Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-07-09
CHAPTER II.

IN
BOUT quarter to u next morn
IA Ing. before the adjourned ex-
animation had been many
minutes In progress. a smart
slight gentleman was seen to shoulder
his way into the well OF the Maryle-
bone police office and touch the prose
cutting barrister OH the arm. The capa-
BILE face, now a trffie flushed, was well
known In that court, and Mt sight Of it
3 the learned Counsel shrugged his Shout
: ders and sat down. Thereupon the In
terloper bowed briskly to his worship.
who had already recognized him with
asigh.
s5ell, Mr.. Bassett?"
Il Nlst apologize to your worship
for D. sg late; but, In point Of fact, I
have y this minute been instructed
for the defense"
Do understand that You have not
vet seen the prisoner with reference to
the charge am now hearing against
him r.
There has been no opportunity, your
worship. Up to 10 o'clock this morn
Ing had received no communication
upon the matter"
Dear me, dear me! Then j suppose
you want to confer with him here in
court?"
With your worslip's leave
The magistrate bowed.
They've been telling you about yes
terday." said Tom nervously, through
/ the rails. ''The fellow took 1t for
granted was guilty among other
things. Do your"
The smart solicitor shook tic haatl
e and said they had no time to waste.
What he wished to hear was the pris-
0ner's version of his last Interview
with Blaydes from It's origin to its end,
and the prisoner would please be brief
and speak in whisper.
Tom was brevity itself. Indeed, he
had his story almost suspiclously pat,
for he had already made up his mind
as to the one fact which he intended to
suppress. This was the source of his
information as to BlGydes' latest
whereabouts. He owned to no such
information at all. The meeting was
chance meeting; that was to be his
solitary lie.
He told 1t, and It passed unchalleng-
ed, but when he came to the transac-
tion of the watch the solicitors eye
brows shot to such an Involuntary
height that the glib flow froze that In
slant. -, 4...r
Go on; go on"
'sYou don't believe word say"
Nonsense, my good fellow. / be-
heye every word Come, come, they're
getting impatient. You gave him q re-
ceipt and then?'
Tom finished with q lcaden heart
and tongue. To his SURPRISE. however,
Mr.. Bassetts was all smiles when he
had done. Then he put q few ques-
tions, and the lamer the answer the
sprightlier the solicitors nod. The lat
ter, In fact, foresaw a defense about
as weak as one could be, but a case
even more sensational than he had
supposed. And sensation happened to
be this brisk practitioners profession
g al loadstar.
Proceedings were resumed ut two
: minutes past II, when the witness
Adcock, recalled, identified pair Of
dllapidated shoes and the mutilated
elements Of a beaver as having belong
ed to the accused. Bassett had no idea
what point the prosecution designed to
make, but at once lie gave taste Of
his quality. He pressed the witness
md shook her as to the hat, but to
the shoes she stood Arm; she had
cleaned them often enough, SO she
- nS,.~
dodgers boots herself? Well, net oil.
And an adroit question or two reveal
ed the fact that Erichsen had been her
pet and zone 1t was a pleasure to do
for" against whom she had appeared
with profound reluctance. Indeed, she
left the box and rejoined the husband
y who had brought her there In tears.
And SO the defense made first mere
tricious point AZ
Z, Nor was 1t the last Jonathan But
sertield, unlike his relatives, had not
been called ut the previous examina.
ton; but he was now, and his feelings
were worked upon In the same def
fashion. AZ. however, there was no
+ Jury to be simultaneously touched. all
this was wasted dexterity, -but 1t look
ed neat in the newspapers and what
was better, but unintentional, imposed
upon poor Tom and gave him momen-
tary heart.
Meanwhile the shoes and hat had
done real damage, and this evidence
was the more deieterious from being
new to NIL. Guilty flight and ultimate
capture had been fully dealt with on
the previous occasion, but the equally
lncrtminAttng interim was only now
filed In by the officers who had chased
and lost q desperate housebreaker In
4 the small hours Of Saturday, but only
afterward connected him with the
Hampstead murderer. The connection
Was established by the beaver hidden,
bHss discovered. In the empty house and
by the shoes left on either side OF the
nursery Sarden gate. Only two OH
& GERS appealsl; the third was In hos
pitai, and one Of the two had a band
Il aged head,
The medical evidence had been taken
on the Monday morning, 80 had that Of
the crafty householder OF Kew, yet his
powdered head was again In court. and
/. his humorous, sly smile looked as be-
neyoient as ever, only broader and
more subtly droll. Tom heard this
= v,,,l,I3o hama otor tnLtnv cu,Iff In <y.