The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-07

hush settled upon the room.
 Was the visit you made to the wine vault on the evening of the 2d of De cember the first one you had ever paid there?' asked MT Fox.
 ''No; I had been there once before. But I always paid for my depreda- tions," he added proudly.
 "Then you knew the way?"
 Perfectly"
 "And the lock?'
 Sufficiently we'll to open it without difficulty
 "How long do you think you were ill entering the house and procuring these bottles?"
 "I cannot say. I have no means Of knowing. I never thought of looking at my watch
 "But you know when you left the clubhouse to go back?"
 "Only by this-it had not yet begun to snow. I'm told that the first flakes fell that night at ten minutes to II. was on the golf links when this hap pened."
 MT. Fox asked: whereabouts on the golf linkse They extend for some distance, you remember"
 '"They are 600 yards across from first tee to the third hole, which is the nearest one tosCuthbert road,' Arthur particularized 'I was-no, can't tell you just where was at that moment. 1t was good way from the house. The snow came on very fiercely. For little while could not see my way"
 "How not see your way?"
 'The snow flew into my eyes," aa
 Crossing the links?'' v
 "Yes, sir; crossing the links"
 "But the storm came from the west. It should have beaten against your back"
 Back or front, it bothered me. l could not get on al fast as I wished"
 MT. Fox cast Cook at the jury. Did they remember the testimony of the landlord that Mr. .Cumberland's coat was as thickly plastered with snow on the front as it 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 often?"
 "Yes; play golf there all summer"
 "I'm not alluding to the times when you play. I mean to ask whether or not you had ever before crossed them directly to Cuthbert road?" 'Yes, had" ''In a storm?' ''No, not in a 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"
 ':How 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. I was on time"
 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 Moffat 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 good walker. Now, as the storm that night had been at his back and he was in hurry to reach his destination it 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 II 80. "Did you stop in the midst of the storm to take drink?' asked the dis trict attorney. As the testimony of the landlord in Cuthbert road had been explicit as l to the fact of his having himself un- corked the bottle which the prisoner had brought into the hotel Arthur | could not plead yes. He must say no, and he did "I drank nothing. I was too busy l thinking. I was so busy thinking I wandered all over those inks.''
 ''In the blinding snow?' "Yes, in the snow. What did I care l for the snow? I did not understand my sister being in the clubhouse. did not like it. I was tempted at times | to go back And why didn't you?'' Because was more of brute than brother; because Cuthbert road drew me in spite of myself; because He | stopped with the first hint of emotion we had seen in him since the morn | ing "I did not know what was going | on there or should have gone back" | he flashed out, with a defiant look at | his counsel "When you heard your sisters voice | in the clubhouse how did you think | she had got into the building?'
 By means of the keys Ranelagh 1 had left at the house." | When, instead of taking the whole bunch, you took the one key you want l ed from the ring did you do so with | any idea she might want to make use l of the rest?' 1 f"No; never thought of it. I never
 thought of her at all."
 "You took your one key and let the rest lie?'
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