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Updated: June 19, 2025
At last he heard his own name called, and was escorted down a narrow aisle into an inclosure peopled with lawyers, reporters, and court officials, above which towered the dais of the judge, the throne of justice. He mounted the witness-stand, was sworn, and seated himself, then permitted his eyes to take in the scene.
She had been very tactful after the first outburst of enthusiasm over me upon the witness-stand; and as soon as she understood how I hated and couldn't endure any allusions to it, had never mentioned it to me again, though I used sometimes to catch her looking at me in a way which made me know she was sympathetic and curious; and that made a bond between us.
I recall to your memory the reports favorable to the companies sent out during the great insurance investigations in New York. "Collier's" has told the whole story. One of the agents employed testified on the witness-stand that a great insurance company agreed to pay a dollar a line for what he could get into the papers.
I do not authorise anyone, either by gesture or by speech, to comment on what is taking place within these walls." Having obtained comparative quiet, the colonel looked squarely at the person who had approached the witness-stand and was facing the military tribunal. This would-be witness was a young woman, elegantly clad.
Silently he sat there his arms folded across his chest, with cheeks blanched and eyes staring straight forward toward the witness-stand. Already he sees the hand of impending fate, and as this unexpected web of circumstantial and positive evidence is being slowly and systematically woven about him, the shadow of the gallows falls upon him, and yet he makes no sign.
The surgeon came to gaze upon a lifeless corpse. "Edgar mounted his horse, rode off and I have not seen him since. Those who remained rendered the last offices to the dead." I am obliged to write you these facts, my dear Edgar, not for information, but to recall them to you in their exact order; and especially, I repeat, in order to avoid contradiction on the witness-stand.
The reader will hardly recognize this incident in the form in which it was afterward detailed from the witness-stand; and it is only on account of the effect which this and other occurrences of like nature had in bringing about the final event of our history, that we take the trouble to narrate matters so trifling and uninteresting; for it appeared that every incident of the kind was carefully registered in the memory of the Erinnys of this devoted household, whence it came out magnified and distorted into a brutal and unprovoked outrage.
Why, a boy's silly story of an absurd and palpable lie? "I did not go upon the witness-stand to contradict this fairy tale; it did not seem to be worth the while. "Consider it for a moment. This youth says he came to my office last night and found me in the inner room in conversation with another person. I shall not deny that.
"Looky' here," he said, deliberately; "we don't know one another, but there may be no harm in tellin' you if you try to throw us off the track you lay yoreself liable to complicity. We've had about as much o' that sort o' treatment round heer as we are going to put up with." "I'm not on the witness-stand," said Westerfelt, pleasantly; "I'm only looking for a stray horse."
The reasons assigned are that identification is difficult, almost impossible; that, when this is attempted, the combinations and oaths of the order come in and release the culprit by perjury, either upon the witness-stand or in the jury-box; and that the terror inspired by their acts, as well as the public sentiment in their favour in many localities, paralyzes the arm of civil power.
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