Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-01-25

ventures. But II was no less certain
went on this journalistic mentor, tina
this wife, unfaithful as she had prover
herself to be, had really rendered he
husband a signal service in her pres
ent scrape. The letter she had prc
duced, written TO her by Underwooc
the day before his death, in which h,
stated his determination to kill him
self, was, of course, a complete vindi
cation for the man awaiting trial. Hi,
liberation now depended only on how
quickly the ponderous machinery Of
the law could take cognizance of thi.
new and most important evidence.
The new turn Of affairs was nat
urally most distasteful to the police
If there was one thing more than
another which angered Capt. Clinton II
was to take the trouble to build up a
case only to have 1t suddenly demol
ished. He scoffed at the Suicide let.
ter" safely committed to Judge Brew.
ster's custody, and openly branded II
as a forgery concocted by an immoral
woman for the purpose of defeating
the ends of justice. He kept Annie a
prisoner and deied the counsel for
the defense to do their worst. Judge
Brewster, who loved the fray, accent,
ed the challenge. He acted promptly.
He secured Apnie's release on haho1s
corpus proceedings and, his civil suit
against the city having already begun
IN the courts, he suddenly called Capt,
CNQton to the stand and gave him
q grlll1ng which more than atCnod for
any which the police tyrant had pre-
Vlously made hts victims suffer. In
the limeiight Of a sensational trial. in
which public servants were charged
with abusing positions of trust, he
showed Capt. Clinton up as a bully and
a CRATER, a bribe-taker, working band
and glove with dishonest politicians,
not hesitating even to divide loot with
thieves and dive-keepers in his greed
for wealth. He proved him to be a
consummate liar, a man who would
stop at nothing to gain his own ends.
What jury would take the word of
such a man as this? Yet this was the
mar who still insisted that Howard
Jeffrtes was guilty Of the shooting
of Robert Underwood!
But public opinion was too intelli.
gent to be hoodwinked for any length
! OF time by a brutal and ignorant po-
Eceman. There was a clamor for the
prisoners release. The evidence was
such that further delay was ~inexcus-
able. The district attorney, thus
urged, took an active interest in the
case, and after going over the new evil
dence with Judge Brewster, went be-
fore the court and made formal ap-
plication for the dismissal Of the com
plant. A few days later Howard Je1-
fries left the Tombs amid the cheers
OF a crowd assembled outside. At his
side walked his wife, now smiling
through tears of JOY.
1t was a glad homecoming to the
little fiat in Harlem, To Howard, aft
er spending SO long a time in the
narrow prison quarters, it seemed like
paradise, and Annie walked on air, so
delighted was she to have him with
her again. Yet there were still anxi-
cites to cloud their happiness. The
close confinement, with its attendant
worry, had seriously undermined How
ards health. He was pale and atten-
uated, and SO weak that he had sew
eral f~ainting spells. Much alarmed,
Annie summoned DR.. Bernstein, who
administered a tonic. There was moth
ing to cause anxiety, he said. reas-
suringly. 1t was a natural reaction
after what her husband had under
gone. But it was worry as much
as anything else. Howard worried
about his father, with whom he was
only partially reconciled; he worried
about his future, which was as pre-
carious as ever, and most Of all he
worried about his wife. He was not
ignorant of the circumstances which
had brought about his release, and
while liberty was sweet to him, it had
peeN a terrible shock when ne first
heaIo Inat sne was the woman who
Aau VISITED Uhder"ood'S rooms, He
reused 70 DeIleve her sworn evidence,
How was it possible? Why should she
20 10 Ihaef|ooa's rooms knowing he
WIS mere IL was Preposterous. Still
tne small voice rang IN his ears,-par-
till n d9V he asked n0i0th1aDly f0r