THE SORANTON TRIBUNE-SATURDAY MORNINGr, JULY 24, 1897. V 14 , 44.4.44.4f4-f444.H444444444-ff444444-f I MURDERED BY J Girl Bound and Drowned t Bulgarian ift4 The most rcmaiUoblo story of mur der that has been revealed on the Ku ropcan continent since Stonibuloff a ns Hussltmtlon has, .ays the Sun, been un ravelled slowly In fJudr.pest, Vienna, Sofia, and Philippopolls In the last six weeks. Unlike the plot against Stnmbuloff. It belongs) outside of the domain of politics. It Is largely a story of love and hate In the ordinary rela tions of society. Nevertheless It teaches tho same lesson nh did the political rrlme," rcGardlnst tho barbaric life In tho best society of a race that Is sup posed to be juit of tho civilised world. The two murdetcrs In tho last crime are n cantoln In tho Bulgarian atmy and the piefcct of pollco In Philippo polls. The man who hired tlicm to kill Is a Bulgarian major, already gazetted ns the finst ndlutant of Ferdinand of Cobuttr, tho reigning prince of Bulgatla. The scone of the murder was a stone's thmw fom the summer home of this pilnce. "Yet ihe whole povr of the llulgariftn novernment has been put forth to suppicss th facts and to save the tlu6 guilty officers, from punish ment. Only In jenons" to pressure from HudapMt and Vienna have the Bulgar ian poller rlowly traced the plot of the crime. Flijst It was announced by them that Anna Simon a Hunqnilnn gill nt 22 ycaio. hud dlirpeaied, and probably had bfii lniirdcied. Tlipn they ac knowledged that she had been mur dered, but assorted that tho murderer had escaped After icpeti'td threats and demands from Budapest, where the girl'H parents lived, they admitted that Cnpt. Boltehcff, her former lover, might be the guilty man, although they could Ilnd no evidence against him. Finally they weie forced, about two weeks ago, to arrest Boltcheff, and the whole shameful stoiv, which had seemed so Insignificant when mentioned briefly In the newspapers came out. That story follows: ENTICED ON THE STAC.E. Anna Simon was the daughter of a roval Hungarian official. Not far from her home In Budapest ras a cafe ehantant, whore manager was attract ed by her beauty when she passed his resort twice daily, on her way to and from school Five years ago last spring, when she was in her seven teenth year, he induced her to leave her homo to sins and dance on Ills, stage Her father took lecal steps to foico her to return home, but the man ager of the cafe ehantant thwaited him ny nurrying Her off with a ti.iveling company of muale-hall performers to Belgrade. There she was known as tho "beautiful Hungarian." She car ried her lenutatlon to Sotln. with her, and In the Bulgarian capital soon had as many officers nt her beck nnd call ns there were commissions in the gar rison. While singing in Philippopolls, tho hecond city of Bulgaria In size and trade, she met Captain Boitchelf. Sho tell in love with him, left the stago to live with him, and, .surprising as It may seem, never wavered In her faithful ness to him through nil the devious couises which ho pursued up to the hour of her death. Anna Simon lived with Boltcheff and his mother. That Mrs. Boltcheff thus countenanced the relations of her son and the slneer does not teem to have excited any comment in Philippopolls, nor do the Austrian and Hungarian newspapeis seem to think the fact nt all noteworthy. However, Boltcheff vowed he would marry the girl. "When he visited her parents at Budapest, he gave his word ns a gentleman and officer that he would make her his wife as soon as he should b promoted nnd receive pay enough to support a wife. By marrying her then, he assert ed with truth, ho would embarrass hlm Felf financially so ns to be beyond hope of promotion. Mrs. Boltcheff, who had learned to love her son's mistress protested by letter her detennlnatioii that he should ke-p his pledge. In 1893 the captain's mother died. In the same yenr a shoe manufacturer's daughter moed to Philippopolls as the wife of the Itulgniiun chief of tele graphs. She bi ought her husband a dower of 100,000 francs, given her by a former "fiiend." This fact, too, passes without comment in the Austrian and Hungarian presH. The wife of the chief of telegraphs hated Anna Simon, who had outranked her socially in their na tive city, altnough both had moved oc casionally in the sams circle. She had a girl friend, daughter of Major George Pope, whom the decided to marry to Boltcheff, to tho discomfiture of the Simon girl. She and her fi lends work ed upon his ambition and jealousy to alienate his affections from his mis tress. Mrs. Boltcheffs death had robbed Anna Simon of her only ally. She was unable to hold her own against the plotters. Boltcheff decided to get Jld of her. With tho aid of two brother officers, he hired the house in which she was to be killed, and hired tho assas sins who were to kill her. He had ar ranged to make Miss Popo his wife. He wished the other woman out of the way. In Bulgaria such a situation means either murder or suicide. ASSASSINS IN WAITING. Boltcheff had the assassins waiting In the hired house on the outskirts of Philippopolls. Ho drove out to the house with Miss Simon. As they ap proached It his heart failed him. Her devotion to him caused him to repent, and, orderinc tho driver to turn back, he exclaimed: "There, Anna, Is tho house In which you wero to be killed, but tho murder ers will wait for us In vain. I love, you too much," He then promised her to get a dlvoce from Major Pope's daughter soon after marrying her. The mairiago was neo essary, he explained, to secure his pro motion to a rank In which ho could support a wife properly. Major Popo was a power at court, and would ob tain his son-in-law's promotion quickly and easily. Soon afterward Boltcheff wag married, "I allowed him to be married," Miss Simon wrote to her parents. "Ho promised mo that ho would get a di vorce and then would marry me as Hoon ns he should bo in a position to support a family. His bride Is not at all protty. In a yenr he will leavo her for in. My beloved aworo to me on tho crucifix; 'You know, darling An na, that I Jovo you nlono and never will lesert you.' Why, mother dear, should I doubt tho word of my beloved In any respect V" At the beginning of this year Miss BImon visited her parents In Budapest. Boltcheff had not Itxn promoted; he had almost forsaken her; mill sho muat be near him, and after a, short sojourn at hr homo the started for rhillppopolln, although, us she told her COURTIERS. Near the Palace of the Prince. mother, she wns "not sure of even her life In that city." In a street of Phllippopolla sho met Boltcheff with his wife. Sho naked him if nhe might speak with him nlono. He pushed her away tuid called her n. vile name. She struck him with her parasol. Tho street bceno sealed her fate. Capt. Boltcheft's wife told her father that Miss Simon must be put out of tho way. Major Pope, although already gazetted as first adjutant at court, nnd known thioughout Bulgaria, as nn ofll cor of great ability and a man of honor, did not hesitate at tho thought of mur der. He simply drew 20,000 francs from the bank, gave the money to Capi. BoitrheuT. and to2d htm 10 use It In having Anna Simon silenced forever. Boltchefr went to Novellc, his friend, who, ns prefect of police, could not onl murder, but supposltltlouslv stop anv investigation. He gave Novella 15,000 francs for himself, and Xovallc cor.rcntcd to kill the girl. He would pay his chief of detectives 5,000 francs to assist him. Boltcheff himself coul 1 lend a hand. With only those throe In the secret, the deed could bo done without fear of discovery. THE MUllDEn. The murder was planned to the last revolting detail. When Boltcheff dtove In a cab to meet Anna Simon by ap pointment on the outskirts of Philip popolls, Novellc s.at beside him. On the box was the chief of detectives, Boa dan, disguised as a cabman. Under the scat was a hempen rope made fast to a large rock. Eoltcheff wns in the lull uniform of the prince's household In fantry, Novellc, In the uniform ot a Bulgarian prefect of police. Both wont In this gala nttire to the slaughter In oider that they might not excite the glrl'B suspicions by anything resemb ling disguise Tho carriage stopped where Miss Simon awaited it. Boit chelf Jumped out and embraced her, and she bogan beseeching him to re turn to her. He told her to enter the carriage and he would talk the matter over. She went. As soon ns she saw Novellc she became frightened, but Boltcheff closed the door, and the chW of detectives whipped up the hoi?es. At first the two officers quieted the girl with trivia", conversation, but as she noticed that the cairlage rolled ever further from the citv, she again grew apprehensive and she began to scream. Novellc promptly threw her back in the carriage and gagged her. The cairlage passed through C'zliptm. a suburb of Philippopolls, and stopped on the banks of the river Marltza, just oppo?lt th island on which is Pilnce Fetdlnand's summer palace. The girl was dragged out. Boltcheff pushed a chloroformed sponge under her nosp. She tore It away and. with the stiength ot despair, broke nwny from the three murderers. She fled screaming toward Czlrpan. The captain the prefect of police, and the chief of detectives pursued her half a mile, caught her, threw her tc, the ground and bound hei, and cuirled her back to the spot In view of the prlnce'j palace. There the sponge was satur ated again with chlorofoim and pushed against her face. Bound thouph she was, the girl struggled on. Then Nove llc and Boadan forced her on her back and held her fast until the sponge In Boltcheffs hand had done Its work. The body wttP stripped to prevent Iden tification. The rope was made fast arodnd her waist. The rD'-k was knot ted tightly to her back and the body wae swung out by all three into- the Maritza's rapid". There it lay until, disturbed by a llshei man's nets, It was rolled gradually Inshore and drawn out by a party of peasants. The finding of tho body was reported to the police. Thetti was no unseemly hubbub about It The police merely had the slone cut loose, the body burled, and the record of the day made out so ns to read that an unidentified gill had been found In the ilver. and that sho had ben a woman of tho town and had committed f.'jick't. ITNnAVETjLED. The whole affair would have ended with the police jecord had it not been for the l.'.ct that about eight weeks ago Anna Simon's father celebrated his birthday. His daughter always had bent him n birthday present and a letter, but this year neither came. Tho parents wrote to the girl's former ; tit esses In Sufi.i and Philippopolls. "me Utters camo back addressed In a French hand to "Simon Budapest." Recalling their daughter's fear for her life, the Simons wrote to the pollco ot the two cities; still no response. Then a Ftench governess in Sofia, who had been filendly with Anna Simon, wiote to Budapest that the girl had disappeared, adding; "She was seen last with Boltcheff." All further ef forts of the Simons to get Information directly from Bulgaria were fruitless. Mr. Simon then told his story to the Budapest rollce, who laid tho case be fore the ministry of tho Interior. In three days the Imperial govern ment In Vienna wns set to work on tho mystery. The Sofia government was requested tartly to investigate the case, nnd, to guarante? good faith. two Austrian detectives were sent to Fhllli popolls to hurry along tho Inves tigation. Tho course of their Investi gation has been published In the brief paragraphs already printed regarding tho murder. It led to the arrest of Boltcheff and Boadan, and the confes tlon of Boadan, the arrest of Novello and Pope, and the revelation of the whole crime as narrated above. At tho examination In the case made by a Budapest police magistrate, which Is the last chapter written In this sorry romance, old Mr. Simon said bitterly: "When Capt. Boltcheff visited us In Budapest two years ago ho told Anna's mother and myself: 'I am a Bulgarian officer and u man of honor. For yearn 1 havo had tho distinction of serving in tho Immediate entourage of my prince. I love your daughter and herewith give you my word of honor that I will matry her; only I must first get my rank. Were I to do otherwise, I would be a scoundrel.' Such Is the honor of a Bul garian officer in the immediate entour age of tho prince." In a little European land like Bul garia a prefect of pollco Is almost as near the crown as a general in tho army. He often gets his commands di rectly from the crown. He always pets them thus In Important cases, notably where a foreign government la Inter ested. In view of this fact, those who remember the Stnmbuloff murder are pretty well qualified to understand how noar, even in this year of grace, a civil ized European sovereign can stand to an assty.siji in political as well as In social )fi It should be mentioned, hcwcvr, that, In tho face of the dls- approval shown In Vienna and Buda pest, .Ferdinand has given up his pur pose to mako Major George Pope his first adjutant. . HIS MAJESTY' INSUTfEU. Searching n Homo Tor a Document ' Hclluvrd to Ho DlspnrngiiiE. From tho New York Journal. In Baden, a beautiful llttlo town near Vienna, a thrce-storo house, er ected flvo yearn ago, 1st now being dis mantled to search for proof of Jcse ma jeste. The architect ot tho building, Hcrr Foller, Is a member of the Chris-tlan-Soclal party, which makes Jew baiting and opposition to the govern ment excuse for existence. Before Join. Ing tho anti-Semites Foller wa a Conservative, nnd after finishing the house, which belongs to a rich Jew named Bangl, told some of his friends thnt ho had played a trick upon tho authorities by writing out n statement fairly wreaking with insults of the Emperor Francis Joseph, and had placed It In a copper box, which was Immured In one of tho walls of the new building, Foller's friends thought this a very good joko at the time, but gradually later It assumed tho aspect of a veri table crlmo In their oyes. They began to mutter strange things about their former companion, and Anally chaiged him openly with tho odious offense of lose majestc. The authorities Interro gated Foller, who vaguely remembered tho fact of a certain metal box being Immured in tho Dangi residence, but that box, he said, contained nothing save the plans of the buildings and some coins. Where It was Immured he could not tell. A number offstono masons anil plumbers were nlso"4hter rogated, with negative results. Then tho court ordered a search of the premises Ten days ago the work of dismantling tho residence com menced. The pillars of masonry were broken open one after another and searched from top to bottom, nothing being found, however. The search was prosecuted under tho superinten dence of a judge, the state's attorney, and several cxpeits. The commission Is now searching the foundations. If tho box Is not found there the resi dence will bo torn down at the expense of the state, of course. The expenses caused by this farcical investigation, exceed already several thousand flor ins. It is no wonder that European countries are poor. ANIMALS AND MUSIC. A Strnngo Experiment IHndc in n Zoological Gnrdcn. From tho Philadelphia Inquirer. A violinist was playing various alts before the cages of the animals. Tho bow, which had been passing back ward and forward half drowsily, took up a gait that would have distanced one of the deer In the pen by the buffaloes' ynid. Then there was a transformation scene In the- home of the lioness ns rapid nnd as complete ub that of the tune The cubs went Into ecstasies. They rolled about, Jumped, fell over one another, raced over their mother's recumbent body, and danced unrebuked on her head. They ceased their tantrums only with the ceasing of the music. Then they gathered at the front bars of the cage again and sllentl nnd pa thetically pleaded for more. Thet" plea was successful, and In response to the dellcatj flattery by their manner the playe; gave the lullaby once more. They simply sat and listened to It as silently as they had at the first. The transition to the Jig music was once more made speedily. The first note of the lively air had barely left the violin before its riotous contagion had once more caught the cubs. They rollicked and rolled about, and stopped only when tho professor, fearing to tlrp their llttlo limbs, took his bow from his fiddle and told them they had danced enough for debutantes. The hyena Is an uncanny brute. His very appearance goes a great way to ward bearing out charges of grave yard robbery brought against him. He has no music In his soul nor room for any. Sweet sounds are to him so antipodal to everything In his nature that they Inspire him, with nothing but fear, and the most abject fear nt that. When Professor Baker tried to Interest the two skulking hyenas in his performanace on tho violin they bpgnn trembling visibly nt the first noto's utterance, and then as tho mu sic swelled they sought the further most side of their prison, and tried their best to squeeze their ungainly bCKlies through the bars to escape the melody. LIVELY AT TIMES. An lmnginntivo Drummer Visits I'liilnpclphin nnd tins a Dream. From tho Detroit Free Preis. "Talk about Philadelphia, being o, slow place'" said the Chicago stove drummtr; "It's all a mlstahe. The only time t was ever unable to hold my own In a crowd was In the Quaker City. I was sitting In the rotunda ot a hotel thete nbout 9 o'clock In the evening when a bell began to ring loudly some where near, and I jumped up nnd went out on the sidewalk to see If I could discover any signs of the fire. When I got outside I saw everybody rushing along like mad, and about fifty men came teatlntr Into the hotel at such a Lite that thoy knocked me down on the sidewalk nnd came near trampling the life out of me. "I managed to crawl to my feet and h'urried Inside, wonderinz if I would have tlrno to get my trunk out. Every thing seemed to be quiet when I got In, nnd I asked a man who was smok ing u cigar if the fire was out. " 'What fire?" tmid he. " 'Wasn't the boll ringing for fire? I asked, " 'Oh, no,' said he. 'That web our cui'few lell.' " Unreasonable,. From tho Detroit Ffca Press. Boarder Ti is egg Is not qulto fresh, mudam. Landlady "Oh, of course not. You people will bo demanding next spring's chicken's before another month," A LESSON I'llOM A LADY, As my pet, In dresses trailing, Tightly cllnglnff to tho rulllng, Of tho ntalre, descends, nho cries; "I'm u lady lamest size." Bonnet tied beneath her curls, Happiest ot happy girls. But on the lowest step sho slips; Headlong to the floor sho trips. Finery Is all unheeded, Tears are flowing unimpeded, To my lap sho otralghtway tiles, Thero to hide her tear-stained eyes, "You're a lady; musn't cry." Answer comes with sob'and slgb, As I smooth a tangled curl: "No; I'm Just your llttlo girl." We may elrldo In plume nnd feather, Proudly through the sunny weather, But when clouds of trouble fall Bound about us like a pall, All unheeded garments lino, Straight wo seek tho breast divine; Far from worldly cares and harms, .Humbled children In His arms, The Standard. SENSATIONAL CASE OF HELEN JEWETT Some Recollections ol a Noted Qotliam Murder ol Oilier Days. DRAMATIC INCIDENTS NARRATEQ Tho Crimo Thnt Excited tho City in Christmas Week, 183G--Kcnsons for Believing in tho Cuilt ofltlchnrd 1. Ilobhison--Tlio Eloqiicnco of Ogdcn Hodman That Sot Him Tree. Apropos of the Guldonsuppe nnd Benhnm murder cases the Sun recalls tho story of a once celebrated but now forgotten tragedy which occurred In the heart of New York city In Christ mas week, 183G. It is Indexed in the office of the clerk of tho court of oyer and terminer ns tho "Roblnson-Jewett affair." Not one of the actors In it survived. It resulted in a curious ap parent miscarriage of Justice, and In that respect takes place with the Cun-ningham-Burdell affair of two decades later; for tho accused Blchnrd P. Bob lnson was acquitted, like Mrs. Cun ningham, although nine-tenths ot newspaper readers believed In tho guilt of each. Tho real name of the victim was Dor cas. Sho was born at Augusta, Me., and, nfter a varied career, drifted to New York in the spring of 3S30 and went to live with a woman named Bosina Townsnid on the south side of Thomas street, between West Broad way and Hudson street, and two doors east of tho latter. Thomas street has been for years surrendered to the dry goods trade, but was then residential and wns included in what would now be called tho Tenderloin. Dorcas Dyon had given herself tho nanw of Helen Jewett. She attracted the attention of a young dry goods cletk who lodged in Dry street and masqueraded under the nllas of Frank ltlvers. Hl-j real name wns Richard P. Boblnson, and he was employed by Joseph Hoxle, a well-to-do downtown nie-mant who In after years became known to New Yotkers as a district court Judgs ond counlv clerk. Rlver.s was recognized ns Helen Jewett's favorite, and she often visit ed him at his office and also sent him notes. Their last Interview occurred on his nlnetenth blrthday.in the Christ mas holidays of 183C. He was admit ted to the house about 10 p. m. and It was noticed that he wore a cloak tho folds of which ho used to more or less conceal his face. FOUND MURDERED. During the nlsht fire was discovered in Helen Jewett's room. When the door was broken open the woman was seen to be lying on the bed, apparently nsleep. The fire was extinguished eas ily nnd then It was discovered that sne was dead. The burning showed that she had been killed before the bed took fire. At once search was made for River'1. The back door was found open, and on a table near It was the unex tinguished lamp that belonged to the Jewett apartment. Tho yard backed upon one belonging to a Duane street house, and its western side adjoined another yard belonging to a Hudson street house, while a ten-foot wooden fence separated the Townsend yard from one on the east side in the direc tion toward West Broadway. One of the municipal night watchmen climb ed this fence and saw that from this adjoining yard an alleyway led into Duane street. The entrance to the al loy was found open, and doubtless the murderer had escaped that way. The. watchman found lying or. the ground of this adjoining jard a claak nnd a hatchet. The cloak was recognized ns that which Frank Rivers had worn. Meanwhile a surgeon had arrived. He compared the edge of th hatchet with the wound In tho temple of the dead woman. "The cut was evidently made "by It," said the surgeon, "And he has taken away his miniature that he gave Hel en," added Mrs. Townsend. Everybody at once concluded that Frank Rivers was the murderer and the watchman Immediately set out to arrest him. On reaching tho lodgings of Rivers, or rather Robinson, in Dey street, tho watchman found him unde niably fast asleep. On Robinson's be ing told what he was wanted for, tho watchman, already puzzled to find him sleeping, was the more puzzled to see that Robinson was really dazed by tho Information, Robinson arose nnd dressed himself in order to c.ccompany the officer of the law, who was once more puzzled to see him put over his dress a camlet cloak. Next examining the bedroom the watchman discovered white marks on Robinson's trousers, that ho at once reasoned had been made by whitewash from the fence; and on the bureau he found the minia ture missing from Helen Jewett's bed room. Robinson stoutly denied that hP had been In the Thomas streot houso on the preceding Satuiday evening. To all his statements tho officer listened with incredulity and cautioned his pris oner not to tnllc, because whatever he said might be used in evidence con cerning the charge; so Ronlnson re mained silent, but seemed to bo more and moio affected at the narrative of tho girl's wound and death, and tho fire: When on Monday the news of the murder, the fire, and the nnest became public, nothing else was talked about thioughout the New York of that day lying between Twenty-third street nnd the Battery, with its twelve wards and 400,000 inhabitants. Robinson's em ployer and friends claimed that the young clerk was Incapable of such work. The believers In his guilt point ed to tho mass of evidence against him. and their belief was strengthened when nt the coroner'B Inquisition the porter of the store where the accused was employed Identified the hatchet as one belonging to It. He Identified the hatchet by marks nnd by the twine fastened to its handle, and this same kind of twine he further identified on the buttonhole of the discovered cloak. Ball was refused, and forthwith rela tives of Robinson, at his old country homo In Connecticut started a fund for the employment of counsel, nnd Robin son's employer demonstrated" his belief in his clerk's Innocence by a subscrip tion to It. At once the three most eminent crim inal law udvocates were secured, in Ogden Hoffman, a former district at torney; In William M. Price, who was President Jackson's federal district at torney, and in Hugh Maxwell, Who was later county district attorney. Public opinion was too exacting for official delays and Robinson was soon indicted, and at the first term of the oyer and terminer his trial was called. Leading citizens, precelvlng the strong array of counsel for the defense, and having little confidence In District Attorney Phoenix, whose selectUn by a friend ly board of supervisors had surprised thQ bar, asked the governor to detail the attorney-general for the prosecu tlon. but Phoenix opposed tho request, nnd he nnd his assistant, Mr. Morris, took charge of the prosecution, Thn presiding Judge was nn able suprem Justlco named Edwards. The law then gavo him as assistant Judges the re corder tho Richard Rlkcr, who had long served as district attorney and three aldermen, who were the learned Egbert Benson, David Banks, the law publisher and Daniel P. Ingraham, lat. er Judge of tho present common pleas, and father of tho supreme court Jus tice, Tho court was then held In the large room at tho northeast corner of the city hall, afterward divided, and njw used by two terms of tho city court. It would contnln at most about 500 auditors, but fully 5,000 persons wero In and around the building bucIi was the publlo excitement when the trial began, clamoring for admit tance. Such was the confusion on the opening day that the court of common pleas and tho supremo court, then held In tho city hall, were compelled to adjourn, because lawyers and witness es, and even Judges, found It impos sible to enter the building. Two whole days wero exhausted In obtaining a Jury. At that time, when the tegular panel wast exhausted, tho court ordered the sheriff to summon talesmen at his discretion from specta tors, nnd the presence of so large . crowd gave the sheriff great scope. As the first Juror was called the presiding judge selected two gentlemen from by standers In the court room, customar ily lawyers, to serve as triers of tho competency of tho Juror. These were duly sworn to Impartiality, and took the first two stats In the Jury box and there listened to the counsel examining the Juror simply as to his eligibility and bios. Questions were confined to those points and did not, as now, roam over a Juror's biography. Counsel on each side addressed the triers accord ing to their professional views of elig ibility; tnen the Judge briefly charged the triers and they decided. If the two disagreed the Juror was set aside, but he was sworn If they agreed that he would be a fair Juror. If sworn the first Juror now became a trier In place of the Tjystander In the first seat, and, of course, foreman of the panel. When n. second Juror was obtained these two Jurors became triers over the ten to follow. It was observable during the challenging that at first the triers were particular; but after a while, seem ingly weni led, they would accept al most anyone called In order to facili tate business. If the lawyer for the defence did not like the decision ot the triers he could take exception, which would serve on a writ of error. No Juror In the Jewett case came from tho regular names In the box nnd the jury Impanelled was entirely made up of these summoned by the sheriff, and It was afterward complained of him that, sympathizing with Robinson, he had used his discretion In summoning tales men In accordance witn his sentiments. Assistant District Attorney Morris opened for the prosecution very tim idly, and was evidently embarrassed by the crowd and the tumults without and by the presence of distinguished counsel against him, In the midst of whom Robinson sat In rather Juvenile attire (evidently a dramatic idea of counsel) and wearing an air of wonder ing Innocence, devoid of the slightest bravado. Mrs. Roslna Townsend was the first witness and gave testimony Identifying Robinson nnd also the cloak. She swore to having seen him In Helen Jewett's room two hours be fore the- fire, and to finding Helen Jewett's lamp burning In the back room near to the door Into tho yard, and to the Impossibility of any out sider obtaining admission to the house v Ithout her knowledge. On cross-examination she could not ascribe any motive to Robinson, for the deed, nnd testified that there had been three oth er men In tho house at the time of the murder. Counsel Price, qj very adroit cross-examiner, insinuated by his ques tions that one of these men might have dono the deed and have placed the cloak and hatchet where they wero found In otder to throw suspicion on Robinson. GUILT ESTABLISHED. Then followed evidence about the fence, whitewash, cloak, and hatchet, and the escape of the murderer by the back door. As these links of evidence was forged In a circumstantial chain Robinson preserved the utmost equan imity, and yet the atmosphere of the court room seemed oppressive with the sense of his guilt. This atmosphere, however, cleared when Counsel Max well opened for the defense and fur nished the first surprise by declaring that he would prove for the client a most complete alibi. Of this nothing had previously been Intimated. After Introducing testimony tending to show that Robinson had never owned such a cloak as was found, the defence called the keeper of a saloon on Church street much frequented during even ings by Btudents of Columbia college, which was then hard by In Park place, nnd by young clerks. He was a well known man named Furlong. He swore that Robinson, whose name he then did not know, but whom he Identified was often In his saloon and was there on tho Saturday evening In question between 'half past nine and half past ten, nnd did not leave until near mid night. He fixed the times by curious ly enough an Inspection of the watch carried by Robinson, which watch be mg handed him in court, ho identified. A follow lodger nt Robinson's Dey street boarding house testified that Robinson came In before tnjdnlght. Upon tills alibi Ogdon Hoffman of whose silvery flow of language, ardent style, and pathetic voice and magnet ic eyes no Idea can now be given thtough any comparison with any member of tho New York bar mainly summed up and in eloquence that charmed into almost breathless sllenco Judge and Jury as well as all auditors. He also dilated pathetically upon the absence of any motive In his client whom at every eentence he mel llfluously called "this poor boy" to kill the girl. And earnestly he argued that Jealousy and revenge had Insti gated olther some woman or Fomo man pot oi.ly to the murder, but to turning suspicion toward his client. Most pathetically ho repeated again and again this sentence, "and the stern law has closed this poor boy's speech so that he cannot aid his alibi and deny the. story of his presence." During this nppeal Robinson btoko down nnd wept. At the clo?e of tho speech there wns a storm of applause and even cheers wero heard. The summing up for tho prosecution was painfully wanting In forco and persuasion. Throughout the prosecu tion's address and the cold perfunctory charge of Judge Edwards, the echoes ot the Hoftmnn eloquence lingered. These echoes went Into the Jury room and In a very short time the Jurors re turned with a verdict of acquittal. But later tho suicide of Furlong, who had established the alibi, threw a strong douht upon the verdict and sug- treated) that remorse at perjury Impelled the dei d. Hoon afterward the rush to- ward ' tho p 'exnji set In, and Robinson Joined Jgrlms. There lie married, he- came a a fam' successful business man, raised 11 y, and died respected even by nclghblra who knew ot his past. A Life A FOND DAUGHTER WAS NIGH TO DEATH. frank B. Trout Tells a Reporter o? How His Daughter's Life Was Saved. All Parents Should be Inter ested in This Narrative. from the liccninp Ustncr ns n nnMrim for M lnvntimtlmi tho rumor that the Hfo of tho daughter of Frank B. 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