Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-09-12

against me; but l will not Insult
you by believing fors IL second
that you can imagine the man
whose acts you have been able to
judge for the last two months
capable of such crimes. And yet
the public instinct is right i'll ac-
icusing me.
"Apart from Hippolytc Eau
vile, there is necessarily a Grim
inal and that criminal is neces-
sarily Cosmo Mornington's heir.
AS | am not the man. another
heir of CoSmo Mornington exists.
1t is he whom | accuse, Monsieur
lie Prefet.
"There is something more than
a dead mans will i'm the wicked
business that is being enacted be-
fore us. We thought for Il time
that there was only that; but
there is something more. | have
not been fighting a dead man all
the time: more than one / have
felt the very breath of life strike
against my face. More than once
| have felt the teeth OF the tiger
seeking to tear me.
1.-THE dead man did much, but
he did not do everything. And
even then, was he alone i'm doing
what he did? Was the being OF
whom | speak merely one who
executed his orders? Or was he
also the accomplish who helped
him i'm his scheme? / do not
know. But he certainly contin-
ued a work which he perhaps be
gam by inspiring and which, in
any case, he turned to his own
profit, resolutely completed and
carried out to the very end. And
he did 81 because he knew of
Cosmo Mornington' will. 1t is
he whom | accuse, Mp#sicur lie
Prefet.
81 accuse him at the very least
of that part OF the crimes and
felonies which cannot be- litrihnt-
ed to Hippolyte Fauvillc. l ac-
cuse him of breaking open the
drawer of the desk in which
Maitrc %lepertuis, Cosmo Mora
ington' s solicitor, had put his
client $ will. ! accuse him of en-
tering Cosmo Morming!oY room
and substituting q phial contain
ing a toxic fluid for one OF the
phials of glycero-pilosphate which
Cosmo Morllington used for his
hypodermic injections. l accuse
him of playing the part of II doe
tor who came to certify Cosmo
Mornington' death and of deliv-
ering a false certificate. l accuse
him of supplying 1lippolyte Fau-
vile with the poison which killed
successfully Inspector Verot, Ed
mond Fauvillc, and Hippolyte
Fauvillc himself. L accuse him of
arming and turning against me
the hand of CASTOR Sauverand,
who, acting under his advice and
instructions, tried three times to
take my life and ended by caus-
ing the death of my chauffeur.
accuse him Of profiting by the
relations which CASTOR Sauverand
had established with the infirm-
AIRY In order to communicate with
Marie Fauyille, and of arranging
for Marie Fauville to receive the
hypodermic syringe and the phial
Of poison with which the poor
woman was able to carry out her
plans of suicide
Perenna paused to note the cf-
feet of these charges. Then he
went on:
81 accuse him of conveying to
CASTOR ~Sauverand, by some un-
known means, the newspaper cut
, tings about. Marie Fauville s
death and, at the same time, fore
seeing the inevitable results of his
act. To sum up, therefore. with.
out mentioning his share in the
other crimcs-thc death OF In
spectOr Verot, the death Of my
. chauffeur accuse him of kill.
ing Cosmo Mornington, Edmond
! Fauville, Hippolytc Fauvillc, Ma
: RE Fauvillc, and CASTOR SAWYER
and; in plain, words, Of killing al
those who stood between the mil
lions and himself. These LAS
--lHAAH. --e 80 ~. ma s.sY'