The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-08-24

Immediately.
when l left him." concluded the
young man, che was sitting on tree
stump by the pond, smoking his pipe,
and | walked toward Wood Cottage"
ado you know what became of the
checks?" asked Skin O. My Tooth
cold Whadcoat had them in his
pocket when | left him. | conclude,
as there has been no mention of them
by the police, that they have not been
found"
There was so much simplicity and
straightforwardness in Edward Kelly's
narrative, that ], for one, was ready
to believe every word of it, But Skin
O My Tooth's face was inscrutable.
He sat in a low chair with his hands
folded before him, his eyes shut, and a
general air of polite imbecility about
his whole unwieldy person. | could
see that our client was viewing him
with a certain amount of irritability
"Well, Mr.. Mulligan?" he said at
last, with nervous impotence.
We'll, sir" replied Skin o My
Tooth, 1T strikes me that what with
your quarrel with the deceased, the
assignation in the woods, his postum
nous denunciation of you as his assas-
sin, and dying words, we have about as
complete case as we could wish"
"Sir-"
"In all cases of this sort, my dear
sir" continued Skin O. My Tooth
quietly, the great thing is to keep
absolutely cool If you are innocent
remember, | do not doubt it for
moment-then | will bring that crime
home to its perpetrator Justice never
miscarries-at least, when | have the
guidance OF it in my hands"
1t would be impossible to render the
tone of supreme concet with which
Skin O. My Tooth made this last
assertion but it had the desired effect,
for Edward Kelly frightened up visibly
as he said:
81 have implicit faith in you, Mr..
Mulhgan. When shall l see you
again?"
"On Monday, before the magistrate.
1 can get that remand for YOU, /
think, and then we shall have free
hand. Now we had better get along.
| want to have quiet think over
this affair"
On the Monday, Edward Kelly was
formally charged before the clerk;
and | must say that when then heard
the formidable array of circumstantial
evidence which the police had collected
against our client, | sadly began to
fear that not even by the skin of his
teeth would Edward Kelly escape from
the awful hole in which he was liter
ally wallowing. However, Skin O. My
Tooth hammered away at the police
evidence with regard to the dog. The
prosecution made great point of the
face that Mr.. Whadcoat and "Rags"
had been killed by the same gun and
at the same time and place, and the
one point in Edward Kelly's favor was
that neither of his servants at Wood
Cottage, nor the witness who saw him
enter the wood, could swear that
the dog was with him on that day.
On the strength of that, and for the
purpose of collecting further evidence
with regard to the dog, Skin o My
Tooth finally succeeded in obtaining a
remand until the following Friday.
Personally | thought that here was
quite sufficient evidence for hanging
any man without the testimony OF
the dead dog, but l am quite aware
that my opinion counts for very
little.
Now, Muggins," said Skin O. My
Tooth to me later in the day, "thc
fun is about to begin. You do down
to Courts this afternoon and find out
all about the checks which caused the
quarrel, and by whom they were
presented Don't mix the police up
in o,,r affo;re u,Ln+o,,n -, Il lie