Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-17

all the note Of insolence had gone out
of his voice as he answered anxiously:
Il swear. L swear to God, as I
didn't have nothing to do with the
murder"
Whether you had or whether you
had not. you would be sure to wear
that" the sergeant rejoined uncom-
promiAngly.
II wouldn't swear a lie," said the
young fellow, ptously.
IF you would commit a murder
o wouldn't be likely to stop short
at a hc." was the answer. -E
But I tell you 4 didn't commit no
murder" aid the badgered man. mis-
erably. ~ ~.
And I haven't said that you did,"
the sergeant persisted. II only say
that if you had committed the muir
der it isn't likely that you'd make
any difficulty about swearing to a lie"
By this time all airs and graces had
been thoroughly scared out of this
rustic Apollo. He was as flattened
as a collapsed balloon. and did not
answer a word. The sergeant deemed
ton sufficiently amenable, and said,
Now I want you 20 tell me just all
about what you did on Friday night
in the %shrubbery at Scotney House
all you did and all you saw. The
more you tell the truth now the more
chance there is of your getting on"
I am told do not know whether
rightly or not-that the sergeant was
acting quite wrongly and Illegally, for
a man in his position. IN thus threat
ening the unfortunate Heasden.
do not know how that may be, but l
am quite sure that If it was so the
sergeant was very we'll aware Of it
and defied the law deliberately. ]
suppose, too. that the fact that there
was no witness Of the conversation,
except the dogs and ferretA put him
On safe ground. In any event, al
though Heasden knew something OF
the magistrates law. he was not well
up in it as 1t applied to more impor-
tant offenses and was eager to say:
"1ll tell Notwithstanding as !
know
"Go along. them: the sergeant en-
couraged him.
Heasden. to think at greater ease,
seated himself on a malodorous fer
rets' hutch and began:
Il was in along the shrubbery that
night"
What were you there for?" the
sergeant asked sharply, i~nterrupting
him.
AHc yOuHK IellOW ncSlta&eQ-Lne
sergeant quite well knew why. He
had two possible alternatives. either
of which he might avow, perhaps
about equally dubious in respectable
ity: he might say that he had come
poaching. otter rabbits. o. after Ce-
leste. After moments pause he de-
cfded to adopt the former. probably
thinking that any trouble with the
bench was to be preferred to the
trouble that he might incur II he
brought in Celeste's name unneces-
sa,rilv. 49,
well" hep said. II had put down
a wire or tRo--them rabbits-they
aren't no us4 In the shrubbery-they
only spoils the shrubs. Her lady
ship told mi so herself"
"Ah, did she? Did you often see
her ladyship ~. = -
See her. yes But see her to talk
to, no moro than once no."
"Ah." said the sergeant. and
thought owe this observation a mo-
ment. Then he added: "rWell-you
went to look at your snsres-and what
then p
80 happened. as / happened to see
Mademofselle Celeste"
What would she be doing out
there at that time--so late as that
By-the-bye. what time was it?'
IT couldn't say exactly. I don't take
much account OF the time"
Roughly then-between eleven
and twelve?"