The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-08
APPEARANCES OF GUILT.
THAT HAVE PLACED INNOCENT
 PERSONS IN JEOPARDT.

Man Fatally Intured-Drlving
 Away Cattle for Tbief-strong Ev-
 idence Against the Innocent in Mur-
 der.
 One of the most terrible frights I ever had in my life," were the words which Lord Russell of Killowen, the late Lord Chief Justice, used to intro- : duce an experience of his younger days, says the London Answers. He was un- known and almost friendless in Lon don, and had one night gone to the ] theatre, to forget in the amusement 2: comic piece how badly things were faring with him. The present and the l future seemed alike dark to him; but the play was amusing, and young Rus sell became oblivious of all his troubles as he looked and laughed from his seat in the gallery. As he and those about him were about to leave at the enI of the performance. a person close by dis covered that he had been robbed of his gold watch, raised an alarm, and the police were called in.
 ''The robbed person had been sitting close to me-" said Russell, and my heart stood still as it suddenly flashed across me that the thief, in terror lest he should be caught with the stolen watch upon him, might have put 1t in- to my pocket. If suspicion lighted on me, and the watch were there, what would become of me? The thought 1 filled me with such terror that felt a cold precipitation break out on me Such thing would mean absolute and l irretrievable ruin. But the police did not light on me, and I passed out as calmly as I could. As soon as I had got little distance away I carefully went through all my pockets. The watch was not there. I gave a sigh of relief as if I had escaped from some awful perit."
 Russells terror was by no means un- founded. Thieves have often resorted to- the trick of planting" property they have feared to carry in the pock- cts of perfectly innocent people. One of the most famous instances is that of a Bishop who, a few years back, on returning from a fashionable society function, was amazed to find a valu- able gold watch in his one of the pock- cts of his Episcopal coat.
 l He, of course, took it to Scotland Yard, with explanation, and they being ready in communication with the own- CT of the missing valuable handed 1t l to him. The thief was never dis covered. It seems impossible for the human mind to associate the stealing of gold watches with a bishop, but had the detectives in prosecuting their l search lighted upon an unfortunate and equally innocent party of less dignity l and character with the watch in his pocket he would have found himself in a terrible dilemma.
 i A week or two back lady was in the courts to claim the contents of a purse of which she became in most remarkable manner. and under cir cumstances which might have proved most embarrassing. With a little girl she was entering an omnibus in the West End of London, when a passenger who had just alighted discovered that she had lost her purse. Inquiry was made among all the passengers in the vehicle without result. The robbed lady went her way, and the new pas- senger took her place in the omnibus with her little companion.
 1 When she arrived home she to her amazement, found the missing purse at the bottom of small bucket that she had bought for the child with her. and which she had been carving in her hand. Having at once communicated [ the fact to Scotland Yard, every step was taken to discover the owner of the purse and it notwithstanding like l G10. The owner was never found, how ever and the question arose as to whether the purse and it's contents should be handed to the lady or two the omnibus company. The court de- cided in favor of the lady,
 In what g. fearful position the most innocent may find themselves is shown by a case which occurred years ago 1 in Dublin A man who was accustomed to visit the house of bachelor friend very frequently used to do in uncere- monious manner by the back door, The l be1NhSIOI Ndo WdlISu OL DS ct WOI1ld1l who came in at certain times, and who l then left him to his onw devices the only other persons in the house being a medical student. The friend having slipped into the house one day by the back door, he and the tenant became engaged in a discussion respecting some juggling tricks with knives which the visitors had seen The bachelor de- clared they were easy, and proceeded to give practical illustration of the l fact.
 By an unlucky accident he inflicted a terrible wound on himself The friend afraid to leave him to call as- l sistance, strove to do his best. All was in vain, the wound proved fatal and the visitor became filled with horrr lest he should be accused of having caused the death of his friend.
 He stole quietly from the house and actually took a passage to New York and hastened to hide himself in one of the widest parts of the States.
 In the meantime suspicion had centered on the second innocent man the lodger. A lady who livd at house opposite and who occupied herself in knitting at an open window and ob- serving what went on in the street,