The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-08-08
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After O few more courteous Questions
OF a technical kind, the first witness
was dismissed-only momentartly. for
he would be required again-when the
green baize would be lifted from the
hidden something which lay there ready
to hand, and the medical mar be asked
to pronounce finally whether indaed the
dagger stick was the requisite weapon
Tor the deed which had been SO easy OF
accomplishment.
The chauffeur who had driven the
taxicab was the next witness called. a
man. in dark blue Melton
with that swinging gait which BETRAYED
the -ex-coachman.
He gave his evidence well and to the
point. he had been hailed on the nigh
n question by two gentlemen in eve.
nins dress. It was In Shaftesbury 9
nue. Juat opposite the Lyric theater,
and a little while after he had heard 81
Martins church clock strike o O'clock
.Ihe fog was so dense. :" he added. .'you
could not see your hand before youI
eyes" 49,.
He had just put down at the Apollo
and q crossed over to the left, goina
aoWn toward Piccadilly. when the two
sWeus nailed him from the curb. He
couldn't rightly see them, because q
lne fog. but he noticed that both wore
nlgh hats and the collars of their over.
coats were turned up to their ears. He
Hardly saw their faces, but he noticed
that n OF them carried a watkins
stick.
Or It might ave been a umbrella, :
he added after a moments hesitation
1 couldn't rightly say"
must have seen the faces OF
our fares," argued the coroner. ri
you saw tnat n of them carried 8
walking stick-or an umbrella, You
must nave seen something of theii
iao og ne reiterated more emphatically
didn't" retorted the man gruffly
was you out In that there fog. sir!
u Q was, you'd know 'ow you couldn't
see your and before your eyes.
saw the point Of the stick-or the nm.
prella, ! couldn't rightly say which
only one of them gents waved
1t at me when e was 'ailing me-that,S
oW | seed the point"
The coroner allowed the question n,
to drop; clearly nothine
YOU'D be got out OF the man. The
gentlemen, he declared. entered tn
can. and then one Of them gave direc-
IONS 10 him, putting his head out Of
the right hand window.
Il dfdn't turn to look at inn he said
pluntly. Il could ear, IS voice plair
enough-so why should l take a LOOK
at i'm? 'Ow did I know there was
a goln to be murder done in my cab
ana me wanted to say what the muir
derer looked like?
He loked round the room defantIy
as If expecting applause for this dis
play OF sound common sense, opposed
TO me coroner's tiresome officialism.
And what directions" asked the lat
ter, did the gentleman give your"
ITO go along P%iccadilly," replied the
witness, till e told me to stop"
.Ea And when did ha foil va, n,
BY he ratings Of Green park lust
by Yde Park r One of 'em puts
is a out Of h window and calls te
me to pull up"
Which you did,"
Which I did, n one of EN- gets GU,
70 the interior of the a and says:
S-long-see you tomorrow and ther
e says to me: No. ] Cromwell Road.
and disappears in the fog"
Surely o saw him them"
NC. The fog was like pea soul
there, though it looked clearer OF
kn~ightsbridge away. And e got ou'
left side, of course. I was up on m,
box right and side-a long way from
i'm. l could see a man standin' there
but not is face. rs at was pulled
down right over is eyes. and is coat
collar up to is ears"
"Had he his ctick-or umbrella
with him them"
Yes. With Is 'ands in is pockets
and the tip pointing upward, like q
soldiers bayonet."
You saw and not his face?' once
more insisted the coroner making a
final effort to draw some more definite
statement out of the man. 1t would
help justice so much if only this wit
ness were less obstinate! Nc ono
would believe that he really saw moth
ing of the face of the man who had
twice spoken to him. He may no
have seen it clearly, not the upper part
Of the face, perhaps, but surely he saw
the mouth hat had actually framed
the words.
But the chauffeur was obstinate. He
was not going to swear away the life
of a nan whom he had not rightly
seen, only through q fog as thick as
pea soup; this was the fortress behind
which after awhile he entrenched him
self.
In vain did the oroner, pleased at
having gained this slight advantage
try to draw him further, explaining to
him with the queit patience of a man
moved by official ambition that, far
from jeopardizing the life of any man
he might be saving that of an innocent
one falsely accused through circum-
stantial evidence. After a very long
while only, and when the corner had
almost given up arguing and cross
examining, he admitted that he did
think that the gentleman who directed
him to No. l Cromwell Road had q
muStache.