Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-15

exact position when found had been
duly demonstrated to the satisfaction
of the court, and counsel for the de-
Tense had put couple of questions,
counsel for the 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 its commission. Mr.. Rich
ard Vale was thereupOn called, but
added little to the evidence which he
had given at Marylebone. The only
difference was cross examination
more rough than telling. in which dis
graceful admissions were accompanied
with a dssipatcd smirk. but which
ELECTED 10 essential point in the pris-
oner'S favor.
On the other hand, this witness was
again the peg upon which were hung
the threatening letters. The letters
We're once more indisputed. and a pas
sage in one of them caused the first
sensation of the trial Il warn YOU"
ran the text. that / 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 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 Il
stop to 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 lie had said good
night as he passed them at the stile in
| the Finchley road on the night of
Thursday, the 9th ult., about half
| past TO- 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 thaS CX-
| amined as to the entertainment of
prisoner in his house next morning
and his ultimate flight therefrom.
Tom saw his counsers cyelids 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 ut your
breakfast table" began CullifOrd. did
you then or at any subsequent moment
notice anything in the nature of a
/ !, A,., ~. y,I1
| SOM
mo, sir; l can't say that did"
Can you say that you did not:"
Witness hesitated, but told the truth
NO" said 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. YoT
are quite positive, however, that The
man who waylaid your fare in th'
Finchley road was the prisoner in tht
dOck:"
quite positive"
"Then didn't you recognize him II
the morning when your brother-in-lav
brought him to your house"
''No, sir: did not"
what! Not when he was sitting q
your own breakfast table,"
81 did not"
''Nor yet when you gave him TIL
| newspaper and he read you an accoun
of the very crime with which he stand
indicted? You suspected nothing, saw
nothing suspicious in his manner, moth
: ing familiar in his face?"
mo; not then didn't"
"You suspected nothing and did no
recognize him then, yet at a word from
your wife you identified the prisone
with the man who stopped your coach
and you have so identified him eve
since:"
Witness made the necessary admis
sion, but attempted to explain mat
tiers, whereupon Culliford cut hin
short and, having gained the advar
tage which Tom had foreseen. passe
on to one that was less apparent.
''To return to your fare" said cour
sci. did you notice any valuables VI
on his outer person? A watch chain
Rings? A breastpin in the stock"
Il saw q watch chain and a pin
diamond PIN
Mr.. Sergeant Culliford sat down III
expectedly, but with an expression S
satisfied that Tom lost much of th
next evidence chat of the cOaehman
wife) in endeavoring to account for i
He had not succeeded when the coul
adjourned for luncheon, for the hOU
of acute perceptions was over and la
left him daZed so that the venerabl
turnkey who had charge of him in th
dock had to take him by the arm
make him leave it.
The principal witnesses of the afte
noon were Mrs. Adcock, Jonathan Blu
tertield and the diminutive household
of Kew. Thus the trio who had mac
the world seem SO kind fortnight b
fore now typified its cruelty, for IL
evidence of the first two was reluctaI
but damning and that of the last WI
supplementary in matter. but give
with the officious venom and the tran
parent exultation of a personal foe.