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abost The prisoner. for his Dart,
scarcely naakesgA nno8Snent--DOazc1
turns his weary eyes round whAn anJ
one spsaks. For hope has gon0 cot OF
him, the battle has been fought and
lost. Tho murderer Of the ress Dandy
Chatter is dead, and he carried his ~
crst into another place, where all ~
crets are known The crowd Of faces
about him bears but one stamp upon
it all-hard, unrelenting, vengoful.
every face there looks upon him with
certainty as dead man, and is glad to
think that he gets what he deserves.
There has been-as there always ia
in such cases-much. eloQuence Ion
both sides, and some dramatic mo-
ments. At the present the Jury are a
little tired Of 1t and the judge palpably
mods, for the whole thing is such a
foregone conclusion The great man
who has come down, specially instruct
ed by the treasury, has pointed out
that this, gentlemen, is case in which
no. considerations, of social standing
birth. or position must be allowed to
weigh. Indeed, gentlemen OF the most
Intelligent jury in the most Intelligent
country of the world, IL it be possible
to make 1t little hotter for the pris-
oner than it is made already, then,
gentlemen, clearly it is your duty to
make 1t hotter.
For this man Ga most desperate char
acter, you must understand, gentle
men, as witness the cloud OF police
about the dock, and even in the dock
with him), this man had the advan-
tages OF great name, fine position,
much property. Yet, gentlemen. what
have you heard of him? He stands
before you a convicted forger, bank
robber, burglar, and, as you will have
thrust down your threats little more,
gentlemen, a murderer!
You have had a most honest gentle
man here to-day, on whom stolen notes
were passed to cover the amount Ct a
forgery committed by the prisoner on
his greatest friend. You have heard
Of transactions whereby the estate
handed down to the prisoner has been
gradually Slapped away by riotous liv-
ing, until not one stick of it remains
that Is not encountered or hartered
away. And to-day, gentlemen, in effect,
behold the prisoner brought before you
to receive his just doom!
All this, and much more, from the
learned gentleman instructed by the
treasury. A movement in court, as the
learned gentleman sits down, and the
prisoner turns his eyes in the direc-
ton of a new voice.
The new voice belongs to Mr.. AM
drew Banks, rising young barrister;
and Mr.. Andrew Banks is disposed to
be f1ippant. For it must not be un-
derstood, gentlemen of the jury, that,
because man of the station of life OF
the prisoner has run through fortune
or half-a-dozen fortunes, for the mat
ter of that-and has made mistake,
in the exuberance Of his heart, in sign
ing some one else's name instead Of
his own-it must really not be imag-
ined, gentlemen, that the man, for that
reason, is capable of the atrncious
crime with which he stands charged.
In fact, this rising young barrister
would have the gentlemen of the jury
believe that the fact of his having
done these things, and done them in an
open-handed, devil-may-care, gentle
MANLY fashion, rather rebounds to his
credit than otherwise, and goes, In
deed, far to prove him incapable Of
such crime as this
The rising young barrister would
beg to call the attention Of this most
intelligent jury to the witnesses relied
upon for the prosecution. One, the
witness in regard to the forgery and
the stolen notes, is a so per cent
money lender, who has doubtless bled
the prisoner pretty freely for years;
the other-and most unwilling wit
ness, 1t must be remembered, gentle
mems q former servant of the pris-
oner, and now, on his own confession,
out Of a situation.
In word, gentlemen Of the jury,
this rising young barrister absolutely
fouts the testimony of the witnesses
for the prosecution, has little to say
about hearths and homes and British
liberties, and sits down amid little
murmur Of applause.
Ito Be Continuously
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