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Updated: June 21, 2025
The jury learned that the young man's quest of the Paternoster ruby had not been undertaken without the stimulus of a very warm-hearted devotion. Maillot was left sitting in the witness-chair while a new verdict was made out. It formally charged the young man with the murder of his uncle. I afterward learned, by questioning the self-important foreman, that the first verdict had been an open one.
From her elbow, "His Honor asks if you want to state your case." "Huh?" "Do you wish to state your case from the witness-chair? Since you did not employ counsel, do you wish to state your own case?" "Nit." "Look up here, my girl. I am the judge, trying to help you." "Aw!" "Is this your first offense?" "Well, it's my offense, ain't it?" "Address the court properly.
All her confidence of a little while ago dissolved, the ease which followed her descent from the witness-chair vanished. She plucked at her dark vestments with trembling hands, her lips half open, her burning eyes on Joe's unmoved face. If he should tell before all these people, before that stern, solemn judge if he should tell!
When Hammer called his name, Joe felt a revival of his old desire to go to the witness-chair and tell Judge Maxwell all about it in his own way, untenable and dangerous as his position had appeared to him in his hours of depression. Now the sheriff released his arm, and he went forward eagerly.
The whole thing was so thin as to deceive nobody, but Mr. Purdy, as each talesman took the witness-chair to be examined on the voir dire, solemnly asked each one: "Pardon me for asking such a question at this time it is only my duty to my unfortunate client that impels me to it but have you any sympathy with anarchy or with assassination?"
"Come on," said the sheriff, goggling down at him with froggish eyes from his vantage on the dais where the witness-chair stood, his long neck on a slant like a giraffe's. The sheriff took great pleasure in the proceeding of attaching the irons. It was his one central moment in the eyes of the throng. Joe looked up to march ahead of the sheriff out of the room, and his eyes met the eyes of Alice.
"I object to this irregular proceeding," he said. "If this person is a witness, let her be sworn in the usual manner and let her take her place in the witness-chair where she may be examined by the attorney whom the court may see fit to appoint for the defense." It was evident that Mr. Thompson, urging the prosecutor, was alarmed.
He held up his hand solemnly while the clerk administered the oath, then took his place in the witness-chair. Ollie's face was the first one that his eyes found in the crowd. It seemed as if a strong light had been focused upon it, leaving the rest of the house in gloom. The shrinking appeal which lay in her eyes moved him to pity.
He wiped his forehead with his great, broad handkerchief, and squared himself as if about to try a high hurdle or plunge away in a race. "Joseph Newbolt, take the witness-chair," said he.
"He said, as near as I can remember," replied Stener, drumming on the arms of the witness-chair in a nervous way, "that if I didn't give him three hundred thousand dollars he was going to fail, and I would be poor and go to the penitentiary." "Object!" shouted Stager, leaping to his feet. "Your honor, I object to the whole manner in which this examination is being conducted by the prosecution.
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