Connecticut western news., 1921-05-05
guilty. your Honor r M Such was the unexpected
 E verdict in J0 Portugais's

verdict in JeN Portugais's murder trial at Montreal. This result was due to the remarkable pleading of Charley Steele, populariy called Beauty Steele" 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 Jo tried to thank Charley: "Get out Of my sight" he re- piled, syou are as guilty as He'll" Five years later found him still more bril- liant and more a 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 $25,000 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- CTS and was kicked senseless and flung into the river.
 Just at that moment Jo Portugais, on a 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 CT 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 Jo, but his eye chanced 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 em- bezzled the trust money.
 What was he to do? He could not go back even to clear himself. He de- cided to remain unknown, as Charles Mullard, in Chaudiere. The village postmistress, Rosalie Evanturel, q charming girl of fine family and con- vent education, made his acquaintance by bringing up to him a 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 infidel, and determined to show him a sign from Heaven so 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 it on Charley's bare chest. Rosalie from the postoffice opposite noticed a light under the tailor's door at that unusual hour and suspecting something wrong saw through the shutters what the man was doing. She hastened 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 infdel from He'll"
 Rosalie 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 infidel 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 ahd continued his business, giving most of his earnings to the poor and