The Washington times., 1927-05-31
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he kept on, seeing in his fabric Of
skillfully strung perjury possible
''out" for himself. Holding my
iOrm-which he had so often held
in what he called "lOve"-befOre
him. shielding his guilty and Cring-
ing body behind me as he exposed
me to death, he told all"
That was his way of taking the
last chance he had on earth--throw-
ing himself on the mercy of judge
and jury on the slim chance that
they, deceived by his apparent hon
esty. would say, well at least the
man told the truth"
If Judd told the truth and II there
is a real hell in the hereafter.
hope I burn there through life eter-
nal, whether 1 burn" or not in the
man-made He'll Of Sing Sing.
Lacked Quality She Loved
The plausible little details he
threw in, the artificial precautions
against artificial inaccuracies. all
posing, all acting. all dramatic stuff
schemingly composed; his innocent
and wide-eyed facial expressions, the
twisting of facts ever so little and
yet so worldwide from truth-all
cunningly designed. rehearsed, and
made up for effect. the purpose be-
ing to save his life.
Nobody on this wretched earth
knows Judd Gray as well as DO.
Nobody can understand how he
turned on me and how he falsitied.
The man never had courage.
insaneIy and he was the only one
ever loved, and though l say 1
always idOlized courage, yet it was
my strange fate to love the man
who was without the quality ] most
WOrshipped.
Only when he was in liquor did
he have any, and that was synthetic,
alcoholic nerve.
Very Discreet When Sober
When he was sober he was the
most careful driver I ever sat with.
He would get my nerves on edge,
drawing along at fifteen miles an
hour while all sorts of trucks and
broken down old cars passed US.
But once he had few drinks in
him he thought his $1,000 sedan
was the fastest thing on wheels ana
that he was the demon driver OF
the road.
IL anyone got in front of us he
blew his horn furiously and cuSsed
them out. That was when he had
whisky aboard. Otherwise he was
the meekest little man in the State,
and would turn aside to let lum-
bering bus or a rafting farmers
flivver scoot past us.
He might have gone down into
long memory had he stood by me,
had he at least kept his lips shut.
He was the man, was the woman.
BY his own confession and oath
bound testimony, accepting for the
purpose Of the argument all he
lyingly swore to, we were partners
in a terrible crime.
II He Had Acted Differently
What would the world, not to
say the ones who judged us Of
ficially, have said had Judd squared
his narrow shoulders, taken a deep
breath into his hollow chest, and
answered.:
81 have nothing to say. Do
with me what you will, but shall
say nothing"
Oh, 1t wouldn't have been a dig
honest or illegal thing to do. 1t
is his right, guaranteed by all the
laws of the landry the very Con-
stitution, I believe. No one needs
testify against himself under accu.
sation. Even IL forced onto the
witness stand, the same protection
permits anyone to refuse to an
swer ION the ground that 1t might
incriminate or degrade me-"
They certainly couldn't have done
any more to him than give him
''the chair" could they?
And If it was his right, It
shouldn't have hurt the thin.skin-
ned conscience that he never before
displayed and suddenly developed,
should It?
Judd's Confession Broke Her
"stuck" until they wore me
down, and they never would have
broken me had they not told me
Judd had confessed everything land
m0rel and left me stranded, branded
q liar, not only without him to
stand by me, but with him heaping
up cruel and damaging falsehoOds
against me.
It was what criminals--and now
that I am In Sing Sing I may be