Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-27

80 SN~ WV 0SSAI III yVu 81 WALL
shortly pass your verdict.
And then we have the statement,
on h accused's own showing, that
he left hts place Of assignatdon, left
It without any further attempt at see
ing his lady love. at $3.50, just half
an hour after the time appointed. Is
tina q probable statement? Is It
likely that q man having hired q car
and driven himself all thai way. be-
tween thirty and forty miles should
go BACK again without Granting the
Lady longer than thirty nlnutssf leeS
way? The idea 10 prepo5terous. 50
What then will the defence ask
you to believe? I suppose they will
admit that Lady Carlton is dead, ana
that she was done to death by some
g Whom then will they assert to
be the guilty person. or how wa the
death perpetrated, il not in the man
ner l am suggesting to you? L. It the
Idea that the lady, after such long do
lay, for which no motive or reason
whatever can be suggested, did event.
strangely, easily wearied Of his watch,
had gone away? And what then?
Will 1t be presented to you as a rea-
nab proposition that some tramp
or casual person hidden in the bushes
murdered her?q Then, if that be %, I
would have you 9 yourselves, For
n purpose? Not a ring or trinkee
was taken from the lady's person. OBJ
viousiy that is' not the way in which
Inc murder was committed.
l should run on to far too great
length and should be guilty of much
tedious repetition if I were to record
all the points. Or anything like all.
raised BY the counsel for the crown
ana argued az 1t waS his professed
to argue them. The above
seem to me, according 10 the best OF
my recoilecttons, to be the principal
ones.
He concluded with a brief disserta-
ton to the jury on the character Of
circumstantial evidence, admitting
that IN this case the evidence was
purely OF what ts called the circnm-
stantial nature. but adding that it was
nearly impossible thai it should be
OF any other kind. that this was the
evidence on which convictions were
obtained in the large majority Of
cases OF homicide. and that to deny the
convinctnEness Of such circun1stantial
evidence as he had been able to bro
duce in the present case would be
virtually equivalent to. an assertion
ever could form the ground Of con.
victon. 49,
Probably 10 mos persons who q
not accustomed to hear spleadtngs.i in
cour the side Of any case which il
ftrH presented appears absolutely
conclusive. when argued by q skilifIi
advocate, and will continue to appear
q until h argument on the other
side II brought forward. For nv
OWE part, listening to this indictment
OF the Wretched man who had 20 often
been q guest At our table, Il seemed
70 me that there wac no possible loop
hole OF escape for him. that the halter
was az good as round his neck already
and q glance at his own d%eSpaifinr
face assured me that this was his own
conviction also.
And then the counsel for the de-
fence arose. and / could not but feel
e momenary pity for him also, that
ne should have to- appear in a-cauee
70 hopeless. He called noNvttnesses
! understand that # had done 20 Il
would have given counsel for the
prosecution a right to reply and OF
the last word. always. except for the
judge'a summing up with the Jury.
could hardly conceive that he
would have q word TO say, and I had
looked to see the hopelessneas OF Il
AL expressed on his face likewise, and
ito hear It in his voice as, for mere
forms sake. he endeavored to stang
mer out some lame words. Somehow
I could hardly bring myself tossfee]
vengeful toward that poor tortured
wretch in the dock, no matter how
black his crimes were. I glanced n
Uncle RAlph to see whether / could
read his feelings. but his face was
ret like . rock and quite tnscrltable.
While I was 30 looking 1t uncle.a
face and wondering ct the change
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