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Updated: May 14, 2025
The facts were simple, the public sympathy and horror profound. Newbury and Lord William had given their evidence amid a deep and, in many quarters, hostile silence. The old man, parchment-pale, but of an unshaken dignity, gave a full account of the efforts many and vain that had been made both by himself and his son to find Betts congenial work in another sphere and to persuade him to accept it.
"Men," he bellowed, almost jubilantly, "don't waste no time ther gallows tree stands ready. Hit's right thar by ther front porch." Dorothy had listened in a stunned silence. Her face was parchment-pale but she was hardly able yet to grasp the sudden turn of events to irremediable tragedy.
Arthur Morrison, the man who sat on the other side of the table, a Jew to his finger-tips notwithstanding his altered name, sat like a broken thing, with tears in his terrified eyes, disordered hair, and parchment-pale face. Words had flown from his lips in a continual stream. He floundered in his misery, sobbed about it like a child.
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