lady,
having gone to market one day, stopped
down to look at some vegetables exposed
for sale in basket. While she was looking
at them she felt some one touch her, and,
standing up and looking around. she saw
a young fellow beside her, who at once
walked of. Entering shop short time
afterward to make some purchases. the
lady felt in her dress for her pocketbook, In
which she had placed bank note. II was
gone. Tho police were at once called, and
the lady communicated to them her sls.
found beside her near the vegetable basket.
and. setting of with detectives, they quick
ly succeeded in finding him. He stoutly
protested his innocence; but on his being
taken to the police station and searched,
a black pocketbook was found upon him.
which the lady at once recognized as hers.
The bank note, however, WAS not in It..
The lady and several persons who knew
her pocketbook swore positively to the one
found on Gould. He was convicted and
HenJenCe1. a lew Gays lateT Wnl0 TWO
men were moving field of oats in tho
neighborhood Of the market, they disoov-
cred black pocketbook! 1t was exactly
similar in every respect to that found on
Gould, the missing banknote itself was
in it! Gould was at once set free.
man suspected of burglary at Cardiff
found himself placed in dire peril through
a woman's dress discovered in his box. A
girls dress had been stolen by the burglars
and had been most infinitely described to
the police by the girl to whom, il belonged.
She identified the dress found in the pris-
oner's box without the slightest hesitation,
and it agreed in every respect with the par
ticulars she had supplied to the authori-
ties. One of the jurymen, however, was.
in spite Of all not quite satisfied. and he sug-
dress and put it on. For long time the
court waited, and then the woman in at
tendance on her came back to say that the
prosecutrix could not get the dress on.
It had been made for some one much moro
slender and smaller. The prisoner was
acquitted, but it had been "a close shave
for him.
witness in a Glasgow murder case mar
rated how he had saved himself from most
unexpected and terrible situation. Walk.
ing down a lonely street one night he had
suddenly come upon the body OF woman
lying upon the pavement. She had been
stabbed to death and horror rooted him to
the spot beside her. While he was standing
there other people came up, and he awoke
at last to the fact that there was a crowd OF
angry and threatening persons around him
who rega rded him as the murderer.
He was in terrible danger, when a means
Of escape flashed across his mind. He babe
the people stand back from the body, bent
over it and proceeded to describe the poor
woman's wounds in the best medical Ian
guage he could command. The people
we're thunderstruck. He was not the MUIR
derer, then. but a doctor who had been
examining the poor victim to do his best for
her. He maintained the role till the polio
rescued him.