The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-22

cup" quality.
!. Grocers as a rule are honest, trust
/ worthy men who would not consciousl
? mislead you. Whenever one of then
: advises you to take loose grocery stor
/ When I awoke I was horrifad to fint
, myself IN prison cell. The jailel
stood at the door and cautioned, IRE
member anything you say may be uset
! against YOU" A great dread sat, Xix.
lump OF ice, on my heart. begged
him to explain. Anything but thai
awful suspense. Then he told me
had murdered MissC., the old landlady
/. My trial was set down for date
about month of and my angel moth.
er secured the best and ablest coun
sci to defend me; but, best Of all, she
came to me in my agony and put her
i hand on my forehead, and then kissed
me and told me that she believed me
innocent How she could logically do
1t, with evidence enough against me
TO damn an angel, don't know, but
she did 1t with her woman's heart. and
her woman's heart broke when, at
length, the jury told her she had been
| mistaken
Gentlemen" resumed Barclay, after
a pause, Il used to believe all lawyers
rascals until that time. But the way
that man worked for me was nothing
| short of sublime. He labored with me
day In and day out, morning, noon,
and night, striving by all means
known to philosophy, science and prac-
t1ce, to recover from the sensitive
plates OF my memory the picture print
ed on them by rum-enfeebled spirit
between the hours of eleven P. M. and
two A. M. on the night of the murder.
But 1t was Of no use. Evidently the
films OF memory had been temporarily
desensitized by the Supplying influ-
ence of the alcohol. Anyway, nothing
could bring the dreaded pictures of
that awful period to the surface.
Il shall not bore you with the har-
RAISING details of the trial. It was
shown, however, that I had been dis
covered in Miss C's room. I was on
the floor in drunken sleep when the
officers arrived, and was completely |
dressed, even to my overcoat and hat. |
Near my right hand, as If l had but
recently relaxed my hold upon it, lay |
my pistol. One Of the cartridges had |
been discharged and the bullet found |
In Miss C's body fitted the empty |
shell.
MY lawyer used to come to my cell
and implore me to use every trick and
device that I knew to bring back the
chain of events of that fateful night,
but I could only gaze at him stupid
ly. So far could go, but no further.
At a certain point the cloud Of obliv-
ion would drop before my mind, and
/ could not penetrate it. l thought !
that by thinking with great rapidity,
and running with exact sequence
along the chain of occurrences leading
up to a certain hour, the mental NOM
entum thus acquired might carry me
through into the realms of my mental
darkness. But it was without avail
You can drive a horse at furious
rate right up to the brink Of a lake,
but there he will stop, and not bulge
an inch further; and the blackness OF
the lake in front of him is no blacker
than the blackness Of that hell-born
period of five or six hours of oblivion
that confronted me. o, the helplessness
Of 1t all. used to sit and watch my
lawyer fight against such overwhelm.
Ing odds that the admiration felt for.
his skill would, at times, so absorb
me that felt the part I was taking in
he awful tragedy. f
ITO make long story short, the :
,ase finally went to the jury. You :
rave seen the newspaper clippings.
rhe verdict killed my mother who had
FEVER once left my side during the 7
rial, except at night, and then only to !
esume her place the first thing in
he morning. She had been hoping =
gainst hope. When mother dropped
ead, offered a silent prayer Of z
ratitude that she had not lived to ! !,
7itness the last act. y
"On the morning Of the twenty-first,
s the clipping says, I was brought !
efore the Judge, an old friend of my "
ather, and sentenced to. be hanged by =
he neck until dead Gentlemen, :
here's an experience not many ever
ad and lived to tell of it. Words are
ut feeble when one tries to describe
"Talk about timely rescues in the
nicely planned to occur
18th the regularity Of clockwork why
ley actually had that awful black cap
rawn over my face, and the moose ad-
listed before the governors stay ar
we'd. I heard a commotion In the
.owd and wondered rather Impatient
! what the delay was about. Then
ands removed the cap and moose. and
was led back to my cell. When II
,ached my cell and sat upon my bed,
couldn't realize what had occurred
I'd pinched myself TO see whether =