Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-12-02
CHAPTER XIV.

crush in the courtroom was fearful and
jury was polled before noon.
The crux of the examination came al
last. They sent for Mrs. Harcourt and
brought her in, forcing her to keep her
veil down till she was directly in front
of the prisoner. Then her face was
barred.
Hackleye fell forward as If 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 a tension for too long. With
Hackleye's return to self control, COM
parative calm was restored. Mrs. Har-
court approached him very gently, and
mistaken? Are you not mistaken 2"
she asked. Look again. 1 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.
i 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, Pc
culiarly. II 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 divulged 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
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.
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?"
T
leye.
"Why?"
We'll, he called upon me at my lodg-
ings and said that he knew where Ce-
risse was, and that IL 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 a skel-
eton key. but he is an artifcer of I'M
common Skill so 1 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 mYowife dead.
1t was evident, too. that She had not
occupied the room alone"
Gould Francis Wayne have leased
this house in your manner" asked the
Court.
Il hardly think So" replied Ham
ley. In fact, l am positive he did
not"
do you think he killed his sister ?''
asked the Court again.
Il am positive he did not"
What reason had he for surrepti-
tiously following his sister. Was he
afraid you would kill her?"
II do not know as to that. 1 think
his object was to try and persuade her
to return home to her children"
Mrs. DR.. Fothergill then testified.
THE morning after l had examined
Mrs. Harcourt at the hospital and
noted what seemed to me to be indica-
tions of this particular form of loco
poisoning, l obtained permission to
visit the room formerly occupied by
Mrs. Wayne. 1t was practically un-
touched, and a glass stood on the wash
L BlNlnR
the police due notification that l had
done so. and when at home rinsed it
thoroughly with water and a slight
percentage of alcohol, as his latter
solvent has a marked affinity for loco
in any form. The analysis of this solu-
ton showed it to be highly charged
with powdered loco root. On mere wom-
ans intuition and my own initiative, ]
sought further. Undoubtedly the loco
root was dropped into the glass of
water and later Mrs. Wayne either wit
tingly or unwittingly drank it."
will you tell the court your diagno-
sis of the ailment of Mrs. Harcourt. +"
A bad case of poisoning from the
male loco blossoms. Her present state
of health is attributable only to the
rigorous treatment OF morphine and
female loco blossoms which she was
subjected. The powders in evidence
were dispensed to her daily by her
husband. so she claims, in fact employ
es at the hotel saw him give them to
her more than once. They are the