Arizona republican., 1911-07-22
BY HORACE HAzELTINE.
Copyright. 1910, by the Pearson Pub
fishing Co.

! Miss Wynne? Can Warren depend on
your"
The emphasis of tears was in her
voice as she promised.
Hollis called off his appointment
with old Joe Parrish by telephone;
and. at six O'Clock, was on a train
speeding towards Middletown But
the next morning he was back in New
York again, to put in another hard
days work on the case. The third
day. it was the same; and so on for
the rest of the week So that when,
finally, the morning appointed for the
coroners inquest arrived, he was well
prepared to give battle for his friends
liberty. Single-handed, refusing to
intrust even the smallest detail to
others, he had gathered his facts.
As probably most persons know, a
coroner's inquest is very different from
court trial The coroner is inter
ested, solely, in fixing the cause OF
death. The inculpation Of the party
or parties responsible therefor is
merely incidental. Testimony in de-
Tense is not permissible. But counsel
for the accused is permitted TO cross
examine witnesses. And Kent HOl-
lis's discrimination of Andrew Clay,
the colored elevator boy. who was the
chief witness, was the feature of the
investigation. How profitably the
young lawyer had worked, this cross
examination demonstrated. For long
before il ended Andrew was in a state
of trembling terror, the imputation,
Unexpectedly developed, being that the
boy might himself be the murderer,
since he was known to have purchased,
only ten days previously, a revolver
of the same caliber as the bullet taken
from the body OF the murdered woman.
Hollis brought out further not only
that the boys recollection Of the per
son he claimed to have taken to LEis3
Thornton's apartment that evening
was woefully lacking in clarity, but
that his sight was utterly unreliable,
he having but that morning broken
his spectacles. without which he could
not see with distinctness objects a foot
distant.
Then, as matter of fact, Andrew"
Hollis concluded, you really couldn't
swear, positively, whether the gentle
man was Mr.. Stanton or myself, seeing
that we are of about the same height
and build, and that we do not speak
unlike?"
mo, subj" the boy answered quickly.
81 jes' couldn't swan TO- a fac. sub,
which Of you two ge'mmen it was"
Whereat the auditors, largely Thes-
plans and friends of the accused actor,
broke into a chorus of laughter, which
prevailed in spite of the police cries
for order and the loud rapping of the
coroner's gavel. 1t was this answer,
emphasized and impressed by the dem
onstration which followed 1t, that
freed Warren Stanton.
AS for Miss Beryl Wynne, she was
not even called. On the day following
her interview with Hollis, she had
sought Inspector Fahy and convinc-
ingly retracted her brief statement
made on the night of the murder. II
was mistaken" she told him, "and the
facts prove it. Jack Leroy was the
only one who understudied that part.
He played it yesterday afternoon and
last night, and he is no more like War
rem Stanton than soda water is like
champagne"
When the verdict was rendered the
court room once more became a babel
in which congratulations for the ex-
onerated actor and his counsel were
mingled with denunciation of the po-
lice, the coroner and the District At
torney's Office. In the midst of this,
Hollis and Stanton stood facing each
other with hands grippingly locked.
They were, as the lawyer had postu-
lated, of much the same physique, but
there was a wide difference in both
the attitude and expression of the two
men. Hollis's triumph glowed in his
eyes and shone in his pride of bear
ing; but Stanton was still picture of
dejection-pale as ivory and grim as a
hangman.
A score or more pressed forward to
shake his hand and tell him how glad
they were, and how they knew he
should never have been there at all;
and among these old Joe Parrish, with
tears In his small, red-lidded eyes,
was the first.
Briscoe, his manager, who came Sec
ond, suggested little luncheon party
and an announcement in the afternoon
papers that Stanton would appear
again, as usual, In his wonderful i'm
PRESERVATION of Herrick at the evening
performance. But to both of these
proposals Stanton dissented.
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