New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-08

!" Its way. through: the heavy
e. traffic. lodging drays and
oclamorous trolleys on its way
toward: the grim building where so
amany. tragedies are staged by the
CLAW, the young attorney felt his heart
sink into engulfng waves OF doubt and
fear.
For the first time since the beginning
Of the trial be had lost his buoyant
hope, his tremendous faith in his abili-
ty to prove Mary Page innocent and if
need: be to snatch her from a cell by
the sheer power Of his love.
The evidence was so overwhelming.
SO irrefutable. And Mary herself ut
terly unable to explain those last trag.
&c: moments. He knew she couldn't
remember-couldn't explain But the
jury would not be convinced. He re.
allied that
Over and over in his brooding mind
he saw again the tragedy Of that night
when the body of James Pollock, the
clubInan and wine agent. had been
found with bullet in it's heart and
beside it the unconscious figure of
Mary Page. Between them had lain
that revolver with its one accusatory
empty, chamber, the revolver that
Mary herself admitted she had carried
That Mary was innocent he had new
er doubted. His love was too great to
: admit of doubt, but he was lawy er.
and now he saw only too clearly that
his defense might prove unconvincing
in the face Of the damnatory facts
first, that Mary had hated and feared
James Pollock, who forced his atten
tons upon her; second, that she had
carried the revolver hidden in the front
of her dress when she went into the
anteroom where Pollock was waiting.
and, third that the shooting had DC.
CURED directly after the door had clos
ed upon the two Of them
II he, Langdon, had only been five
- minutes earlier-that was the acid that
ate into his soul If he had only reach
ed that door five minutes sooner per
haps that fatal shot would never have
been fired.
he wondered irritably why it was
that the public, and that portion of it
that comprised the jury, couldn't see
how improbable it was that Mary
would have ruined her career in such
fashion, however much she hated
Pollock. It was uncomfortable that a
sgirl who at the falling of the curtain
Fat II o'clock had touched the goal for
which she had striven and been hailed
as the, greatest star of the century
could have killed a man Of her own
accord at midnight and watched the
dawn come from a cell in the Tombs
He knew how much her career had
meant to Mary. How close to her heart
was the triumph and the fame, and to
lose it this way =.
He sighed heavily, then, realizing
= that they were approaching the Tombs
End that to the world at least he must
be the confident attorney, he straight
ened his shoulders and forced a smile
to his lips.
Close to the curb two women were
listening while third read aloud from
the early edition Of an afternoon pa
per, stippling the monotony of her
tones by CALCULATIONS and questions.
From his car Langdon could plainly
see the huge headlines two women
were reading:
LOVERS LAST FIGHT FOR LIFE.
6tate's Case Against Famous Actress
Almost Complete - Young Lawyer
Fights Final Hopeless Battle.
' With q shuddor ~ ovoroio, Iorrdo,
dragged his eyes away. The notoriety
of it was almost as bitter to him as
the awful overshadowing fear He
hated to think that Mary's name should
be dragged In the mud of common Cos
sip as an actress who had shot mil
ltOna1re In the anteroom Of a huge
hotel, while just outside the door, amid
laughter and music and lights, the
great world INDUCED in. supper dane
ing. He hated the thought that his
love for Mary had become spicy NOR
sci to be rolled on the tongues of the
general public, but, after all, what he
had to bear was pitiful1y small COM
pared to the burden on Mary's own
slim shoulders.
The car drew up at the curb, and as
Langdon leaped out somebody shouted
harshly:
Here's Langdony' And the whole
throng Of men and women came surg
ing toward him. sweeping him into the
current of. wave Of humanity. JOS
ting and staring, they flung a thou
sand questions at him, pulled at his
arms and pressed against him until at
last the impregnable doors, changed be.
hind him. leaving him breathless with
, affecting of being bruised and battered
mentally as well as physically.
The quiet Of the prison was almost
Iikesapeaee for the moment but he