The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-09-13
$50 I've been told"

80 I've been told"
"The person driving this horse wor'
hat. identified rs an old one OF yours
which hat was afterward found a.
your house on a remote peg In sci
dom used closet. II you were not this
person. how can you explain the use
OF your horse. the use OF your clothes
the locking OF the stable door-which
you declare yourself TO have left open
and the hanging up Of the key on its
own nailw
II was a crucial questionable cru.
cial no one knew but our two selves
II be answered at all he must com
promise Carmel. had no fear of his
doing this. but | had great fear OF
what Ella might do IL be let this impli-
cation stand and made no effort TO ex.
onerate himself by denying his pres.
ence In the cutter and consequent re-
turn to the Cumberland home. The
quick side glances here observed cast
In her direction by both father and
mother showed that she had made
some impulsive demonstration visible
to them. II not to others. and. fearful
of the consequences IL did not make
some effort 10 hold her In check. I
kept my eyes In her direction and so
lost Arthur's look and the look of his
counsel as he answered. with just the
word | had expected-short and dog.
ged:
81 cannot explain"
II was nv death warrant ! realized
this even while held Elias eye with
mine and smoothed my countenance to
meet the anguish In hers, In the efsort
to hold her back for few minutes
longer till could quite satisfy myself
that Arthur's case was really lost and
that | must speak or feel myself his
murderer.
The gloom which followed this rec
ignition of his inability, real or fan.
cied. to explain away the most damn
ing feature of the case against him,
taken with his own contradictions and
growing dependency, could not escape
my eye, accustomed as | was to the
habitual expression of most every per-
son there. But it was not yet the i'm
penetrable gloom presaging conviction.
and. directing Elias gaze toward Mr..
Moffat. who seemed but little dis
turbed either by Mr.. Fox's satisfaction
or the prisoners open despair. took
heart of grace and waited for the dis
trict attorneys next move. 1t was q
fatal one. | began to recognize this
very soon. simple as was the subject
he now introduced.
when you went into the kitchen,
Mr. Cumberland, to get the stable
door key, was the gas lit, or did you
have to light it,"
TIT was lit. think"
"Don't you known
at was it, but turned low. could
see well enough"
why. then. didn't you take both
keysT"
Both keysY'
you have said you went down town
by the short cut through your neigh
boris yard. That cut is guarded by Il
door which was locked that night.
You needed the key to that door more
than the one to the stable. Why didn't
you take itY'
IL took it when took the other"
"Are you sure?"
Eyes; they both hung on one nail.
grabbed them both at the same
time"
(Which of the two hung foremostT
81 didn't notice."
"You took both?"
''Yes, took both"
"And went straight out with themp
''Yes, to the stable"
And then where?"
Through the adjoining grounds
''You are sure you went through Mr.
Fulton's grounds at this early hour in
the EVENING"
II am positive"
WAS it not at a later hour, much |
later, a little before IL instead of a
little before 81"
mo, sir. | was on the golf links
then"
But some one drove into the stable"
$50 you say"
Embarrassed the horse, drew up the |
cutter, locked the stable door and, en-
tering the house, hung up the key |
where it belonged"
No answer this time.
Mr.. Cumberland. you admitted in |
your direct examination that you took |
with you out of the clubhouse only |
one bottle of the especial brand you
although you carried up two |
into the kitchen"
NO: said that only had one when |
| got to Cuthbert road. i don't remem-
Der anything about the other"
But you know where the other-or,
rather. remnants of the other-was
foundT
"ln my own stable. taken there by |
my man Zadok Brown. who says he
picked 1t out of one of our waste bar
rels."
L. a.. a g..