The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-08-11
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CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER III.
The day Of the trial at length ar.
rived, and by that time I had argued
myself into belief in my friends tri-
umph scarcely second to his own.
Moreover may own it now-I felt
that his acquittal would SAVIOR Of a
personal triumph for myself. One Of
the most skillful criminal practitioners
at the bar was pitted against me. and
if l won? All, well, now l am ap-
preaching the sunset Of life, when the
buff changes to crimson, the purple to
amethyst and the violet to ruby, yet
even the withered leaf Of autumn was
once green and full of sap, and l then
cherished q confidence in my own sue
cess which has been rudely shaken by
the multiform vicissitudes Of years.
The district attorney opened with the
usual disavowal of malice on the part
either of the state or of himself, and
the customary protestation that he was
actuated only by q stern, unfinching
sense Of public duty. tMy experience
Of later years has led me to question
whether the state prosecutor does not
six times out of ten feel as much per-
sonal pride in securing conviction as
does the attorney for the criminal in
obtaining his clients release) When
he outlined with the utmost perspicaci-
ty what he proposed to prove and after
a seemingly sincere appeal to the jury
to put aside bitterness, malice and all
uncharitableness" he summoned his
first witness, Mr.. Pope.
The latter described his relation to
the library. the building itself and Its
contents, the counsel for the state
dwelling particularly upon its ex-
tremely valuable collection Of rare
coins. Being shown gold coin and
asked If he could identify it. the wit
ness unhesitatingly pronounced 1t a
noble Of the reign of the third Ed
ward. In response to further question
Ing, he said that it was the property
of the library (as to that he could not
be MISTAKEN and narrated all the cir
cumstances connected with its sup
posed loss and alleged discovery as far
as they had fallen under his personal
observation. l made him repeat his
story in detail on cross examination,
but he varied not hairs breadth.
Asked as to his previously formed es-
innate of the prisoners character, he
replied freely and without reserve
and with an evident emotion which
was apparently not without influence
upon some of the jurymen-tliit he had
always heard him mentio.:el with re-
spect and that prior to the date in
question he had himself held him in
the highest esteem.
Then Golson, the assistant. detailed
the loaning of the tray of coins to the
accused, the latter's extended exam
ination of the same in secluded al
cove, his sudden discovery of the loss
of one of them, the unsuccessful
search for the same and the circum-
stances attending the arrest. On cross
examination his answers were frank.
and he, too, appeared rather to lean
to the side of the defense. Yes, he
had known Mr.. Scarborough although
only as an habitue of the library and
by nance for several years. He had
always regarded the prisoner as gen.
tleman. He (ScarborougM had repeat
edly examined trays of valuable coins
in the same alcove and none had been
missed before that date. When he had
been asked to aid in looking for the
missing gold piece he had fe:t no sus-
picion. He had summoned the police
u
strange, and, besides, it was his duty TO
do so under the rules Had he been in
the alcove in question within the next
few days? No; he had been transfer
red to the other side of th.. building
and had been employed there until q
week ago. when he had resigned his
position partly on account of weak
back and partly to assist his wife in
the management of boarding house
formerly kept by her mother, who had
recently died.
The next witness called by the dis
trict attorney was q small eyed, beetle
browed, dirt begrimed man, who
said his name was Raphael Swzoni.
He was employed as sweeper, clean
er and sort Of general utility man in
the library. On the second day after
the disappearance Of the gold piece he
had swept the alcove as matter of
ordinary, routine work. The states
representative produced from his peck
ct a small packet, which he carefully
opened and laid before the witness
Asked IL he could say what it con-
tanned, the beetle browed man replied
that he recognized the contents as be-
ing particles Of yellow metal which
he had found on taking up breadth
Of the mating in the alcOve in ques-
ton to be shaken. OF his own knowl-
edge he could not say of what metal
the particles were.
thought that here perceived an
opportunity. for if could locate the
filings in place remote from the
table at which the accused had been
making his examination they might
have been dropped by some previous
or subsequent visitor. But when I