The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-08-08
deed might be done.
Given the requisite weapon

course"
After q few more courteous questions
OF a technical kind, the first witness
was Enthusiastically momentarily, for
he would be required again-when the
green baize would be lifted from the
hidden something which lay there ready
70 hand, and the medical man be asked
10 pronounce finally whether indeed the
dagger stick was the requisite weapon
Tor the deed which had been SO easy OF
accomplishment.
The chauffeur who had driven the
tax1cab was h next witness called, A
man. in dark blue Melton
coaI ana peaked cap. he came forward
W1lh that swinging gait which betrayed
the ex-coachman.
he gave his evidence well and to the
point. he had been hailed on the night
q question by two gentlemen In eve
n1ng dress. 1t was in Shaftesbury ave.
U just opposite the Lyric theater,
ana a little while after he had heard 81
Martln's church clock strike 8 o'clock
me log was sc Dense" he added, you
eyes," 800
He had just put down at the Apollo
ana q crossed over to the left, goina
down toward Piccadilly, when the tive
sWeils hailed him from the curb. Hs
couldn't rightly see them, because 81
the fog, but he noticed that both wore
nigh hats and the collars of their over.
coats We're turned UP to their ears. Hs
naroly saw their faces. but he noticed
stick. ~
Or It might ave been a umbrella.
ne q after q moments hesitation
4 couldn't rightly say" va
1ou must have seen the faces 81
our fares,' argued the .i
you saw that n Of them carried 6
Walklng stick-or IN umbrella. Yor
fnuse ave seen something of theil
Aacgs, ne reiterated more emphatically
didn't" retorted the man gruffly
was you out In that there fog. sir;
II YOU was, you'd know 'ow you couldn'1
see your and before your eyes.
saw the point Of the stick-or the nm.
orella, l couldn't rightly say witch
! because one of them gents waved
IT at me when e was 'ailing me-that,.
oW ! seed the point"
ine coroner allowed the question O.
to drop: clearly nothinf
Wouid be got out OF the man. Tht
gentlemen, he declared, entered tn,
GAP. and then one of them gave direc.
Ihouns 70 MIN, putting his head out O
the right hand window.
L didn't turn to look at i'm he sail
pluntly. Il could ear is voice plair
why should l take a lool
at I'm? 'Ow did I know there wa,
a goin' to be murder done in nv cali
ana me wanted to say what the muir.
derer looked like r"
He loked round the room defiantlv
as II expecting applause for this dis,
play OIL sound common sense, Oppose
TO the coroner's tiresome officiaiism.
AND What directions asked the lat.
ter did the gentleman give your"
I go along Piccadilly," replied tn,
witness, till e told me to stop"
And when did he tell you to stop /?
BY the ratings of Green park, ius
by .4de Park corner. One of 'em put.
IS cad out Of the window and calls t.
me to pull up" :
Which O did
Which l did. and one of 'em gets GU
and standin' on the curb e leans bacl
to the interior of the cab and SAYS
'S-long-see o tomorrow and the,
e says to me: No. / Cromwell Road,
n disappears in the fog"
Surely you saw him them"
No. The fog was like pea SOU
there, though 1t looked clearer OF
knightshridge away. And e got GU
LETT side, Of course. 1 was up on m
box right and side--a long way from
i'm. | could see a ma %standin' there
but not lis face. is at was pulle,
down right over is eyes. and is Goa
collar up to is ears"
I1au NC Ills * umbrella
| with him them"
Yes. With is 'ands in is pockets
and the tip pointing upward, like
soldiers bayonet."
You saw and not his face?" ono,
more insisted the coroner, making ,
final effort to draw some more definit,
statement out Of the man. 1t woulc
help justice SO much If only his wit,
ness were less obstinate! No on,
would believe that he really saw moth
twice spoken to him. He may no
have seer it clearly, no the upper par
Of the face, perhaps, but surely he say
the mouth that had actually framed
the words.
But the chauffeur was obstinate. H,
was not going to swear away the lif,
of a man whom he had not right,
seen, only through a fog as thick a
pea soup; this was the fortress benin,
which after awhile he ~entrenched lin
self.
In vain did the coroner pleased a
having gained his slight advantage
try to draw him further, explaining t,
him with the queit patience of a mai
moved by official ambition that ia
from jeopardizing the life of any mar
he might be saving that of an innocen
one, falsely accused through circum
stantial evidence. After a very lon,
while only, and when the corner ha'
almost given up arguing and cross
examining, he admitted hat he di,
think that the gentleman who directed
him to No. l Cromwell Road had
mustache.