North Central High School - Tamarack Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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Og! 'S' news they were gone Then the hunt the baffled authorrtres the father broken hearted advertrsrng rn the papers settrng specral detectrves on hrs wrfes trarl but all rn varn Hrs boy was gone The attorney opened hrs eyes and found hrs cheeks wet wrth tears He looked rnto the dead gray hreplace and com pared rt to hrs lrfe wrthout hrs boy Yes rn realrty hrs lrfe was empty and as dead as the hre before hrm At last he reached over and turned on the lrght I the brrghtness the past fell away the present embraced hrm The prrsoner must hang' he muttered as he settled back he must hang' The whole court sat srlently expectantly The jury leaned forward wartrng breathless An almost depressrng hush frlled the room As the pros cr trng attorney arose a srgh nearly a sob burst from the prrsoner Hrs lawye leaned over whrspered reassurmgly rn hrs ear and patted hrm encouragrngly on the shoulder Fl hat was all no other sound was heard no other motron notrce able Two hundred people sharply drew therr breath at the same mstant two hundred hearts qurckened therr pace rn two hundred breasts but there was no prrsoner and back At last he began He started rn a low but drstrnctlv audrble vorce to revrew the case He ran through the events of the murder He proved one statement he drsproved another He pomted out every rncr dent no matter how small or trrvral He went over hrs wrtnesses statements remrnded the Jury of rnconsrstencres rn the defenses evrdence strengthenrng hrs own Three hours passed raprdly by Then he stopped hrs frnger pornteu dramatrcally at the prrsoner The court strrred uneasrly Each and everyone h d felt the strarn of those three hours rt had fallen on them heavrly At trmes they had almost ceased to brea'he so sure so forcrble so convrncrng had been hrs plea And vet he was not satrsfred They warted the very atmosphere was filled wrth suspense Suddenly the attorney s hand fell to hrs srde he spoke Gentlemen of the Jury as I have proved to you by revrewrng the state ments of my wrtnesses and shown you that no other man than thrs prisoner -lame Grear could have commrtted thrs terrrble murder of these two men I am gornf' to show you to prove to you that he has not only commrtted thrs crrme but wrll always be a crrmrnal that he rs a dangerous man and wrll never be any thrng else Gentlemen look closely at hrm Scrutrnrze every feature notrce the thrngs that mark hrm a crrmrnal They are promrnent very promrnent gentle men Yot. surely can see them you can almost feel them I ztfnfr Ihre cw -. - M, MJ ,. ,, Q .. l - 1 . U n 1 ' . . . .... . , . , , - ' I Y ' ' . . n . . ,. , 4 , . , N .. ,, Y , A 7 ' , . ' . ef 1 ' y , 1 - 1' Y 9 A . H ' : . ' ' - . ' ' I , movement in the crowd except the shifting of eyes from the attorney to the A Y , . . . . . , . . , . - , f- 1 . . . I . Q a , . 1 , , . , . D I. Y . . ' , ' , , - l n .. . . . . y , - , ' , 5 1 Y 9 D , , Q , ' .. . . . . ' U 4 1 - ' ' ', v '. 1 '

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'L man a brothers lrfe he was takrng Well the man was unlucky Fate would have rts food rt had prcked rts man Vlfho was to blame3 Moreover rt was hrs happrness agalnst a poor deyrl who had never known Joy and probably ncver would He would be better off dead and rt was lrkely he would b thankful for hrs release from further sorrow The attorney smrled and hrs hear' leaped hrgh Of course' why had he not thought of that before3 Yes the prrsoner must hang' Every rewspaper rn the country had grven space to the trral a thrrd of them many columns Magazrnes had drscussed rt The Saturday Evenrn Post and The Outlook had mentroned rt Collrer s Weekly rn a specral artrcle had crarmed the man rnnocent Harper s had taken the opposrte vrew Noted Judees lawvers publrc ofhce holders professors travelrrrg men mer chants even the lowest clay laborers had expressed and marntarned then oprnrons on the subject One took one vrew hrs nerghbor another Many belrevecl that rnnocent or not the prrsoner should hang because the crrme had been so terrrble The hre before the attorney mrxed w rth the ashes and went out altogether but the famous lawver frllrng and empty mg hrs prpe mechanrcallv drcl not notrc t The case ah yes Tomorrow he would stand before the Jury for ln last trme He must conxrnce them that the prrsoner w as gurlty l-le had rt all a noted lawyer a craftv far seerng man who rn hrs appeal the day before had made a gre xt rmpressron on the jury l-lls argument must overcome thrs and X r them to hrs de a hard task and yet he was confident But at any rate no matter who the lawyer w as the prrsoner must hang' lhc clock on the wall chrmed twelve lnhe attorney s prpe hung loosely rn hrs lrps lhr last glow of frre brrghtenecl rn rt then shrrxelled rnto nothrngness Hrs eyes had 1 far away look rn them hrs mrnd slowly drrfted rnto the past He was rn hrs twentres agarn There came lrttle lxenneth rn hrs baby way wantrng to clrmb on hrs fathers knees Hrs happy chatter rang and echoed throughout the house A shade of contentment crossed the attorney s face Dea lrttle Kenneth' How he loved hrm even that small rrght hand wrth rts lrttle frrger uncureably mrsshapen and twrsted Ir was hrs boy hrs only chrld' But yet another darker blacker prcture pressed upon hrs fancy It was a scene rn a court room Hrs wrfe was berng granted a decree of drxorce Only too plarnly he saw the Judge grvrng her custody of the chrld but wrtn trrct orders always to keep hrm near the father Three weeks later came th 7 LMII1 I . fy , r' L I A 0' A X K , -' ff YQ f X l 9 6 of - - Y , V I Y I v Q - - - . , Y s - - I a Y ' Y. Y ' I V ' I Y . fl . , - ,I y ri . . . ' . , . . . ,, . ,, .. ., - - .. . , ,, . . I ' 1 - - l fr . y sy - - ' , . , . w . V 'U H I , U I - U - , . , ' . . V , , 1 by Y I V ! A V .'. ' , ' M ' ' 3 r . r 3 , . ' ' ' ' -1 planned out now. He smiled confidently. The prisoner was represented bv vrv s iv, -A I ' V . Q . . . Y. .K I . , vu! ' . sr : .. : ' , . , , ., . X ' , . ' M ... ' x V C ' Y V ' I ' ' l 4 V Y . . a . y . A V - K tl 1 ' V V . I I v ,li .Y ' T ' , , ' V .. L U . . . . . f - s . I , ' I . . . . . . .. , , C . V . 3 'S ' y '- Gun

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3 V '39 Hrs face rs the face of a crrmrnal See the dull leadened rnexpressry- eyes but notrce gentlemen the ferret lrke look rn them Notrce the shape or the mouth the chrn rn fact the whole face You see IH that face the born crrm mal one to look out for Haven t you met men on the street for whom you felt a wague antagonrsm J H ou may neter have seen them before but rn therr features rn therr speech the very way rn whrch they carry themselves they rmpress you as not berng the rrght ltrnd of people lts because they cannot conceal no matter how hard they try the class to whrch they belong And now before you rs an example Gentlemen rnaly ze your feelrngs towards thrs prrsoner and frnd rf you do not agree w rth me The parents of a crrmrnal are often crrmrnals themselves Thrs prrsoner does not know who hrs father or mother was Probably both led a low lrfe More than lrltely hrs father commrtted many a crrme hrmself that he was a thref or even a murderer He may be servmg trme rn the penrtentrary now or he may hare swung already And gentlemen rt rs proved by statrstrcs that most of our crrmrnals come from crrmrnal parents The only way to get thrs country clear of thrs lcrnd of men rs to do away wrth every one of these habrtual crrmrnals They are a menace to socrety This prrsoner before you has wrllfully murdered two men It was premedrtated l-le deserves to hang' Gentlemen ci the Jury rt rests on you whether thrs man shall be brought to Justrce The rssues at stake are greater than thrs one lrfe greater than thrs one crrme The welfare of the whole country wrll depend upon your decrsron Crrmrnals wrll oraw baclc rnto therr holes lf you do your duty but on the other hand rf thrs rran goes free thrs land wrll become a seemrnfzly welcome held for therr depreda tons Centl men remember the rssues at stake' I thanlc you' A half hour later the Jury solemnly passed from the room wrth faces set and stern wrth shoulders squared aware only of the Great responsrbrlrty whrch rested heawrly upon them The prosecutrng attorney currously scanned therr faces as they walked by One two three four fue srx seven erght erght men he was comparatrwely sure of erght He had notrced therr qurclc glance at the prrsoner he had rnterpreted the expressron on therr faces Yes he had r good chance a good chance At last a breathrng spell had come The crowd rn the court room awoltc as the door closed behrnd the jurors Everyone had somethrng to say to hrs or her nerghbor For awhrle at least they could rest from the strarn Now and then women left wrth chrldren who could no longer stand the rrlcsomeness of th T tfwlr fam , V ' V I ' V V F If -I., X9 .. . . . . . . V, - V V - v . . . . . f 1 ! 9 - ' V - 9 9 ' , . .. V - V V , , , ,rn - V V - V , . . . , . , V , . . 3 1 Y V . ,. . . . . . . V V V V . . ' ' V , . . . . . . . - . V. r , e , . . , . , 7 V D V V 4 1 ' 9 1 ! V Q 1 ! . ., V . , . r V , - , V r - . . - V , S