Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-18

the TOoiIl anu went INTO the Sticet, ahs
when he was gone Morrison heard thu
girl graaning. as though in great pain
He didn't know Just what had happen
ed, but he, thought something was Sc
riously wrong, so he notified the au
thorities and presently several officer!
arrived and entered the Shaw abode
Catherine was lying on the floor in
pool OF blood. a knife by her SIDE Sh'
was toe far gone to speak, and Wher
the officious Morrison asked her If hel
father had stabbed her she nodded he
head and expired.
Just then Shaw returned. and Wien M
beheld his daughter lying dead his an
guish seemed uncomfortable. out fht
astute officers believed he was over act
ing it. They made up their collective
minds he was guilty, and their belief wa
confirmed when they noticed the bloot
on his clothing. He explained that III
had been cut on the arm, and he certainl.
had been cut on the arm; but In al
probability he made the wound himself
as an afterthought, when he left thu
house. When a policeman gets theor,
firmly fastened in his mind he can max,
anything dovetail with it.
All the evidence was against Shaw
and although he told a straightforward
story, i'm his patient, sorrowful way, no
body believed him. He was considered {
monster, and had he been allowed to ap
pear in public he would have been tori
to pieces He Sid that he talked witt
his daughter on the absorbing theme o
her love affairs until they both lost thei
ha Iaft ha
that such recrimination was useless.
was true that his daughter spoke tn,
words attributed to her by Morrison, blu
he paid no attention to them, thinking
they had no significance. When he lef
the house the girl was alive and vel.
and had taken pen and piece of pape
as though to do some writing.
His trial was brief and he was con
victed and sentenced to death. the learn
ed Judge enlarging greatly upon tn
enornity of his crime. So one cold No
vember morning in 1921, he stepped upol
the scaffold at Leith Walk, and. afte
saying he was innocent of bloodshed
was duly executed and his body was lief
in chains to the winds and the ravens.
For several weeks Morrison had an au
and he came to look upon himself as ;
public benefactor for having been
largely instrumental i'm bringing ,ha
hideous malefactor to justice. Then ;
new tenant moved into the other side o
the house, the side formerly occupied b.
the Shaws, and the wife of the new
tenant being an industrious woman, sh
proceeded to give the house a thoroug
cleaning While thus engaged she say
a piece of paper protruding from GREY
ice in the floor just below the mantel
She drew it forth and when she read /
she ran screaming to the authorities
For the paper showed that justice wa
a murderer.
The paper was a note written by Cath
crime Shaw, and addressed to her father
! In it she expressed her determination I
end her life. but said that he was re
/ sponsible MY DEATH" she said. Il la
to your charge. When you read thi
consider yourself the inhuman wrete
who plunged the knife into the bosom o
the unhappy Catherine Shaw"
So the judges and lawyers and sheriff
and other functionaries who had sen
the unfortunate man to disgracefu
death got together and agreed that
was entitled to Christian burial and t
flag over his grave.
This case is celebrated in legal ANIMAL
and has been quoted thousand times il
arguments against circumstantial evi
dence.--Kansas City Star.