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I Without Ruling o of tie the Jury TWENTY TWO TO DAYS II GO BY AND BOX IS NOT FILLED base Gase ise Is One Where Ama Ama- Amateur Sleuth Is as Good as Sherlock H Holmes WAUKEGAN v III Ill June e 6 Twenty 6 Twenty Twenty- two days have gone by since the trial Wal began and yet the Jury ury box hox is of J filled and no man knows when it be nd ad still stin the Interest in the case remains unabated and where two or three are gathered together the argument m meat ment nt concerning It waxes fierce and furious Nor is it strange for in all an anthe the tho annals of crime there was never mystery than titan how poor lit lit- Marian tle Marian Lambert came to her het death Moreover It is a a case in which one ono theory is as good as another another an other thor and none of them any good at al atalL atalL alL H Hence nce It lends itself beautifully to argumentation Not Deliberate Suicide ferI pl I dont don't believe that the girl went vent to the lo-the the woods to meet with any J deliberate intention of suicide in her mind but I do believe that she inI intended in in- I tended fended to threaten him with taking her Ier own life Ufe and that in the end ti tier her r killing hers herself lf was either by ac ac- or in a brainstorm brought about by callous flouting of or her after all that had been between them is one argument l That would explain why she had sent the dress she was to wear that night at dinner at the school party on in by Josephine Davis She expected to wear it perhaps triumphantly after having bluffed with her suicide threat into giving up Celestia and if she didn't bluff him into doing so she was going anyway to have havea a little dramatic moment which is iso isso isso so o dear to the feminine heart Youve You've got rot to take a womans woman's love of heroics into nto consideration in Judging what airl a girl irl would do at such a time A real good scene half consoles a woman Cor or r anything that can happen to her Nonsense Says Another Stuff and nonsense says an opponent opponent op op- op- op to the suicide theory I dont don't believe that Marian Lambert killed Her mother says she was no longer in love with So SQ does Josephine Dayis Davis She knew th that t she shen n no to longer had to fear open disgrace or r I that the secret of her relationship with would would ever ever be known Why should a it giggling schoolgirl as asMarian asMarian asMarian Marian Lambert was take her own life ife tAs As for the crystals of cyanide that ere found in her Stand hand n nd the chemists say ay ray they were th the perfectly even crystals crystals crys crys- als of a supersaturate solution of cyanide not raw cyanide ide They must have Lave come como from a bottle bottIe as It was from rom a liquid form How would that l have ave on the palm of her hand If f she had had bad dry cyanide in ill her herh herland h land liand nd would not the the wind have blown U the e crystals away Guilty Says Third f I I think that killed the girl says Hays a third was socially ambitious am am- and it was a big step up for rim him to marry a beautiful and brilliant girl irl of a fine old family like Celestia I think Marian Lambert threatened him that she would tell of their relationship and he killed her ller herto to silence her He knew that the scandal would not only make Celesia Celestea Celes Celes- tea ia break off with him but ruin him at the university and in in- injure injure jure lure his chances as a newspaper man I. I think he had the bottle of cyanide Jn n his pocket and that as he talked to 10 o her he lie forced it between her lips J I I 1 believe that Marian Lambert committed com com- 1 suicide says one She was madly adly in love with and had given riven herself to him and he had past cast her off for another girl I think that liat she threatened that she take her life Ufe if he did lid not come comeback rack jack to her as she had threatened him tini with her pretense of expected motherhood and that when he refused reto reused re re- re- re used fused to be moved by either plea and fold old oId her that he lie was done with her hat In the sheer hysterical frenzy or oro of lie tho o moment sh she killed herself herselL Maybe laybe Didn't Mean to Do It It Perhaps she didn't really intend to too t to o It I think she had bad brought along lie he cyanide and had it In her hand or or you know when she was found round lead ead in the snow the left hand was gloved loved and the right hand bare and andrij the palm of her right hand were found some come crystals of cyanide Perhaps Per Per- laps haps she raised this hand with the in It to her mouth to make a pretense of swallowing it it to frighten an and ana inadvertently and In Her lier v and excitement a particle touched her lips and she was instantly instantly in in- dantly killed x Look at the number of people who attempt suicide and repent and call callor f for or i doctors and stomach pumps the they have swallowed poison noison Bat Bt t cyanide gives you no time for regrets re I gr gets grets ts it brings d death ath Humph Humpl sneers the opponent of pis bis theory there was the unbroken snow snow 5 ow under the tree showing that there had been no sign of a struggle is a small weak looking chap and arid Marian was a a husky modern girl girt sed d to working all of her life me Could Fight Off Death Such uch a girl could put up a pretty good fight even with a strong manana mani man arid and would not submit tamely to being killed d. d Besides 1 if It gave her a adose Stose dose close of the poison himself how do you you rou account for the cyanide crystals ii in the palm of her hand and in her hair pia Jr r K t Perhaps suggests another advocate li pat cate of tho the murder theory Induced In her to take the medicine by representing that It w was s for the same purpose for which he ho had sent cent her herm m medicine dicine before of the snug But protests the advocate o suicide theory the girl knew that she no longer needed any such drug In such a case she would surely not have swallowed it at the moment but have taken the tha bottle home iome with her Besides Besides BesIdes Be Be- sides people seldom take a a. nauseous II L IF fr I drug without without water or something to take it with I 1 think says another advocate of the murder theory that the girl died as a result of a bogus suicide pact I think that told her that they had ruined their lives and that death was the only thing for them and that they would start on the tho great adventure adventure ture together and that he probably swallowed some innocent substance but gave her the deadly cyanide from which she perished S Says ys Alibi Proves G Guilt Look at the trouble he took to establish that alibi for the time he was absent from college That shows he is guilty says another murder theorist Pooh sniffs another man Every boy who has ever been to college and sneaked a away way for a lark has done that parents kept him very close about money and had forbidden him to come down from school and that was why he did not want them to know that ho he was at Lake Forest If U If he did not kill that poor little girl the girl the little girl whom he had known for years who was the child of his fathers father's friends and whom he had held in his arms why arms why did he leave her lying dead alone in the woods exposed to any desecration of the forest Y demands another If U he was not totally mean and selfish utterly utterly ut ut- ut terly heartless and without even any human feeling in his breast how could he lie have done such a thing Why when he saw her die did he hnot not ok run shrieking for help Why did he e not go to his own home only a little distance distance distance dis dis- tance awa away for his father and mother moth moth- er Why did he not at least give her poor parents the pitiful comfort comforto o of cherishing her body instead of or 1 leaving leavin e av It to freeze reeze as it did in the snow snowY snow Just a Boy Is Answer He was a boy and he was vaS frightened frightened frightened fright fright- ened to death to-death death deaUl over y the he calamity that had overtaken trim him is th the last answer that is made to these He He lost his head and nd his one idea w was was was' the Instinctive instinctive instinctive in in- one of saving himself His thoughts went in m circles as his feet went In circles as the snow showed where he walked around the dead body then back to it then away from it forever It was vas a mean cowardly caddish thing to leave Marian Lamberts Lambert's Lamberts Lambert's Lamberts Lambert's Lam Lam- berts bert's body in the snow but it is not proof that he killed herOn herOn her On On the contrary had Or p pa et beena been a deliberate murderer murderer had had he gone o to Helm woods with the purpose ino into in m I his mind of or killing Marian Lambert and the poison in his po pocket pocket pocket-he ket-he ket he would have been shrewd enough to have made a great outcry and summon summon summon sum sum- mon people to bear witness to her suicide He would have had ready a astOry astory astory story of ot how she had killed herself for he knew that Josephine Davis at least knew that he had come to meet Marian Lambert and that he was wasI the last person with her that his re relations relations re- re I lations with her were well known to many of or the high school students and he was bound to be the first person suspected It was the utter surprise of her i really committing suicide that frightened fright ened him so 50 that he lie lost his wits and did the most foolish thing he could possibly have done under the circum circum- stances So the argument runs in the case Each theory Is tenable up to a certain point Then It breaks down and the mystery is still unsolved unsolved Which theory do you believe Its It's a case where the amateur sleuth is as asgood asgood asgood I good as Sherlock Holmes |