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Show ki I ro!ntlf sweep. Groom. The Wbc U WITed mob and hit daurhter Prince gabin sail sa-il I n. m ' rrb of a PMMrt. An aed prtt. wither PokoB. accompanies ber in fllrM The two I LJ-i an American nwip.r correspondent, Bob I Sffnm who bribe ruard to permit them to crow H fh- border Narounh Dupchlnkr. a bolsherlst, . I !5?ed i to ek and kill the princes. He take. KiYro for America on the me boat with the K Win errs 8ablna. who la palnr as a peaaant ftrL li I Entii. Goror Struck by the rlrla beauty. Dnp-7 Dnp-7 B5wniky m.ike lore to her. much to ber dlatre. U I rhiorrifjt in Grodnia, and Count Jan li tent by ; , d(rl 0f the old rertme to find the prince that liBorrlMf between the two may be arranred and I the aueen pat upon her throne. He meets HJlm I in route home confide hie mlMlon. and aak hit twH zjj The prince re ache New York and roe I into hldlnr Dupchlnsky annoya her H boaata I Z.eT hl mL'nlon. and the finally promlae to marry F Mai when he ha killed the prtneeas. " Naitia. . bolsherUf foraaken weetheart. trail him to vw York Jan and Naatla both dlacorer the nHcrvM, canalnc her treat alarm. Uallam appear od to iceoo araln. The prince reject Jan and 7n him that she will make no conteat for th f tkrene A Dupchlnaky it about to kill the prince, be himself 1 WHod by Naalia. The prince, jfajuo nd Hllam are arrted and taken to po- 4 headquarter. Naatla 1 held for trial and f Jj,e 0then are releaed. Hallam write " the atory " i ior hla newspaper FOURTEENTH INSTALLMENT. THE TRIAL. THE courtroom was Jammed. Day after day Hallam's paper had written exclusive interviews with Prtn- cess Sablna, 'lay after day it had published I jnew and exclusive photographs of this ro-rnantlc ro-rnantlc royal rofugfr-, and no rival newapa-1 newapa-1 per had ever been able to find her or get a ft y word from her. I Established In the home of Mrs. Hallam, she and Father Pokoff had remained hidden from tho world at large Her whereabouts Bvu the despair of city editors and the panlo of their most astute reporters. Always where there Is a police element In a story the au-lABthorltles au-lABthorltles furnish assistance or at least val- uablo ciews toward the finding of those who figure In interesting: news; but here Hallam was the officer, and he did not propose to let any one from without In on his treasured se- Crete. r He was trailed and spied upon by tha Bothers, but his eominps and coings furnished ho hint, since there was nothing significant I in his going home twice dally. One or two who got a flash of suspicion that Sablna F might be hidden at his home, unlikely as that fappeared, were met at the door by the aml-rable aml-rable but suave widow, Hallam's mother, who gasped at the spoken suggestion that a prin-cess prin-cess of the blood might accept her humble hospitality. Neither the princess nor the priest ever left the house during the Interval Inter-val between their arrival and the morning f the first day of Nastla's trial. The police did not exercise themselves over : the absence of their two star witnesses, as they had Hallam's daily assurance that he f could and would produce them when wanted, and he himself, a principal witness, had giv- on to the prosecuting attorneys all data that they asked for. The federal officers verified Bob's authority as tho representative of the bureau of immigration and were satisfied ; that he should retain custody of their two Witnesses of value In the investigation of conditions affecting tho insidious roots of bolshevism In New York n The disappearance of the princess had changed from a " mystery " to a scandal as the "scoops" followed day after day. The reproduction of her resignation over her own signature the day after the first publication of the story, that walloping beat which had , given all the other newspapers a woeful lick-lng, lick-lng, and after Now York had been scoured t np street and down avenue by the host of newspaper hunters for the central flguro of I the tremendous story, had been a 6evero : blow, following on the unmerciful first one. Circulation on Bob's paper rose by bounds. The biggest local story of the year had become be-come a one-paper monopoly. The others fol-f fol-f lowed gingerly and as best they could. The I afternoon prints stole the stuff shamelessly. But It was reprint and every one knew it. I Hallam had grown to be the foremost figure I In the newspaper war 14. far tho tima at I least. Of course there were other news sources. I The bolshevistic character of the coffee house ( had come in for a big play, all around, and I through this the winnowinp and burrowing l had developed and uncovered the surprising 1 If not alarming growth of anarchy on the B; free soil of America. Raids and arrests came t thick and the llcenso of the fell coffee dive I as a public resort was revoked by the mayor on request of the federal officials 81euth Grogan, seeing some money In sight, had gone to one of the other newspapers and f- Volunteered to sell all that he knew, which f Was bought and played up as a sensational return beat. Nastia, who was available, was I cross questioned half to death, posed for plc- tores and run frantic So the substantial facts gained general publication. But what V are facts as compared to personalities, and I What personality can compare with a living I princess young, orphaned and dethroned by I, bolshovlsm. pursued by nihilism, sentenced to death In a secret council of a rabid soviet, I loved by her pursuer, wooed by a count, wit-r wit-r Bess to a double murder of both her suitors I M ahe heraelf was about to be slain, mur- 1 dera enacted by her one time maid, whoso lover had been the avenger swain? No wonder that the public craved, raved to see her in the royal flesh. Her withdrawal from royal pretensions had been cabled round the globe and had been answered from Grodnia. Tho soviet had met and voted resolutions deploring the death of their loyal and distinguished dis-tinguished comrade, Naroush Dupchinsky, who had died a martyr hero In the act of striking for liberty and the eternal emancipation emancipa-tion of his delivered people." It was proposed to erect a monument to him on the spot where the royal palace had been razed by him and his cohorts Two of Nastla's cousins had been butchered in the streets when they showed themselves during a parade in demonstration dem-onstration of the official sorrow and mourning over tho death of Dupchinsky. The soviet issued an acceptance of the ab-Mo&tion ab-Mo&tion of Princess Sablna, declaring the royal lines thus ended forever, and appended to it the courageous statement that Sablna had taken her self denying stand through fear of the power of bolshevism and through realisation that Its arm stretched everywhere every-where around the world and recognition of the futility of Its doomed attempting evasion or escape But the flamboyant utterances were more blatant than sincere Grodnia had undergone horrible times The power of the soviet, rampant in the momentum of tho first tremendous tre-mendous triumphs, beginning to wabble a bit in tho early rumblings of timid protest against the atrocities of the bolshevist reign, had by now begun to recognize serious and menacing prophecies of ruin in the stern and stubborn opposition which, as bolshevism Itself It-self had grown, was developing with snowball snow-ball velocity around the soul of indignation and rebellion swelling through the land. The outrages were beginning to be answered an-swered with resistance and armed revenge. The first riots had all been massacres by the constituted bullies of bolshevism; but now they were two-sided battles with groups of citizens banded together or flocking to tho upport of one another. For a time the cen tralized power of red anarchy had been able easily and bloodily to sweep aside each stand of return rebellion. Now the tide was turning turn-ing Every inhuman defeat strengthened th heated hatred against the rough riding upstarts, up-starts, each killing lost one enemy to bolshevism bol-shevism and made a hundred. Already the uniformed guards of the soviet had been met in open combat and successfully success-fully fought. Already the frantic central council had met and hastily issued pronun-clamentos pronun-clamentos holding forth certain reforms and apologizing for the injustices and barbarities on specious grounds of natural confusion In promulgating a new national government. Already laws countenancing ' free marriage" and other superradlcal pets of bolshevism had been withdrawn, and violation of women was declared punishable by death. Some r XI, semblance of protection for llfo and property was promised. All this gradually was breaking down the power of bolshevism. All this presaged vis ibly and beyond dental the gradual development develop-ment of the sevlet monstrosity into a ropub llcan form of central government. The bolshevik bol-shevik ofheohetkiere, grand grafters and bloodthirsty leadern had net yet surrendered or admitted their defeat. But they were being be-ing pressed buck with the rest, back from the unreasonable bolshevistic extremes which had succeeded the irrational royal extremes Into the middle path of orderly and sane democracy, not bound by tho iron hand of an arbitrary monarch, not ruled by a howling howl-ing mob of armod gorillas, but maintained by the chosen representatives of all the people. peo-ple. Already a constitution was being openly advocated on the street corners and Allowed discussion by virtue of a proclamation guaranteeing guar-anteeing freedom of speech one of the first rules the soviet had been cudgeled Into submitting sub-mitting The soviet rulers wore to be allowed seats at the constitutional convontlon, but the people at large were electing their delegates, dele-gates, who would outnumber the organized beasts of bolshevism. The people had awakened, awak-ened, having lived through both ends of criminal crim-inal governmental Imposition, and were taking tak-ing hold; and nowhero have the people yet been unable to rule themselves where thoy have found their power, found their viewpoint, view-point, and found their courage. All this was appended to the dally devel opments of the sensational " follow " on tho Sablna story. And all this, 60 thrilling in itself, only added to the tremendous curiosity which surrounded the breathing foremost personally of the world wide series of classic episodes And she was lost in New Yoik lost except to Bob Hallam. Through his column, and thus by cable to Grodnia, she sent a message encouraging those who had once worshiped her, whom sho now claimed freely as her equals and brethren, breth-ren, to push back the bolshevik usurpers and tho bolshevik apostles and to declare, establish, estab-lish, and maintain a republic Several items In answer stated that red fire had been burned in support of her message In the public streets and that a committee had voted her an invitation to attend the constitutional convention con-vention as a citizen of Grodnla. Princpss Sabina accepted the bid through n cable written in hr own hand, reproduced, of course, by Hallam, exclusively. The soviet so-viet having officially withdrawn tho sentence of death against her, the thought was plausible plausi-ble even in the faco of the still surviving, squirming strength of the soviet and its self-eeeking self-eeeking supporters in Grodnia. And this girl was to bo the witness In chief at a public trial in New York Sho would be there, visible, almost touchable. The court officers were offered large bribes for ringside ncits in the spectators' lnclosuro for the sessions, Moving picture companies had arranged for star " locations " near the doors of the building to seek a " shot " at this extraordinary international figure, for she was beautiful as well as famous and violently violent-ly Interesting. On the first morning of the trial Hallam 6llpped Sablna and Father Pokoff out of tho house early and took them for a drive through the parks so that their starting place would not be revealed. Before the plo-ture plo-ture operators or the dense crowd about the entrance had noticed it the closed car had 6topped and three people had crossed the walk and been lost behind tho massive outer doors. Sabina was recognized from her frequent fre-quent photographs, in spite of her veil, by a few, and the buzz Instantaneously made known that she had come The press toward to-ward the courtroom was so heavy that the police handled It with difficult and some employment em-ployment of clubs. Hallam led his witnesses past the knot of guards at the inner portals and into the partitioned par-titioned section for witnesses and principals. The craning of necks and animated whispering whisper-ing wero subdued only when th bailiff rapped for order and the proceedings becamo fornrnl. Hallam was but slightly less ogled than Fablno and Nastia, for his fame had become ft municipal Institution. But he was busy and divided himself with determining the preliminary prelim-inary details and protecting Sabina from too obstreperous gaze of tho spectators. Nastta, looking Pl but unruffled, rather hopeful than blankly disinterested as ahe had seemed on the night of the tragedies, appeared with her attorney, a leader of the bar who had accepted the case without fee, regarding It, as it obviously was, a valuable feather in his cap to be the defending counsel in this most talked of and written of criminal case in years. Nastla was arraigned and pleaded not guilty through her Interpreter The witnesses were sworn en masse. By agreement of ths state and defense a Jury was accepted without with-out much preliminary wrangling, and, with promptness unknown to issues of such vital public Interest, the process of trial was In action within an hour. The prosecutor presented hla case briefly to the Jury: Defpndant was a non-citizen who had been betrayed, she alleged, by one of the deceased; ehe would claim that she did not come here with the direct purpose of killing him, perhaps per-haps not true, but the point would be waived by the state; admitting then that she had come with an innocent heart, although she had brought a revolver with her, ahe had demanded de-manded of deceased that he marry hft", whioh deceased had refused to do; she had then deliberately de-liberately followed him through the streets and into the home of the witnesses and killed him; true, he was In the act of committing a murder himself, but not against defendant; that there had been venom in her heart was indicated by the fact that she had poured four bullets Into hlrn, three after he had fallen; however, it was not the purpose of the prosecution to seek conviction for the murder of lhiDchinsky, but for the killing of Count Jan of Grodnia; although the bullet which she discharged Into his brain had not been fired with direct intent to kill or even to injure him, his death had been caused by her while In the process of committing an Illegal deed, which constituted murder by statutory onactment and would therefore re llcve the issue of the trying complexities of whether her anger at Dupchinsky did or did not ameliorate her act, killing, even when under influence of great hatred with cause, was an Illegal act per se, and when in suoh nn act an Innocent third party was deprived of life it fell under the cold and unequivocal statutes in such cases made and provided. Counsel for the defense answered: Grounds existed sufficient to establish substantial sub-stantial Insanity, which would have to be adduced ad-duced In the process of conveying to the Jury tho facts, but the defense would waive the plea of insanity and would call no experts, that the facts in themselves would prove Justifiable homicide in the slaying of Dupchinsky Dup-chinsky as well as Count Jan, that, whatever the ulterior motives of defendant might have been In following Dupchinsky, In arming herself, her-self, in drawing her weapon, all ef this becamo be-camo null and inconsequential because, when she entered the house she beheld Dupchinsky with uprais-d knife about to butcher witness, wit-ness, Princess Sablna of Grodnia; that she Immediately fired upon him while he was in this brutal and murderously criminal act; that, while she missed him and accidentally killed Count Jan. she nevertheless fired the shot to save an innocent victim from a murderer mur-derer in tho very act of committing a de-libaraia de-libaraia ani al assassination, that she flr4 her next shot, the first that struck Dupchinsky, Dup-chinsky, while he was again in the act of attempting and about to consummate a mur-dar, mur-dar, this time against witness, Hallam, who was unarmed and against whom Dupchln-sky's Dupchln-sky's knife could not, therefore, have been used In self-defense; that, had she not shot Whon she did, witness, Hallam, would have been killed, that, no matter what motive prompted her In firing the additional three I shots probably merely excitement and over-wrought over-wrought emotions the first shot severed hla spine and was, therefore, fatal beyond argu-ment; argu-ment; that, as one cannot kill or Injure a 1 dead man, the three other shots were In no manner germane to the question of guilt or Innocence, that these details would be entire- i ly substantiated by three witnesses of far more than ordinary Intelligence and credlbll- fl ity, a royal princess, whoso noble conduct had endeared her to a world, a priest of tho k H holy church, and the most famous and brilliant bril-liant Journalist of the generation, Hallam was called as the first witness after the detective had testified for a few minutes to Identify the revolver and tell of the girl'a arrest. Hallam acted as a court's witness, subject to cross examination by both sides, and, in his character as a public figure and I H an officer of his country, was virtually un-assailed un-assailed as to his veracity. He told his story concisely and with the clear cut diction and descriptive strokes of the expert reporter. He shielded no one, frankly stated that ths girl bad drawn her revolver Oerore sne had entered the house, and that she had confessed con-fessed later that she had come to kilt Dupchinsky Dup-chinsky and was glad she had killed him. but he also established every point made by 1 Nastla's lawyer as to the spllt-hair second by which her shot had saved his life and tho exact moment at which she had fired on Dup- j chlnsky the first shot, the one that had killed Jan. the moment in which Dup-chinsky's Dup-chinsky's knife would have plunged into ! Sablna's breast. Father Pokoff. whose memory' vas not at clear as Hallam's, nor whose observation j was as keen, testlfisd through an Interpreter and was excused without much pressing when it was seen that he had been highly moved during the whole scene and knew i nothing about It except what Hallam had told, except the details of Dupchinsky'o courtship of Sabina. which had to be dls- I cussed as touching on why he had come thero to murder her on that night. To the accompaniment of a volley whispering and gasps of vehement eagerness from the sensation seekers. Princess Sablna was called. The trim little woman mounted j the stand, and. to the Immeasurable surprise of the crowd, spoke In fluent English. "Your name?" asked Nastla's lawyer Sablna Sa-blna being called as a witness for the defense, " Sablna," ? I "Sabina what? " Sablna that is all." " You have a title, have you not?" No, sir." "Are you not a princess?' " I was, sir." "You are a citizen of Grodnia? " Yes, sir. But I hope to become a citizen of the United States." "By naturalization?" " By marriage." Here was "copy" At last Hallam waj not getting the news all for himself The other reporters grinned with boyish delight I at this gratuitous confession. For hours Sablna testified, going through the entire story of her early relations with Nastla, her meeting with Hallam, her flight to America, and her meeting with Dupchinsky, Dup-chinsky, the torturous experiences which she had suffered at his hands, arrival of Nastla, the arrival of Jan. and the essentials of her Interview with him the sudden entrance of Dupchinsky with upraised knife, Hallam's rush at him In the moment when Nastia fired the shot that struck Jan. Hallam's heroic battle with the murderously armed Dupchinsky, Dup-chinsky, Nastla's shot Into Dupchlnsky's ribs Just In the nick of time to save Hallam from being stabbed to death, Nastla's statements after the killings and while 6he seemed dazed and overcome with some compelling and entirely unnatural emotion. Cross-examined, she easily defeated a somewhat unsubtle lead of the prosecution to bring out that she, Hallam, Jan, and Nastla had entered Into a conspiracy to entrap en-trap Dupchinsky Into the house for Nastia to kill him in revenge and for Sablna to rid herself of an unwelcome suitor who at the same time was a menace to her safety, Ths district attorney sought to hint that perhaps Nastla, whose witnesses admitted she had drawn her revolver before he had drawn his knife, was leveling her weapon at him when he had pulled out the knife to defend himself. him-self. The state made little progress along that direction. Sablna was dismissed. H Within an hour the Jury acquitted Nastla on grounds that she had shot to save two innocent in-nocent lives and recommended that she bo deported as an undesirable alien This recommendation, rec-ommendation, while not binding, was accepted accept-ed by the immigration department, and Nastla was taken Into custody to be shipped back to Orodnla, but on Hallam's appeal, when he recalled the fact that her kinsman had been slain by bolshevikl adherents be-oause be-oause of her act, the order for deportation was canceled on Hallam'a mother taxing her on parole and agreeing to be responsible for the girl's behavior. And so the trial ended. Hallam led tho three principals out with him and to hit home. (To be concluded. (Coprrtftl: ltH I Br Jck Xltl |