Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-10-18
the night.

The clothes arrived next morhihg-a
brown frOck coat with three inch Ia
pels, velvet walstcoat and OossacK
trousers with straps. =.
The first witness was the mechanic
who had discovered the body. His tes-
timony was very short. He had run
straight for the police, leaving the
blood stained cudgel precisely where
he had found tin the grass. This wit
ness was not cross examined, and the
police officer whom he had summoned
soon replaced him in the box.
When the finding of the body and Its
exact position when found hal 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 Win
the crime, adducing In the first place
what he conceived to be an adequate
motive for It's 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 dissipated smirk. but which
ELECTED no 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
were once more indisputed. and q pas
sage In one Of them caused the first
sensation of the trial. II warn you"
ran the text. "that would rather
hang than starye. Unless you pay me
I 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
md had caused the police to put a
stop to prisoners lettering near the
club.
Now came workingman whose
face Tom had quite forgotten. but nc
swore to the. prisoner as one or the
two men to whom he had said good
night rs he passed them ut the stile In
the Finchley road on the night OF
Thursday. the 9th ult.. about nair
past 10, and it seemed that ut the IN
quest he had sworn to deceased rs 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 or
prisoner In his house next morning
and his ultimate flight therefrom.
Tom saw his counsel's eyelids witch
ing before he rose. and he anticipated
one Mt least of the three successive
points now scored In his favor.
when the prisoner sat Mt your
breakfast table," began Culllford. did
you then or at any subsequent moment
notice anything in the nature OF q
blood stain upon his clothes or per-
lson?'
mo sir; | can't say that did"
"Can you say that you did not?
Witness hesitated, but told the truth
mo" said he; 81 saw no signs o.
blood upon him either then or after
ward"
"You saw no signs Of blood upon TIT
prisoner either then or afterward. Yo'
pre quite positive, however, that tn
man who waylaId your fare In tn
Finehley road was the prisoner In tn
dockT'
"Quite positive"
"Then didn't you recognize him II
the morning when your brother-ln-ia'
brought him to your houseT
mo, sir; did not"
"What! Not when he was sitting q
your own breakfast table?"
81 did not"
"Nor yet when you gave him tn
newspaper and he read you an accoun
of the very crime with which he stand
Indicted? You suspected nothing, say
, nothing suspicious in his manner, notf
I ing, familiar In his faceT
, mo; not then didn't"
"You suspected nothing and did nc
recognize him then, yet at q word fror
your wife you identified the prlsone
, with the man who stopped your coaci
, and you have SO identified him eve
( SINGER
, Witness made the necessary admi'
!, sion, but attempted to explain ma
ters, whereupon Culllford cut MI
r short and, having gained the adval
/. tape which Tom had foreseen, passe
r on to one that was less apparent
!. ITO return to your fare" said coul
r sci. "Did you notice any valuables ~
: on his outer person? A watch chair
Q Rings? A breastpin in the, stockr'
81 saw watch chain and pin
r diamond PIN"
Mr.. Sergeant Culliford sat down VI
d expectedly, but with an expression
u satisfied that Tom lost much OF Il
next evidence that Of the coachman
2 wife, In endeavoring to account for
He had not succeeded when the cou
e adjourned for luncheon, for the ho'
v of acute perceptions was over and DC
@ left him dazed SO that the yeneraD
turnkey who had charge of him In Il
l. dock had to take him by the arm
70 make him leave 1t.
y The principal witnesses OF the afte
Y noon were Mrs. Adcock, Jonathan Blu
4 terrified and the dIminutiye household
of ISorr rrbiia fha trio who had MAJ