The Forrest City times., 1909-08-06

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 2s3 the English bench caused hin uasitsiagiE to assume ths person a aERezr&1cs ot wea-zr ef the wig and e-Zzse e B.zckstoaizu davs Judge Deaaett iz-roaac@d hIm zs Judge Tanner and assured the club that Als guest @as prlued with InznT a rerEiI!seeaee of his long career and would gladly furnish he story ot the eFeniIg- After the pipes e good feI- ioEsaip had 1een burned fo. a space Judge Tanner arose and began his story Of circum mstAatial evidence.
 T often wonder he said. If ,hese $ trial judge Of an considerable experience who has not carried some one case as load on his mind and conscience for years afte- the verdict of he jury Is in and the condemned .ea away - execution ]. is ~xe provision et he law that makes the jury the igdge both e the Izw and the evidence. and the judge bat the medium through which tke lax reaches the twelve and I cannot con. ceiFe he condition Of mind Of those early English judges. before whom. when they had arrived a Q conviction of guilt, even the jury Was bower less. | was from thei. arbitrary and unreasonable E4lInSs. nc. happily not he'd within the power Of The judge. that most Of or records Of miscarrie# justice have resulted
 Within ny own experience there has come one case which I believe ts az strange a aaE Of record and which for years. as ] looked Lack uBan r caused me 70 eaGDs he ability of man ere iakala3ly 70 pass judgment upon fellow creature The parties now. are a!l dead and ,ell | fer the first time. But tO the story.
 Tn little city on the circuit ia which have he'd court for more years than I care 10 think of there Was at one lime q hotel Kept b. a very respectable man named Jona. than Miller. T. was the favorite stop ping place for commercial travellers and thus the most prominent and best paying hotel in the ely.
 One evening a tewelry salesman by the name Of Robert Conway arrived at the hotel just before supper. He instructed Miller 10 send his grips up 10 his room and remarked in the hear ing Of several d the desk that he did net care 70 have them left in fhe gen eral baggage room as he was carrying far more expensive line Of samples than usual He also asked that the door be carefully locked and the key brought to him
 Supper over. he fell in with a salesman for shoe house and one for clothing firm and they repaired 10 the bar where they played cards and drank until II 0 clock. when they all retired l. happened that the hotel was well filled and the clothing man and the shoe man had been forced te take q double room toget her. This room was directly across the hall from he one occupied by the jewelry salesman.
 .Aboat TWO o'clock h the morning the two roomUates were awakened bT groaus which seemed 10 come from the room of their companion of the evening across he hall
 They arose and without stopping to dress hurried ont 10 see what he tro3i- bic was You can imagine their hor- TOT to find Conway. the jewelry man. dead, the bed blood-soaked and stand. ing over him. dark lantern in one hand and bloody knife in the other. Jonathan Miller, the landlord. who trembled violently and gasBed inco- herently when they burst into the chamber of death
 The case seemed black enough against him There was not a sus- pieion in the mind of anyone in the city that he could be otherwise than guilty. let when taken before d jus tice for preliminary hearing he most stoufiy maintained his innocence and told d story which had 1t uot ra,ed into improbabiHty by the side Of 
 would have been plausible In the ex. ,reme
 He sad he Lad just reached lis room afte5 as was his custom sfI- tins up until train due al faIf past one. came Ia. lie Ia1 not had lime 10 remove h.s elotaiag when he. too Leasd eroans coming from fhe uessl. toHBoo4 of Conway roaa. Like the i've saI-=mea, l. had hurried t0 .a- vesfieate and as weapon of de- feuse he had 1aEea the knife. lie aisa Hies aF t5e as=E lantern which Le aleass saa IT, making h.z iazs Fauads q -t hotsl aL1 which vas s-il h11ted
 When hs reached tHa Jewellers door Ae a-s surprised ta fna t stand lug apea. zhe greaas= had ceased.