The Calumet news., 1912-02-19

"rhe word 'Elwood'"
"ln which voiceY .Ax
"ln that OF my sister Adelaide" n
"And you hedY
Immediately"
'Leaving your two sisters alone Ia
this cold and out OF the way houseT
II did not think they were alone"
"WhO did you think was with themr
81 have already mentioned the name"
yet you left themT
"Yes. nave already explained that.
vas engaged In a mean act. I was
ashamed 10 be caught ut It by Ade-
aide. | preferred flight had no pre-
monltlon OF tragedy-any such tragedy
as afterward occurred. understood
neither Of my sisters. and my thoughts
We're only for myself"
Had not this younger sister even
enjoined secrecy upon you in asking
you 10 harness the horse|
'Yes. sir"
"Yet you heard the two together In
his remote building without surprisei'
NO; must have felt surprise. but T
didp't stop to analyze my feelings.
| Afterward | turned II over In my
mind and tried 10 make something OUT
Of the whole thing. but then | was fac
out ON the links. They were having ID
out ! thought. In the presence of tbs
man who had made all this trouble be-
tween them"
And you left them 10 the taskr
"Yes, sir. but not without a struggle.
was minded several times TO return.
| This | have testified TO before"
did this struggle consume forty
minutes?"
lit must have. and more. II entered
the hotel in Cuthbert road at the hour
they state"
Mr.. Fox gave up the game. and Mr..
Moffat rested his case.
There was no testimony offered In
rebuttal. and the court took a recess
When II reassembed 1 cast another
anxious glance around Still no Car
mel nor any signs OF Sweetwater.
could understand her absence. bur not
his. and IL was in a confusion or feel
ing which was fast getting the upper
hand of me that [ turned my atten-
ton TO Mr.. Moffat ana the plea be was
about to make for his youthful client
felt sudden slow and creeping
chill seize and shake me. as l have
heard people say they experienced
when uttering the common expression.
"Some one is waking over my grave"
when | heard these words. delivered
in the slow and but slightly raised
tones with which Mr.. MOaat invari-
ably began hts address:
MAY il please the court and gentle
men OF the jury. my learned friend
OF the prosecution has shown great dis
cretion In that. 50 far as appears from
the trend OF his examinations. he Is
planning no attempt to explain the
many silences and the often forbidding
attitude OF my young client by any
theory save the obvious one-the nat
ural desire OF a brother to hide his
only remaining sisters connection with
q tragedy OF whose details be was ig-
norant and concerning which he had
formed a theory derogatory TO her po-
ton as young and well bred woman.
Pear for a loved one, even IN one
ed as Il dissipated man. OF selfish tend
encies and hitherto unbrotherly qual.
tiles is great miracle worker. No
sacrifice seems impossible which serves
as guard for one so situated and SO
threatened"
Here Mr. Moffat recapitulated those
events. but always from the stand
point of the defendant. a standpoint
which necessarily brought before the
jury the many excellent reasons which
his client had for supposing this crime
to have resulted solely from the con-
iicting interests represented by that
furtiyely passed note ana the visit OF
two girls instead OF one to the Whis-
pering Pines. Ii was very convincing.
At the proper moment Mr.. Motfat said:
Gentlemen of the jury. you have
seen the point after point of the pros
ecutions case demolished before your
eyes by testimony which no one has
had the temerity to attempt to con-
trovert. What is left? MIR. Fox win
tell you-three strong and unassail-
able facts The ring found In the
murdered woman's casket. the rem
nants OF the telltale bottle discovered
in the Cumberland stable and the op-
portunity for crime given by the ac-
knowledged presence of the defendant
on or near the scene OF death.
but are these points so vital as they
seem? Let us consider them and see.
My client has denied that be dropped
anything into his sisters casket. much
less the ring missing from that sisters
finger. Dare you, then. convict on this
point when. according TO count, ten
other persons were seen TO drop fow-
ers into this very place. any one Of
which might have carried this object
with il?
And the bit of broken bottle found
in or near the defendants own stablel
Is he 10 be convicted on the similarity
1t offers to the one known TO have
come from the clubhouse wine vault.
while reasonable doubt remains OF
his having been the hand which car
ried il thereg No. Where there Is a
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