Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-10-03

the speaking eye, that had been dull
and dumb for six long days, was once
more eloquent with light and life. Bas-
sett took the card gingerly between an
etteminate finger and thumb and ex-
amlned it with a critical brow. 1t was
a pawn ticket for a suit of clothes.
well, my good fellow, and what
have 1 to do with this?"
SHOW it to my friend and pray him,
In PHYS name, to add to all his other
noble kindnesses by redeeming me
those things. 1t will be the greatest
kindness of ALP
what! To find you a change of
clothes?"
mo; to help me look a gentleman at
my trial. For months and months I
haven't cared a rush what I looked, but
once l did, and 1 do now. 1t came
back to me last night when 1 found
that pawn ticket in this old waistcoat
pocket. 1 could hardly sleep for think
ing what a sight l should be in court
as 1 am. Oh, sir, you despair of saw
ing me. 1 have seen it in your face all
along. Then save my self respect, and
1 shall be as grateful as if it We're my
life" 1t was his self respect that had
come back to him in the night.
The clothes arrived next morning-a
brown frock coat With three inch la
pels, velvet waistcoat and Cossack
trousers wi',.l straps.
III" 't"%s ess vas the mechanic
WI '~f-e:cd the body. His tes-
t. short. He had run
9olice. leaving the
precisely where
The Grass. This wit
examined, and the
y :! =. had summoned
s lie box.
- of the body and it's
..aa found had been
l. =. to the satisfaction
OF -. ;. counsel for the de-
fensN - 4 couple of questions,
counsel ~. Re crown informed his
lordship that he proposed to take the
medical evidence later. He would now
trace the prisoners connection with
the crime, adducing in the first place
what he conceived to be an adequate
motive for it's commission. Mr.. Rich
ard Vale was %thereupon called, but
added little to the evidence which he
had given at Marylebone. The only
difference was a cross examination
more rough than telling, in which dis
graceful admissions were accompanied
with a dissipated smirk, but which
ELECTED no essential point in the pris-
oner's favor.
On the other hand, this witness was
again the peg upon which We're hung
the threatening letters. The letters
were once more indisputed. and a pas
sage in II of them caused the first
sensation of the trial. 81 warn you"
ran the text, "that l would rather
hang than starve. Unless you pay me
I shall do II or the other. and don't
you rely on lodging me much longer.
for l am hunting you day and night
and will do till l drop" The dead
mans landlady and a club porter gave
supplementary evidence. The latter
had forwarded the letters to deceased
and had caused the police to put a
stop to prisoners lettering near the
club.
Now came a workingman whose
face Tom had quite forgotten, but he
swore to the prisoner as one of the
two men to whom he had said good
night as he passed them at the stile in
the Finchley road on the night Of
Thursday, the &sth ult.. about half
past 10, and it seemed that at the ill.,
quest he had sworn to deceased as the
other.
Toms old friend and enemy, the
hackney coachman, first swore to the
prisoner as the man who had stopped
his coach overnight and was then ex-
amined as to the entertainment Of
prisoner in his house next morning
and his ultimate fight therefrom.
Tom saw his %counsel's eyelids twitch-
ing before he rose, and he anticipated
one at least Of the three successive
points now scored in his favor.
"When the prisoner sat at your
breakfast table," began Culliford, "did
you then or at any subsequent moment
notice anything in the nature Of a
blood stain upon his clothes or per-
SOM"
"No, sir; 1 can't say that 1 did"
"Can you say that you did not?"
Witness h~esitated, but told the truth.
"No," said he; II saw no signs of
blood upon him either then or after
ward"
"You saw no signs of blood upon the
prisoner either then or afterward. You
are quite positive, however, that the
man who waylaid your fare in the
Finchley road was the prisoner in the
dock?"
"Quite positive"
"Then didn't you recognize him in
the morning when your brother-in-law
brought him to your house?"
"No, sir; l did not"
what! Not when he was sitting at
your own breakfast table,"
II did not"
"Nor yet when you gave him the
newspaper and he read you an account
of the very crime with which he stands