Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-02-15


In finding a seat where we could tai
without fear of being overheard.
Now" began Godfrey. las you say
there isn't shred of evidence, appai
entity, against Tremaine. How abou
your client"
Against DrySdalc," answered
the evidence seems to he UNUSUAL,
complete
You might have used Il stronge
/ phrase. It's not only complete: it,
consummate!y perfect. Not Il link i
missing. He was on the spot: his re
volver is found near 10y with blood OF
it; button from his coat is in tn,
dead mans hand: when he returns t
the house he is viSibly disturbed; Il
the moment of his arrest he was pre-
pairing to escape; he refuses 10 cX
plain where he was at the time th,
crime was committed; he 5 Involved il
steel speculation and presumably needs
ready money"
'WellE"
Well" said Godfrey earnestly, that
very perfection is its greatest weak,
ness. Its too perfect. Any one of
those things might have happened:
perhaps any two OF them; but that
they should all have happened out
RACES the law of probabilities. That
every link of the chain is complete
means that it has been artiicially pro
lIlrpl lsn .. 81, . 4,
lightning flashes at just the right in
slant. The. fellow who arranged it
wanted 10 he too sure He oyerleaped
himself"
That may all he true said slow
ly, after Il moment. but it would be
worse than folly to use that argument
with jury. To say that a man isn't
guilty because the evidence against
him appears 10 he conclusive
Were not going TO use it to jury.
We're using it between ourselves, in an
effort to find II working hypothesis.
And here's another argument which
would carry no weight with Il jury, vet
which with me, personally, is Conclu-
sive: know Jack Drysdalc. I've
known him for Il long time, and | know
that it's utterly impossible that he
should have committed such crime.
He's not Il very original fellow, not at
all a genius. He's never done any
thing. perhaps which either of us
would think really worth doing; but
he's kind and honest and gentle and
honorable. | repeat that crime like
this is Us far beyond his horizon us it is
beyond yours, farther. I'm sure. than
it is beyond mine. and yet don't be-
leve you'd think ne guilty. no matter
what the evidence against me seemed
to be-"
Il shouldn't" 1 said. but if Drys
dale isn't guilty who isl"
IF Drysdalc isn't, there's only one
other person who can be-that's IRE
maine. A. I'm sure Drysdulc's not !
guilty, I'm correspondingly sure that
Iremaine IT,"
But theo" objected, you've just |
said that there's no evidence against |
lim."
Il said apparently there wasn't"
and Ueiroy says he didn't leave the
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II other wor,l, we b.,vn = motive ana
he pbvsjcal p,sgil ilitv Of s,njlt may
id that | think we shall find he had
one reason TO iuiure Drys,lale-I'm
IRE we shall i'm fact
But the hutt,u-thr DistoI-Drys.
ale's unexplained abscnce:"
"ThOse points can only be cleared M
V personal inycStig Itial Of the prem.
es. That's why were going to Edge
ERE"
Godfrey" | said. there seems TO me
be one great objection to your theory
at TremTine killed Thompson If
ISIS Croydon saw him do it. would
70 consent to associate with him: