Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-06


 community like Canaan can make It. self felt Inside q courtroom, and It was strongly exerted against Happy Fear. The Tocsin had always been power full agent; Judge Pike had increased its strength with stan which was thor oughly efficient, alert and always able to strike center with the papers read CTS, and In town and country 1t had absorbed the circulation of the other local journals, which resisted feebly at times, but in the matter of the Cory murder had not dared to do anything except follow the Tocsin's lead. The Tocsin, having lit the fire, fed it-fed 1t saltpeter and sulphur-for now Mar tin Pike was fighting hard.
 Tho farmers and people of the less urban parts of the country were ac- customed to found their opinions upon the Tocsin. They regarded 1t as the single immutable rock of journalistic righteousness and wisdom in the world. Consequently, stirred by the outbursts of the paper, they came into Canaan in great numbers, and, though the pressure from the town itself was so strong that only few of them managed to crowd into the courtroom, the others joined their voices to those somber murmurs outdoors, which in- creased in loudness as the trial went on.
 The Tocsin, however, was not hav- | ing everything its own way. The vol ume of outcry against Happy Fear and his lawyer had diminished, 1t was mo- ticed, in "very respectable quarters" The information imparted by Mike Sheehan to the politicians at Mir Far bach's had been slowly seeping through the various social strata of the town, and, though at first incredulously re- jected, it began to find acceptance, Upper Main street cooling appreciably in it's acceptance of the Tocsin as the law and the prophets. There were even a few who dared to wonder in their hearts if there had not been mistake about Joe Louden, and, all though Mrs. Flitcroft weakened not, the relatives of Squire Buckalew and of Peter Bradbury began to hold up their heads little after having made home horrible for those gentlemen and reproached them with their conversion as the last word of senile shame. In addition, the colonel's grandson and MT. Bradbury's grandson had both mystifyingly lent countenance to Joe. consorting with him openly, the former for his own purposes, the latter be- cause he had cunningly discovered that it was a way to Miss Tabor's regard, which since her gentle rejection of him he had grown to believe, good youth. might be the pleasantest thing that could ever come to him. In short, the question had begun to thrive, Was 1t possible that Eskew Arp had not been insane after all?
 The best of those who gathered om- inously about the courthouse and it's purlieus were the young farmers and tiald hands, artisans and clerks. one of the latter being pimply faced young man 0ately from the doctors hands), who limpcd and would limp for the rest of his life, he who. of all men, held the memory of Eskew Arp in least respect and was burningly de- sirous to revenge himself upon the liv. ing.
 The worst were of that mystifying, embryonic, semi-rowdy type, the Amer ican voyou, in the production of which Canaan and her sister towns every where over the country are prolific the young man, youth, boy perhaps, creature of nameless age, whose clothes are like those of a brakeman out of work, but who Is not brake man in or out of work; wearing the black soft hat tilted forward to shelter as a counter does the contempt of a clerk-that expression which the face does not dare wear quite in the open, asserting the possession of supreme ca pacity in wit, strength, dexterity and amours; the dirty handkerchief under the collar, the short black coat. al- ways double breasted; the eyelids sooty, one cheek always bulged, the forehead speckled, the lips cracked, horrible teeth and the affectation of possessing secret information upon all matters of the universe, above all, the instinct of finding the shortest way to any scene of official interest to the policeman, fireman or ambulance sur geon-a singular being. not profession ally criminal, tough histrionically , rather than really, full of it's own argot of brag. hysterical when crossed. timid through great ignorance and therefore dangerous. It furnishes not the leaders. but the mass of mobs. and it springs up at times of crisis from heaven knows where. You might have driven througl; all the streets of Ca naan a week before the trial and have seen four or five such fellows, but from the day of its beginning the square was full of them. dingy shuttle cocks batted up into view by the Toe sin.
 They kept the air whirring with their noise. The news of that sitting which had caused the squire. Flitcroft and Peter Bradbury to risk the courts dis pleasure was greeted outside with loud and vehement disfavor. and when, at noon. the jurymen were marshaled out 10 cross the yard to the National