The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-08-06

WneTC nc nelpeO me OUT Win great
formality. I knew he was still hurt.
Joan came down into the hallway
very tired. She told me that Leila
was resting quite comfortably.
Lets 60 and have something to
cat" she said. ~ have Just Yemem-
bered that | haven't had anything to
eat today" ~
| told her Of che little farm house
among the syringa bushes where we
had been invited to dine.
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and only then the prosecutor saw
Audience and jurors leaned for.
ward. They drank her words. II
am the woman. Hsrc-hc shot me
She sank down. She rubbed her
hands very anxiously against her
throat
The judge watched intently. He
pushed y book SO hastily II fell from
the bench. every we'll. Mr.. Prose
cutor. Well sMsy your doubts. I
order recess. Let the finger prints
Of the witness be taken. Let her
wound be examined by physicians.
order a recess Of half an hour"
Then Douglas buried his face in his
arms. he sst immovablc, not stirring
even when she touched his hair with
her fingers. Douglas. look at me-
HN fSuov lad os,uN Amsl M
not look at her. She had cleared
she was the woman wounded he
would be cleared beyond . doubt.
For it was admitted that he stood
outside Of Ramon's office at q quar-
ter Of eleven. He stood there impa-
utes. And three minutes later he
appearing to csress her-stanchihg
been wounded. She had already
crept with laborious slowness from
that far corner where the blood
fumblcd with il and let him in.
Sandy had shown this. The testf-
mony Of the five people who identi-
fled Douglas bore her cut. So she
had cleared him.
But at what cost! Cost Of her
own life. her own freedom. Sandy
in aseell-a Sitting celli
He was led away--his head down.
teeth sunk in his lower lip.
Judith, overborne-judith, with
her head thedding and sick. watched
h; I'm lsd aw~,, l;ke Ah;si hrnwn hnnnv
head lowered.
AID she pushed Sandy to . chsir.
She ran after him-she caught his
arm. He mumbled with despairing
accutation: Don't, Judei what did
I tell you? They'll, do It to her.
They're going to do It to her."
.No-wsit, ! DouGlas-they can't
they won't-l'vc thought-"
Then she flung herself At Norman
Wood: "Listen-can see fhat
pistol? I'm thinking. Didn't they
say It's an automatic? And you. have
to use pressure on the handle and
the trigger! Both 1T oncc1. oh, lis
ten--I know where she was wounded
the angle Of It,"
"Yes-thc pistel-l'm going for
il. 49,. Come here! You say you
know where she was wouhdedf And
you think It will be clear she
couldn't have shot herself? :"
Judith steadying herself against
his arm: "Let me see the pistol.
Let me try and see II she could do
it. -. Oh, Douglas-she didn't
know-I know Sandy. 80"
Wood brought Judith 10 the judge'a
chamber. He put the pistol In her
hand.
Sandy was shot In the left breast
the bullet entering 1t . sharp, acute
angle. And the bullet coming out
through the back In . direct Lint
with this angle. The bullet, cane
out through the back under til,
right shoulder. -.
Judith took the gun. She tried /,
manipulate IL. She tried again,
dozen times. She said to Normal
! Wood: "Could 1t be done? Coult
she have done itfs
"You'rc certain the mark Of on
trance i just there7'
Z I'm certain"
"Then she didn't do it,. Sh
couldn't hayc done il unless she hal
an arm half again % long - Il, i
and with extra joints"
i "She didn't do iti" Judith close,
her eyes. She handed the pistol &
Norman Wood. She rubbed ne
cold.
.She didn't do It. will you 20 o.,
tell this to Douslasi Go and tel
him Ilow-at once.n ..'4 ,s,is "a
/ Judith came back smiling cam
back to SnndY. She sent a,-mos
senger for milk and forced Sand
to drink this.
4 Sandy looked ct her with tr2m
bling lips: "He's allA cleared. Jude
isn't he? He'ssall cleared. OF sours
they are my-finger prints"
Judith thought: "0h, would u va
who was dying Tor him-would
was ! who could \ dte-l and no
Sandy" s
i Half an hour later Sandy sat seab
In the witness. chair. ~ The jude
sat down, she turned with : child
like smile and murmured: tsThey Or
my: finger prints.yeQ know. o
course, they ars-' 0Ae smiled Z
the Judge and at the jufors-
IL Norman Wood took M tke pisto
He handed II 70 Sandy. He said
"She has been woumdod herr. eler
is the mark. Now, MA. ltnrillo. MI
you please try q pun thie trtekoe
Mo- hold the weapon lust over "a
mark. Now You must prass th
handle-and press the trigger bot
ut 6nee-s.
sut ! e.as-ao. Keeping !!
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