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388 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

man Scott, one of the most material witnesses, although the
detective of this defendant’s company, might also throw me
down. Scott says this man Frank, when he went there
Monday afternoon, after he had anxiously phoned Schiff to
see old man Sig Monteg and get Sig Montag’s permission—
had phoned him three times—Scott says that he squirmed
in his chair continually, crossed and uncrossed his legs, rub-
bed his face with his hand, sighed, twisted and drew long
deep breaths, After going to the station Tuesday morning,
just before his arrest—if he ever was arrested—just be-
fore his detention, at another time altogether from the time
that Darley speaks of—Darley, the man for whom he sent,
Darley the man who is next to him in power, Darley the
man that he wanted to sustain his nerve—Scott, your own
detective, says that he was nervous and pale, and that when
he saw him at the factory, his eyes were large and glaring.
Tuesday morning, Waggoner, sent up there to wateh him
from across the street, says before the officers came to get
him, he could see Frank pacing his office inside, through
the windows, and that he came to the office window and
looked out at him twelve times in thirty minutes,—that he
was agitated and nervous on the way down to the station.

I want to read you here an excerpt from the speech of a
man by the name of Hammond, when prosecuting a fellow
by the name of Dunbar for the murder of two little chil-
dren, it explains in language better than I can command,
why all this nervouanesa:

“It was because the mighty secret of the fact was in hia heart; it
was the overwhelming consciousness of guilt striving within him; it
was nature over-burdened with a terrible load; it was a couscience
striving beneath a tremendous crushing weight; it was fear, remorse
aud terror—remorse for the past, and terror for the future. Spee-
tral shadows were flitting before him"—the specter of the dead girl,
the cord, the blood, arose. “The specter of this trial, of the prison,

of the gallows and the grave of infamy. Guilt, gentlemen of the
jury, forees itself into speech and eonduet, and is its own betrayer.”

Mr. Rosser seid that once a thief, always a thief and
eternally damned. Holy Writ, in giving the picture of the

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