OCR Text |
Show TRAGIC SIDE CMife Wi&l Thrilling and Fatal Drama3 Tha'j?WlS Sometimes Played in. tho Courtroom. mt? The recent tragic termination ofV.T, trial of a financier, with the fam,A' whose mammoth transactions the rang n short while nince, brings to , Instances of similar cases where4ft PI criminal, either by his own act (nw 1 ,1 natural means, has escaped serving A doom meted out by the hand of earj Justice. fL"1lll The first to come to recollection lall JlN comparatively recent cr.se of Solofl llll Barmash, the banknote forger, who'JJ ) ter having received his sentence ofw' teen years' penal servitude, shot (?elf in his cell while awaiting reniq to goal, Tho manner In which herj? talned the weapon for the desperatel5'-p was tho subject of a searching inquil at and it was due to this that a regulafll fll .came Into force forbidding relatively " pass interviews Immediately after with convicted persons, a prlvlMI ill which had until then been allowed,' taken advantage of freely. '(llL Few of those who had the palnful3 .; peTlence of sitting through what ' known as the Mrs. Osborne Jewel c3'. will forget the growing sensation of hfaV ror when it became apparent to allW'U court that a young and beautiful sod (fl?.: woman, who had been held up by V 5?' counsel as a sufferer from the base 'c 3fl umny of Jealous acquaintances, and ui IJ: had brought an action for slant against those who had attempted! !P-br.ind !P-br.ind her as a thief, was undoubtedly K; guilty woman. f. But dramatic as this trial was, It v Kf easily superseded in Interest by ! 3. criminal trial which followed. Wl Ejsi the dainty, beautiful woman in the do?L was found guilty by the jury, Mrs. .Hijjf J? greaves, the woman who had sutlMfffS by the theft, electrified the court !r passlotiate appeal to the judge for meJK cy. Justice Is a relentless taskmnstBBr however, and the society woman wiBj condemned to nine months, v.ith "sorrHS hard labor." j&Jjj But trials in this country are casllfW eclipsed In dramatic Intensity by thoiSS of France. There the system of intafig rogating the prisoner by the JurljfS whose duty it is to endeavor to driSejg from the accused person an admlssioVisS of his guilt, is conducive to many drK matic scenes, which, under our systafiijy of considering a person Innocent urilj he is found guilty could not occur. Some years ago a woman nam25 Jeanne Gabrleflc f.'as undergoing hi5j trial for murder. She was a dreamv. neC vous creature, and for some years sf ifij had gained a living by acting as a "aul Ject" to a hypnotic "medium." A wea thy but somewhat veak-minded youh man had been known to have visited Hi Si in order that with her assistance?!) V might peer Into the future. His bdtj was found close- to her residence, uri It was only too plain that he hnd beiei ? stabbed to death. . M "Did you or did you not murder thl Si man?" queried the juge d'lnstructloi of the slight, deathly pale woman in tb" 5 dock, ft Hl9 words seemed to plunge her lritifs a trance, in which she remained to some minutes. ; 'm "No," she replied at last "Butl2 know who did! It was he! I have JuS witnessed it in a vision." jg And she pointed with awful dramatl f suddenness to her own counsel. 11 4 The young man arose, pale and trem Q bllng. He tried to mumble a denial, bu in the act of doing so he reeled baclj 5 and it was a dead body which the frlcri'i 5 who was sitting next him raised fron 5 the ground. The trial was, of course, adjourned A and It was found that the young law.yei j had undoubtedly had some business 9 transactions with tho murdered mai g wnich did not redound to the credit o: either. Whether, in order to cover his misdeeds, he had indeed murdered tK&f! unhappy young man, will probably beta forever a mystery; but the ImpressIonavE ble French jury gave Jeanne the bencflilj of the doubt, and she wns acquitted, ill Another trial with a most tragic emm! was that of Jackson, the United IrisfiJP man. He had just been found guilty b"5 tho Jury, and stood awaiting sentence' "We have deceived the Senate," he-said; as he clasped hands with his counsel in the Dublin courthouse. And In a few moments he fell to the floor of the dock"; dying -from poison. -J The fearful scene In the dock of the , Old Bailey, when Fowler, the brutal & Muswell Hill murderer, infuriated be-- s yond endurance by the treachery of hla ' cowardly accomplice, Mlllsorn, who had1 1 sought to save his own neck by turninS I queen's evidence, will be fresh in thft memory of many. Seizing an opportuJ-W nity as the court adjourned for lunch he struck his companion in crime a tor 5 rlble blow In the jaw, and struggled like? a madman In the arms of the restraln-3 'J Ing warders. There Is little doubt thatjai had he succeeded In again, reaching hlrii!? j he would have done his best to anticlj J pate the executioner. The history of crime teems with dra ;J matic Incidents, but there can be nottil Ing so pitiful as these attempts to esj: f cape a just punishment by the guilty:-; i Tho wages of sin Is death, and the pan: i alty is exacted to the uttermost farth- I ing. London Answers. : 4 |