Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-01-12
YOU'VE Not BEKS QUITE oPKS wIrn ME-

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YOU'VE NOT BEKS QUITE oPES WIN ME"
believe me as guiltless Of Adelaide's
violent death as a man can be who
drove her aud hers into misery which
death alone could end"
Il will believe IT," he muttered: II
must" And he dropped the subject.
Is he made me see. forever.
- drew a deep breath OF relief.
had come very near TO revealing my
secret.
When we returned to the courtroom
we found il already packed with a
gery suhdued and GREATNESS crowd. II
filtered somewhat from the one which
had faced us In the morning. but Ella
and her parents were there and many
olhers of the acknowledged friends of
he accused aud his family.
As he took the witness chair and
prepared 10 meet the cross examina-
don. of the district attorney a solemn
lush settled upon the room.
WAS the visit you made to the wine
rault on the evening OF the I'd of De
.ember the first one you had ever paid
lherey" asked Mr.. Fox.
No: | had been there once before.
Tut always paid for my depreda-
tons" he added proudly.
Then you knew the wayT
"PPrfectly"
"And the lOckT'
Sufficiently well to open It without
lIficulty."
How long do you think you were in
mtering the house and procuring these
bottlesT"
81 cannot say. have no means of
moving never thought of looking
It my watch"
"But you know when you left the
clubhouse to 20 backT'
"Only by this-it had not yet begun
D snow. I'm told that the first fakes
ell that night at ten minutes toIl.
vas on the golf links when this hap
)ened."
Mr.. Fox asked: Whereabouts on
he golf links? They extend for some
distance. you remember"
"They are GOO yards across from first
zee to the third hole. which is the
iearest one TO Cuthbert road" Arthur
,articularized II was-no, | can't tell
rou Just where was at that moment.
Il was a good way from the house.
| The snow came on very tiercely. Fol
u little while | could not see my way
"How not see your wayr
The snow flew into my eyes"
Crossing the links?"
Yes. sir; crossing the links"
But the storm came from the west
| 1t should have beaten against you
back"
/ Back or front, it bothered me.
could not get on as fast as | wished"
Mr.. Fox cast look at the jury. Die
they remember the testimony of tn
| landlord that Mr.. Cumberlands Goa
was as thickly plastered with snow OF
the front as 1t had been on the back
He seemed to gather that they did, TO
he went on Mt once to say:
"You are accustomed to the links
You have crossed them oftenT"
"Yes; play golf there all summer"
I'm not alluding TO the times whei
you play. | mean TO ask whether o
not you had ever before crossed then
directly TO Cuthbert road?"
Eyes. | had"
''ln stOrmW
"No. not In a storm"
"How long did It take you that tim
to reach Cuthbert road from the Wits
pering Pines"
Mr. Moffat bounded to his feet, bu
the prisoner had answered before b
could speak y
"Just fifteen minutes"
GLOW came you TO know the time S
exactly?"
Because that day did look Mt m
watch. had an engagement In tn
lower town and had only twenty min
utes In which to Keep It. was o.
time"
Honest at the core. This boy wa
growing rapidly in my favor. But thi
frank but unwise answer was no
pleasing to his counsel who woul
have advised. no doubt, n more ger
eral and less precise reply. However
1t had been made and Moffat was nc
man to cry over spilled milk. He di
not even vince when the district al
torney proceeded to elicit from tn
prisoner that he was good walker
Now. as the storm that night had bee
Mt his back and he was In hurry
reach his destination 1t was evidentl
incumbent upon him to explain no,
he had managed to use up the inter
vening time Of forty minutes befor
entering the hotel at II 80.
Ibid you stop in the midst of tn
storm to take a drinkY' asked the dill
trict attorney.
AS the testimony of the landlord 1
Cuthbert road had been explicit a
to the fact of his having himself III
corked the bottle which the prisone
had brought into the hotel Arthu
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