The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-13

having been able to arrange for the exclusive publication of this won- drously fascinating tale in this vicin- ity. If you have not already start ed'' the story do so today. The pre- ceeding chapter was taken up largely with in the introduction of the char acters. Eds Farmer.)
 (Continued From Saturday.
 Chapter VIII.
 The law Is terrible in it's earnest ness. However insignificant tts var ious human Instruments may be. there is a compelling majesty about the spirit of the law itself when once that spirit is invoked. The detached juryman, unlettered, uninformed. sim- pie and primitive in his mental pro- cesses, less than urimportant in his social usefulness or position, assoctat- ed with eleven of his kind, forms Q body ominous and imposing. when en- dowed with the legal and awe-tnspir- ing function of verdict.
 The criminal courtroom In Louis- vile compares favorably In almost every respect with the chambers of
 
 ly ample. adequately equipped. well Few oourt-rooms In however. surpass 1t in cheer lessness. Facing the judges dais, stx bleak windows and transom Hook upon the stucco wall of the old court house: to the right, four equally cheeriess windows look on to the to the left. two still more cheerless windows look upon an open court of dingy and painted brick; on the wall behind the judge, and to either side of him, similar. windows look out up- on the manufacturing establishments that flank this new chamber in the annex. Dingy canvases in dingter gilt frames bear the almost Atencilled faces of uncertain politicians.
 : The floor space of the room ia divided by iron railings into three OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES end reserved for white spectators, one end for negroes. while the trial itself, with it's actors composed of prisoner. contending counsel, judge. jurymen, and distin- division. Behind the jurymen. whose backs are to the pen of the white spectators, a second rail some four feet from that of the enclosure eetab- fishes a moral vacuum through which no sinister material influence may touch one of the insulated twelve.
 The trial of the case of The Peo- pie vs.l Whipple was a cause celebre. The youth of the prisoner and his re- spectable connections. his education. the unprovoked character of his crime as the public understood it; the almost deliberate killing of a friend who had only ridiculed him, and quite playfully at that, concerning his lack of skill at billiards: the prom s~o5 Ia k}Aro of ho interior a notorious gambling house, always a place of curiosity to the newspaper reader, together with other factors. combined to stimulate an interest in the proceedings.
 After the first day or two the dis were with him in the courtroom, and especially the reported beauty of his sweetheart, increased the general wish to be present
 Nor was there anything deterring in the reputation of counsel. The victim had been the son of one of Missouri's wealthiest packers. Ac- tude of this man toward the accused was one of great vengefulness. His money had been freely offered to as- sist the attorneys for the State in re- taining associate counsel; 1t had also been used to secure the services of of national reputation who, it was understood, would testify in re- buttal of certain other eminent spe- cialists secured by the defence.
 Although the case for the people was ostensibly in the hands of tke attorney, it's directing genius was that officers assistant, MT. Hardmuth.
 The associated counsel for the de- fence were misied by the prosecu- character of the. jurymen during their selection. These legal gentlemen even began to hope that some covert leni- ency was to be indulged in by. the of the State.
 It was Brookfeld who, sitting with the family during thosestwo or three days, and occasionally defence, had discovered what ulti- mately proved to be the guiding in- tention in the prosecution's selection of the jury.
 This discovery may have been due to Brookfield's keen knowledge of that of the counsel; it may have been due to an especial knowledge of the character of Hardmuth: or 1t may have been due, as Brookfleld himself began to suspect, to some subtle telo- pathic relation between the prosecu- tor and himself. But whatever the means of the discovery, the fact de- veloped that Hardmuth, by persist ency of intention and by the failure of an opposing preparation on the part of the defence, had secured a jury singularly dull and noticeably phlegmatic-a jury to whom an ap- peal upon any ground of alleged ner- vous excitability would be made in vain. The appreciation of this fact, when Brookfield had called 1t to their attention, caused more consternation in the ranks of the defence's counsel than any other element in the case. Eliminate the consideration due to an inherited nervous idiosyncrasy, and the defence was left without a single plea.
 The outline of the States case re- moved all doubt as to their method. to the calm, judicial, re- gretful utterances of the States at- the twelve men in the double row of tilting swivel-chairs were call ed together to hear the story of a deliberate and spiteful killing-a kill ing of one friend by another. who had been frequently . beneficiary of the man he had made his victim, who had been frequently tho antagonist of that man in games of chance, for which 1mes tte twQi "a e1t met