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of any use?
July 9.—Only three days before the
court meets, and not a step more for-
ward! Yes, I have done something.
1 have spoken with the lawyer who will
take up Sigrid’s case. He confided to
me that Sigrid had informed him that
it was really she who had visited the
pawnbroker that afternoon, to get him
| she refused to explain how she wanted
i to use the money. The lawyer had im-
pressed. upon her that it was absolutely
self on that point, but the young girl
i was obdurate.
What can this mean?
What use could Sigrid have for four
| thousand kroners? and why couldn’t she
explain what she wanted them for? This
| has given me much food for reflection.
| In the meantime, I asked the lawyer
i if he had taken note of the fact that
\ j | the pawnbroker’s time by the clock had
Your part, Mr. Monk, in the latter
month’s events, I am not so sure about,
and I do not intend to trouble myself
about it any further. )
It is sufficient for me to know that
you have assisted in the ‘attempt to con-
ceal the criminal conduct of my brother's
children. That there may be circum-
stances which render your conduct ex-
cusable, I know well enough; but at
any rate, I donot see why we should
meet or see each other again.
Yours truly,
! * BartmOLOMEW FRICK.
Monk looked up from his notes.
“Since then I have never spoken to old
Frick.” “sy ;
“But you surely tried to get some ex-
. planation from him?”
__ “I tried, yes; but it was easier said
than dons. Since that time he HA#"
scarcely spokén with any one, least of
all with mer He is as obstinate aban
old goat. Bdt'let me proceed, for the
sooner I get $6 the end ofSthese n¥is-
erable reminiscences the better.
June 28—1I spent the day in keeping
my eye on the actor, Evelina, and her
mother--a difficult task now, since I
have to-manage without my trusted con-
stable, and exclusively rely upon myself
or some wrélched hireling. Evelina
never goes out; she is shid /to be ill,
Her mother enjoys greatly the role of
martyr on ster daughter’s behalf. She is
said to have received a considerable
sum of money from old Frick. The ac-
tor continues his gay life. He seems to
have a little: money, but nothing extra-
ordinary. :
I have spokén with Mr. Howell He
behaves and speaks like a ‘gentleman,
but . . . I have no belief in him.
He expressed the greatest regret in hav-
ing been mixed up in the case. Noth-
ing could have persuaded him that it
was not Evelina he had" photographed
-in-front of the cupbeard with the dia-.
mond in her hand.
does’ that when:
thé clock and the dress tell another
story.) He’ was going to England in a
few days, He said, whatever the police
might say or do. He would not appear
in'couft; but they had, of course, his
evidence from the last proceedings.
I‘ asked what ofd Frick had to say
aginst his nephew Einar. Mr. Howell
said he could not understand; he had in~
vain tried to bring the old fellow round.
Mt. Howell apparently’ speaks very
opénly ; but I have learned nothing new
from him. Does he know nothing? or
doés he conceal something?
July 5—=A whole week gone, and I
have done nothing! The time draws
near when the case will come again be- !
fore the court, and every one seems to
be of the opinion—though it is dreadful
to have to write it down—that Sigrid :
will be found guilty.
I have written twice to Einar Frick
in ‘Hamburg; but have not received any
reply, although by telegraphing to his
hotel, I have found out that he has been
thére and has received my letters.
It seems as if I am beating my head
against a stone wall.
I'have been to the pawnbroker, Abra-
hatison. At first I only saw a hump-
batked clerk, who stared at me with a
defisive smile, but afterward Abraham-
son himself appeared. He said he had
told everything he knew in court, and
fiat no time to talk with me. It is véry
different now from the time when I was
chief of the detective force!
The day before yesterday an important
thing happened. Tle actor Frederiksen
left by the night train’ for Copenhagen.
1 ebuldi’t keep hini back, and the po-
licg wouldn’t. step him; and now I sus-
pect that with him has disappeared one
of the few possible chances of getting
the robbery cleared up.
July 6—AM the morning papers an-
nounce to-day in big type the news that
Evelina ReiefSon has committed sdicide;
she has hanged herself ii» lier own room
in her moth®’s house. All agree that
she eommitféd syicider ‘while insane.
After her arfest she Had several times
betrayed sigi$ of: indahity) which at last:
resulted in this" deplorable act—so #4
the reports. * All the papers speak in
regretful terfhs of the event, and the
Truthseeker and several other papers
are untiring fn expatiating upon the re-
sponsibilities’ ‘which the “real culprit”
and the polite must take upon them
selves for what has happened.
I hardly understand howl, in ‘the
long run, ant'going to hold dit, power-
less as I am“to do anything.
July 7.—I Went to-day to Mrs. Reier-
son's to see if I could possibly find out
if the deal gitl had left behind her afiy
message or éonfession. As I had ex-
pected, howeWer, I was received by the
worthy dame: with a shower of curses
and abuse. It was impossible tc do any-
thing in that‘quarter.
Old Frick stems entirely overwhelmed
by his niece's guilt, and does not allow
her name to be mentioned. He Has,
however. engaged the hest lawver in
spam AE brit
(Yes, but what |
made it impossible that Miss Frick
| could be back at Villa Ballarat at the
| time when the photograph was takefi.
According to the pawnbroker’s account,
she drove from there twenty-five min-
utes to six, and the clock in the pho-
tograph showed it to be twenty minutes
to six. The way from Bishop Road to
Villa Ballarat cannot be covered in five
minutes,
The lawyer promised to prove this—
but what could Sigrid want with: four
thousand kroners? What could she have
to hide?”
Monk closed his note-book.
Yes, thus far go my notes, and the
rest is quickly told.
ree days afterward the case came
before the court. I was myself called
as ‘witness, but my recollections of that
day are very indistinct. I felt as if I
were walking im my sleep or in the
throes of a dreadful dream. If I had
been the ‘accused I should have acted
calmly and with presence of mind, I am
sure. But I was not accused, though
guilty of having been the cane of brihg-
than: my: life before a court of justices,
and 'hwdlig her aecused of having com-
mitted ‘a’ despicable theft from her bena-
factor.
that'], thtough reading the accounts in
the paper; got some idea of what had
taken place’ that day in coset.
Nearly all the witnesses who ap-
peared against
_moned on this occasion. The evidence
threw no new light on the case, so I do
not think it necessary to go more than
is absolutely mecessary into the events of
that terrible. day. kbtich ,
eh I gave my’ explan of ‘my
visitto Mf. Jurgens,’ the public attenipt-
ed to assail me with terms of abuse and
dérision. The judge soon called them
to order, but I was subjected to the
story of my own folly.
visit to the pawnbroker, but refused to
_solutely denied having. set foot in the
The public prosecutor in his address
ing i— : : :
The accused had herself admitted that
she, on the day of the robbery, had
taken most unusual steps to become
possessed of a large sum of money, but
that she had not succeeded in this at
the pawnbroker’s. It was clear that it
was of the greatest importance for her
to obtain at least four thousand kroners
that day, and that all other ways out of
| the difficulty seemed to be closed
, against her.
She was one of the few who could,
without creating suspicion, go in and
out of the museum where the diamond
was kept.
. Then there was the photograph taken
by Mr. Howell of her standing with the
diamond in her hand at twenty minutes
to six that afternoon. That the photo-
graph represented Miss Frick, although
she denied having visited the museum
during that time, there was no longer
any doubt, after an examination with the
magnifying glass.
Finally, there was the evidence of the
late chief detective, that Mr. Jurgens at
the beginning had declared he had
Only later had the old man, frightened
by the detective’s improper behavior,
changed his statement.
These were, in brief, the chief points
in the public prosecutor's address, and
it is: not necessary to add that after the
evidence and his speech, there was
scarcely a person in the court who
doubted but that Miss Frick was guilty.
The counsel for the accused had no
. other defence than: the point which I
mentioned in my diary; but this he
turned. to. account beyond. all, expecta-
tion. It appeared that the time when
“De ‘sibstantisted to the minute, By the
, drdurhistanee that the pawnbroker om
this occasion had looked at his watch
and asked his clerk if the time was not
: twenty-five nfintites: to six. Fhe clévie
had then leant out of the window,
; looked at fhe clockin the chdrch tower,
and answered in the affirmative.
The counsel: had also exaniinéd the
driver who had drivén Miss Prick —I
meanwhile I had been able to tree this
person,—and he could clearly remembee
that on this occasion he hdd! driven at
his usual pace, neither more quickly soe
more slowly.
The counsel had; as expérimints)
taken several drives with the same horse
anid carriage, and Had fousd that! the
distance was never made in less than
fifteen minutes, when driving at
usual pace, and at a more rapid pace fof
less than ten minutes.
He had ‘thereby shown, he sdid, tha
if Miss Frick was the lady who had l&fe
the pawnbroker’s at twenty-five minutes
to six—which was now an established
fact—it could nbt Be she who had beest
photegraphed with the difmond ia her
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ing the young girl whom I. mire
It was some tite: affertidrd’
most offensive glances while I told the ' the: prose-
, cution to drop the case,—but I' have at
museurn between five and half-past
the hands of | gaven, :
Miss Fick left the pawnbgoker’s: could"
i to 'end her monev on her trinkers; but '
‘ necessary that she should explain her- *
was: ight to the minute, had been
proved by Mr. Frick’s evidence.
The public prosecutor, in the reply,
stated that it was a well-known fact that
there was often a difference of several
minutes in the clocks of the town.
The counsel maintained that such a
great difference as would be necessary
in such a case, at least ten minutes, was
scarcely possible. Altogether, he util-
ized this circumstance to the utmost, and
made his final appeal to the jury so im-
pressive that when the jury retired, |
there was great uncertainty as to the
result,
Here Mr. Monk opened his memoran-
dum book and produced a newspaper
cutting, from which he read the conclu-
sion of the counsel’s address: —
“It would be foolish of me to main-
tain that I have proven that my client '
is not guilty of the theft of which she
is accused. But I have the right to ask:
Is there any ome who believes that the
public prosecutor has proved her guilt?
I have, at any rate, shown that in order
that the assertion of the prosecution
may hold good, the young lady must
have been in two places at the samg
time. If she had been at the pawn-
broker’s at the time when all the evi-
dence went to show she was there, then
she cannot be the person who was pho-
tographed by Mr. Howell with the
stolen diamond in her hand.
“I’ admit that there is weighty cir-
cumstantial evidence against the young
lady; but have I not also shown that
there is also weighty circumstantial ewvi-
dence in.contradiction? All will agree
that this is an:unusual case. This rob-
. 'bery, which has now been twice before
velina were also sum- |
Sigrid did not attempt to hide her
explain for what purpose she required.
the money. On the other hand, she ab-
especially laid stress upon the follow- °
bought the diamond of the accused. '
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the court, in the form of ‘two different
charges against two different persons,
will remain a mystery, whatever the ver-
dict of the jury may be to-day.
“I venture. to. say, that. whatever your
judgment may be to-day,” we shall to-
morrow hear that half of the public ap-
mob Which surrounded fhe house.
He was no doubt under the impres-
sion that he was followed by 2 force
consisting of the coachman and the gar-
dener; but these cautious warriors did
not follow him further than the gate.
Fortunately, old Frick had forgotten
to load his revolver, so no great mis-
chief was dome. He was at once sur-
rounded and forced up against his rail-
inzs. He managed, however, to use his
sword, if not with dexterity, at least
with such fury that it took some time
before any one ventured to come near
him. ,
He had succeeded in wounding sev-
eral half-tipsy roughs, who attempted to
close with him, when finally an ingeni-
ous young cattle driver caught up a gar-
den seat and rushed at him, using this
as a shield Old Frick’s sword got
jammed in the seat; he was disarmed,
and struck on the head with an empty
bottle, and thrown to the ground. Some
mounted police at last appeared on the
scene, charged the crowd, and saved the
old man, after which the mob dispersed
quietly.
~The blow which old Frick received on
his head resulted in concussion of the
brain. For several days he lingered be-
‘tween life and death, and has, since that
time, owing to paralysis in his legs, not
been able to leave his chair without as-
sistance.
(To be Continued.)
SUMMING UP THE EVIDENCE.
Many! Meyersdalé People Have Been
Called as Witnesses.
Week after week has been publish-
ed the testimony of Meyersdale peo-
ple—kidney sufferers—backache vir-
tims—pople who have endured many
forms of kidney, bladder or urinary
disorders, These witnesses have us-
prove of it, asd the other half dis-
shprove.
“Thk theft in, and will cemait, 5. m-
“Any ome who was present at the for-
mer trial, will remember that when the
¢dse was nearly concluded; in fact, jnst
before the jury retired, there was
scarcely a person in court was not
eonvinced that the case was as clear as
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the jurynien would not be troubled’ imi Meyersdale, says: “For eight or nine
any way by pronouncing a verdict of years I was troubled by pains in the
‘Guilty.’ But an hour or two afterward small of
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all were agreed that they might with that helped me wa Doan’s Kidney
just as easy a mind pronounce a verdict
of ‘Not Guilty’ Might .not the sam
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“1 am not so fortunate; it!is ‘thie, as
my colleague, who was the counsel for |
the defence on the first occasion. I have
not, at any rate, succeeded in producing
evidence which would compel the: :
least succeeded in showing that if the
public prosecutor is eorrect in his state-
ments, then my client must be a super-
natural being!”
The counsel concluded with a passion- !. SERIOUS CANAL SLIDE. iB TIRES
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“The jury consulted for three hours,” “probably ten million cubic yards of OILS
continued Monk, and when they at last | earth into the Panama Canal is a very WW GRE ASES
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A sigh of relief escaped simultaneous-
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locked up with a strange melancholy
smile.
“Yes, I understand. I felt just as you
now feel when the verdict was made
known. The first impression was one
of infinite joy and relief; but it was not
to last long. The verdict was received
by the public with deep silence; and
when Sigrid was liberated, and about to
leave the court, she was received with
hooting and hissing by the large crowd
which in an incredibly short time had .
collected outside. Stones were thrown
after her carriage, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that the police got her
safely away.”
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was looked up sceptically by many
who declared it would be impossible
to prevent the slides and their pre-
dictions seem to, in a measure, be
verified.
Others, who declared the land too
porous to hold the water in the canal,
‘have been shown mistaken in their
‘calculations. :
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being in'need of money. Then, besides i
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The next day the papers contained
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before in the court, and the trial was
the general topic of conversation. No
one ‘stenitd to 'doabt that Miss Frick
was guilty. The suicide of Evelina had
: : ‘to inflashe theiniinds of
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City. Pa, starting Wednesday of this
next week.
| Rev. H. H. Wiant, of Berlin, preached
{the setfiion. :
i On Friday evening Dr. A. E. Truxal
{of Meyersdale had ‘charge of the ser-
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! There was a net gain in the mem-
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etiing the retiring president, |
ghatithe @8lise of the suicide wis, as I | year. The offerings were: Benevolence
hawe leead; mentioned, the treatment $66,863; congregation purposes, 178,
to which she had: been exposed while 984 5 gain in Benevolence of $13,212
being accused of a crime of which she
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Oils Brick natlrally became Hirious,
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