Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1915 — Page 7

Anther Link With MonticeHo Montlcello Citizens Add Their Praise Another link with our neighboring town of Montlcello is provided in the following grateful and generous statement of a well-known resident there, Mr. Thomas H. Graves, Railroad St, who says: "I had a severe attack of lumbago and my back became so stiff and sore that I could not stoop. I had a dull,' throbbing ache through my kidneys and loins and a distressing kidney ■weakness. I doctored and used medicine of various kinds, but nothing helped me until I took Doan’s Kidney Pills. This medicine went to the seat of the trouble and three boxes made a cure.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t 6iraply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Graves had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.— Advt. Notice to Non-Resident. The State of Indiana, Jasper County, ss. In the Jasper Circuit Court, November Term, 1915. Harve Moore vs. N. Piklor, Floyd T. McKay, Eli Wagler. Complaint No. 8530. Now comes the plaintiff, by John A. Dunlap, his attorney, and files his complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the defendants,| N. Piklor, Floyd T. McKay and Eli Wagler, are not residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants, that unless they be and appear on the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court to be liolden on the second Monday of February, 1916, at the court house in Rensselaer, in said county and state, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined m their absence. In witness whereof, I hereunto set [SEAL] my hand and affix the seal of said court, at Rensselaer, this 29th day of November, A I)., 1915. JUDSON H. PERKINS, d-1-8-15 Clerk. To Friends of The Democrat. Instruct your attorneys to bring all legal notices in which you are interested or have the paying for, to The Democrat and thereby save money and do us a favor that will be greatly appreciated. All notices of appointment, administrator, executor or guardian, survey, sale of real estate, non-resident notices, etc. The clients themselves control and attorneys wiH take them to the paper you desire for publication if you mention the matter to them otherwise they will take the notices to their own political organs. Please do not forget this when having any legal notices to publish. Annual cnnstmas Bazaar. The ladies of the Presbyterian church ■ are busy making preparations for their annual Christmas bazaar. The ladies have decided to hold their bazaar in the dining parlors of the church, on Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 8 and 9. The ladies have been industriously at work and many fancy and useful articles will be for sale. People will do well to visit the bazaar for their Christmas presents.—Advt. Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office. PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM A toilet preparation ot merit. Helps to eradicate tuff. For Restoring Color and Beauty toGrayor Faded Hair. oOe. and SI 00 a s . Draggists. We Show Men &. Women How to make 530 to SIOO weekly, year around. Ajtt&zinir opportunity for l&ree income. Why waste time w»*rkingr for others? Use yonr spare time honje and gram financial mdependeiye. No canwassimr. Re yonr own master. Write to-day. Universal Sucss&s Co., Dept. A, * Ko. 70 Fifth Ave., New York City.

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ON TRIAL

Novelized by Charles N. Lurie " From the Great Play by Elmer Reizeostein

SYNOPSIS Robert Strickland Is on trial for killing Gerald Trask In the latter’s library at night.; District Attorney Gray declares Strickland killed Trask, with the aid ot an accomplice, who escaped, for the sake of SIO,OOO In cash, which Strickland had Just repaid to Trask. The defendant and Trask were the only two who knew the combination to the safe. Important figures In the case are Arbuckle, counsel for the defense, and Glover, who was Trask's secretary. Strickland would not make defense, but law compels him to do so. Mrs. Strickland disappeared after the shooting. Mrs. Trask, on stand, tells of telephone call made on her husband, on the night of his death, by a woman who would not give her name. Trask returned from Long Branch that night and told of giving by mistake the combination of the safe to Strickland. Mrs. Trask asked him in vain for name of woman who called him up. Glover and Trask discussed Strickland and praised him. Mr. and Mrs. Trask quarreled about ills attentions to other women, and she dragged out of the past “that affair at Great Neck," thirteen years before, in which a Miss Deane was involved.

CHAPTER VI. His Last Night on Earth. [w— \ iOR a moment the light of reJP I turning hope burned in tbo [SjSSf eyes of Joan Trask. “I want WWW you”— she began, but the memory of the bitter years, of the long succession of broken promises and vows, stretching back to the time when the man before her had taken upon himself the solemn obligation to “love, cherish and honor,” clouded her face again. “No;” she said dully, “it’s no use. It’ll be just the same as ever.” “I tell you it won’t,” he said! “ What more do yffii want? I give you my word. I know that I’ve broken it before, but this time I’m in earnest.” There was solemnity in her tone as she said: “Gerald, if I do this it is the last time-” > It was with genuine relief that he exclaimed: “Good! We’ll begin all over again!” He kissed ber. Oh, trusting heart of womanhood! She tookhis words at their face value and returned the kiss. But there was 6till misgiving in her mind that was not stilled by the wild, glad beating of her heart. “Gerald,” she said, “you’ll keep your word ?” “I’ve said so,” was his reply. “Then promise me that you’ll break off with this woman.” “What woman?” “The one who called up.” “Oh, pshaw!” he said. “There's nothing in that. You’re wrong. You’ve misjudged me this time.” They kissed again. With a parting good night Trask switched off the lights in the library, and the two went to their respective rooms. Such was the last talk of Gerald and Joan Trask. The woman went to her room with the joyous hope that she had regained her husband as he was in the first few months of their wedded life. She had reclaimed him! And the stars sang to her as she peered from the window of her room, and the voices of the city, stilled in the night, spoke only of the happiness that was to come to her at last after years of suffering. Gerald was to be hers again, and ail was well! And the man? He left his wife with a lie on his lips and in his heart. Not love, bat fear had prompted the reconciliation. The storm had blotyn over for the time. He would live quietly until Joan had time to forget a bit— Forget? Joan forget? He laughed a little bitter laugh. Curse it! Her memory was too good. Thirteen years since the Deane affair at Great Neck. Jove, how lucky he had it might have brought him a penitentiary sentence! Joan had remembered every detail of the affair, it seemed, and had flung it into his face that night. Women remember some things much better than men. But there, It had passed, fortunately for him, and he hacl “squared” Joan this night. So what was the use of remembering one affair in many ? Besides, he was dog tired and must rest. Tomorrow he would plan how to get around Joan. Thus Gerald Trask went to his rest on the night that was to be his last on earth. • * * * * * • Other persons are astir with the affairs of the Trasks this night. It was but a few minutes after Mr. and Mrs." Trask had left the library. All was In darkness, but the quiet of the place was broken by a queer grating sound from the alcove In which stood the safe. It was metal moving upon metal, a slithering and scratching noise. To the nerves of Joan Trask, tautened and thrilled by her talk with her husband, all sensation Is magnified, and £he heard the sound. She moves toward It, entering the room. The figure of a man rises from before thesafe. seizes a scarf from the library table and glides to where the hesitant figure of the woman stands. Before she can give voice to the words /Of Inquiry on her lips he has sprung upon her, strangling her as be envelops her head in the scarf. He forces her to

the fioor, but as he does so another man enters the room at the rear. It is Robert Strickland, come to the borne of his “friend” for a purpose. In his hand is something bright and strange of shape. The man who is choking Mrs. Trask hears him and looks up, desisting from his terrible work. Joan is too far gone to scream, however. He has succeeded

He Aims His Revolver at Trask and Fires.

in aim of silencing her. But as Strickland enters the room the strangler glides off to one side and leaves the newcomer looking down in bewilderment at the figure of Mrs. Trask on the floor. Then, for the second time on this fateful night, the telephone boll lings. A moment more and Gerald Trask in his shirt sleeves stumbles Into the dark room. With one hand lie icm-kc;- for the telephone receiver, wii'h die < ih< r he switches on tlie electric light. His eyes :ire t urned from at tie ot her two occupants of the room, and lie does not know of tlieir piosehce. Mrs. Trask cannot call to her husband, for she lias but little breath left. lie sides, her eyes are fixed in fascination on the revolver which Strickland has pointed at her. And Strickland, dazzled by tbe sudden glare of light, seems bewildered by the sight of the woman lying on the floor. The voice of Trask breaks the silence. “Hello! Yes, this is Trask. Is that you, May?” ’ The words galvanize Strickland into faction. lie rises from the crouching position lie has assumed, aims hispre yolver at Trask and fires. The shot rouses Joan, and she screams. The two sounds are almost merged, and they startle Trask, so that lie drops tbe receiver and turns in time to see whence his fate has descended upon him. His last earthly utterance is: “Strickland!” And with that Robert Strickland fires again. It is the end of earth for Gerald Trask, for the bullet lodges in his heart. From the rear of the room rushes in Stanley Glover, bearing In his band a heavy stick. He dashes at Strickland, and the stick falls heavily on the slay-

“My God, he’s killed Gerald!”

er’s uplifted right arm. With a groan Strickland drops to the floor, the revolver falling from his hand. And then Joan Trask, widowed by the sTiot, staggers to her feet and screams: “My God, he’s killed Gerald!” ” , It Is Glover who takes command of the situation. Standing guard over the fallen Strickland, he urges the moaning woman to telephone to a doctor. So ran £hc story of the widow of the slain man. It was not told connectedly, but had to be elicited by the questioning, at times insistent, hut at all times considerate and gentle, of the district attorney. It was his duty to bring out the facts, to invoke justice upon man who had invaded his friend’s home at night and had shot him down. The fact of the shooting by Strickland was established by the testimony of Mrs. Trask. Trask lay in his grave, and Strickland had done the shooting. It was not denied. Had be not been willing to plead guilty? Had he not in open court protested against the continuance of the legal proceedings, which might send him to the electric chait, asking only that his little girl—his Doris—be spared the ordeal of the witness chair? Throughout the appearance of lloan Trask on the Witness Stand her testl-

mony had been followed with tho Closest attention by judge and Jury, by counsel for both sides and by the throng in the courtroom. It made the deepest of impressions. Especially when the money was mentioned, $lO,000 in cash, a large sum to the great majority of the audience, it was noticeable that Mrs. Trask's audience leaned forward In their chairs. Here, it seemed to their minds, as the district attorney had asserted in his opening address to the Jury, might be found sufficient motive for murder. Strickland's financial difficulties, settled so 6hort a time before the shooting, if really settled at all; his eagerness to pay in cash; his possession of the combination to the safe; his dramatic appearance in the Trask home only a short time after he had seen Trask in his own home; the elusive accomplice, who had disappeared—all pointed, in the minds of the hearers of Mrs. Trpsk’s testimony, to willful, deliberate murder, only to be expiated in the chair of death. Having told her story of the shooting itself, Mrs. Trask was retained in the witness chair to tell of the subsequent happenings in her home on the fatal night and to undergo cross examination by the attorney for the defense. A few minutes after the shooting the police arrived, she said, but her husband was dead by that time. He died. Instantly, the doctor said. “Now, Mrs. Trask, did you observe the safe before the police arrived ?” asked District Attorney Gray. “Yes; the safe was opened." “Did you notice if any of the contents were missing?" “Yes, sir; the SIO,OOO were gone." “That’s all, Mrs. Trask.” And Mr. Gray turned to David Arbuekle. chief counsel for the defense, with, “You may cross examine the witness.” Then the district attorney, his militant air giving way to a relaxation that told of relief and satisfaction with his witness, settled back in his chair to watch the proceedings closely. lie was a faithful prosecuting officer, intent on safeguarding the rights of his client, “the people of the state of New York." It was now.the turn of the defense. “Mrs. Trask," said Arbuekle, rising, “did you recognize your assailant, the man who opened the safe?" * “No,” replied the witness. "He came upon me so quickly. And the room was in total darkness.” “Are you sure that no one but Mr. Trask knew the combination Of the safe?” Was there a momentary pause by the witness? Did It enter her mind for a brief fraction of a second that the question and answer would be marked “important” In the minds of the jury? The answer came, “Mr. Strickland knew it.” \ “I move to strike out the answer as not responsive,” said Arbuekle. With that the district attorney sprang to his feet. The point made by Arbuckle was too important to be permitted to go unchallenged to the jury. “I —your honor!” he exclaimed. In the cold, quiet- manner which marked him throughout the case Judge Dinsmore made his ruling. “The motion is denied." “I respectfully except," said Arbuekle, and lie turned again to the witness. ‘ Mrs. 'l'ra.sk. did any words pass between Strickland, and your assailant?" "I can’t he sure. There was a ringing in my cars. He almost strangled me.” “lint to Hie host of your knowledge they did not speak to each other?” "1 can't say one way or the other.” Dropping this line of questioning and taking tip another. Arbuekle asked the witness: “Mrs. Trask, do you know who ‘May’ is?” Up to this point the manner of the witness had been calm. She had suffered much in the months which had intervened between the killing of her husband and the trial of his assailant, and the first lire of her grief and shock had burned down. Witli the loving kindness of a good woman she had forgiven the offenses of the erring busband who lay in the grave. lie had wronged and insulted her grievously, and no effort of the will could erase the memory of his wrongdoing, but he was dead now, and she was not a woman to carry even justified anger beyond the grave. But now— The simple question of the attorney aroused her. Her lips tightened and her eyes flashed as she answered with emphasis: "NO, SIR, I DO NOT.” This ended her testimony. Both Gray and Arbuekle signified that she was not to be questioned further, and she stepped down from the stand. At this point there was a slight hitch in the trial of Robert Strickland. District Attorney Gray called for Dr. Morgan, but was not at hand. Explaining to Judge Dinsmore that Dr, Morgan was the physician who examined Mr. Trask’s body and Dr. Morgan had said he might be detained, the district attorney asked and obtained permission to call Stanley Glover to the witness stand. From a w’altlng room entered, in response to a call from an attendant, the dapper young man who had been the private secretary of Gerald Trask. He had been present on the fatal night, and he was conversant with ajl or nearly all of the details of the case. It was he wiio had taken the money from Trask for deposit in the safe whence It had been removed. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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