Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-23
XXIII.

The coroner and jury had adjourned
from the Trenham Arms, in kumley. to
Hohve, to go through the ceremony they
designated "viewing the body which
consisted of their standing for two min
ntes round the bed where the dead man
Law. and gazing with lugubrious indiffer-
ence at the well cut, rigid features of the
Westward, who had labored so hard to
he master here, where his rule could be
known no longer. They had returned
aoain with an effort at sadness, to the
Trenham Arms, and had taken their seats
ot the long, polished table round which
90 many of them sat night after night in
;oyisl convivinlity, Grave enough now,
though; grave almost as the physician
who gives the first evidence and shows
with a calm consciousness how on his re-
turn from Winterfield on the evening OF
the oSth he met the horse Mr.. Trenham
had been riding galloping toward home.
the reins hanging loose and the saddle
empty how a few minutes afterward he
had seen deceased lying In the drive just
as he lay when the other physicians
"a me IN and how, some fifty PAGES near
or the Lodge, he had found Mr.. Trenham
thrown and unconscious the unconscious
ness evidently caused by his temple hay
ing been struck in the fall.
Lorraine Gaveston sat listening while
this evidence was corroborated by the
elder physicians.
Then your opinion is that Mr.. Tren-
hams horse threw him and on its home
ward way, unchecked, rode over deceased
and trampled him to death?"
That was, under the circumstances, the
- - - ~.rIl r&--s
Deceased had been crushed upon his chest
by a horses tread. Mr.. Trenham had
been violently thrown upon the temple.
No blood had been split, and so the case
was simple and incontrovertible.
Miss Galveston was in attendance"
the coroner believed, ar had been pres
ent at the finding of the bodies. Would
Miss Gaveston step forward?"
THE evidence you give shall be the
truth, the whole truth. and nothing but
the truth, so help you God
Athol was standing close beside her
while she was sworn and saw how her
white lips shivered and were not allowed
to touch, the Book she held before her
mouth.
.'Ifow were the bodies lying when you
reached them"
.'They lay exactly as DR.. Meredith de-
scribed them-that Of Mr.. Newley at least
fifty PAGES nearer to, Winterfield than that
of Mr.. Trenham."
and you met the horse-where?
II saw the horse close to the Winter
field gate of the Loop: the--the bodies
lay on the Hohve side"
No one noticed the slight change of
form in the girls answer. but every one
noticed the agony in her low voice, and a
sign of pity. half admiration n half
respect. stirred the whole room.
The coroner's voice broke in upon this
sentence.
What horse was it o metz
1.-The young thoroughbred called YES
iris. which Mr.. Trenham was fond Of
riding. but which we none of us liked to
see him ride dangerous horse we all
thought it. Miss Sheford was most anx-
ious that evening and expressed to DIR.
We're and myself her fears for MIR. Tren-
ham. especially a. the horse had been
for some weeks doing nothing
'"The grooms taIcn, do not exercise her
III his ahsenc?"
was with his master in London during
that time"
.'rhe man who is to give his evidence,
you mean?"
YES"
.And it was you. Miss Galveston. was
it not. who bore the tidings to Winter
feldy?'
"Yes, it was l."
"You left DIR. We're striving to restore
consciousness to Mr.. TrenhAm!"
YES" 49,