Show BLASTING feminine y sabuo copyright 1906 by da ly satorv pub co be ye aboin to swear away the life of your own son our son mary the old mans voice quavered and sunk into a whine im goin to tell the truth re plied the old woman with a weary smile he threw it away himself and killed his brother my baby I 1 saw him do it and im goin to tell the truth and let him be punished but tom s your boy too mary your oldest persisted the old man he done to show ita cried the woman fiercely he struck me yes struck me with his own hand not once but twenty times aye and he struck you too nat I 1 seen him do it moren once what comfort has he ever been to usa what pride have we in him what hope for his future lf no no nat we might as well give up and call our lives a failure he s been a bad boy and he s a bad man and he s killed his own brother and I 1 won t do any thin to save him but he was in lacker when he did it pleaded the old man you know tom was not very bad except when be was in licker and he gasn wasn t him when he did it and he feels as torr as anybody for it now not rte gallows ah mary not the gal alws and he sl pad from his chair artto his knees and sobbed before her where s peter demanded the woman drawing back her skirts which the man attempted to cling pathetically to where s my pete who never did a wrong to anybody and who always was bullied and licked by tom I 1 wont save him I 1 ell you I 1 wont the day of the trial came and the prosecuting attorney arose calm and here was an easy case and it promised to be brief he get a quick conviction and the accompanying glory and would hurry along other cases and show a dispatch of business which would reflect great credit upon his office the condic alon was sure because the boy s moth er wag to go on the stand to testify against him it was a bucl thing because she had been the only wit ness of the murder and without her testimony only the weakest sort ol 01 circumstantial evidence would have to be relied on but he had it from her own lips that she proposed to tell the truth and bring the murderer to justice it had been a brutal murder too the killing of peter harter by his brother tom As nearly as could be found out he had been stabbed with out warning simply because he expos with his brother for brutal language used to the old mother it would be a good thing for the community moreover to get rid of tom harter he always had been a bad egg and a menace to peaceable law abiding citizens yes it was a good thing all around and the prose attorney was very complacent as he arose to outline the case to the ury this case gentlemen Is tortu ly so plain that it will be necessary J but a few moment in act I 1 thin one witness i 7 er mine the entire matte le mary harter be sworn As the apman took her seat in the vitnest box an almost imperceptible but heart breaking moan came from the white lips of the old man whose side she left it caught her ear and she turned her upon him As she looked his drawn face and terror stricken eyes tad d from her sight in a sort of mist through which she saw the idee of ler young lover of forty 5 ears ago and in her old ears there rang agair the passionate words he bad whispered there in the days long forgotten for gottel she saw him beside her be you coln to swear away the I 1 fe of our own son mary at the altar on that day of days when all the future was bright and all the rose colored and out of the mist came the out lines of the cradle in which she had rod ed her firstborn the cradle at had built with bis own hands then she beard as in a miream the smug voice of the prosecuting actor cey isow mrs he jury your name and relationship to the prisoner and the victim of this brutal murder and in your own words tell if ou saw the deed and just how it happened turning bewildered eyes on the lawyer the court and the jury the woman gave her name and address then gazing straight at her husband through tear filled eyes she said auth perfect deliberation and emphasis tom and pete had some words about some money and pete got mad and said kill you you low good for bothin bageard bag gard that s what do and he struck him with a will be necessary to detain you bu a few m chair and drove him back into the cor ner tom was bryin to defend him self and he saw he was goin to get hia head broke and there was brur der in pete s eyes and tom reached out for the knife that was on the table and struck at pete and it killed him and that was all there was to it during this testimony the prisoner and his father bad leaped to their feet the former with amazement de picked on his face the latter with tears starting to his eyes while the prosecuting attorney sat back with mouth wide open so thoroughly par that he never protested as the old woman at the end of her mony arose and stepped down from the witness chair she never looked at the prisoner but walked straight to her husband and hand in hand they walked from the court room I 1 11 ask that the case be dis missed said the prosecuting actor ne and I 1 will recommend a study of woman s nature to every law stu dent |