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June 1st
'WALKER ESCAPES TEE GALLOWS,
But May be Trkd en the Charge of
Murdering Mrs. Williams.
efeWhirrole Addresses the Court for Nearle
Iwo Blonri-1010 wildly shouts that the
Madee and emery are aim Murderers -
lathes eeream and Matta -Addresses of
*he counset-othe Judges Chomee-The
'lenience.
to t newentinee eenreieniteative. lie iiilds
•In Some eie the popes May I nie hreettinn
down. They oughtto see the break/Oil 4
ate. If some ef them fellows that Me
saying MeWhirrell end lidoWhirrell
breakieg down, heel to by in jail end
feed 013 ' for * Month or tWe I Pei*
theY would be psis aloe."
The arab witneet celled in the morniog
wt.* John Tobin, a neweboy, who sued he
knew Weaker, end taw him en Thursdate
December 140a, about 1140 m. Thie
olosed the defeuce.
Ohio! Oenstiable 3Efureb was then ma
celled in rebuttal. He fedi" then the breaks
aeon leading to Moody's house woe node
by him ann two ether men. This closed
the evidence.
MB. amen/ewes Arentnts.
him Robinette then bagatelles addrees to
the even. He end that it Wa0 unnecoultry
for him to Veen to the importance of the
case. Tbrouglione the comatry a desire had
aeon to bring the offeedere to justice.
The ablest deteetives in the entice of the
Provence had been ciallen in, and the ablest
detective ors tile Torouto datootive foroe bed
been called upon to eaten Ae a result two
men had been avreettee, end every nerve
strained to brig evidence against them.
The =women bed taken the matter up,
and the best reportere, men skilled
in looking up facts fin omen of thie kind,
bad furnished the groundwork /or the
detectives to work upore Frealiog hed been
etirred asp for an! ensile* the prisoners.
Then the ablest Chown promeoutor in the
nuntry bed beett retainen to marshal the
evidence in the entre before the jury, and
the Ciro'n had made it its particular busi-
ness to bring the 05,30 home to these two
prisoner/I. He then drew attentiou to the
evidence, and peinted out that the evideece
of detectives end policemen wee of a
cisme that did not stand very high in a
court of law. The Case for the Crown
rested largely upon ouch eieldenee. Re re-
ferred to the money and meatus at the dis-
poet ef the Crown, and toe leek of both
in the one of the Iptisonere, Mr. Retitl-
ed° then reviewed the evidence of the
defen es witnesses. In Denoted= he
pointed eut that the evidence Wigenthey
circumstantial, and thsat in many cane lune -
cent people had suffered through such
eveletsce. The enpores had testified that ii
was diffieult for mole a murder to te com-
mitted without leaving blood steins Da the
clothieg, and there was entire abeence of
any emit stains on the paisonere' olothirig.
Ho *noted by paisatiew out to the jury that
It wae their duty te give the primer the
benefit of any reasoneble doubt. Mr.
Robinette epeke for over two hours and
made a very able address.
Mr. Chao. Meldssy, counsel for Walker,
followed him, and spoke fer aue hour. Be
poiseted out that It would be impossible for
the prbiener Walker to go out to Williams'
place along with eleWhirrell on Thursday,
the 14tb,and said tbat througeout the whole
tratanactien he was MoWhirrell's servant.
MB. osermis SPEECH.
The pritonere bear up etolidly against
.evidence whice would pale the cheeks ef
otrenger men. MoWhirrell e cerbeinly bo -
sleeting to sonneolat e the danger of his
position, but Walker is apparently am
different au ho wee on the day when. he was
f.rat placed en Wen
When the centre met this moreitig Mr.
'Robinette rammed his oroes.examination
.of Mrs. Stableford, et Woburn, and pined
the admiration of everybody ?regent by the
ekilful manner in wntoh he handled the
wittiest. He Glinted front her in answer
to hie gantlets an explanation whioh pate
in a new /ight the remark or MeWhir.
yell that "an old woman had been killed,
and they say I did it." At the time he
geld this MoWhirrell was reading the
'Wedgy Mail, which contained an acessunt
ef the murder and a description of the
Toting Englislaman who had been making
ingeiriee for the house of the old couple
on Thursday, December 14th, the day ef
the killing. It le natural to euppoee that
Meneherrell, knowing that he hail been
mearelaing for the Williams plate on that
fatal dey, would ree.ddy unrIerstand that
he was the man wanted. The kneb of the
hunting crop was then produced, and Mrs.
Stableford repeated t es statement thet she
Anew it as that which had been owned by
the ptieener. She and that MeWhirrell
told her he had broken the stick, but she
would net wear to the time that he had
told her se, and she remembered he had
taken the knob out of his overooab pocket,
-and, raying that he would not lose lb for a
geed deal as he had brought it frem Eng-
land, piacedit Ell the deck ehelf. nne
weuld not swear as to the date on which
this bad eiceurree, whether before he bed
gene away on December 13th or after he
had come back. The broken 'stick found at
the Williams piece was nhowsa her, and she
ab once eaid that Ws was net the esti*
-which had been lathe handle when Me-
Whirrell had it. Thie stick: which was pro-
duced had been ess whibbled ab one end that
it would fit into the handle.
Deteetive De.713 told the story of Mo.
Whirrell's arrant and the statement made
by the prironer. The only new point
enreught out in his evidence Weis that the
detective force were unabie to find where
the Maslen horse hed been stabled in Toronto
on Thursessy night. Neither he.d the Per.
iamb cep and tweed Menem belonging
to MoVehirrell been toned. The revolver
and ether articles stolen from Williams'
house had net been recovered.
Made': tried °erne to a olemaboutesdoleck
this evening. The closing eerie was one of
the web drematio ever witnessed ia a Cm-
adian court -room. The jury brought in a
verd et of guilty in the cam of leleddhirrell,
and Walker wae acquitted. Then came a
death -like silence au Welker was led away.
The court -room was crowded to anffecetien.
Outside tbe people clamored up the walls to
peer la through the window. Planks were
ripped up aud formed convenient plates to
Maud upon and gaze at the atrange scene in-
side. On the leech, calm end imperturbable,
eat Mr. Justice Ilergueon, the largest figure
In the court -room, hie face an impaesive
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if out in etoae. Women were everywhere.
The gallery was iammed fdli to the doore
with them. The gran i jury seats,
and even a portion of the mete that the
"jury oceupied duting the week,
were taken up by the f air se x,
They crowded about the Wenner,' table,
and the reportere had barely room with
them to use their flying pencils as they clot ely
followed every word end every incident
of the culminating moments in the tried.
The excitement was intone. When His
Lerdehip teid MeWhirrall to stand up, they
were perhaps the two pereons letien excited
In the genre) room. His Lordship then asked
the primmer if he bad anything to say
why min hence ebenld rob be posed upon
him. The primmer mid
" YES, MY LORD,"
and then be began to weak, and tell hie
story ef the fatal nights. He aileged he was
innocent to the late He spoke for over two
house. Sometimes be had hie bands in his
peckete and when he gob excited he would
pound the reel ef the dook with his fist. He
would step frequently in the middle of his
MAMA to say, "My Lord, I do not say this
because I expest mercy. You have to do
your duty. I am nob afield to die." As he
neared the end he said, "1 bays faced death
often before, I ewer' It as a boy in Afghani's -
tan, etrrying despatithes ; I feted deeth In
Burmah, In Egypt and in the Sowlen with
bullets flyirg around me like hail. I
am no coward. I went to look you all in
bhe lace to show you I am ne coward. 041y
a Inward would hill two old, helplese, into.
cent people, and I ate not the man. Do I
look like a °owned ? Ns, I did nob de the
crime. You gentlemen, of the jay,"
pointing hie urger at the jervmen, "yell
are bile murderers of MeWhisrell. Mo.
Whitrell a nob the man. 1 forfeit my life
for wiener man. I am not afraid of death.
I have faced Ib in foreign etude, I oan
fete death here. My Lord, reek° no
sympathetic) speeob, burs jt sentence me
awl have it over." Hie Lordship did not
may a word except repeat the brief but ter-
rible formula, eentenoing lifin to be heard
On June let. Women wore sobbing and
=yen all over the room.
" ten Is INNOCENT,"
;shrieked s "Milan In the gallery, all the
fientsentie wau pronounced, slid Osten several
went into hysterion am the prisoner WO led
ant of tbe court -room. The crowd made
mad rush for the outeide to get is
breath of Pent air and try and forget the
trying mem that had been enacted Wilde.
None of the spectator's enjoyed the grue-
ling() Opeatadle, leaeb of all the jury that
letand the prisoner guilty. te
The court, opened promptly at 9 o'oltiole
In the morning. M an early hour the town
*see retie, and the Armin presented a Very
Wein elleeseranee. The people from the
'surrounding country pawed in in large
Otambers, and Meth trent brought its roma
lef pamengere teeent upon metcsiting is glimpie
Of thewrisoners.
.Aa Walker and MoWhirrell were being
protaght in in thee/mitts% the letter 'peke
envie'', 'repeatedly durtug the reared of
hie story MoWhirrell tanned to the gallery
where the ladle' Were land to the body of
the room, end seld that he wiehed them all
to listen to and remember itifs words
sane they would eotnetiene learn then the/
Were true, Tho Chown evidenoe was fahe
and folse wheelies had been pranced
epeeists. him. Ceethaeing his story, Mo.
Whirred mid he lied asked dhow the
*banner 01 the work and Gory had told
nine mime he would have to do. The old
woman* he bed paid, would de the milking,
but the old man war e. cripple and oeuln do
nothing. MoWeirrell had then mid to
Oory teat he would go out in the moseing
and fete if he could get the jeb. At the
time they wore tweaking there were in the
bar -room, end Iletenlog to them, two mailers,
is peenter, John Walker tind the porter of
the hotel. After Cory had gone out Mc -
Whirred!, according be his °Wu etern, teed
balked with Welker, and bed offered him $4
for is Net of Dickens' worko, bub Weiser
wanted sio. Next morning he had gone
about the t e wit looking for work. Abeubnoon
on Thursday be Morten for Port Credit. He
want lute Denning's!) restaurants, opresite
Straohen ermine to have dinner finite and
began his journey shortly rafter 12 (Meek.
He get is ride from where the eleobric cars
Dumb as far as Mimics, and gob off there.
He team walked along the Lake Shore read,
And met Pat Dougherty and Prim:nate. He
recitals:awl of the coaversatien he Paid he
had with them, but be denie,1. that be said
Williams lime hie uncle. Daugherty had
aeked him if Williams were is relation of Ms.
and he had answered, "Hs might be, end
he might nob he." When Hickey tante up
Dougherty mid
emu IS A SMART 'YOUNG MAN,
Mr. Osler epee° for twe benne and bee
address was a terrible arraignment ef the
two prim:tem. He pointed out tlaeh when
an article was stolen, and it was afterwards
recavered in the poeseseten of a nem, the
onus rested epee him to prove how he ahem
into pessession of the etelen geode. The
usual excuse was that he bought It from
some mythicel person, but the entirte took
very iittle stook in Buret an excuse. his
was is similar ease, only the mere terrible
crime of minder was c =pled with the
theft of tbet home and cutter. He said that
the Crown did not aSSnyne that the crime
was committed on any particular night. If
it was done en Thursday night, so much the
betMr for Walker. If on leriday, the worse
for both prissoners. With reference to the
btlIing ef the tore people, ha said the pre-
eumption of the evidence was that lb must
have taken two venoms to die the deed.
This told strongly against Walker. Mr.
Oilier spoke for two hours, end big address
was very convinoing. Hewes watched very
closely througlione by the jury.
THE =ME'S 'WARW..
bed put in the Onehe the oley till he bad
gone beck toStablefordte. This. eugenic('
the orop, and be smerted that he had.
broken this stiok before returnitig on the
llth of December. He put the knob on the
remit and lied net tottotled It afterwards.
He had told Stableford the night of the
llth that) he had broken the obis*. Theo
Meek was met tor was the nob in hls
Peneesion when he had gene to the
'ntitle's'. "I am an innocent man, and
ma facc jadge, jure, ladies and every
elle oleo. I had no other neuters on when
I retutned for the host time to Eltablefordn
than there 1 went away with, nor did I
ever have a black cap, These Wooers
look dark when they ere wet. I bed no
rubber bone. If I had and had sold them
in is emourithatul etora the meter& would
tell. The prisoner, as these wordy showed
and ea his voice indicated, was becoming
alight:ay bysterial mod had MU011 trouble to
keep himself in control. Where was muoh
f rupathy fele for him, mpecially by the
ladle% mislay ef whom
who has been alumni all over the world. Re
Is looking for a man named Williams, a, rsba
aye of his. Hickey replied that he did net
think MeWhirrell could be is relative, as
Williams was an Mohnen, and the yoneg
than was English. MeWhirrell said no,
that he was Scotch. He admittid osUbng
at the other henees after beteg directed by
Hickey, and said that Mrs. MeeKey did
net tell the right story. "That is the
trouble with them ell," he remarked,
parenthetically. Minh McKay had te find
out from is bey in the yard which was the
house, and she then gave the direetteme
He theist continued on for the quarter of a
mile further' and entered the Williams'
yard at 5.30o'clock. Mee. Williams was
in the yard at the Ulna, and he had told
this to the detective, but it had not come
out in evidence. She wiis going to the
barn with a pelt of water or something in
her band. He desatibed what she were.
Mr. William was also in the yard, and
he spoke to bite and baked Si he meld get
work, that he had heard he wanted a hired
min. Williams replied, "1 did want a
hired man, but I have got one coming ter
his board. I can get plenty far their herd."
Finding that he could not geti tee jab,
he asked Mr. Willisene what the time was,
and this was tbe way he knew it Was 5.30.
He spoke of William olothes, whioh he
bad been meowed of stealing, and which
he supposed were those he was then
wearing. "His olothes may yet be found
and McWhirrell not yet hang," added the
primmer. He described the clothing as a
black peaked cap, a Mack omit, black vent
and a white shirt, with a black tie and is
black pair of pants. Williams had a stick
isa hia hand. "I never weet into the house,
Mr. Justice Pergolas' than eneamed sap
the oate. He reviewed the evidence at
conelderable length, and it -hogged strongly
!solute tbe prisonern, particularly 17dalker.
In eonolusion, Hts Lordehip said " Yon
have never been in a more solemn position.
I am free to say time I have never been.
Two follow-behme are charged with the
greatest crime /mown to the lone. You may
find one guilty, and One innocent; yonnmy
find both innocent or both guilty. I feel
the responsibility tbs,t /este upon, me.
Eireryone towards the o1aa of euob a ease
asks himself, Have 1 or have I not per-
formed the whole of tay duty as well ise I
may l' Yon bates, eaoh and all of you, to
aot in the capeolty ef is judge, and say
whether the prisoners are guilty or not
guilty. You can bring no other forte of
verde% for any modification Is not per-
missible."
Mr. Robinette) then ,fteked His Lordthip
to charge the jury that they were trying
the priaenera on the James Williams
indictment, oleo that any evidence as to the
note that was written by Walker in jail or
any confeneon made lay one prieener againsb
anether prisenor, was net mile ewe against
anybody bat himaelf. Hie Lordship acqui-
esced, and the eery went out They re-
mained oat for over au hour, and there was
is bindle and commotion in the court -room
as the Judge took hie Neat on Um betide end
they returned.
Mr. Orier boa gone to the clty on the 7
sechick train. .Mr. MeFolden was acting
for the Crown, There was a death -like
stillnema in the court-reom as Mr. Duggan,
olerk of the court, called the jury roll. Ho
asked them the nenel qualm If they hail
arrived et 5 voteltet,
Ddr. James Stubbs, who had been chosen
foreman stood' hp and said ""Yeo. We
find William Walter ndoWhirrell
Walker net guilty." The dimes as ha
spoke wag oppreettive, broken by is deep sob
from the rev of the cent -roan.
Mr. McFewden asked that Walker be re-
manded tell the next *seise on the is ecend
indictment, charging him murdering
Jane
Mr. Macey moved that Walker be ah-
ohs,rged on the Indictment jest tried.
Welker well then taken out ef the reem to
the jell, where ho will remain till the Crowe
rankest up its mind whether to try hint next
fell or lob him go leen
MoWhierell then asked for is glees of
' water, whiffle was handed to him. He !oohed
dowa at the repartees)? tahlo tend mid:
" Henn
is drink to Mcnierhirrell," His
Lordship then esid, "Stand ep,MoWisiterell.
Have you anything teary why the sehronoe
• of this acerb ehonid sot be pinned upon
your .
The Worhienter's enemas.
In is clear, nerooant heave ler whit& there
wee net the slightest ovideree of agitation,
MoWhirrell end "Yesr My Lord, I Italie.
I am en innment non and I wink to lob the
people know tbnt I cess look eny men in the
floe. Thie trial hes all ben wrong. I
will tell you the beets m they oceurred."
Ile then told of meeting With John Ciory in
Fittigerald'ss honied on the 13ish, and hearing
fend hiee that there meta peeilbility of
gettsine a jab et Williams' plane, neat Peet
eltredie He went iiesnewhab reluntely tete
the oollveellatithl, and sail that Corn bed
not toia bka h. bad Inst left the Willimm*
OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.
wenn SOSBING ALOUD,
Clentinning, the primmer tent be harl been
all over the world --in Attlee, Asia, Europe
and America. Re had been between the
English sud Afghan llama in the Puojeb
and in Zanzibar, through all kinds of
dawn, and 11 I never yet atria an eld
teats nor yet a woman. No man aa a 000088
IlloWhiirell of defog teach a cowardly trick.
The men who did that murderIvere coward,
and brutal cowards, and they deserve to be
purdsbed, bub I can look any man in the
face and say that MeWhirrell is innocent."
If he hid any notion at all of what he wee
to suffer by the purohasse of that home he
never would have bought him. Ile
had done 002, and yeb I stand in
this bex to be 'sentenced 00 be hung. I
could emb look yen in the bee, I mule nob
leek anybody in the face,
my Lord, if 1
had dem such a oewardlydeed," He com-
plained bitterly ef having been draggsd
at a criminal through the conetry, and of
the threat's of lynching which he seid had
been mede at Cookeville. "There is =ne-
ttling in that old man Moody," brake out
the prisoner with unexpected vehemence,
"11 mune have been dons by a neighbor,
serneene close. Thee deed was nob done
for money. John Cory, shut up in the j sil
with me tale many titan, G— d--
those Williams, I wish they had been oub
to pieces long ego.'" He then appeeled to
the judge to know wheker he looted like
a man who would go and kill two old
people. "Yon and the jury are respensibie
far my life
YOU ARE THE MURDERERS OF M'WHIRRELL.
MoWhirrell is ineocent and I em not
afraid to fee the scaffold, bemuse I am an
innocent male." Them latter remarke were
made with zuoh a melodramatia atr and
tone et voice that even to the most pitying
they could "let fail to snag mt the rant of a
poor play. "I hope Your Lerdehip will
net make any sympathetic epeeelt to me,
but kelt read the sentence and no mere
about it."
SO _litaLP ME GOD.
I asked him the time and the shortest wily
back to the city, and he directed me to the
road, where I could get the them cars."
He bad started batik, he catitinued, and
people had seen him, it they would only sae
so. Some of those whet had men him had
been In court, but had not given evidence.
"1 do ore say thie in the hope of getting
eff, I know whet yeur Lerdehip is going to
read ent." He went along the middle
road for is while, and then to the Lake
Shore road and so into the city. He
passed the oniverb at whioh Dougherty
and Primrose had been working, and
found bosade put amens to ken) people
from fahling to. He walked to New Tor-
onto and got the eleetrio cam He de-
scribed the two pamengers in it when he
entered and the colored man who had some
in later after they had got off. He had
been told by the guard to pebble fare in the
bor. The oar had had some difficulty
towards Woe leat in getting through the
snowdrifts. He bail net gore into &holm'
Heed on Thursday night. "11 would do
me no good to tell is lie now." He wont
sti eight to Fazgereld's, whore he got a hot
drink. He told the bartender that he bad
beast at Port Credit looking for work. Re
again met Walker there, and had eate. hsr
talk about Dickens' works, and again
offered to buy them. Irwin could prove all
this, the prisoner said, "and if Irwin had
bean here I would not have had the sen-
tence on me I have new." He went to bed
there that night, and when he came down
next morning Walker eves waiting for him
and
ASEEP BTM FOR FIVE CENTS
to help him to get breakfast with. He and
Walker went to Tobin's tegether ler this
mead. He denied that he had told Walker
that he was going to the exhibition. He
palsied the day, which was railing, in the
libraries and Imbibe and after i upper, hav-
ing 620 in hie pocket, he thought he would
go out to Saimaa' just 1 or the ride en the
car. He did so, and desoribed his meeting
whin the tyro men who, he mays, drove up
with the borne and outtar. He now believed
one of bhe feilewe who drove she rig was one
who was with him two years ago on the
race track. Ho recited the convereselou
end the Fireless° of the home. One of the
teen told him he had is bargain. " Those
were the words he used, or may I never -
hut I will never tame hate ageln anyway."
The latter prat of the sentence was uttered
in
is voloe that) began slightly to weiver.
Tbere was plenty of lighe from the hotel
when he beughb the hormone the blinds were
up. A MAO with en umbrella up went by
at the tines. Oso of the men had rubber
boots on. "Of Oolara0 the Crown le haughag
roe anyway, thrall is all." The lest remark
seemed Ise be suggested by the theeght of
the subtler 'Woes. McWhirroll then turned
hie attention to P. O. Orem,. and ..Id thee
when Int heel come to the mil to identify
him he (NieWhireell) had mid to the keeps%
"THAT LOGIre LINA ThE MAN
erne meld me the hem and cutter." He
then enstiatied from the time of 'buying the
hero, and field he drove along King street
be the Armory Hotel. There wee no whip
in the cutter at the time, mod the snip
which had been producen dyeing the Wei
Wal not therm He knew when whip that
Was. The owner had been in the box yes.
nerd y. Atter etabiteg the home ab the
Ann try Hotel he went to Tobin's, where he
met Wlber. Nazi dray, Beturdasy, they
went to Doeolimes to sell the hove, but he
Would not We They then creme hack to
• Beteher'e, whorn Walker knew. He denied
ehat he heel iaid to Bueoher that he had
•peddled butt in the city with the horse.
What he had laid wee: "1 think, Wet
horse bite been used by soMe peddler:" Ho
recount" the facts in connection With mil.
tug the hers. to Lowery for el& He bed
Men hisnivorbieement for is °heap berme He
admibted telling Leary that he bed teamed
with the heti% Hes theta told ef Where he
TO HANG SURE 1ST.
The Judge, with impreasive solemnity,.
pronounced the sentence, thee MoWlsirrell
be hanged on Jane Ib,'td may God
have mercy en your soul." Au the last
words reached the gallery a united wail
went up which brought MoWhirrell right
about. "Don't cry," he 'tad ; "I am not
aimed to die. MeWhirrell is no coward.
is all right>, Your Lordehip," he said, beteg
bhe Judge again. "I have a better chinos
of getting to heaven than many in thit
courts I will have the advantage of them
by five feet, anyway." This last allasien
was to the gellovvs, antl was carteduly
lugubrious enough. He wee silenced by the
constable.
Odes& Society Evj9ysa Day of
Gay Distraotion.
THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE
le nay Assembly Crowds the Itullatiage-
rues and Feathers-1We 1101 of Pare for
the Sesslon-Llovernment Vein Weir by,
the ContblneS.
The applioatiene for tickets of admission
to 'meninx preceedbegt wore larger tide year
than has been the case for any previeue
year. Hundredewete disappointed in beteg
Unable to obtain necessary pumporte as the
supply had ran out meth earlier thenueute.
The weather was exalt:sub and the turn -out
Do -day Was largo,
The Prim:seal Louie Dragoon Guards
euppliel the whoa made which Melee-
paeleel the Vice -Regal marine from Rideau
Hell to tbe Parliament 'buildings. His
Excellencm, on arriving at the Main
entrance to the Parliament buildings, was
received by a guard of honor from the
Governor -General's Feet Guerilla, the splen-
did band of diet regiment supplying muse.
Amadei' cheers from the ememblage and
petaled; of swum from Nepean Point, a
detachment from Obtewa Field Batiery
having charge el the guns, Lord Aberdeen
p oseeied to the Senate Chamber, where
he delivered the following Speeoh irom the
Throne:
Honorable Gentlemen of the Senate:
Gentlemen ot the House ot Commons:
WALKER'S BIG SIGH.
The prironewe demeanor during the de.
livery of the addreeres and the judge's charge
wee different from that of any other clay of
the trial. MoWhirrell maintained is stolid
theliffesence throughout the terrible arraign-
ment of the feats by tite Crewe Counsel, le
looked as if, now that lie had been contem-
plating for some weeks the gloomy void of
which it is hie poor notion teat death is the
portal, the features of the King of Terrors
hal lest much el their grialy aepsot as he
rearized its sure approech. Walker was
nervous and unsasy all day. His giggling
bed diaappeared and when Mr. Osier and
Hia Loreeh.p cited the strong petite which
tended to thew twe mon were concerned in
the murder, and it wee probable thst Walker
was the chief. premeds oempentom hie
bands twitched, his naiades worked end
the beads of perspiration collected on his
forehead. When the verdiet of " not
guilty " woe returned his sigh ef relief (mid
be heard ail over the court room.
A DRAMATIC SCENE.
Tide oenoluded perhaps the mast drama-
tic+ mete In the annals of Cinedian murder
Wile. Other trials there have ton mere
memoreble from the circumstance's sur-
rounding the crime buts none where tee
deed was 51 8. more brutal character or tho
objeot to be gained more haexplicable. In-
deed, the utter wanb, apparenily, el a
no eve would seem to suggesb that it wais
committed In the mere wantonness, of
brutality. AloWlabrell peke esr clomp or
two hours, end the judge lietaned with is
petilenoe that *hewed his respeot for life,
even if 11 were thatinot in is being, who, for
the intermit of the community, must be de.
strayed. The prio onede speeoh was not
cenueoted, and became more rambling to.
wards the hist, and, ae the nerveue energy
whieh has auatained his spirit of bravado
began to write, hie voice grew beaky and
trembling. He began to make charges
spited othera. His counsel had finally to
hint to hint to draw to a close. After the
sentenee was pronounced the prisoner was
removed to the jail end the court dearest.
end alleged blot being esteemed *way lee
some manner, and it basil eon lately ou.
mewed by the Weds that the judge hede
rendered to the Government of the day his
setigeetion of lase jedielet pention. Ib wale
bleated thet the Glevernmeat Ind itocepted
Chet reeignetlen. Re mom to twit for infer.
nation en tide point. Bio wee told ambit.,
he gonceived to lie fair authority that th4
Minister of juitoice had head tide meter .
ereatelly battiest to his atteutien.
He was &lee informed that) the
incrimineted jaeige bed OOM.IlanniOeted With
him in teepee to it. Re knew the jealouoy
With which he (the Minister ef Jaseleens
viewed the inteerity of the bench. Re bed
aonfidenoe Izs hien in that no peon however
Witte he might leave in him polibloolny.
(Hear, hear, and laughter.)
Mr. Foster -You lust) slaved youreelh
Mr. Devisee -I did not ova tayself just.
1 sewed mytelf wholly. He was mob speak.
Ing for political effete. He felt ewe that if
the Cianceller of Qatari') was similarly
(Merged, a day would nob go by without an
invootineelone He new no roma why there
should net be pt wept) inveengation in timbre
nate which was a moot eorieue %Mach upsea
one of the judges of tee MeritineeProvinees.
What ins desired' the Premier to state woe
whether the judge in question bad resigued,
whether the resignation had been accepted,
and whether he wee to resolve hie retiring
allowence withent investigation of thee
serious charget agekrat
Str John Thoropeon replied that the Veit.
Mon WM too oi urideubted importance, and
one width it would be more esaidaotery to
consider when the pepers upon the subject
were before the Heuse, in order that rneM-
bore may be mote fully %were of the aircums
stances, snd in order that in speaking for
bbs deparbment he might hive greater we
mime, is the explanations he proposed to
give. But, relying entirely upon his mem-
Ory, he mwhb ney that the charm of the
St. John Globe were brought to his attention
by copies ef the paper being mut to hios.
when he woe there. He waentot aware that
the subject in gentlest was brought to hie
atteation in any otber way, save by a.
perusel of the paper. But a oammuniation
was made to him by the judge se
charged, and a statement was made te
him en his behalf. In that abates
ment he was gtven to underhand
Omit the truth el the changes was onsolulely
desded, and expismatione with regard to the
de alio ef the transaction were given which
justified him la believing that the judge
impugned intended to viudioate bbs
judicial and personal character,
if asty attempt *hosted be made to
follow up the dares in the regular way. Ie
was the precis co of the Department of
justice to take no offiolal cognizance of
°bargee made in that *ay merely in the
press. He, eterefere, dreised the House
to understand thee no ceminutdoetion had
been addreteed to him on the subject, and
thee the explanation given by the judge itt
queetion v as at hei own inseinee, mad nob
the result of any communication from the
department. The next question which had
been sashed was whether the learned
j edge had tendered his resignation. The
judge in question had tozutered his res
signation, and the reeignselen bad been
eccepted. The oirestunetenoes under which
Ib had ,been meepted were them
The judge hid rem:lied the ego of 74
yetere. He head been fifteen years on the
betide the medleal ceriefloatee were as
strong as he (the Premier) had ever men in
support o' an appecetioa for retirement on
the gr0004 01 1. tweaciey for duty. It was
certified that Jodge Palmer was deprived ef
the sight et one eye, and is relyirm upon
one which had been blind before, but Was
metered by med mil treatment. trader
theses otronmatences, the resignation waa
accepted.
Mr. Lturier-When was the resignation
accepted ?
Sir John Thempsen-Quite recently; two
weeks or ten days ago.
Mr. Di.vies-Bas it been comrautileated
be the judge
Sir John Thompson -1 than ascertain.
L nderkin-I woulrl lihe to inquire
when the reporb ea the question of probes
bition will be brought deven. I am anineusly
weitive for the report.
Sir John Te om,on-Verv soon, I hope.
The Henn adjourned ab 4 &dock.
In tbe Queen a mune 1 greet you, for the first
time since assuming the high functions in-
trusted to me by bier Majesty; and it is with
feelinge of the liveliest Haddam= that 1 thus
meet you Resembled for the labors of ano her
session of Parliament. This feeling of satis-
faction is enhance i by the opportunities which
I ha % e already enjoyed of visiting, and In me
official capacity renewing at quaintance with,
sevorel of the chief centres of the enterprise
ancl activity of this Dominion; nor nerd I re-
frain from assuring Yon that 1 havebeen deeply
impressed by the heartiness of the reception
accorded to me as Hoe Modesty's Viceroy and
reuresen ative, a reception which ha a once
more manifested the loyalty, the cordiality and
the public sphit of the Canadian people.
My predecessor was able to exptessgratifi-
cation to you lai
last year on an increate n trade
and on tbe continued progress of tbeDominion.
It is gratifying to nie to observe that the ex-
pectation which was than formed -that the
volume of trade during the then (=rent year
would exceed that of any year in the historyof
tbe Dominion -hs been fully realized andtnat
Canada's progress °mantes, with everymark
of stability and permanence. It may be ob-
served with satisfaction that a large propor-
tion of the increase is shown to have been due
to an extension of our commerce with Great
Britain. It is a cause of tha,nkfulnets that our
people have been spared in a very great de-
gree from the sufferinvs 'which have visited
the populations 01 60010 other countries during
many months past, and. that while the com-
mercial depreseion prevailing abroad could not
but affect the activity of Meilen in the
Dominion we have been free from any exten.
site anancial &water or widespread distress.
The revenues of the year have been ample
for the services which you provided for, and
have mot the expeetations on which the ap-
propriations of the last year were based.
The peaceful comensiom by the award of the
arbitrators at Paris, of the controversy winds
had prevailed So long with respect to the seal
fisheries in the Pacific Ocean and the rights of
British subjects in the Belaying Sea has re-
moved the only source of contention which
existed between Great Britain and the United
Stal as with regard to Canada.There la every
zv
reon to believe that Her Majesty's Govern-
ment will obtain redress for those Canadian
subjects of Her Majesty who were de-
prived of their property and liberty without
jut eau.° whilethe controversy wa• =progress.
At an emit date a measure will be laid be-
fore you having for its object a revision of the
duties of =Moms with a mew to meet changes
which time has effected in bi shams operations
of all trivets throughout the Dominion. While
my Ministers do not propose to change the
ptineiples on which the existing enactments
on :his subject are based, the amendments
which will be offered for your consideration
are designed to simplify the operation of the
tar -Wand to lessen, as Inc as can be done, con-
sistently with those principles and with the
requirements of the treasury, the imposts
which are row in force.
There will also be laid before you a measure
on the subject of bankruptcy and in-
solvenom which will, it is hoped,
make more adequate provision than
now exiStS on that subject for the increasing
trade and commerce of the country, and for the
greatly expanded trade between the several
Provineee of Canada.
Measures will also be submitted to you mak-
ing more effective provisions for our lines of
steam eemimurication on the Atlantic and
Pacific Omens. for irneroving the law with
regard to Dominion lands and with regard to
the mar asiement of Indian affairs; peso a Bill
respecting joint stook companiee, another with
respect to the fisheries, and several less im-
portant measures, which experience has sug-
gested with regard to various matters under
your control
He Loved Himself.
• Hankintion," said Jingleberry, ‘4 were
you ever in love?"
• Onee," replied Hankineen'"ant the
ebjeot a my affeotions was thefineeb creat-
ure in th.e world."
44 And was it reciprocated?"
" Puny."
"And yob you never married?"
"No, 1 aenichan."
" Why not?"
"A man demob marry himself."
WM latest Evening Game.
A new gems for evening ponies is se fel-
Iowa All the young ladies bring photo-
gtaphe of themselves taken when they
were babies, or at knavery yeumg. Timm
are arranged in is row, and the young mon
who cut fleetly the greatest manther ro.
estivate is prize.
Vest el Californian Fair.
Theisen of Midwerater Fair will be about.
41,500,000, of winces mum Ben Fromonce le
to contritute $700,000.
When is baby gen to oryteg its nettle in
sminetimem drowned by the disputes of i410
Wernen In the room al to trim it is oryieg
about.'
t" Now, Eva, blit is nothing to intereet
yen ; It's only is businose letistite" " Beet.
nem? DA weitten anon; the top end shin
and there are three postioriptie to it. It'.
bon is women."
Gentlemen of the House of Commons:
The public accounts will be submitted to you
at an early date and also the estimates of the
expenditure whicb have been considered neces-
sary for the ensuing year.
Honorable Gentlemen of the Senate : Gentle.
men of tho house of Commons:
While it is hoped that the measures which
will demand your attention win not lie very
numerous, some of them will be of great
weight and importance, and it is my earnest
hope and prayer that the care and zeal
which you will apply to the deliberations of
tire session may be aided by the abundant
blessing of the .Almighty.
The members et the Cinranons from the
Senate °iamb ev, the f ()Bowleg now membero
were introduced :
Sir Jemee Grent, forOttawa by S r
John Thompson and Mr. Rabillarci.
Mr. Henry Stanielaue Herwood, for
Vatidrenil, by Mr. Laurier and Mr. (Parse.
Mr. Joseph Mertln, for Winnipeg, by Mr.
Limier and Mr. Devies,
Mr. Atsdrew Ilesslam, for Nannette, B. O.,
by B r ,John Teonspeon and Mr. Mere.
S.r John de, omission moved that the spoeoh
of He Excesiletsay bite Governor-General to
both Hensel be taken into onsideration to-
m/rem.
The motion was tarried.
Mr. Davies, oe is motion to adjourn, in-
vited the right hon. the MInieter of Justiro.
to make a etaternent with reopens to certain
ohangeo wade in the judiciary of' the Pio.
vines of Now Brunswick. Under ordinery
-olecumetanorso he would net tiling this
metter so earl, to the attendee of Parka.
ment, but the hen. gentleman and the
House were attire that ents change thabhad
takes' place ban been attended and sus -
rounded by oircumetancee of an inception -
ally grim end gerieus obaraoter. Hon.
genblenaen weraid recolleet tbet tome Nix
menthe aye one of the leading rewepopere
of Sh. Jebn, to is dembledeaded afterlife,
preferred chargee of a eery grave and meows
aherecter egalese one of toe benjudge's el
the Supremo Oman of thee Province. The
IrTehlto had aereited in lareetbleem ellence
end etespenee bhe Rotten widish would
be tielotti with magnet to the obargeie
They had uot barn Made isa sal
indireet vrty. They hied been direct
•
positive obasgee f Pra5iVer$500n, and the
tier of the clitffereet ProvInoes, nacre mem
tally of the Maritime Provisicee, aweited
teem ihty to ifny the motion welch worild le
below to remove the deed *Molt hung over
for the first time one of the jeetices Of the
Suprtaree Court Of eh° Provisseen No motion
had been taken. It was known thins thle
Hems oeuld not meet althents thls °hale
, Horseradish for 5 eadache.
What a terrible thing to ts to be oubjereb
to headache, and it is, perhe-pe, ene of the
commonest calamities which adillot
the female sox. not when ono
has get Into the 'Wild of some
work, Buil sometimes even plesenre
for that metter, this begins or goon on until
it Is really imposeible to conteme the
work or evjey the pleasure. Heedaohee
ef this kind are nearly 51Way0 " en the
nerves," rued I wieh to mention is very
simple eld-feshioned remedy, which, if rot
an absolute enre-and I fear such a panniers,
deaf noli oxiet-does undeubtedly alleviates
in a great degree tbe buffering. Some
fresbiy-sorepel horneradish in the nostrum,
and it must be beid in the hand a minute or
no till it is is litile warm, and then sniffed
with energy. TV it reghires manage, ter the
seneation is as 0 the Imogene edar passed
right tbreugh the brain ; hut it SeeniS
to-
dnise the pein Were lt, and the consequent
relief makes it worth while to endure re.
pan for a nistnenk
The Polite Boy.
Little Dick -I root a boy I theuelab
knew, and I mired my hat be her, 06'80 to
be polite, and then I saw she was a perfect,
serener. '
Mother -Did she seem eurprieed 7
LThtibo Diek-Nom. I didn't let ber find
inn) I was bowie,' to her. I maid 'Ouch
and serateked nay kneel like everything.
German reediest authorities recommends
the Mumble peanne as an exeslIent fartiole of
diet for p. ople affhoted with goub or with ,
diabetic inmate.
Newopeper misprints are often imenedede
Otto of the limiest I tome lately men in the
referenee to si Mt. Hamm, bay vicar enell
sole tenor, Ble ClethedraL" Thee
printer bad ebyeausly never heard of a "lay"
vitiate
PAL1C PAM;
romes from poosin
'blood. Your bloods
needs to be enriched.,
and vitalized. For
this there's nothing lei
the world so thor-
oughly effective ami
Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Disoovery,
Children who are
weak, thin, pile, and
m • puny are stridt.
strong, plump, rosy,
_te
and robust by the "Discovery." 11. espe-
cially adapted to them, too, from Its please
ant taste. It's an appetizing, restorative tom
le which builds up needed flesh and steength.
In every blood- taint or disorder, If Its
doesn't benefit or cure, you have your.
money back.
Dr, R. V. PIERCE: Dart girt I will sen
that 1 nod the "Medical Discovery" for kir
little girl, and she is entirely well. I cannot'
Oradea your medioines too highly. You may
rest essared that you will *Mays have tor
Oupport.
Potemester of Alden, Peng rettiaw.