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"
Not
guilty
,
"
is
the
reply
;
delivered
in
a
firm
,
but
modest
tone
.
Cassius
Calhoun
,
and
some
"
rowdies
"
around
him
,
affect
an
incredulous
sneer
.
The
judge
resumes
his
cigar
,
and
remains
silent
.
The
counsel
for
the
State
,
after
some
introductory
remarks
,
proceeds
to
introduce
the
witnesses
for
the
prosecution
.
First
called
is
Franz
Oberdoffer
.
After
a
few
unimportant
interrogatories
about
his
calling
,
and
the
like
,
he
is
requested
to
state
what
he
knows
of
the
affair
.
This
is
the
common
routine
of
a
Texan
trial
.
Oberdoffer
's
evidence
coincides
with
the
tale
already
told
by
him
:
how
on
the
night
that
young
Poindexter
was
missed
,
Maurice
Gerald
had
left
his
house
at
a
late
hour
--
after
midnight
.
He
had
settled
his
account
before
leaving
;
and
appeared
to
have
plenty
of
money
.
It
was
not
often
Oberdoffer
had
known
him
so
well
supplied
with
cash
.
He
had
started
for
his
home
on
the
Nueces
;
or
wherever
it
was
.
He
had
not
said
where
he
was
going
.
He
was
not
on
the
most
friendly
terms
with
witness
.
Witness
only
supposed
he
was
going
there
,
because
his
man
had
gone
the
day
before
,
taking
all
his
traps
upon
a
pack-mule
--
everything
,
except
what
the
mustanger
himself
carried
off
on
his
horse
.
What
had
he
carried
off
?
Witness
could
not
remember
much
in
particular
.
He
was
not
certain
of
his
having
a
gun
.
He
rather
believed
that
he
had
one
--
strapped
,
Mexican
fashion
,
along
the
side
of
his
saddle
.
He
could
speak
with
certainty
of
having
seen
pistols
in
the
holsters
,
with
a
bowie-knife
in
the
mustanger
's
belt
.
Gerald
was
dressed
as
he
always
went
--
in
Mexican
costume
,
and
with
a
striped
Mexican
blanket
.
He
had
the
last
over
his
shoulders
as
he
rode
off
.
The
witness
thought
it
strange
,
his
leaving
at
that
late
hour
of
the
night
.
Still
stranger
,
that
he
had
told
witness
of
his
intention
to
start
the
next
morning
.
