The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-05-29

Nothing 4 thought you might like
60 know what awaits YOU there The
city IS greatly stirred up. The coro
uer's jury In the jeffrey Moore case has
just brought in a verdict TO the effect
that suicide has not been proved
Naturally this is equivalent TO one OF
murder"
"Ahg' he calculated. slightly taken
aback for one so invariably impnssive.
And TO whom is the guilt Cf this
crime ascribed2' he presently ventured.
"There was mention OF 30 name. but
the opprobrium naturally falls on Miss
Tuttle"
"Niiss Tuttlel Ahr'
"slnce Mr.. jeffrey Is proved TO have
been too far away at the time to have
fred that shot while she"-
Il am following you
"Was In the very house-at the door
OF the library In ct-and heard the
pistol discharged. il she did not dis
charge It herself-whlch some believe,
notably the district attorney You
should have been there, Mr. Moore"
He looked surprised at this sugges.
ton
Il never am anywhere but here on
the 23d OF May" he declared.
Miss Tuttle needed some adviser"
"AL, probably"
you would have been a good one. >
"And n welcome one. eh2"
I hardly thought he would have been
a welcome one, but did not admit the
fact Nevertheless he seized on the
advantage he evidently thought he had
gained and added, mildly enough. or,
rather, without any display OF feeling.
Miss Tuttle likes me even less than
Veronica did. / do not think she would
have accepted, certainly she would not
have desired, my presence In her
counsels. But OF one thing | wish her
70 be assured her and the world in
general Any money she may need at
this-at this unhappy crisis in her life.
she will find amply supplied. She has
no claims on me, but that makes little
difference where the family honor Is
concerned. Her mothers husband was
my brother-the girl shall have all she
needs I will write her so"
He was moving toward his carriage.
Fine turnout2" he interrogatively re.
marked.
assented with all the surprise with
all the wonder eyen-whch his sub
lime egotism seemed TO invite.
ut Is the best that Downey could
raise in the time allotted him. When
| really finger the money. we shall see
we shall see"
His foot was on the carriage step.
He looked up at the west. The sun
was almost down. but not quite. Have
yOp any special business with me2" he
asked lingering with what / thought
a surprising display OF consciousness
tin the last ray Of the sunlight bad
disappeared.
glanced up at the coachman sitting
on his box as rigid as any stone
You may speak" said he. Caesar
neither hears nor sees anything but his
horses when he drives me-"
The black did not wink. He was as
completely at home on the box and as
quiet and composed in his service as
II he had driven this man for years.
"He understands his duty" finished
the master, but with no outward ap-
pearance OF pride. What have you to
say 10 me?"
J hesltated no longer.
Miss Tuttle is supposed TO have
secretly entered the Moore house on
the night you summoned us. She even
says she did know that you have
sworn 70 having seen no one 20 into
that house, but Notwithstanding this.
haven't you some means at your dis
posal tor proving to the police and to
the world at large that she never fred
that fatal shot2 Public opinion is so
cruel She will be ruined, whether in
nocent or guilty, unless il can be very
plainly shown that she did not enter
the library prior to going there with
the police"
"And how can you suppose me 10 be
in a position "a prove that2 Say that
I bad sat in my front window all that
evening and watched with uninterrupt-
ed assiduity the door through which
so many are said to have passed be
tween sunset and midnlght--somethin
which ! did not do, as | have plainly
stated on oath-how could you have ex-
cassss Nnd his
tufnout