The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-01-28

. Il: Yes, yes, sir. How could ! bel
2 brother; | had lett him dying | va
naturally anxious, naturally saw my ow
: danger. and read them, OF course
Then you know he was found with
large cross on his breast, cross whic
was once on the wall How came it to b
torn down Who put it on his bosom !:
II, sir. | am not a Catholic but Fell
was, and seeing him dying without abso
luton. without extreme JUNCTION. | though
of the holy cross, and tore down the onl
one | saw, and placed it in his arms"
a pious act. Did he recognize IT."
Il cannot say had my fainting wifi
to look after. She occupied all m,
thoughts"
II see and you carried her out ant
Were so absorbed in caring for her you die
not observe Mr.. Adams's valet"
! He's innocent, sir. Whatever people
may think, he had nothing to do with thi,
! You did not observe him, | say. stand
| ing in the doorway and watching youy'
Now the inspector knew that Barlow
had not been standing there, but at the
| loophole above: but the opportunity for
lentrapping the witness was too good to
lose
Mr.. Adams was caught in the trap, or
so one might Judge from the beads of
perspiration which at that moment
showed themselves on his pale forehead.
But he struggled to maintain the stand he
had taken, crying hotly:
But that man is crazy, and deaf-and
dumb besides! or SO the papers, give out.
Surely his testimony is valueless. You
I'VE confront you with no one. We
only asked you a question. You did not
observe the valet, them"
"Or understand the mystery of the col
ored lights
NO, sir
"Or of the plate of steel and the other
contrvances with which your brother en-
lvened his sotude?'
II do not follow you, sir" But there
was change in his tone.
II see," said the inspector, that the
which have disturbed us and
made necessary this long delay in the col
lection of testimony have not entered into
into the crime as described by you. Now
this is possible; but there is still a cir
,umstance requiring explanation little
circumstance, which is, nevertheless, one
If Importance, since your wife mentioned |
t to you as soon as she became conscious. |
allude to the half dozen or more words |
which were written by your brother I'M
nediately preceding his death. The pa
,er on which they were written has been
ound, and that it was a factor in your
luarrel is evident since she regretted that /
t had been left behind you. and he
10 YOU know where we found this paper?"
The eyes which young Adams raised at
his interrogatory had no intelligence in
hem. The sight of this morsel of paper
eemed to have deprived him in an instant
{ all the faculties with which he had been
arriving on this unequal struggle. He
hook his head, tried to reach out his
and but failed to grasp the scrap OF
aper which the inspector held out. Then
e burst into loud cry:
Enough. | cannot hold out, with no
Their support than wicked lie. | killed
" brother for reasons good as any man t
YER had for killing another. But | shall b
OF impart them. l would rather be tried n
n murder and hanged n
It was a complete breakdown, pitiful t
ON its contrast with the mans hercul $
in physique and fine, if contracted fea- Y
Tres. If the end, it was a sad end, and h
r. Gryce, whose forehead had taken on h
deep line between the eyebrows. slowly p
Sc and took his stand by the young CT
an. who looked ready to fall. The in n
ector. on the contrary, did not move. t.
e had begun tattoo with his fingers on
e table, and seemed bound to beat it
t. when another sudden cry broke from
e young mans lips:
what is that" he demanded, with his