The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-04

sage in one or them caused the ursr
! sensation of the trial. II warn you"
ran the text. that I would rather
/ hang than starve- Unless you pay me
] / shall do one or the other. and don't
/ you rely on lodging me much longer.
for I am hunting you day and night
| and will do till | drop" The dead
mans landlady and club porter gave
supplementary evidence The latter
had forwarded the letters to deceased
and had caused the police to put a
stop 10 prisoners lettering near the
club.
Now came 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 9th nit, about half
past 10, and it seemed that at the in
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 flight therefron-
Tom saw his counsefs 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
fhra NV nf
blood stain upon his clothes or per-
SOM"
mo. sir; I can't say that / did"
"Can you say that you did not?"
Witness hesitated. but told the truth.
NO" sa:d he; Il 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?'
mo, sir; did not"
what, Not when he was sitting at
your own breakfast table?"
Il did not"
''Nor yet when you gave him the
and he read you an account |
Of the very crime with which he stands |
indicted? You suspected nothing, saw |
nothing suspicious in his manner, moth |
ing familiar in his face?'
mo; not then l didn't"
"You suspected nothing and did not |
recognize him then yet at a word from !
your wife you identified the prisoner
with the man who stopped your coach, !
and you have so identified him ever
since?"
Witness made the necessary admis-
sion, but attempted to explain mat ,
tiers, whereupon Culliford cut him
short and, having gained the advan-
tage which Tom had foreseen. passed
on to one that was less apparent.
ITO return to your fare said coun-
sell did you notice any valuables up
ON his outer person? A watch chain?
Rings? A breastpin in the stock %
Il saw watch chain and a pima
diamond PIN
Mr.. Sergeant Culliford sat down un
but with an expression so
that Tom lost much of the
next evidence chat of the coachman's
wife) in endeavoring to account for it.
He had not succeeded when the court -,
adjourned for luncheon, for the hour
If acute perceptions was over and had .
eft him daZed so that the venerable
turnkey who had charge of him in the
lock had to take him by the arm to
make him leave it.
The principal witnesses of the after .
loon were Mrs. Adcock, Jonathan But ,
erfield and the diminutive householder
# Kew. Thus the trio who had made ,
he world seem so kind a fortn ght be-
ore now typified its cruelty, for the
of the first two was reluctant
tut damning and that of the last was A.,
in matter, but given
With the officious venom and the trans
aren't evr1+"+'o-' Of n personal foe