The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-16
kkAYOT guilty, your Honor r..
~ Such was the unexpected
verdict in In pnrfu0aiS's

verdict in 10 Portugais's
murder trial at Montreal. This result
was due to the remarkable pleading
q Charley Steele, popularity called
Beauty Steele" a brilliant, handsome
young lawyer. addicted to strong drink.
His success In this case also won for
him the hand of the beautiful Kathleen
Vantage, whom he admired, although
he did not love her, any more than
she loved him.
After the trial 10 tried to thank
Charley: "Get out of my sight" he re-
Piled, "you are as guilty as He'll" Five
years later found him still more bril-
liant and more slave to the bottle.
He had corrupted Kathleen's brother
Billy, and demoralized the popular
preacher, the Rev. John Brown. Billy
forged Charley's name and squandered
$4,000 of trust money, but Charley
resolved to save him from ruin. He
went that night to the Cote DOrion"
tavern where he drank heavily, quar-
relied recklessly with some rough-driv-
ers and was kicked senseless and flung
into the river.
Just at that moment 10 Portugais,
On q raft opposite the tavern, heard
the scuffle and the splash, jumped into
the water and rescued the insensible
man, whom he recognized as his form
er deliverer. Taking him to his hut on
Vadrome Mountain, near Chaudiere
Parish, he nursed him seven months
till he was restored to health, but with
his memory completely gone. After
the cures brother, M. LOisel, a skilled
surgeon, operated on him his memory
returned. He did not know 10, but his
eye CHANGED to fall on a newspaper
which told Of his own death, Of the
marriage of his wife to a former ad-
mirer. and accused him of having en-
bezzled the trust money.
What was he to do7 He could not
60 back even to clear himself. He de-
cided to remain unknown, as Charles
Nullard, in Chaudiere. The village
postmistress, Rosalie Evanturel, a
charming girl of fire family and con-
vent education, made his acquaintance
by bringing up to him parcel-post
package from the surgeon. Charley be-
came apprentice to the elderly crotch
ETY. tailor, Louis Trudel, and went
to live with him. Louis was suspicious
Of him because he was an inf1del, and
determined to show him q sign from
Heaven 80 as to convert him. He
stole from the church-door the little
iron cross blessed by the Pope, and
late one night after Charley had gone
to bed, heated It red-hot, and rushing
upstairs, dropped 1t on Charley's bare
chest. Rosalie from the postofice
opposite noticed a light under the
tail0r's door ut that unusual hour and
suspecting something wrong saw
through the shutters what the man
was doing. She FASTENED through the
kitchen and upstairs but too late to
stay the tailor's hand. He turned and
fell headlong and died soon after, call.
ing Charley "a black infidel from
He'll"
Resale took the cross to the post.
Office and afterwards restored it to the
church door. Chaudiere believed that
the tailor's death was due to the infldel
and was ready to mob him, but the
cure took his part and urged the peo- |
pie to pray that he might be brought |
into the fold.
Charley lived on in the tailor's house |
and continued his business, giving |
most Of his earnings to the peor and