Death Witch by M. N. Jolley

Author:M. N. Jolley [Jolley, M. N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

THE COURT: Mr. Allen, please explain how you came across these documents.

MR ALLEN: See, it’s the strangest damned thing. Some fella I’d never met before came by my house while I was eatin’ supper. I invited him in, o’ course, gave him a plate, but he weren’t hungry. He said that I’d been right all along, that Barry Bowle was a damned liar, that he’d taken the money and—

PROSECUTION: Objection! Hearsay.

DEFENSE: This statement isn’t the evidence, he’s explaining how he got the evidence.

THE COURT: Overruled.

MR ALLEN: Well, yeah, he’d taken my money and sent it off north. I told the stranger I knew I was right, but I couldn’t do a damned thing about it on account of Bowle being the Mayor, and well liked besides, but the stranger said there was proof in Bowle’s office, in a box under his filing cabinet. I told him he was playing me for a fool, but the stranger insisted, so after I wished him well I went and snuck in while Bowle weren’t looking and sure enough, found a box of receipts showing he’d taken my papa’s gold and sent it to a bank up north.

DEFENSE: These receipts were filed with evidence before the start of the trial. The signatures were verified as Mayor Bowle’s.

PROSECUTION: And then you killed him in a vengeful rage?

DEFENSE: Objection! Leading.

THE COURT: Sustained. Keep the questions neat.

PROSECUTION: And then what did you do, after finding these receipts?

MR ALLEN: Got mad, figgered on some revenge, so I went and killed him.

Court transcripts from the trial of Quilby Allen. He was sentenced to thirty years hard labor for the murder of Mayor Bowle. Due to the difficulty in electing a replacement, one year after the Mayor’s death, the town had no leadership in place. The entire town and surrounding lands were bought up piecemeal by industrial interests

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