Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-21

ape do NC udu every reason 70 De
heve, the other. Cu1osity-or is It
some nobler feeling7-causes him tn
draw nearer and nearer to the room IN
which they have AIKEN up their stand
he can hear their words now, and
what are the words he hears1 Words
that would thrill the most imsarvious
heart, call for the interference Of the
most Indifferent. But he Is made of
ice, welded together with steel. He
sees for no place save M from which
he can watch and see-namely, the
dark dancing hall-would satisfy any
man OF such gigantic curiosity Ade-
laide fall at Carmels feet In recogni-
ton Of the great j crifce she has
made for her. But ne does not move;
he falls at 40 ones feet; he recognizes
no nobility, responds to no higher ap-
peal. Stony and unmoved, he crouches
there and watches and watches, still
curious or still feeding his hate on
the sunerings Of the elder, the for
bearance Of the younger.
"And on what does he look? You
have already heard, but consider It.
Adelaide, ~despairing Of happiness, de-
cides On death for herself or sister.
Both loving n man, one of the two
must give way to the other. Carmel
has done her part; she must now DO
hers. She has brought poison; she
has brought glasses-three glasses for
three persons. but only two are on the
scene, and so she fills but two. One
has only cordial in #, but the other is,
as she believes, deadly. Carmel is to
have her choice. But who believes
that Adelaide would eve have let her
drink the poisoned glass7
~And this man looks on as the two
faces confront each other-one white
with the overthrow Of every earthly
hope, the other under the stress of suf-
fering and a fascination Of horror suf1-
Client to have laid her dead without
poison at the other ones feet. This is
what he sees-a brother-and he makes
no move, then or afterward, when, the
die cast, Adelaide succumbs to her
fear and falls into a seemingly dying
state on the couch.
Does he go now7 Is his hate or his
cupidity satisfied No. He remains and
listens to the tender interchange Of
final words and all the late precau-
tons Of the elder to guard the younger
woman's good name. Still he is not
softened, and when, the critical mo-
ment passed, Carmel rises and totters
about the room In her endeavor to full
I'LL the tasks enjoined upon her by her
sister he gloats over a death which will
give him independence and gluts him
self with every evil thought which
could blind him to the pitiful aspects
Of a tragedy such as few men in this
world could see unmoved. A brotherl
But this Is not the worst. The aw-
full cup of human greed and hatred is
but filed to the brim. 1t has not yet
overlooked. Carmel leaves the room.
! She has a telephone message to de-
liver. She may be gone a minute; she
, may be gone many. Little does he
care which. He must see the dead,
look down on the woman who has
been Ike a mother to him and see If
her influence Ia forever removed, If his
wealth is his and his independence for
ever assured.
Safe in the darkness of the gloomy
~recesses Of the dancing hall, he steals
slowly forward. Drawn as by a mag
net, he enters the room Of seeming
death, draws up to the pillow laden
couch, pulls of first one cushion and
&hoD onothar I'll Fooa and bonds ara
bare and
"Ah, there's a movement Death
has not, then, done its work. She lives
the hated one lives! And he is no
longer rich, no longer Independent.
With a clutch he seizes her at
the feeble seat Of life, and as
the breath ceases and her whole
body becomes again inert he stoops
to pull off the ring, which can have no
especial value or meaning for him, and
then, repiling the cushions over her,
creeps forth again, takes up the bot
ties and disappears from the house.
Gentlemen of the jury, this is what
my opponent would have you believe.
! This will be his explanation Of this
extraordinary murder. But when his
eloquence NETS your ears, when you
hear this arraIgnment and the en-
phasis he will place upon the few
points remaining TO his broken case,
then ask yourself If you see such a
monster In the prisoner now confront
ing you from the bar. l do not believe
IF 7 do nor believe that Such q mon
ster lives.
But you say some one entered that
oom-som one stilled the futter1ng
life still remaining in that feeble
breast. Some one may have, but that
some one was not my client, and 1t is
his guilt or innocence we are consid-
ering now, and it is his life and free
dom for which you are responsible.
No brother did that deed. No witness
of the scene which hallowed this trag-
edy eve lifted hand against the faint
ing Adelaide or choked back a life
which kindly fate had spared,
GO further for the guilty perpetra-
tor Of this most inhuman act; he
stands not in the dock. Guilt shows
no such relief as you see in him today.
Guilt would remember that his sisters
testimony, under the cross examina-
ton of the peoples prosecutor. left the
charge OF murder still hanging over
the defendants head. But the broth
er has forgotten this. His restored
confidence in one who now represents