The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-08
CHAPTER XIV.

l There was no delay in the trial. Jus
tice had waited sufficiently long and
demanded an airing Immediately. The
crush in the courtroom was fearful and
jury was polled before noon.
The crux of the examination came at
i last. They sent for Mrs Harcourt and
brought her in, forcing her to keep her
i veil down till she was directly in front
of the prisoner. Then her face was
barred
Hackleye fell forward as ii shot to
the heart. 'Cerisse!" he exclaimed.
/ .'Cerisse. my wife, and alive!"
The courtroom rang with riot Vain
ly did the judicial gavel rap for order.
and the bailiffs seek to eject the most
unruly. The public nerve had been at
| too high tension for too long. With
Hackleye's return to self -contrpl, COM
parative calm was restored. Mrs. Har-
court approached him very gently. and
spoke for the first time. Are you not
mistaken? Are you not mistaken ?''s
she asked. Look again. i never saw
your wife when she was alive. but
believe we are very like each other"
At the sound of her voice, Hackleye
was himself again.
mo, you're not the same" he assent
ed. But it is strange, miraculous. Who
| are your"
Il am the woman who married Har-
old Harcourt," she replied, rather sadly,
| and at a sign from the judge left the
room.
They brought Harcourt in next and
asked Hackleye if he knew him.
Il never saw him before" replied the
defendant. who is he?,
Tell him." said the judge.
Harcourt. cringing and fearful.
stammered out his name. Hackleye
gripped the witness chair hard You'd
better go away from me-" he said, PEE
culiarly. Il have not committed MUIR
der yet, for my children's sake. but
| might"
| THAT is all, your honor" said the
prosecution, I'VE are through with the
witness"
| Mrs. Harcourt took the stand. Her
testimony divuiged nothing new. Mark
S. Flanders, who leased the house to
the supposed Hamley Hackleye, assert
ed he had never seen his tenant, that
the whole operation had been by let
j ter, accompanied by New York ex-
change to cover the rent for three
months, and that the lease when sign
ed in duplicated by "Hamley Hack
leye" had never been seen by him,
Flanders. till after his return from Eu-
rope.
i Hackleye was recalled to the stand.
/ You say that Francis Wayne, broth
er of the murdered woman. whose
whereabouts you declare you do not
know. had visited the room previously
to the morning of her death?''
/ $50 understood" answered Hack
leye.
"Why?"
| well. he called upon me at my lodg-
| ings and said that he knew where Ce-
risse was, and that if wished to see
her he would show me how to get to
| her. On numerous other occasions /
had met up with her. but she always
declined to see me. Francis took me
over to the street known as Briarsweet
place. He had a latchkey to the front
door-at No. "a. think it was skel-
eton key. but he is an artificer Of UNI
common skill. SO l do not know. He
| let me in. There seemed to be no one
at home. in the Flanders house. We
went into the library. and he lifted
down brass plaque from the wall. We
had great difficulty in crawling through
the hole. as the panel stuck. When we
got in there we found my wife dead
/ 1t was evident, too. that she had not
occupied the room alone.
Gould Francis Wayne have leased
this house in your name?' asked the
Court.
ar ~: til
i ley. I'm fact / am positive he did
not,
do you think he killed his sister,
asked the Court again. 8
Il am positive he did not
What reason had he for surrepti-
Itiously following his sister. Was he
afraid you would kill her e.
Il do not know as TO that. I think
his object was to try and persuade her
to return home to her children"
Mrs Dr. FothergiIl then testified.
1.-THE morning after had examined
| Mrs Harcourt at the hospital and
noted what seemed to me to be indica-
lions OF this particular form Of loco
poisoning. obtained permission to.
4 visit the room formerly occupied by:
Mrs Wayne. It was practically UNI
touched, and q glass stood on the wash,
stand. I took it away with me, giving
the police due notification that had.
done so. and when at home rinsed It
Ithorouxhly with water and = uli6ht
percentaee or alcohol, az his latter
q solvent has marked aflinity for loco
i'm any form. Tho analysis OF this soln-
ton showed it 10 Be highly charged
| with powdered loco root. On mere wom-