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CHAPTER XXIII—Continued.
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No sense of shame nor of guilt pos
sessed me. I was aware of having
done^ wrong to no One. A clear con
science kept assuring me that it was
msifortune and not error on my part
that had brought me here. At every
point in the strange chain of circum
stances I felt that I had acted as a
pan of honor should have acted. My
•ense of innocence upheld me even
though the deliberate malicious plot
ting of evil men might make it appear
to the judge, to the Jurors, to the
whole world that I was a murderer.
Even though I should be sentenced to
death for killing a woman I never had
seen the knowledge that at every point
I had done what I still believed to
have been right, brought me strong
comfort and filled me with new cour
age.
Yet It waa with lack of Interoat that
1 listened to the monotonous question
ing that formed a part of the selection
of a jury.
"So far aa I am concerned.” I had
aald to mj ceaaeel In ear teat chat,
"may meet of a Jery will 4a Talent
fee aacneed m apeetttag (ha evtdeare
agatest aa» with a crash that ah (he
nsrtd roa heat II SMhea aa dhhsa*
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nlcal description of the bullet wound,
and the prosecution put In evidence
the bullet extracted from t)ie body
and the revolver the detectives' had
found, pointing out that they were of
the same caliber.
“Call Mr. Wick,” said the district
attorney.
I leaned forward to listen to every
word of Wick’s testimony. In fact
from the moment he was brought in
I never took my eyes from him. It
would be black enough for me If he
merely stated the facts as they ac
tually had happened, but I doubted If
he would be content with that If,
as I felt certain, Wick was in the em
ploy of the conspirators. It was more
than likely that they would seek to
clinch the case against me with hla
testimony.
He gave hla name. James Wick, and
hla occupation aa superintendent of
the Graoddack.
"How long have yon bean employed
there r
“Ever since the building waa
apeeed.”
’Where wece yea employed pern [
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man'll anwftaa chat he had haon tn
petaan weee tree, what he *wwM my
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wed Ip the elevator coming down
Cram the'Top Door. I beard the sound
of • shot It memed to come from
the fifth floor. 1 gat off there to In
vestigate. Aa the door of the Lutan
apartment stood Mr. Nelson.”
“What was he doing there?”
"Just standing there. It looked to
me as If he had Just been coming out
and that when he aaw me he had
stopped suddenly.”
“What was his manner? Describe
the position in which he was standing
to the Jury.” Again there was In the
district attorney’s voice a triumphant
ring.
“He was all excited and trembly-
like,” Mr. Wick went on, “and fils
eyes seemed to be bulging out of his
head.”
“What did he say?”
“I asked him if he had heard a shot
and he said that he had. I asked if
It had not come from the Lutan apart
ment and he said that It had seemed
so to him. I wanted to keep my eye
on him. to I took out my pass-key
and suggested that we Investigate to
gether. He did not teem at all anx-
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rwrtteh. Mm aaewered with pride rath
er then with boidnem. “my name Is
ftfra. Edward Moore."
“The wife of Lefty Moore, the bur
glar Id Ring Slog, you mean, do you'
not?” sneered McGregor.
*1 ara," she replied with a proud
lifting of her chin and a flash In her
eye. “^’rn Lefty Moore's wife, and
I’m proud that I am—his lawfully
wedded wife and L don’t core who
knows It I love Lefty Moore.”
There was Instant consternation In
the district attorney’s camp, With
visions of discredited testimony con
fronting him, he was on his feet roar
ing objections. Throughout the whole
courtroom there was a sibilant stir,
and the Judge began rapping for or
der. ,
Close behind my counsel my mother
had been sitting, accompanied by some
w'oman wearing a heavy veil. I had
paid little attention to her hitherto,
BOARD OF HEJU.nl ?
TYPHOID SEVER APPEARED IN
A WIDELY dCATTBREO AREA
THROUGHOUT THE STATE
SlULLPflX SHOWED UP STRONG
Only Three Counties Reported Cates
of Influenza During Th# Month
of June
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the state during the month of June,
according to the Ifoports made during
that month from the various counties
to the state health department. The
reports of contagious diseases for
that month have recently been com
' piled and show 113 cases of typhoid,
supposing that it waa some fibtel maid j Riehland county reported six of the
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peny her to court, # for so far as I knew houn II, Cherokee II. The others
my mother had no women acquaint- were reported from counties in pr.u.
snces In New York. This woman thsally every section of the state,
now. to my amssement. reached for- 1 Smallpox alee showed up heavily
ward and plucked McGregor by the oa the monthly chart, though some of
sleeve. As she pushed hack her veil the reports may have been h
to whisper to him. to my utter our- from ether months. The report shows
prise end const eras t Ion I saw that It
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total lap the month hetg 111 Of
thane cmms ••artamherg reported BL
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mgpe weee veperted Three af thasa
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m* s from
mlttaa sf see to srgt
chief esecaUve Is a
Wild Cat aeaocisllsa
to fall privileges as
chief of the United
holds card No. 1
* “Tb4 Eighty-First division Wild
Cats will hold their first reunion at
Columbia, S. C, September 10 and
21,” savs the telegram to President
Wilson. “We have Invited Governor
Cox tb be our prlncial speaker. By
Virtue of my authority as president
of the Wild Cat Veterans’ association,
of which you are a member, 1 appoint
you a committee of one to urge Gov
ernor Cox to accept our invitation.”
In addition to a telegram from Mr %
McGowan, Governor Cox has been In
vited by Governor Cooper and by Jo
seph D. Mlot, president of the Colum
bia chamber of commerce.
Gathering of The Clans
The Clan MacMaster ef America
mill hold a reqplon in Asbnry Park.
N. oa Aufckst I. Notices of the
gathering have been sent out ky Miss
Katharine Mac Master, secretary of
the American onnnisatkm. ef Ro^-
vtlle, Md.
htHle end Outfits |
Federal reveaee officers
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and had come In te Investigate.”
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questioning the physician and of mak
ing a search of the apartment for the
murderer, but finding no one else
there. *
"What did you do then?”
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prisoner to his apartment and placed
him under arrest We searched his
room and In the dresser I found a
revolver with one chamber recently
discharged.”
“What made you suspect Nelson?
Why did you arrest him?”
“My partner and I talked It over,
and we both were of the opinion that
it was an Inside Job. A burglar would
have no chance to get Into a building
like the Granddeck and make hit. get-»
away. It waa between the superin
tendent of the building, who was a
man of responsibility, and this young
fellow—who wee only a caretaker * *
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up In the elevator wphoat being an
nounced. Naturally the elevator man
thought he was a friend of the young
lady tenant.” "
"Hew do you know hf msfe not a
fr*-*i ef tiw yowag wemaa with
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him te does It when I discovered |
him.”
"That will he all," said my counsel,
to my greet disappointment Through
out the mixed medley of truth and lies
that Wick had been telling, there had
been manifest to me his deliberate
purpose to discredit me and cast sus
picion on me. I felt certain that an
abler lawyer could quickly have rid
dled his testimony, but McGregor
showed no disposition to take advan
tage of his opportunity.
Nellie Kelly was called. Briefly
she told of her Job—switchboard op
erator at the Granddeck. She cor
roborated Wick’s story of my first ar
rival at the Granddeck and bore out
his statements about my having chat-,
ted with her and also told of having
gone tp dinner with me. When 1 had
begun questioning her about other
tenants, she said, she excused herself
and went to the telephone and called
up the Granddeck for advice as td
how she should answer. * For some
reason, she said, when the returned
•fief phoning. Dm defendant had not
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The telephooe girl was recalled ta °* blcxX of Whaley street
the stand sad her crose-examination i "■ """
resumed. Dllnd Held Ooed Meeting
“Mrs. Moore." began McGregor— The first meeting of tha blind of
and I observed curiously that his South Carolina, hold in tho chapel of
voice In addressing her no longer was
harsh and sarcastic but merely suave
and Impelling—“you have testified
here as a witness against Mr. Spal
ding Nelson, accused of having mur
dered Daisy Lutan. have you not?”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
the Columbia Theological seminary
was highly successful In every re
spect. Addresses of welcome were
made by the Rev. R R. Murchison of
the semlnhryt, James ft. Spillman of
the board of directors and R. J. Bla
lock, mayor of Columbia. Responses
were made by Alexander Gregorie of
Yemassee and D. K. Breazeale of
Belton.
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Chautauqua or Circus.
The manager was strolling about
the big ChautauqusL|.tent, which had^
Just been set up rfra small Missouri
town, and (he boys were laying the
plank seats, when the whir of engines
was heard, and two automobiles ap
peared, racing furiously toward the
Chautauqua grounds. They stopped
side by side In the dust and smoke
of heavily set brakes, and the drivers
looped from tbMr setts and ran at , certificates hod booo trsaspoMd
top speed toward the astoolsbed Chao- 1 ooe bog to tho other, causing he
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eotvod o letter from Boom
wings M which tho
nstloool Democratic
mil tee naked Governor
►would bp available as a
fore the November elections.
Governor Cooper said that he had
the matter under advisement aad la
welting until Governor Cos appoints
his campaign managers, and he win
then take up the matter with tho Ohio
governor. While no itinerary haa yet
been discussed It Is likely that Gov
ernor Cooper will visit some of tho
Central Western states If he sees his
way clear to leaving this state.
Wrong Body In Coffin.
Coliimhua,' Ohio, (Special).—When
M. L. Walker opened a coffin sent
blm by the war department he found
the bedy not that of his aon, J. Wal
ker, but instead that of James Wal
ker, Sandy Springs, S. C. The death
ker, Sandy Springs, 8. S. The death
mis-
geeped the firm.
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Students ef Agriculture
Seven hundred and twenty-five pft-
pils studied agriculture in the puhUe
schools of the state during the past
session and have home projeota sup
ervised bp agricultural teachers ac
cording to the report submitted to
John E. Swearingen, state
undent of education, by Yard
eon. state sepervleor ef j |
take hath being on the same ship I tastrortloe Tho som of IttJME wee
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