| Show o OF 1 flaw 11 w Not Notes Not 01 tar fir the Iho famous lamo Mason Ion and tine line there lived years ea ao ago a du farmer Into whose other wIlt wis simple and life there came ameli a tragic event He had come from and had bad lOll long been blen all as allan asan an honest thrifty nan man where hOlle days went ent on In the same ame uninterrupted led routine vI of planting and reap In ing Incident to tl farm tarm lire but sudden ludden suddenly luddenI ly h and without warning the of the county ap appeared with lIh a warrant for tor his arrest spun th the terrible charge chare of murder All An old lad lady b by the name ot of had been n killed a few weeks ln fore In the most brutal manner An umbrella 1 n pair ot of new shoes and a silver with her none name upon th the lid had been taken laken rein her person U by the murderer and two or of the these are ar umbrella and the shoes h had d been traced to 10 the home borne of this farmer The man stood before the In utter confusion ap al apparently parenti overwhelmed with astonish astonishment m ment nl After Aller a 8 short Interval In jail and allet the Anding of an indictment by the grand jury there came the trial of the he ae lu ed It 11 was quite brief 1 testified to seeing Mrs Ir Cooper with the Ihl snuffbox and the saber whIch she had pure purchased hOled at al II a tore store on the day she ahl was Ial murdered The merchant the shoes hou and members of lr Ih the womans family the um Several had seen bier Cooper purchase the shoes and had noticed a man at al the saute time tim sitting In Inthe the stoma 1101 lie resembled the prisoner though I they he were unable to 10 make lake a positive It wa was also 1110 proven en that the prisoner w was away from home lit at the time the crime had he been n and he had been heen seen loen walk walking ing on the turnpike near the tore Store the Ill very da day of the horrible deed The prin user oner remained dumb at as a sheep sheel before its 18 a iamb led to time lie He seemed like a inert stunned b by bya 1 a violent blow and unable enable to give glo nn rational account of what happened Ills HIli counsel proved his hll goal character b by Ii a large number or of but that availed little In the preserver of such convincing evidence or of the corpus delicti The jury Jur found the prisoner guilty he was wa sentenced to be hanged and the day of his hll execution Will was b by the governor Notwithstanding the evidence upon which h the prisoner had been found guilty there were many well ed pith his hll pr II good food character who doubts and amun among the rest a distinguished lawyer who lIo had once onu been heen ot of the foiled states tate and who on hearing of his hll conviction Interested himself In the study of the use case As the tine or of ex drew near a petition for a 11 re respite spite was wal sent to the governor who granted the Ihl request and postponed the death pt penalty to a future day The immediate counsel had haI been led to 10 believe in III his hili Innocence Innocenci from loins fragmentary and detached state menu that I al tell from his lip Jut but All efforts to lu get ItI any reasonable or comm COli history of hew he came to have time IhO shoes amid umbrella ur or of his hll where shouts et al the time of the murder were unavailing One lint day how however r when wilen the lawyer lawer was wall visiting him a great change le seemed med to take lake place and ond as 1 though awaking a from a dream I the hI man began a lucid of what had occurred Ile III hid had beets bellI to the city un on tile the da day of 01 the crime tu to see lei hir bil brother start for tor Germany and on returning a ahe as ashe he walked alona the rl read ad hI he had been overtaken b by a stranger R a tellow Oer man who offered to trade umbrellas After Aller a white while the they made the trade lie He liethen then wanted to sell bOts and a 11 but these the farmer did not lIot bu buy They traveled runny many attics to h and on invitation Ih the strang stranger er 11 had spent nt the night at th the farmers h The nest nelt morning before leuv lellY In Ing Ie stranger mid 1 I time h II 11 on h harriM he anted to one of the family II and mild made Iran efforts to 10 sell the lilt snug II 1 box but hUL hULIn butin In this b be Wat unsuccessful The tAd end of the prisoners a was near anti and escape elIW from I rat II seemed Improbable dlIn hll Ill mn lIt oc 04 tarred ta In the of Sl New York which greatly changed t the I of r A sal h had ad read to In a newspaper I an of the Ihl shocking lint and while It at his hili Ill sh a II l lifter lCt he not a men n h hr hid holl but rev 1 snuff null from what whal to be a stiv r tax hox The Th smiths lens were eu and In Inthe the cour course et the Ihl du day he h i ed to toa i a get it a closer In H He solicited teem his workman a of cor his snuff nulT WIleD 0 the box boli was again If lucid the saw w the name or of Mol r upon the ltd lid and hid had nil no doubt that t the real I st IJ uI In Ida hili That Thai night hr tl known Ids hll discovery tu to the tto nearest of I the laW with Ith th the that tb the t of ht ibis witness lolly nil I rill eta decal h 1 was a arrested d sad aM to III the pm prop em r He H mode II a fu full II confect on rell of II his guilt an and Iok k the th upon the designed C fur lr the Ibe Irmo Inno trot nt f tatter III th the tad 1 earn time the lit of If all KII forms of proof |
