Show I 1 0 t 44 44 10 40 00 I 1 ACCORDING TO LAW V 16 a sa bym P 4 copyright by CL IL lwis 7 is ilo 0 I 1 easm t a tramp but I 1 bad had to be b come next thing to one in S a tva sense with my buying having been in ill and out of work for or mouths with toy my being audi ita less and seedy bud with my raking for a meal here end 4 a bed there the as I 1 tramped the highway highways between and Li liverpool no one could be blamed for sizing me up as a a professional and treating tea accord angly I 1 made no complaint ot at that whit what I 1 complain of at Is 1 tho the vindictive ile DM at of f the english law iti its readiness to do up a man limply simply be became be b may ba be poor and mad unknown once let the lw law lay hands on you and it la to almost a crime to decem your Ina innocence mence of the offense charted A thousand inen men will declare your guilt whew where one will dare to doubt it one otis night in the county ot of warwick I 1 came upon a farmer who hid had neither wife nor children but waa was living alone on bli his small holding nil nto name um wu was nol golborne borrie and though graff grul at first arst he be trally gave give me a hearty supper and the privilege it peonies the night slight in bin tarn barn when upper supper WM wes finished and be bad had beard heard my story he offered me a pipe and wo we ut sat at bli his door and amok ed and chatted for or an am hour it wa was agreed that I 1 should turn to text morn 11 aa 0 11 1111 i A I 1 vvo 1 I 1 I 1 e 00 o 0 a J EU DEAD BOOT BODY UT ON 0 TEX GEM trig ln end work with him in his hi fields for half a month while we were chatting ft neighboring farmer tamer named saunders mine up and halted baited for five live mia laten abild two other others passed oil 00 the highway ind aiutes with a it good cvet ilce it wait wa 20 a 0 4 clock aock before I 1 went to tho the barn barno and belo tired and sleepy I 1 was wa boon won in dreamland ito how w long I 1 had slept when I 1 wa was awakened by the found bound of at voice in anger enter I 1 could a not ol 01 t lay say but I 1 beard what seemed to ba be a quarrel between Hol hilborne borne and another man the voice of the other va as high pitched and had a catch in it it waa not a stammer but a tort sort of imp PIP U it if tattling catal ang big breath I 1 wa WAS cot dot fully aroused nor did tha the quarrel to continue long it wa was juit just sunrise dext morning when I 1 woke up and turned out tl TI e houie house wa was only about five live rodi rods away an and d after looking about to see ce it if H 1 1 borne were in light sight I 1 moved along to the house ilia ills dead body lay on tl it 0 grass before ahn open door ue Us bad lad been truck struck on the head with a IL clib and killed by a ingle single blow I 1 waa Is upset by the discovery dla covery as a you n u ay believe after touching bla his face and finding boiling it cold I 1 stated ot olf on the run tor for the nearest farmhouse half a mile away ilia abe farmer wa was milking his bt cow and hla his wife preparing pr darlng breakfast bu but t they ret trued with lie at once and other neighbor neighbors were clied ud and a boy wa WAS feat neat off to the nearest police pollee sta ta tion I 1 told my story to the people and all believed ito it as a why should they not when barnden wa was among them and yet when the police calme their very first move waa was to abst me ins ai as the th murders mur derrr derr A tramp bad had pail pass ed od the night in the be barn of course U a tramp bad murdered the farmr famor if y yoa a u agree that tho the police wire anam yoa you w U abree that the other others were fool 1 no r wa wait I 1 chefs charged ea alt with h ithe abe murder than all turned ai me saunders BauD dero suddenly aud denly re rit eil that our was wa heated a as he came ap the two bo passed by thought thoy her beard rd me we uie use threatening language A whom I 1 bad not seen at all the evening before chalmel to hare have come n cir nar ar enough to the hoar bases to bay have heard beard me ins aik ask not borne home tor for the loan of il 12 I 1 waa wile an in send but not oat frightened I 1 aked asked the police to investigate my bed on the a and they found it till still wann warm I 1 asked them to look took through the he house u me and they found tou ad nothing dini I 1 asked them there to note tart the tody waa was cold and the doctor who wai was summoned aid said that ufa life had bad been extinct tor for seven or tight houra hours waa was it to be W alit I 1 had killed bol tae t ae na at 10 or 11 0 clock and then in tead lead of plundering th tha a homa house and making off gone to bed slept all 11 angl t and been the fint first to ralie MING an all slam la ili the morning igl and yet I 1 wai was marched off to lall jall and bud within three day abor gasn wasn t a perron in the county who doubted my guilt I 1 waa was examined by a IL who aid I 1 won boull I 1 BO so doubt get tny my jut just de be lerta arts and tha the police plies baiao move whit ever to and any at other party evec the jailer and turnkeys i chuckled over ane that mint must result I 1 told it of ballag heard board the tie quarrel but they said I 1 lied I 1 told of the arrange beato made to go to work tor for la in the morning but they smiled la in de do itilia I 1 rente for cotet ae exavir exa a tir lh and ahli aa wm ame abo b identity I 1 do dot jutow to this day and who must bar have been moved by a spirit of fairness sent ma me a lawyer and CT gave that lawyer momy to work with prell in n then why by a hoa boa ho bo a fool could bar have picked up the threads of tb the c case AJ cleared fr ins within DIE alx lx boun hours aft or r I 1 bad had tou told tha the lawyer ot of the ill quarrel mil rod the man with the catch in hit his vole voice they bad had the murderer spotted nil nis sr wu was jamison ami th the q naftol wn was oter tb the lease 0 at the ram rm a odthe nd the club with which bo he had delivered deU Tred the blow having loit loot bid temper but a not ot inea to kill waa was found la in hi his bou boo moro than out that he h broi broke down and mad a full confession and when th the alzi assizes came ID on be tood stood in the dock la Is my place nevertheless la to act set ung me at alb orty the judd judge did it gly anil lad with ft a warning that lay Y crimes must sooner or later flod and me m out aad and I 1 wu wait barcly scarcely car cly clear ot of the courtroom when the humiliated and find ed pouce police overheated mo we aad mad sea t mabl U atutoa t 46 you did not at commit this eftim bat but only because baem somebody mi ele not gol ahead of you we W know you bad planned to do it na and an are ft a dangerous man to bo be roaming reaming about and if it you an cof not outside iha the county by landown you shall be nu run ta in oo 00 ous lu jamison WM wait bung hung for the tb killing and a lone long confession wu was left la in writ las tag over big bl ova own band but there wn to war es of who still believed bellai cd that the tramp had to do la in so orna way with that murder |