The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-06

the we'll water" said Mrs. Parsons
who was now all sisterly.
And I will sit here in the window
seat where | can see you and where
YOU can see me all the time, so that
you need not be afraid
So Alice sat in the window-seat be-
side the open window while Mrs. Par
sons ran down stairs and into the we'll
yard. There was no need of a lantern
because or the bright moonlight, the
white radiance being so clear and
strong that Alice saw every feature of
her sisters face, and Isabel could also
distinguish, though not SO clearly. the
figure of Alice at the window.
You're sure you're not afraid:" ask
ed Alice, speaking from the window
seat.
Why, how can l be-" replied Mrs.
Parsons, unhitching the sweep from
the restraining notch, when l can see
and talk with you like this
Mrs. Parsons drew the water. filled
the pitcher with the sweet Ruyter well
water. glanced up and saw that her Sis
ter was still there and then hastily re
turned to the house.
Alice, in her room, heard Mrs. Par
sons come quickly but quietly up the
creaky staircase; heard her hesitate
in her progress along the passage and
then tip-tOe on. so that she might not
disturb her sleeping husband or Jen-
ner.
When Mrs. Parsons entered her sis
ters room the hand that held the
heavy pitcher of water was shaking
with the nervousness that came from
her quick little night excursion and
the strained walk upstairs; while Alice
had evidently not assumed a sudden
faintness in order to close an embar-
RAISING conversation. because her face
was white and there was quite a drop
to her chin. ordinarily rather too firm
a feature of her strong oval face. She
begged Isabel to remain with her for a
time and Mrs. Parsons lay down beside
Alice on the bed. There she dozel
until she heard the cuckoo-clock strike
1, and then, seeing that Alice was
sleeping. crept to her own room.
Next morning at o'clock Sterling
Jenner was found dead in his bed He
had been murdered: stabbed in the
heart as he lay asleep. Death had ey-
identity come instantaneously. Jen-
ner lay partly on his right side; partly
on his back and the knife with which
he had been stabbed. and which still
stood in the wound, had done it's work
so swiftly that the sleeper's left hand
lay open just below the knife up to-
ward which it had spasmodically NOV
ed in the shock of the fatal blow. The
doctor, called post haste, declared that
Jenner mad been dead about eight
hours.
The weapon was a pruning knife
which at the inquest. the gardener said
he had left in the conservatory two
days before the tragedy. Such other
facts were brought out at the investigo
ton that the verdict of the jury was
that Sterling Jenner had been murder
ed and that the evidence tended to i'm
plicate Alice Greer.
Alice Greer was arrested and at first
her lawyer, James Hobson, junior
member of the law firm of Hobson
Jones & Hobson, was inclined to use
the plea of emotional insanity. The
most damaging testimony against her
abducted at the inquest was that fur
nished by her sister who-under com
puIsion-admitted that there was
grave cause for Miss Greer's hating
the dead man, and that Alice had act
ually threatened TO kill the murdered
man. Yet when Mr.. Hobson asked his
client if there was any way in which
her sisters testimony could be multi
fled at the trial, Miss Greer only
smiled myste--Susly and said, Let her
tell her story. My only prayer is that
she shall be my accuser: my ONLY sat