Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-10


AS he took the witness chair and
prepared to meet the cross examina-
ton Of the district attorney a solemn
hush settled upon the room.
WAS the visit you made to the wine
vault on the evening of the I'd of De
cember the first n you had ever paid
there?" asked Mr.. Fox.
mo: 1 had been there once before.
But I always paid for my depreda-
TONS" he added proudly.
"Then you knew the way?"
Perfectly"
"And the lock?"
Sufficiently well to open it without
difficulty"
How long do you think you were in
entering the house and procuring these
bottles?"
81 cannot say. I have no means Of
knowing. I eve thought Of looking
at my watch
but you know when you left the
clubhouse to go back2'
"Only by this-it had not yet begun
to snow. I'm told that the first fakes
fell hat night at ten minutes to IL. 1
pened."
Mr.. Fox asked: whereabouts on
the golf links7 They extend for some
distance, you remember"
'4They are 600 yards across from first
tee to the third hole, which is the
nearest one to Cuthbert road" Arthur
partfcuIar1zed. 81 was-ro, I can't tell
| you Just where I WIS at that moment.
It was a good way from the house.
Tn. snow came on very fiercely. Fo.
a little while l could not see my way"
How not see your way"
1.-THE TO- few into my eyes"
Crossing the links?" ~
Eyes, sir; crossing the links"
HBut the storm anne from the west.
1t should have beaten against your
back"
Back or front, it bothered me. I
could not get on as fast as 1 wished"
Mr.. Fox cast a look at the jury. Did
they remember the testimony of the
landlord that Mr.. Cumberland's coat
was as thickly pIastered with on
the front as 1t had been on the back?
He seemed to gather that they did, for
he went on at once to say:
"You are accustomed to the links?
You have crossed them oftenT
Eyes; I play golf there all summer"
I'm not abiding to the times when
you play. I mean to ask whether or
not you had ever before crossed them
directly to Cuthbert road?"
Eyes, \ had"
"In a storm?'
No, mo- In q storm"
"How long did it take you that time
to reach Cuthbert road from the Whis-
pering Pines"
Mr.. Moffat bounded to his feet, but
the prisoner had answered before he
could speak.
"Just fifteen minutes"
GLOW came you to know the time so
exactly?"
Because that day | did look at my
watch. I had an engagement in the
lower town and had only twenty min
utes in which to keep it. 1 was on
time
Honest at the core. This boy was
growing rapidly In my favor. But this
frank but unwise answer was not
pleasing to his counsel, who would
have advised. no doubt, a more gen
eral and less precise reply. However.
1t had been made, and Mofat was not
a man to cry over spilled milk. He did
not even vince when the district at
torney proceeded to elicit from the
prisoner that he was a good walker,
Now, as the storm that night had been
at his back and he was In a hurry to
reach his destination 1t was evidently
incumbent upon him to explain how
he had managed to use up the inter
vening time of forty minutes before
entering the hotel at 11:30.
"Did you stop in the midst of the
storm to take a drinkT' asked the dis
trict attorney.
As the testimony Of the landlord In
Cuthbert road had been explicit as
to the fact of his having bimseh IN
Sorked the bottle which the prisoner