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"
MOTHER
OF
DEAD
GIRL
FAINTS
AT
CLOSE
OF
DRAMATIC
READING
OF
HER
LETTERS
.
"
And
the
architectonic
way
in
which
Mason
had
built
his
case
,
together
with
his
striking
and
dramatic
presentation
of
it
,
was
sufficient
to
stir
in
Belknap
and
Jephson
,
as
well
as
Clyde
,
the
momentary
conviction
that
they
had
been
completely
routed
--
that
by
no
conceivable
device
could
they
possibly
convince
this
jury
now
that
Clyde
was
not
a
quadruple-dyed
villain
.
And
all
congratulating
Mason
on
the
masterly
way
he
had
presented
his
case
.
And
Clyde
,
greatly
reduced
and
saddened
by
the
realization
that
his
mother
would
be
reading
all
that
had
transpired
the
day
before
.
He
must
ask
Jephson
to
please
wire
her
so
that
she
would
not
believe
it
.
And
Frank
and
Julia
and
Esta
.
And
no
doubt
Sondra
reading
all
this
,
too
,
to-day
,
yet
through
all
these
days
,
all
these
black
nights
,
not
one
word
!
A
reference
now
and
then
in
the
papers
to
a
Miss
X
but
at
no
time
a
single
correct
picture
of
her
.
That
was
what
a
family
with
money
could
do
for
you
.
And
on
this
very
day
his
defense
would
begin
and
he
would
have
to
go
forward
as
the
only
witness
of
any
import
.
Yet
asking
himself
,
HOW
COULD
HE
?
The
crowd
.
Its
temper
.
The
nervous
strain
of
its
unbelief
and
hatred
by
now
.
And
after
Belknap
was
through
with
him
,
then
Mason
.
It
was
all
right
for
Belknap
and
Jephson
.
They
were
in
no
danger
of
being
tortured
,
as
he
was
certain
of
being
tortured
.
Yet
in
the
face
of
all
this
,
and
after
an
hour
spent
with
Jephson
and
Belknap
in
his
cell
,
finding
himself
back
in
the
courtroom
,
under
the
persistent
gaze
of
this
nondescript
jury
and
the
tensely
interested
audience
.
And
now
Belknap
rising
before
the
jury
and
after
solemnly
contemplating
each
one
of
them
,
beginning
:
"
Gentlemen
--
somewhat
over
three
weeks
ago
you
were
told
by
the
district
attorney
that
because
of
the
evidence
he
was
about
to
present
he
would
insist
that
you
jurors
must
find
the
prisoner
at
the
bar
guilty
of
the
crime
of
which
he
stands
indicted
.
It
has
been
a
long
and
tedious
procedure
since
then
.
The
foolish
and
inexperienced
,
yet
in
every
case
innocent
and
unintentional
,
acts
of
a
boy
of
fifteen
or
sixteen
have
been
gone
into
before
you
gentlemen
as
though
they
were
the
deeds
of
a
hardened
criminal
,
and
plainly
with
the
intention
of
prejudicing
you
against
this
defendant
,
who
,
with
the
exception
of
one
misinterpreted
accident
in
Kansas
City
--
the
most
brutally
and
savagely
misinterpreted
accident
it
has
ever
been
my
professional
misfortune
to
encounter
--
can
be
said
to
have
lived
as
clean
and
energetic
and
blameless
and
innocent
a
life
as
any
boy
of
his
years
anywhere
.
You
have
heard
him
called
a
man
--
a
bearded
man
--
a
criminal
and
a
crime-soaked
product
of
the
darkest
vomiting
of
Hell
.
And
yet
he
is
but
twenty
-
one
.
And
there
he
sits
.
And
I
venture
to
say
that
if
by
some
magic
of
the
spoken
word
I
could
at
this
moment
strip
from
your
eye
the
substance
of
all
the
cruel
thoughts
and
emotions
which
have
been
attributed
to
him
by
a
clamorous
and
mistaken
and
I
might
say
(
if
I
had
not
been
warned
not
to
do
so
)
,
politically
biased
prosecution
,
you
could
no
more
see
him
in
the
light
that
you
do
than
you
could
rise
out
of
that
box
and
fly
through
those
windows
.
"
Gentlemen
of
the
jury
,
I
have
no
doubt
that
you
,
as
well
as
the
district
attorney
and
even
the
audience
,
have
wondered
how
under
the
downpour
of
such
linked
and
at
times
almost
venomous
testimony
,
I
or
my
colleague
or
this
defendant
could
have
remained
as
calm
and
collected
as
we
have
.
"
(
And
here
he
waved
with
grave
ceremoniousness
in
the
direction
of
his
partner
,
who
was
still
waiting
his
own
hour
.
)
"
Yet
,
as
you
have
seen
,
we
have
not
only
maintained
but
enjoyed
the
serenity
of
those
who
not
only
feel
but
KNOW
that
they
have
the
right
and
just
end
of
any
legal
contest
.
You
recall
,
of
course
,
the
words
of
the
Avon
bard
--
'
Thrice
armed
is
he
who
hath
his
quarrel
just
.
'
"
In
fact
,
we
know
,
as
the
prosecution
in
this
case
unfortunately
does
not
,
the
peculiarly
strange
and
unexpected
circumstances
by
which
this
dramatic
and
most
unfortunate
death
came
about
.
And
before
we
are
through
you
shall
see
for
yourselves
.
In
the
meantime
,
let
me
tell
you
,
gentlemen
,
that
since
this
case
opened
I
have
believed
that
even
apart
from
the
light
we
propose
to
throw
on
this
disheartening
tragedy
,
you
gentlemen
are
not
at
all
sure
that
a
brutal
or
bestial
crime
can
be
laid
upon
the
shoulders
of
this
defendant
.
You
can
not
be
!
For
after
all
,
love
is
love
,
and
the
ways
of
passion
and
the
destroying
emotion
of
love
in
either
sex
are
not
those
of
the
ordinary
criminal
.
Only
remember
,
we
were
once
all
boys
.
And
those
of
you
who
are
grown
women
were
girls
,
and
know
well
--
oh
,
how
very
well
--
the
fevers
and
aches
of
youth
that
have
nothing
to
do
with
a
later
practical
life
.
'
Judge
not
,
lest
ye
be
judged
and
with
whatsoever
measure
ye
mete
,
it
will
be
measured
unto
ye
again
.
