The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-16

 clock striking the hour of nine each night first reused in the heart of the husband. the terrible tortures of sus- pisIon and jealousy. It may be made to appear that each night as the clock struck nine, the unusual actions of the wife disturbed the husband. Now and then. it Is said, the wife would leave the room when the hour was struck.
 Again when the big clock changed out inc hour shc would stamp the floor three times with the heel of her slip per Torn and harassed by these dis uuieting things, 1t Is said Oscar Bish- op took his gun to watch for any one who might know the significance of the heel taps upon the floor. One night nine o'clock passed with him on guard and no one came. But the next night the hour of nine struck the shadowy figure appeared in the darkness. the gun shots rang out and his best friend lay dead before him.
 Oscar Bishop cast off his wife after that terrible night. She brought to- gether her belongings to leave for Atlanta and on the eve Of her depart ure she wrote him a fearful penitent letter It Is strange complex letter. admitting her guilt. and with com plex mixture of oppressed sinfulness and hopeful spirituality. It is written in graceful. ripened hand the writ ing of an educated woman.
 The defense win seek to have this letter brought before the jury as evi- deuce. Tn all probability 1t will not be admitted. This letter In part is as follows:
 Letter of Mrs. Bishop. MT. Bishop:
 "This viii be handed to you after am gone, and want you to know that before send 1t shall get on my knees where I have spent so much of the time since this awful calamity has befallen us. and ask God to help you to believe that I have repented An! yes---no one knows but God what this means to me, You have been an in- dulEent husband. have provided me with every comfort and induiged me in all pleasures-but henceforth I shall face poverty friendless and alone.
 q am not trying to excite any sym pathy, but you know I realize what it means--I have broken my vows to you and have caused you to do the rash act that perhaps will wreck your i life, but beg you as one who has been | through what seems impossible for re- l morse that with 1t all staring me Tn | the face can only look to higher power to help me. You are innocent, except for the deed that any one would have committed under the same cir | cumstances, and I beg you to trust l Him, too. and not to throw your life | away This would he ten times the | agony to me that the other fsls been. 'If there is any such thing as re- pentance and forgiveness, and we have been taught that God can forgive and make us clean, then If life spent in 1 humility and trying to repair partly | what has been done, then you can know from now till the time I lay | down this life shall do my very best God being ms helper. thank Him for ts1e frIenas who have talked to me of Him, and showed me in my dark hour how to trust.
 Lives tO Atone.
 q felt at first that could not bear 1t, and would have taken my lire II | could have gotten anything to do tt with, but realize that I have only one hope and that Is to live and try to | atone.
 q have confessed my sins to those l who are interested, and want you to know that I shall not lie to you again but tell you the truth. l am guilty How often have begged God to help me to be brave enough to re- sist this temptation. but He doesn't dc it all and takes us to do our part You are justifiable in doing what yot did. and anybody else would have done so SO don't reproach yourself for 1t and if it is necessary for me to make A statement I shall make 1t to th' world. I will willingly tell the whole world I and he are the guilty ones and not you.
 "I have been told not to write vol one word, but I could not go withou
 telling you that my sympathy Is wltf YOU. and if I never see you again, re
 member I have hurt myself worse thar could hurt you, and tIy to thinl
 kindly as you can of me. don't asi
 vou to forgive, for you cannot. I car
 only pray that time may help to TIT
 the burden from your heart.
 "Bernice."
 Every available foot of sitting an'
 standing room in the court room wal
 filled when Oscar Bishop was arraign l ed for murder. The veniremen eoul'
 hardly make their way through th'
 crowded aisles
 A strong legal array was present up
 on each side and in the importance
 of the case for an official record Pa
 McGauly was sworn in as official sten
 ographer. |.
 Solicitor Bricken is being assisted II
 th3 prosecution by x-Congressman J
 F. Stallings and Solicitor R. H. Park
 of Troy. For the defense there appea
 Senator Dempsey Powell, Judge TeTr!
 Richardson, Reid & Reid and M. w
 
 consumed in drawing the jurI
 Juror is stricken.
 The first day of the trial came to :
 sudden and sensational close Juror
 D. Denver was stricken with near
 failure and the case was postpone'
 until tomorrow morning when It |
 hoped that he will be able to go o'
 with the trial He was resting eas!
 tonight and the physicians in attend
 ance were of the impression that h
 would be able to resume his place II
 the jury box in the morning.
 The defendant had just been calle'
 to the stand. He presented a diagran n of the Knight home. showing his room and the place where the murder wa , committed, While the jurors were In
 tently examining the diagram, Jury man Denver was seen to turn pale
 stagger and fall against the door O , the jury room in which number O witnesses were waiting to be exam ined. Dr. Tankersley. who is Probat | Judge of Crenshaw county ana Drs StallinRs. Knight and Horn who wer } l about the courthouse were hurried L his side. Tn the course Of half al . hour MT. Deaver had recovered sum
 ciently to be moved to the hotel am | court was adiourned, MT Deaver liv
 ed in the upper part of Crenshaw coun
 ty very near the Montgomery count } line. The State had just closed lt l side of the testimony when the sehsa . tional incident occurred, although r is understood that they have mum D Der of witnesses to Introduce in rebut 7 tai tomorrow. r The jury selected to try oscar Bish 9 on is as follows: NJ. Bradshaw, Jos s eph Holloway. $. A. Dickey, A. D. Wa Q ters. D. J. Lansdon, Thomas Greer