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Clement Rankin was then ordered to stand down, and the Coroner then summed up in an address of half-an-hour's duration. There was, he pointed out, no doubt that the death of the deceased had resulted not from natural causes, but from the effects of poisoning.
Stagers and another knows it; and it wouldn't be very safe for you to split, besides not making nothing out of it. But what I say is this, Do you like the business of coroner?" I did not like it; but just then two hundred in gold was life to me, so I said: "Let me hear the whole of it first. I am safe." "That's square enough," said the man.
"The gentleman will be good enough to shut up for the present. When we are ready, we will hear what he has to say." TIFFLES. "I protest, sir. I wish the gentlemanly and intelligent reporters to note that I protest " CORONER. "Are you, or me, boss here, hey?" TIFFLES. "Oh! you, of course, sir."
He had practically made up his mind that John Hardy had died, as the coroner had found, of heart disease, or apoplexy, even in the act of lighting up to smoke. He questioned the man further, made up his mind to visit Charles Scott and Mrs. Wilson, in Hickwood, and was presently out upon the road.
The coroner observing my embarrassment, smiled, and my humiliation was complete or would have been had Durbin been there, but fortunately he was not. "I am a fool," I cried. "I thought I had discovered something. I might have known that there were keener minds than mine in this office " "Easy! easy!" was the good-natured interruption. "You have done well.
Regrettable as it was, I should have to surrender these two specimens to the coroner and the gravedigger. A deplorable waste of material, but unavoidable even if one of them should prove to be my long-sought enemy. "At this thought I started; and at that moment the man on the mattress gave a strange, snorting cry.
It is scarcely credible, but it is true, that upon this extraordinary finding the Coroner issued a warrant for "murder" against this poor woman, on which she was actually locked up for more than three months!
COUNTY ATTORNEY: And what did Mrs Wright do when she knew that you had gone for the coroner? I wouldn't like to say it was. Soon Harry got back, and then Dr Lloyd came, and you, Mr Peters, and so I guess that's all I know that you don't. SHERIFF: Nothing here but kitchen things. He gets up on a chair and looks on a shelf. COUNTY ATTORNEY: Here's a nice mess.
The coroner gazed reflectively at the shoes which he held in his hand, and from them to the drawing; then, passing them to the foreman of the jury, he remarked: "Well, gentlemen, it is not for me to tell you whether these shoes answer to the description given by Dr.
'Tis a most damnable black an' filthy lie! She wud a' died for MacDonald ten thousand times over if she could, because he had long ago, before ever he came here, avenged her dishonor." The coroner had sprung back from the table. The mighty man of valor, who defended law, had precipitately put the space of overturned benches between himself and the irate old frontiersman.
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