Williams news., 1915-05-27

expressed a strong desire that some associate judge should be called upon to preside over the trial of John Sco- vile for the murder of Algernon Eth eridge. But Judge Saunders sudden illness and Judge Dole's departure for Europe have put an end to these hopes. Judge Ostrander will take his seat on the bench as usual next Mon- day Fortunately for the accused. his well-known judicial mind will prevent any unfair treatment of the defense.
 "The prosecution, in the able hands of District Attorney Foss, made all its points this morning. Unless the de- fense has some very strong plea in the | background the verdict seems fore doomed. A dogged look has replaced the callous and indifferent sheer on the prisoners face, and sympathy, 1T sympathy there is, is centered entire ly upon the wife, the able, agreeable and bitterly humiliated landlady or Claymore tavern. She it is who has attracted the most attention during this trial little as she seems to court it."
 We omit further particulars which followed to save repetition; but they were carefully conned by Deborah Scoville. Also the following:
 "The defense is in line with the statement already given out. The prisoner acknowledges taking the | watch, but from motives quite opposed | to those of thievery. Unfortunately he can produce no witnesses to SUD- stantiate his declaration that he had heard voices in the direction of the bridge while he was wandering the woods in search of his lost child. No evidence of any other presence there is promised or likely to be produced. It was thought that when his wife was called to the stand she might have something to say helpful to his case. She had been the one to ultimately find and lead home the child, and, silent as she had been up to this time, it has been thought possible that she might swear to having heard these voices also.
 But her testimony was very disap- pointing. She had seen nobody but the child, whom she had found playing with stones in the old ruin. Though by a close calculation of time she could not have been far from Dark Hollow at the instant of the crime, yet neither on direct or cross examina- ton could anything more be elicited from her than what has been men, toned above. Nevertheless, we feel obliged to state that, irreproachable as her conduct was on the stand, the impression she made was, on the whole, whether Intentionally or unin
 tentionally, unfavorable to her bus band
 Some anxiety was felt during the morning session that an adjournment
 would have to be called, owing to | some slight signs of indisposition or the part of the presiding judge. But he rallied very speedily, and the pro
 ceedings continued without interrup
 tion."
 "Ah!"
 The exclamation escaped the lips
 of Deborah Scoville as she laid th1:
 clipping aside. 'I remember his ap
 pearance we'll. He had the ghost O
 one of those attacks, the full force
 which I was witness to this morn
 ing. I am sure of this now, thougf
 nobody thought of it then. l happened
 to glance his way as I left the stand
 and he was certainly for one minute
 without consciousness of himself O
 his surroundings. But it passed s
 quickly it drew little attention; no
 so the attack of today. What mis
 fortune rests upon this man. Wi
 they let him continue on the benc
 when his full condition is known
 These were her thoughts, as she rt
 called that day and compared it wit
 the present.
 There were other slips. which sh
 read. The fate of the prisoner wa fin the hands of the jury. The poss
 bility suggested by the defense mad in no appeal to men who had the unfo
 tunate prisoner under their eye ; is every stage of the proceedings. TT CT shifty eye, the hangdog look, ou d weighed the plea of his counsel ar h. the call for strict impartiality fro ad the bench. He was adjudged guilty he murder in the first degree, and SC ,u- tence called for.
 of This was the end; and as she re; ,e. these words the horror which owe or whelmed her was infinitely great i'm than when she nearo them u''er ad in that fatal courtroom. For then s m- regarded him as guilty and deservil ad his fate, and now she knew him to for innocent.
 led When her eyelids finally obeyed t nk dictates of her will the first glimm' ing rays of dawn were beginning ng scatter the gloom of her darken ex- chamberi
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