The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-12-02

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tom Of thu bottle. Such a queer
doings!"
"Have you the bottle9"
cat my home, yes. The wife
make me empty the bad stuff
out"
"WhyG'' and Berg turned to
the Swedish woman.
II thing it a poison. l think
the bad, man kill the good man
with a poison"
well, don't think so. l think
you two people trumped up this
bottle business yourselves. It's
too ridiculous to be real evil
dence."
The jurymen were p~erplezed.
II these Swedes were implicated
in the murder, surely they would
not come and give themselves up
to justice voluntarily. Yet, some
reasoned that if they We're afraid
of the police, they might think
it better to come voluntarily than
to seem to hide their connection
with it. 1t is difficult to tell the
workings of the uncultUred for
eign intellect, and at any rate
the story must be Investigated,
and the Swedes kept watch Of!
Under the coroner's scrutiny,
Sandstrom became more restless
than ever. He shuffled his big
feet about ancs~.his. countenance
worked as if in agony. The
woman watched him with %soiiei-
tude. Apparently, her one
thought was to have him say the
right thing.
Once she went over and whis-
pered to him, but he only shook
his head.
why did you kill the MANI"
the coroner suddenly shot at the
witness as if to trip him.
Sandstrom looked at him
stolidly. cay didn't kill him.
Ay bane got ma COON"
she wasn't shot, he was
stabbed"
cay bane got ma knife. And
Ay ma kill him. Ay heerd his
dyin' words" The Swede looked
solemn.
"What We're they?'' asked the
coroner, in the midst of a sud.
den silence.
"He said, 'Ay bane murdered!
Cain kilt me! Wilful murderv
and wi them words he deed"
The simple narrative in the
faulty English was dramatic and
convincing. The countenanee Of
the stolid foreigner was sad, and
it might we'll be that he was
telling the truth as he had seen
and heard it.
Like an. anti-climax, then,
came an explosive "Gee!" FROM
the back Of the room.
People looked around an
noyed, and the coroner raped OH
the table in displeasure.
"You have heard this wit
ness he said pompously eve
have ne real reason to disbelieve
him. 1t is clear that Rowland
Trowbridge was wilfully muir
dered by a dastardly hand. that
he lived long enough to tell this,
and to stigmatize as Cain the
murdered who struck him
down"
"Gee!'s came the explosive
voice again; but this time in a
discreet whisper.
"Silence!" roared the coro-
ner; another such disturbance
and the culprit will be expelled
from the room"
There was no further Interrupt
ton and the inquiry proceeded
Several employees Of Mr..
Trowbridge's office were called.
Miss Wilkinson, the stenograph-
er, was an important young per
SOL of the blondine variety, and
made the most of her testimony,
which amounted to nothing. She
declared that Mr.. Trowbridge
had been at the office as usual
the day before and that she had
written the average number of
letters for him, none OF which
were IN any way bearing in this
case or of any import, except the
regular business Of her employer.
Nh. Irowbridge, she said, had
left the office about 2 o'clock,
telling her he would not return
that day, and bidding her go
home after she had finished her