The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-05

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$4,000 worth of goods off their hands
for e10 If you could have got them at
that price. Is not that So2
Charles was compelled to admit it.
The prisoner went on to the David
Granton incident.
when you Offered to amalgamate
with Lord Craig Ellachie," he asked,
had you or had you not heard that a
collaborating reef ran straight from
your concession into Lord Craig Ella
chie's, and that his portion of the reef
was by far the larger and more impor-
tant?"
Charles wriggled again and our
counsel interposed bat Rhadamanth
was adamant. Charles had to allow il.
And so. too. with the incident of the
slump in Golcondas. Unwillingly,
shamefacedly, by torturing steps.
Charles was compelled to confess that
he had sold out Golcondas-he, the
chairman of the company, after repeat
ed declarations to shareholders and
others that he would do no such thing
because he thought Prof. Schleier-
macher had made diamonds worthless.
! He had endeavored to save himself by
running his company. Charles tried TO
braZen it out with remarks to the eff
feet that business was business.
And fraud is fraud" Rhadamanth
added, in his pungent way.
"A man must protect himself"
Charles burst out.
AT the expense of those who have
put their trust in his honor and in
tegrity?" the judge interposed coldly.
After four mortal hours of it, all to
the same effect, my respected brother
in-law left the witness box at last, wip-
ing his brow and biting his lip, with
the very air of a culprit. His character
had received a most serious blow.
While he stood in the witness box all
the world had felt it was he who was
the accused and Colonel Clay who was
his own evidence of having tried to in
duce the supposed David Granton to
sell his fathers interests into an en-
emy's hands, and of every other shady
trick into which his well-known BUSH
ness acuteness had unfortunately hur-
| ried him during the course of his adj
ventures.
l had but one consolation in my
| brother-in-laws misfortunes-and that
was the thought that a due sense of his
own shortcomings might possibly make
him more lenient in the end to the tri-
vial misdemeanOrs of d poor beggar of
| a secretary
| l was the next in the box I do not
desire TO enlarge upon my own achieve
ments.. l will draw decent veil, in
deed. over the painful scene that en-
sued when | finished my evidence.
can only say l was more cautious than
Charles in my recognition of the photo
graphs; but l found myself particu-
larly worried and harried over other
parts of my cross-eXamination. Espe-
cially was I shaken about that mis-
\ guided step / took in the matter of the
| check for the Lebenstein commission
/ a check which Colonel Clay handed to
| me with the utmost politeness, request
ing TO know whether or not il bore my
signature. / caught Charles eye at
the end of the episode, and venture
to say the expression it wore was one
of relief that I. too, had tripped over
trifling question of 10 per cent on the
purchase money of the castle.
Altogether, I must admit, If it had
not been for the police evidence, we
| would have failed to make q ca Sc
| against our man at all. But the police
| | confess, had got up their part of the
prosecution admirably. Now that they
knew Colonel Clay to be really Paul
Finglemore, they showed with great
| cleverness how Paul Finglemore's dis
| appearances and temperatures in Lon
don exactly tailed with Colonel Clay's
appearances and disappearance else
where. under the guise of the little Gu
rate, the Seer, David Granton, and the
rest of them.
Furthermore. they showed expert
mentally how the prisoner at the bar
might have got himself up in the var
ious characters; and, by means of a
wax bust, modelled by DR.. Baddersley
from observations at Bow street, and
aided by additions in the gutta-percha
composition after Dolly Lingfield's pho
/ f0QranhG fhpX- Cnaaaodnd in
| that the face as it stood could be read
] lily transformed into the faces of Med
hurst and David Granton. Altogether
| their clevernesS and trained acumen
made up on the whole for Charles
| over-certainty, and they succeeded in
| putting before the jury strong case
of their own against Paul Finglemore.
The trial occupied three DAYS. After
| the first of the three, my respected
brother-in-law preferred, as he said.
not to prejudice the case against the
prisoner by appearing in court again.
He did not even allude to the little
| matter of the 10 per cent commission
! further than to say at dinner that
| evening, that all men were bound to
] protect their own interests-as secre-
| taries or as principals. This I took for
| forgiveness; and I continued diligently
to attend the trial, and watch the case
/ il eHpiOytE interest.
The defense was ingenious, even if
Somewhat hating. 1t consisted simply
of an attempt to prove throughout that
| Charles and / had made our prisoner
the victim of a mistaken identity Fin
! glemore put into the box the ingenious
original of the little curate-the Rev
Septimus Porkington. as it turned out,
a friend of his faInily: and he showed
that it was the Rev. Septimus himself
who had sat to photographer in Ba-
ker street for the portrait which
| Charles, too hastily, identified as that
of Colonel Clay in his personification
of Mr.. Richard Brabazon.
He further elected the fact that the
| portrait of the Count Won Lebenstein
was really taken of DR.. Julius Keppel
a Tyrolese music master, residing al
BALKAN, whom he put into the box.
and who was well known, as il
CHANGED, to the foreman Of the i,Irv.
Gradually he made it clear to US that
no portraits of Colonel Clay ex-
listed at all, except Dolly Lingfield's-
so it dawned upon me by degrees that
even DIR. Beddersley could only have
been misled if we had succeeded in
finding for him the alleged photographs
of Colonel Clay as, the count and the
curate, which had been shown us bv
Medhurst. Altogether, the prisoner
| based his defense upon the fact that no
more than two witnesses directly iden-
| titled him; while one of those two had