Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-10-03

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nothing suspicious in his manner, moth
ing familiar in his face"
"No; 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 nan who stopped your coach,
and you have so identified him Eel
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
Oh to one that was less apparent.
"To return to your fare" said coun
sci. "Did you notice any valuables up
Oh his outer person? \ watch chain?
Rings? A breastpin in the stock?'
81 saw a watch chain and a pima
diamond pin"
Mr.. Sergeant Culliford sat down I'm
eXpectedly, but with an expression so
satisfied 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
of acute perceptions was over and had
left him daZed sc chat the venerable
turnkey who had charge of him in the
dock had to take him by the arm to
make him leave it.
The principal witnesses of the after
moo We're Mrs. Adcock, Jonathan But
terrified and the diminutive householder
Of Kew. Thus the trio who had made
the world cen SO kind a fortnight be-
fore now typified its cruelty, for the
evidence of the first two was reluctant
but damning and that of the last was
supplementary in matter, but given
with the officious venom and the trans
parent eXultation of a personal foe.
But his old landlady shed tears as
she described her last interview with
the prisoner at the bar. 1t was with
difficulty that things which Tom had
said on that occasion and to which she
had already sworn at Marylebone could
be wrung a second time from her un-
willing lips. "1ll pay him" and CPL
break every bone in his internal BODY
We're not the worst of the words which
were extracted by degrees. Then the
stick was produced in court, and the
knob that had been so clean and
creamy was now clothed over with a
scaly, russell skin, like a coat of glue,
at sight of which the witness turned
as white as her hair and was given a
glass of water in the box. The stick
was then duly identified, the jury in
formed that the prisoner had described
1t to witness as "a rod in pickle" for
the deceased and the witness allowed
to stand down after a brief but painful
cross examination, in which the good
souls fondness for Tom was betrayed
by signs that touched him as deeply as
anything could just then. His brain
was reeling under the dread weight of
her evidence against him. He felt it's
influence upon judge and jury as a
palpable force. Its very reluctance
only heightened its mortal effect.
Jonathan Butterield exhibited a like
demeanor with q like result. 1t only
showed that the prisoner had not lack
ed those common attributes Of the
worst r%ascals, an engaging manner and
the power of imposing on the simple
minded. This witness. however, swore
very positively that there were no
marks of blood upon the prisoner when
they were together. And though his
SLY successor as positively swore that
such a stain upon the kerseymere
waistcoat had first aroused his suspi-
cions in the garden at Kew. and
though this was afterward proved in
the medical evidence to be a blood
stain, it was eventually established
that the blood was not that Of the MUIR
dered man. The point was finally
gained in cross examination of the DO
lice officer upon whom Tom had jump
ed bodily in his escape from the empty
house. Witness admitted having open
ed his eyes to find the prisoner leaning
over him with a bloody nose. And the
defense had scored once more. but this
after an interval so prolific of incrimi-
mating matters that Mr.. Sergeant Guilt
ford sat down with a sigh instead of a
smile, and the prisoner at the bar
longed incontinently for the end.
The next day the trial was conclud-
ed. Erickson was convicted.