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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-05-06, Page 7s April 29th, 1915 Y THI: WING. HAM TIMES ?5he' Case of Bennie Brice By MARY ROBERTS RINEIIART Copyright, 1913. by the Bobbs-Merrill Company 'L:.f- L.n..:lC "What was the Inst you saw of herr "She was going at'russ the Sixth 'street bridge." "Alone." "No, She went with a young man eve knew," There was a stir in the eonrtroom at •ibis. Who was the young InanS" "A Mr. Unwell, a reporter on a news- ,paper•here," "Have you seen lir. Howell since ;your arrest?" "No, sir. lie has been out or the -city." 1 way No excited by this time that I ••could hardly hear, tmissed some of -the cross examination. The district .sittorney pulled Mr. Ladleys testimony •to pieces. "You enc the boat's painter with your pocketknife?" "I did." n "Then how do you account for Mrs. WPitman's broken knife, with the blade •',in your room?". "I have no theory about it. She may ;have broken It herself. She had used it the day before to lift tacks out of a .learpet." That was true; I had. "'That early Monday morning was -told, was it not?" "Yes; very." • "Why did your wife leave without .her fur coat?" "I did not know she had until we . , .bad left the house. Then I did not '.ec-eisk her. She would not speak to me." "I see. But is it not true that, upon -a wet fur coat being shown you as your wife's, you said it could not be pliers, as she had taken hers with her?" "I do not recall such a statement" "You recall a coat being shown you?' "Yes. Mrs. Pitman brought a coat 4o my door, but I was working on 'a play I am writing, and I do not re- member what 1 said. The coat was ruined. I did not want it. I probably :said the first thing I thought of to get 'rid of •the woman." I got up at that. I'd held my peace " about the breadknife, but this was too .. much. However, the moment I start- -led tart-led to speak somebody pushed me back into my chair and told me to be quiet. "Now, you say you were in such a ,hussy to get this medicine for your ;wife that you cut the rope, thus cut- -ling your wrist." "Yes. I have the scar still" "You could not wait to untie the .boat, and yet you went along the river •front to see how high the water was?" "Her alarm had excited me. But 'When i got out and remembered that tt.he doctors had told us she would nets ser die lel an attack, I grew more corn• • ,nosed." "lou got the medicine first, you coy?" "I ('S." -Mr Alex ii ado, hits testified that you 'pia tile illl•dit•1ile at :'.:i{U. It tuts heed t,lluw•11 that you telt the house ilt ,tint god limit :Uuut 4. Does nut this 1,11W that with all your alarm you went 10 the riv(tr front Ilrst? "I was Gott• train 2U, t." he replied fertility '*lir :\Ie•':titdt'r most he wrung •itbuut the time I wl,6iued hint. I got +the luediotue first.' •-\\'then Jolty alit• left you at 1 bridge. diel she ,ay where She was :guile„?" "No lou vomit that tins wom:lII lit [dor. :410' Wily 1n41 oil,': "1 tllll:k it !uncut. "Was I Leve ah oho t ' :u• 1: ul the see. /)ltd ,tnvs 1', ,.:a, t:e'I, dui: l l inl'ea into It: SUFFERED WITH LAME BACK. "I do not recall the clock." "Your wife did not take an onyx clock away with her?" Mr. Ladley smiled- "No." • The defense called Mr. Howell next. He looked rested and the happier for having seen Lida, but he was still pale and showed the strain of some hidden anxiety. What that anxiety was the next two days were to tell us all. "Mr. Howell," Mr. Llewellyn asked, "you know the prisoner?" "Slightly." "State when you met him." "On Sunday morning, March 4. •1 went to see him." "Will you tell us the nature of that visit?" "My paper had beard he was writing a play for himself. I was to get an interview, with photographs, it possi- ble," "You saw his wife at that timer "Yes." "When did you see her again?' "The following morning at 6 o'clock or a little later. I walked across the Sixth street bridge with her and put her on a train for Homer, Pa." "Yon are positive it was Jennie Brice?" "Yes. I watched her get out of the boat while her husband steadied it," "If you knew this, why did you not come forward sooner?" "I have been out of the city." "But you knew the prisoner had been arrested and that this testimony of yours would be invaluable to him." "Yes. But I thought it necessary to produce .Tennie Brice herself., My un- supported word"— "You have been searching for Jen- nie Brice?" "Yes. Since March 8." "How was she dressed when you saw her last?" "She wore a red and black hat and a black coat. She carried a small brown valise." "Thank you." The cross examination did not shake His testimony. But tt brought out some curious things. .111r. Howell re- fused to s:,y how he happened to be at the•end of the Sixth street bridge at Belt hour or why he had thought it uoeesse r y on meeting a woman • he maimed to have Iuluwtl only twenty, lour nours to go with her to the rail- way station and put tier on a train. file Jury was visibly Impressed and ii iii shaken, fur Sur Howell trawled conviction in every word he said. He looked`the district attorney In the eye, and once when our glances crossed he even smiled at me faintly. But I saw why he bad tried to find Jennie Brice end 'had dreaded testifying. Not a woman in that courtroom and hardly a man but believed when he left the stand that he was or had been Jennie Brice's lover and as such was assist- ing her to leave her husband. "Then you believe," the district at- torney said at the end—"you believe. Mr. Howell, that Jennie Brice is liv- ing?" iv- ing?" "Jennie Brice was living on Afou- 1 (lay morning, March 5." be'said firmly. I "Miss Shaeffer has testified that on Wednesday this woman who you claim was Jennie thrice sent a letter from Horner. is that the given with clue professional weight "Yost are a doctor of medicine, Dr. Littlefield?' asked the district atter. pg. "Yen," "In active practicer "I have a cure for inebriates in Des Maine'', Ia. I was formerly in general practice in New York city," "Ion knew•J'ennie I,adleyr . "I had seen her at different theater%, and she consulted me professionally at one time In New York." "You operated on her, I believe?' "Yes. She came to me to have a name removed. It had been tattooed over her heart." "You removed it?" "Not at once. I tried fading the marks with goat's milk, but she was Impatient. On the third visit to my °niice she demanded that the name be cut out." . "Yon did itr "Yes. She refused a general an aesthetic and I used cocaine. The name was John—I believe a former husband. She intended to marry again." A titter rayl over the courtroom. 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When orttering direct specify "Doan's." to you ease?" "Yes." "The letter was signed 'Jennie Ilrh'e'?" "it was signed '.l. B.' " "Will you show the court that let - lel'?' "I destroyed it." "It was a personal letter?" "It merely said she had arrived safe iy and nut to let any one know where she was." "And yet you destroyed it?" ".\ postscript said to do so." "W by ?" "I do not know. An extra precau- tion probably.,, "Yon were Ender the impression that she was going to stay there?" "She was to have remained for a week.'• "And you have been searching for this woman for two months?" flu quailed, but his voice was steady. "Yes," lie admitted. lie was telling the truth, even if it was not all the truth. I believe had it gout: to the jury then Mr. Ladley' would have been acquitted. But late that afternoon things took a new turn. Counsel for the proseeutiou stated to the court that he bud a new and Im- portant witness and got permission to Introduce this further evidence. The witness was a Dr. Littlefield and prov- ed to be my' one night tenant of the second story front. Hoicombe's pris- oner of the night before took the stand. The doctor was less Impressive in full dnyllght—he was a tilde shiny, a bit bulbous as to nose and indifferent as to linger, bails. But his te;,t.imon,,,was \ The Doctor Made a Careful Drawing. tt•IIys gla(1 ut all excuse to smile. Tips ill1gb or of Il wrought Hie crowd It) whys seems to Ilse hair hystta'Ieol. "Have you seen plhltugfaflhs or the seat on Ila hotly lollop at Sewickley? (II the holly itself?" "ho; I bate nut." "i1 ill yon desot•itm' the operation?" "I made a transverse incision rot the luno) of the hhnit' alltl tiro fel't1 1'10 noes t:ne lougrl rut' the '.1.' the mile; t•huriar run' Ilse stein tit the 'h. '!'here was a clot after the name. I made n toil' melt Menotti) tar It." ••\\'ill ;'"it si:etch the otentrix a, yor remit! it?' The dot•lor made a careful drawing on II flail that was passed to Mut. Th, drawing, was Hunch tike this: } ••••• The Slow, Sluggish, Torpid Action of and I the ed the door on him. Huw queer, Lida said, looking at the Liver is Responsible for Many Ills. one, "So Isaac knew your mother? Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills stimulate Have you lived always In Allegheny, the sluggish liver, clean the coated tongue, Mrs. Pitman r sweeten the obnoxious breath, clean away "I was born in Pittsburgh," I evaded. all waste and poisonous matter from the "1 went away for it long time, but L system, and prevent as well as cure all always longed for the hurry and ac - complaints arising from a liver which has thus 01, the old hotne town. so here beminve. I am again." Ccoonsteipatiaction, sick headache, bilious 1 Fortunately, like all the young. her headache, jaundice, heartburn, water . brash, catarrh of the stomach, etc., all own affairs engrossed her. She was come from a disordered liver. flushed with the prospect of meeting Mr. Victor B. McNeills, Sandstone, her lover, tremulous over what the Alta., rites: "I thought I would write evening might bring. The middle aged and t2:1 you of my experience with ' woman who bad come back to the Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills, as I am I hurry of the old town, and who, push - greatly pleased with the results I re- ed back into an eddy of the Hood (M- ceived by using them. I was troubled tric't. could only watch the activity and with sick headache for a long time, and the life from behind a "Rooms to Let" would get so sleepy right after I ate my sine', did not concern her Hunch. Nor dinner that I could not do any work. A friend of mine, from Toronto, visited should she hire me last summer and he asked me to try I Mr. Howell came soon after, He Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills. He told asked for her, and, going back to the me they had done him so much good for dining room, kissed her quietly. He his stomach. I used several vials, and had an air of resolve, a sort of grim I found they did sue so much good that • determination, that was a relief from I can recommend them to any one suffer the half frantic look be had worn be- . ing from liver trouble." >r fore. He asked to have Mr. Holcombe Milburn's I,axa-Liver Pills are 25c a brought down. and so behold us Huls vial, 5 vials for $ at all dealers, or four of us, sittin around the table— mailed direct on receipt of price by The S T. Milburn Co.. Limited, Toronto, Ont. Mr. Holcombe 'with his notebook. I I with my mending and the boy with one of Lidaa's hands frankly. under his on the red tablecloth. ting toe case go to the jury witnout "I want to tell all of you the whole their putting more stress on Mr. How- story," he began. "Tomorrow I shall ell's story, But we were to under- go to the district attorney and con- stand that soon, and many other fess, but -I want you all to have it things. Mr. Holcombe told me that first. I can't sleep again until I get evening of learning from John Bellows it off my chest. Mr's. Pitman has suf. of the tattooed name on Jennie Brice fered through me, and Mr. Holcombe and of how, after an almost endless here has spent money and time"— search, he had found the man who had Lida did not speak, bust she drew her cut the name away. chair closer and put her other hand AtS o'clock the doorbell rang. Mr. is. b over h Reynolds had gone to lodge, he being "1 want to get It straight, if I can., an Elk and several other things and Let me see. It was on Sunday, the much given to regalia in boxes and 4th, that the river came up, wasn't it? having his picture in the newspapers ' Yes. Well, on the Thursday before in different outlandish costumes. Mr. that I met you, Mr. Holcombe, in a Yitman used to say that man. being restaurant in Pittsburgh. Do you re - denied his natural love for larbarie member?" adornment in his everyday clothing, Mr. Holcombe nodded. took to the different frateruities as an "We were talking of crime, and I excuse for decking hliself out. But said no man should be hanged on pure - this bits nothing to do with the dour- ly circumstantial evidence. You af- bell. firmed that a well linked chain of dr - was old Isaac. He had a basket cumstantlal evidence could properly in his hand, and he stepped Into the hang a man. We had a long argument, hall and placed Won the floor. in which I was worsted. There was a "Evening, Miss Bess." he said, "Can third man at the table—Bronson, the you see a bit of company tonight?" business manager of the Liberty the - "I can always see you," 1 replied. ate'." But he had not meant himself. Be "Who sided with you," put in Mr. stepped to the door and, opening It; Holcombe, "and whose views I refused to entertain because as publicity man for a theater he dealt in fiction rather than in fact." ened, and. old Isaac stood back, beam- I"precisely. You may recall, Mr. Hol- ing at us both, 1 believe it was one I combe, that you offered to hang any of the crowning moments of the old man we would name given a proper man's life—thus to see his Miss Bess chain of circumstantial evidence and Alma's child together. against him?" "Is—is he here yet?" she asked me '•Ye„ • nervously. "After you left Bronson spoke to me. "I did not know he was coming." He said business at the theater was There was no'need to ask which "he." Iaile rut III e tits rm. riot. It was the .em on the hut) loam' Ill i'tew'ieldey. "You are sore the :roman writs ten. , ale Brke?" "Sin:, sent ate ticsets for the theater shortly IiItet'. and I had an nuuunu''r,. went or her marriage to the' immerser some weeks later." "Were there any witnesses to the operation?" "My assistant. 1 can produce hint at tiny time." That was not all of the trial, hut it was the decisive moment. Shortly lifter the jury wttthdrow, and for ttwen• ty-Four hours not a word was beard from then'. A CHAPTER XIII.' Milli. twenty-four hours' de- liberation the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. It was a first degree verdict. Mr. How- ell's unsupported word bad lost out against a scar. Contrary to my expectation, Mr. Hol- combe was not jubilant over the ver- dict. He came into the dining room that night and stood by the window, looking out into the yard. "It isn't logical," he said. "In view of Howell's testimony, it's ridiculous! Heaven help us under this jury sys- tem, anyhow! Look at the facts! How- ell knows the woman. He sees her on Monday morning and puts her on a train out of town. The boy is telling the truth. He has nothing to gain by coming forward and everything to lose. Very well, she was alive on Monday. We know where she was on Tuesday and Wednesday. Anyhow, (luring those days her gem of a husband was In jail. He was freed 't'htn:sday night, and from that time until his rearrest ou the following Tuesday, I had him under observation every moment. Ile left the jail Thursday night, and on Saturday the body floated in at Se- w'iekley. If it was done by Ladley it must have been done on Friday, and on Friday he was in view through the periscope nil day!" Mr. Reynolds cattle in and joined us. -There's only one way out that l see," be said mildly. "Two women have been fool enough to have a name tat- tooed over their hearts. No woman ever thought enough of me to have my name put on her." "I hope not," I retorted. Mr. Rey- nold's first name is Zechariah. But, us Mr. Holcombe said, all that had been proved was that Jennie Brise was dead, probably murdered, He could not understand thr+,defense let• beckoned to some one across the street It was Lida! She came in, her color a little height- CHAPTER eight There was only one for Lida. "He telephoned me and asked me to eome here. Oh, Mrs. Pitman, I'm so afraid for him!" She had forgotten Isaac. I turned to the schoolteacher's room and opened the door. "The wom- an who belongs here is out at a lec- ture," I said. "Come in here, lkkie. and I'll find the evening paper for you." "'Ikkie!"" said Lida, and stood star- ing at me. I think 1 went white. "The lady heap and 1 is old friends," Isaac said, with his splendid manner. "Her tnothah, Miss Lida, her moth - But even old Isaac choked up at that, ismodahmasibahaihwasiiimm The Wretchedness of Constipation Can quickly be overcome by CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PiLLS Purely vegetable —act surely and aently on the ver. Cure Biliousness. Head. ache, Dizzi- erg, and Indigestion. They do their duty. Small Pill, Small Dau, Small Tdea. Genuine must bear Signature AFPFTeRFNIPIRRIIMIRPIIIIMINIINS • Ch.:i .reg? Cry FCR rLETCHEI' S bad and complained of the way the papers used, or would not use, his stuff. He said the Liberty theater bad not had a proper deal and that he was tempted to go over and bang one of the company on the head, and so get a little free advertising. "i said he ought to be able to fake a good story, but he maintained that a newspaper could smell a faked story a mile away, and that, anyhow, all the good stunts had been pulled off. I agreed with him. 1 remember saying that nothing but a railroad wreck or a murder hit the public very bard these days and that I didn't feel like wreck- ing the Pennsylvania limited. "He leaned over the table and looked at me. 'Well, bow about a murder, then?' he said. 'You get the story for your paper arid 1 get some advertising for the theater. We need it, that's sure.' ' "I laughed it off, and we separated. But at 2 o'clock Bronson called me up again. 1 met him in his office at the theater, and he told me that Jennie Brice, who was out of the east that week, had asked for a week's vacation. She had beard of a farm at a town called Horner, and she wanted to go there to rest. "'Now the idea is this,' he said, 'She's living with her husband. anti he has threatened her life more than once. It wi'lftid be easy enough to frame up something to look as if he'd made away with her. We'd get a week of excitement, more advertising than we'd ordinarily get in a year. You get a corking news story and find Jennie Brice at the end, getting the credit for that. Jennie gets $100 and a rest, and Ladley, her husband, gets, say. $200.' "Mr. Bronson offered to put up the money, and I agreed. The flood came just 'then and was considerable help. It made a good setting. I went to my city editor and got an assignment to interview Ladley about this play of his. Then Branson and I went togeth- er to see the Ladleys on Sunday morn- ing, and as they needed money they agreed. But Ladley insisted on 4,10 a week extra it he had to go to jail. \Ve promised it, but we did not intend to let things go so far as that. "In the Ladleys' room that Sunday morn!,ng we worked It all out. The hardest thing was to get Jennie Brice's consent, but she agreed dually. We arranged a list or clews to be left around, and Ladley was to go out in the night and to he heard coming hack. 1 told him to quarrel with his 'wife that afternoon. although I don't be- lieve they needed to be asked to do it —and 1 suggested also the shoe or slip- per to be found limiting around." "Just a moment," said Mr. Holcombe, busy with his notebook. "Did you sug- gest the onyx clock?" "No, no clock was mentioned. The —the Bleck has nuzzled me." "The towel?" lit:;. t'. `. r.ati. A5:!', rf tar :u:'rr;. 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Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years C STORIA ?NC CENTAUR COMPANY. NCM YORK CIT'. cut his wrist while milting the boat loose, and so we hail the towel." "Pillow slip?" asked Mr. Hulcombe. "\Veil, no. There was nothing said about a pillowslip. Didn't he say he burned it accidentally?" "So he claimed." Mr. Holcombe made another entry in his book. "Then I said every murder had a weapon. He was to have a pistol at first, but none or us owned one. Mrs. Ladley undertook to get a knife from Mrs. Pitmun's kitchen and to leave it around, not in full view, but where it could be found." "A broken knife?". "No; just a knife." "He was to throw the water?" "That was not arranged. i only gave; him a general outline. He was to add any interesting details that might occur to him. The idea, of course, was to give the police plenty to work on and just when they thought they had it all and when the theater tied had a lot of booming and l lied gut a gond story, to produce Jennie Brice safe and well, \Ve were not to appear in it at all. It would have worked perfectly, but we forgot to count on one thing—Jennie Brice hated her husband." "Not really tinted him!'' cried Lida. "Bated him! She is letting Wm hang. She could save him by coming forward now, and she won't do it. She is hiding so he will go to the gal - loss's." There was a pause at that. it seen,' ed too incredible, too inhuman. "Then early that Monday morning yon sunrggied Retitle Brice out of the c'it,'?" "Yes; that wits the only thing we Mingled We liNed the hour a little loo bate. and I MIS .4,01 by Suss Hill'. tr;'v tuele waI:ih, sierusS the bridge with it \sotwCin •'51 hs 411.1 ten II,.,'t her openly and bite 10.1 lu the treiti? ','t•. l!"web I„ II ierw'ard and smiled tr-tin-,, .:I the .111:•' It•al. "I lug of \ our 10 It Ii'toms, all•," lie said. "Ito the hattu'::1 Ruing: upset tile eusionnlry or- der "t ewe uts its Mlle Its pissiltle. Jen I:10 llrieo went in the train het•:lelse ill:It Was t'ub'e she "noted 10 gut. Hut las Ladleywas to tastiest that Ills wile 11;l(1 iett town, old its the melee would tae se:iridin:. lie n solilln'y w•,an:nl. 1 went with her. 5\'e trent in a lettere- 1:k tlnllllll'I' I lalllnIit her :1 Illitt4'/.lite stud it morning Pala"c, asked the Boum duster to It' her wlndtow, and, In ;tell. era!, „'•tell the detotid husband sty,. in„ h!v w'iteull fel It Trip. I etou"-Ile' stalled )'fell I'1',I1nS1'd to teed the l.id:l took her lin tele :May. "Intl v"u lass bet• goodloy':'' she drutandtd "Nut ('Purl! a ,lrtsle Silloth," he wlll. Ills spirits were rising. It was, as of - tea happens, as if the mere confession removed the guilt. I have seen little be; s who have broken a window show t!:•' same relief after telling about it. "!`or a day or two Bronson and I 501 back, enjoying the stir up. Things tt:a'ted out as we had expected. Busi- es -4 boosted at the theater. I got a -d story, and some few kind words '••,:n my city editor. Then—the ex - se don cause, 1 got a letter front .Ien- e.;,r Brice drying she was going away, r t 1 that We *teed not try to find her. 1 • 'eat to Horner, lint i had lost trit<'lc ., ler completely. Even then, we did t.• 1 believe things so bad as they turn. out to be, We thought she was ns it bad time, but that she alit shntt' up Ladiey was in a blue funk for a I i:t on,un Iu•.1 1 w•" ht to him. \t"e 'Ie hm, Ie'w the thing had sliplacd knife into the "She is hiding so he will go to the gallows. " up. We didn't want to go to the po- lice and confess if we could help it. Finally he agreed to stick it out until she was found, at $101) a week. It tool: all we could beg, borrow and steal. 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