Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-25

that neither Mrs. King nor Mr. King
had the slightest motive for such q
crime. There il nothing In the record
To connect them with the crime. and I
shall NOT further discuss them The
only man left except SnoWden Is
brandon, the husband
There Is not the slightest evidence
la the record against Brandon, and
while there are some runlors OF possi-
bic motives on Brandon's part on ac-
count Of alleged rumors Of possible
misconduct on the part of his wife
suspected By him. all OF this suspicion,
ii II can he dignlfied hy even the desig-
nation of suspicion. Is rendered abso-
Iuteiy worthless Of consideration by
the overwhelming weight Of the most
reliable and conclusive evidence of
circumstances and human testimony
that Brandon did not and could not
have committed the crime.
The Evidence Against Brandon.
1T III Rneontradlcted and uncontra-
dictable testimony. that Brandon left
home eight o'clock on Wednesday, as
usual. and did not return to his home
until quarter to fige or fiYe o'clock, at
Which time the doctors all unite In
testifying that Mrs. Brandon had been
dead al least Ave hours Brandon
went over TO the Experimental Station
Iii the usual boat. worked alI day and
returned on the boat. and any number
uf the most reliable ana responsible
witnesses will so testify and In fact
this is conceded BIZ everybody con-
nected with the case, so that II Bran
don killed his wife. he must have done
so before he left home that morning.
and II ii likewise being conceded That
Mrs. Brandon never moved after the
blow was struck. It then became GER
tain. il Mrs. Brandon VAS seen on
wednesday alive after Brandon left
home that Brandon was not the MUIR
derer.
Now let as consider the evidence on
thia poinl. Mr.. and Mrs King who
lived neyt door to Brandon. both fes-
tified 10 seeing Mrs. Brandon at $50,
after Brandon had left home, and that
Mrs, Brandon was cit her kitchen win
dow. sitting in rocking chair rock
Ing. and Mrs. King was AT her vim
dow. Mr. King. who left home about 3
O'Clock. so testifes. and Mrs. King
says that she also sat and talked with
Mrs Brandon that morning at 10
O'Clock, Mrs. Brandon being at the
kitchen window and Mrs King at her
kitchen window. and that there was
nothing the matter with Mrs. Brandon
.at that time. And there are two more
witnesses who saw and talked with
Mrs. Brandon that morning between
ten thirty and eleven O'Clock under
such circumstances that the date and
the time cannot be mistaken, and
these witnesses. both are her white
neighbors, and both OF them Of the
highest credibility. Mrs Burch. who
lived but two doors from Mrs Bran
don testified that sometime between
1870 and In o'clock that morning.
Mrs. Brandon came out on her porch
and picked up her morning newspaper
and exchanged the greetings Of the
morning with her and went back into
the house. that the reason she remsm
bers 1t SO well was that her little boy
had been playing with Mrs Meyers,
one Of her neighbors girls. they both
had gone down Second street some
where and that Mrs Meyers and her
self were both looking for them, and
that she, Mrs. Rurch, sat on her porch
and Mr.. Miles went to look for the
children. Mrs. Burch said she did not
30 into the house until after III o'clock
and that she was on the porch fifteen
minutes at least
Mrs. Meyers CorrOborates.
Mrs. Meyers corroborates this state
#ment and adds further that the chill
dren had been playing Ia her yard but
had gotten away somewhere when
Mrs. Burch came 10 look for her boy,
that about that time her husband came
home from the Naval Academy II
was pay day and he came home on p
wheel and she asked him to 90 to look
for the children She said Il walked
down the street to meet ny husband
ana Just as \ got dD0U1 IN 1E0AI " tAtS
Brandon home. Mrs Brandon came out
on the porch and picked up her morn
ing paper. that Mrs Brandon had been
sitting at her front window IN the
rocking chair and that the rocking
chair from which she had gotten mp
when ahe came out on the porch was
still III motion. that Mrs Brandon
spoke to her and she spoke 70 Mrs.
Brandon, that she was sure Of the
time of the day. that she went into
the house d minute or so before eleven