Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-21
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By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

Had not this younger sister even
enjoined secrecy upon you in asking
you to harness the horse?"
yes, sir"
"Yet you heard the two together in
this remote building without surprise? p
mo; 1 must have felt surprise, but
didn't stop to analyze my feelings.
Afterward / turned it over In my
mind and tried to make something out
Of the whole thing, but then l was far
out on the links. They were having II
out, 1 thought, in the presence of the
man who had made all this trouble be.
tween them"
"And you left them to the task?"
eyes, sir, but not without a struggle.
l was minded several times to return.
| This I have testified to before"
did this struggle forty
minutesY"
at must have, and more, If 1 entered
the hotel in Cuthbert road at the hour
they state"
Mr.. Fox gave up the game, and Mr.
! NlO1dL 1Cottd L Ndots
There was no testimony offered in
rebuttal, and the court took a recess.
When 1t reassembled l cast another
anxious glance around. Still no Car
mel nor any signs of Sweetwater. !
could understand her absence, but not
his, andit was In a confusion Of feel
ing which was fast getting the upper
hand of me that I turned my atten-
ton to Mr.. Moffat and the plea he was
about to make for his youthful client
1 felt a sudden slow and creeping
chill seize and shake me, as l have
heard people say they experienced
when uttering the common expression,
"Some one Is walking over my grave
when l heard these words, delivered
In the slow and but slightly raised
tones with which Mr.. Moffat invari-
ably began his address:
MAY It please the court and gentle
men of the jury, my learned FRIEND
of the prosecution has shown great dis
erection in that, SO far as appears from
the trend Of his examinations, he Is
| BlduuiDk liz attempt ~ 0ApAolA hNs
many siIences and the often ~forbiddint
attitude of my young client by AM
theory save the obvious one-the nat
ural desire of a brother to hide hls
only remaining sisters connection witt
a tragedy Of whose details he was ig
norant and concerning which he ha(
formed a theory derogatory to her pc
, ton as a young and well bred woman
Fear for a loved one, ven In on
whom you will probably hear descrtb
ed as a dissipated man, of selfish tend
encies and hitherto unbrotherly quail
| tiles Is a great miracle worker. Nc
sacrifice seems impossible which serves
as a guard for one so situated and SC
threatened"
Here MI. Moffat recapitulated those
events, but always from the stand
point Of the defendant, a standpoint
which necessarily brought before the
Jury the many excellent reasons which
his client had for supposing this crime
to have resulted solely from the con
flicting interests represented by thai
furtively passed note and the visit Of
two girls instead Of one to the Whis'
pering Pines. 1t was very convincing
At the proper moment Mr.. Moffat said
Gentlemen of the jury, you have
seen the point after point of the pros
ecution's case demolished before youl
eyes by testimony which no one has
had the temerity to attempt to con
A--x.z xrLot a.. Ize+9 NJ ENav will
tell you-three strong and unassail
| able facts: The ring found In the
murdered woman's casket, the rem
nants of the telltale bottle discovered
In the Cumberland stable and the op
p~ortunity for crime given by the &C
knowledged presence of the defendani
on or near the scene Of death.
but are these points so vital as they
seem? Let US consider them and see
My client has denied that he dropped
anything into his sisters casket, mucl
less the ring missing from that sister
finger. Dare you, then. convict on thi!
point when, according to count, tel
other persons were seen to drop flow
ers into this very place, any one o.
which might have carried this objec
with 1t?
"And the bit of broken bottle fount
in or near the defendants own stable
Is he to be convicted on the similarity
1t offers to the one known to have
come from the clubhouse wine vault
while a reasonable doubt remains o.
his having been the hand which car
ried it there? No. Where there Is
reasonable doubt no high minded jury
will convict, and l claim that my ellen
has made 1t plain that there is such {
reasonable doubt.
my distinguished opponent woult
have you believe that the defendan
did not fly at the moment declared
but that he waited to fulfill the fou
deed, which is the only serious matter
in dispute In his so nearly destroyed
case. / hear as though he were nov
speaking the attack which he will
make upon my client when he come:
| to review this matter with you. LIE
me see IL l cannot make you heaI
those words too" And, with a daring
smile at his discounted adversary
Alonzo Motst launched forth into the