Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1906-06-14

advs,s YOU to take loose grocery store
/ wh,u / awoke | WAS horrincd TO and
myE Z In a prison cell. The TALLER
siood a the door and cautioned. Re
men Her anything you say may be used
against you A great dread sat. like
lump OF Ice. on my heart. begEcd
him 10 explain. Anything but that
aNili suspense Then be told me
bad murdered MlSsC., the obi landlady.
My trial was Ect dovn for a date
about a month on and my angel moth.
er secured the host and ablest coun
sci % defend me. but best OF all. she
cane 20 me In my agony and put her
hand on my forehead. and then Kissed
me and told me that she believed NE
innocent How she could logically 90
II. wlth evidence enough against ne
TO damn an arrEel. l don't know. but
she did u with her womans heart. and
her voman's heart broke when. al
length. the jury told her she had been
mistaken"
"Geuuemen." resumed Barclay. afiof
q pause 4 used 10 believe all lawyers
rascal until that time Hut the way
thai man worked for me Was nothing
short II sublime. Tie laborcd with me
day in and day out. morning. noon
and night. striving by all means
known 10 philosophy. science and pTac-
tice. TO recover from the sensitive
plates Of my memory the picture print
ed on them by a rum .oufc,bicd spirit
between tie hours Of eleven T.. 81 and
1.-TWO A. NJ on the might OF the murder
But IL Wa 81 no use. Evidently the
films OF memory had been temporarily
desensitizcd By the supplying inhu
fence OF the alcohol Anyway. nothing
lcould bring the dreaded pictures OF
that awful period 10 the surface.
II shall not bore you with the bar.
RAISING details OF the trial II was
shown. however. that I had been dis
covered In Miss c. room. was on
the floor In a drunken sleep when the
officers arrived. snd was completely
dressed. even TO my oyercoat aud hat
Near my right hand. as II | had but
recently relaxed my hold upon Il, lay
my pistol. one ~ the cartridges bad
been discharged and the bullet found
In Miss c. body fitted the empty
shell
My lawyer used to come 10 my cell
D. and implorc me 10 use every trick and
4 device that knew to bring back tho
p chain OF events OF that fateful night
I but ! could only gaze AZ him stupid
ly. So far could 20. but no further
! At a certain point the cloud Of ohliv
= ION would drop before my mind and
]. could not penetrate a. thought
that by thinking with great rapidity
e and running with exact sequence
8 along the chain OF occurrences leadini
d up 20 a certain hour. the mental nom
entum thus acquired might carry ms
through into the realms OF my menta
X darkness. But II was without avail
You car drive a horse AZ a furioul
! rate right up 20 the brink OF a lake
y but there he will stop and not budg'
% an Inch further. and the blackness o.
the lake I'm front OF him Is no blackei
" than the blackncss OF that hellborT
5 period Of five or six hours Of oblivion
u that confronted me q. the hclplpSsncs'
re Of II all | used TO SIT and watch M
le lawyer fight against such oycrwhem
~ ing odds that tho admiration | felt To-
y his skill would. at times. 50 Absorb
B. me that felt the part was taking IL
the awful tragedy.
= ITO make n long story short, N,
case finally went to the jury. Yol
r. have seen the newspaper clippings
NJ The verdict killed my mother who ha,
. never once left my side during IN,
D. trial, except at night. and then only I,
e. resume her place the first thing IN
the morning She had been hopin,
= against hope When mother dToppe,
q dead. offered a silent prayer o
d gratitude that she had not lived L
% witness the last act
O. ION the morning of the twenty-first
'e as the clipping says. was brough
'e before the Judge, an old friend OF M
le father and sentenced TO be hanged by
e the neck until dead. Gentlemen
" there's an experience not many eve
lr had and lived 20 tell OF II. Words arr
but feeble when one tries TO describe
Al II.
W TALK about timely rescues In tn,
dramas-all nicely planned to occu
they actually had that awful black cal
drawn over my face, and the moose ad
n justed before the governors stay ar
~, rived. I heard a commotion In tn
crowd and wondered rather impatien,
ot ly what the delay was about The
hands removed the cap and moose, an
h | was led back to my cell. When
~ reached my cell and sat upon my bed
| couldn't realize what had occurred
:" and pinched myself TO see whether