american tragedy

Chapter 131 (1)
Chapter 322 (1)
No. On the 11th day, Frank Schafer, a staff member of the Uti Garrenford Hotel, talked about the scene, words and deeds of Clyde and Roberta when they arrived at the hotel, and said that Clyde registered them as Clyde in Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Riford Golden.Then Utiga Star Service grocery clerk Wallace Venthoff described what it was like when he came to buy a straw hat.Then the conductor on the train from Utiga to Grass Lake.Then there's the owner of the Grass Lake Inn.Then there's Blanche Bedingkill, the waitress.Her testimony that she heard Clyde arguing with Roberta at dinner about the inability to get a marriage license locally, saying that it would be better to wait until tomorrow when he was elsewhere, was a very damaging testimony because it A day earlier than the hypothetical day when Clyde confessed everything to Roberta.However, Jefferson and Belknap later discussed that this was a preparatory stage before the confession.After her, the conductor on the train that sent them.Then there was the guide and driver of the coach, about Clyde mentioning that there were a lot of people over there, leaving Roberta's suitcase and saying they'd be back.

Then there was the innkeeper at Great Berton, and the boatman, and the three men in the woods, whose testimony had a great impact on Clyde's case, for they told of Clyde's frightened look when they met.Then there was the matter of finding the boat and Roberta's body.And Hayter's coming there afterwards, and finding the letter from Roberta.About these, one or twenty people testified before and after.Then, the captain of the steamboat.The country girl and the car driver of the Cranstons testified successively and told the story of Clyde's visit to the Cranstons.Lastly (every step is clearly stated, and under oath) concerning his going to Bear Lake and the pursuit of him, and needless to say about the circumstances of his arrest.This time the blow was even bigger, as Clyde was described as a runaway and panicked man.

But undoubtedly the most serious testimony concerned the camera and the tripod, the circumstances in which they had been recovered, on which Mason would convict him.His first purpose was to confirm that Clyde lied when he knew he had a camera and a tripod.To this end, he first introduced Earl Newcomb to testify.Newcombe testified under oath that one day he, Mason, Haight and others involved in the case took Clyde to the scene of his crime.A local man named Bill Swartz (who was later introduced to the witness stand) rummaged under some fallen logs and branches until he found a tripod hidden under a log.And (under the guidance of Mason, although Belknap and Jefferson raised objections several times, but they were all overruled), he further said that he asked Clyde if he had this thing, and he said he had no comment, Bell. Knapp and Jefferson protested loudly when they heard this.

Then something else happened.However, this part of the testimony was finally withdrawn from the transcript by the order of Judge Oberworth.That is to hand over a document to the prosecution, which has Haight, Burleigh, Skeck, Kraut, Swink, Sissel, Bill, Swartz, the county surveyor Rufus Fu Signatures of Stuart and Newshub.According to the material, when Clyde was shown the tripod and asked if he had it, Clyde "repeatedly denied it."However, in order to make everyone pay attention, Mason immediately said: "Very well, Your Honor, but I have some other witnesses who can testify under oath on the things stated in this material, as well as more things." Then, He yelled, "Joseph Fraser! Joseph Fraser!" and led a dealer in sports equipment, cameras, and the like to the witness stand.The man testified under oath that between May [-] and June [-], the defendant, Clyde Griffiths, who was identifiable by sight or by name, one day bought a camera from him and demanded Bring a tripod.Afterwards, the defendant chose a Xunke brand camera, the one with a width of three inches and a length of five and a half inches, and agreed to pay in installments.After checking the camera, tripod, and the numbers in his own books, Mr. Fraser concluded that the camera and tripod shown to him were the ones he had sold to Clyde.

Clyde froze with fright. In this way, he finally found the camera and tripod. Moreover, after he repeatedly stated that he did not have a camera, what would the jury, judge and audience think when he lied like this? After it was proven that he had lied about this insignificant camera, would his back-and-forth story be believed? Better to confess.

However, when he was thinking this way, Mason heard a man named Sihan Weng? Dodge.He is a young resident of a wooded area, the driver.He testified that on Saturday, July [-], he and John Poole, who had recovered Roberta's body, at the request of the District Attorney, dived repeatedly to the bottom of the lake where the body was recovered and that he finally retrieved the camera .Then, Dodge verified that it was the original.

And then, it's all about the film in the camera that hasn't been mentioned yet.Four of them showed a figure unlike any other, resembling Roberta, and two, clearly, of Clyde.Belknap really couldn't refute these physical evidences.

Then Floyd Thurston was taken to the witness stand.On the day of Clyde's first visit, June [-]th, he was a guest at the Cranston's in Sharon.He testified that on that occasion Clyde took many photographs with a camera about the size and shape of the one shown to him.However, his testimony was withdrawn because he was not sure it was this one.

After him, Edna Paterson, the waitress at the Grass Lake Hotel.According to her testimony, on the night of July [-], when she entered the room of Clyde and Roberta, she saw Clyde holding a camera in his hand, the same size and color as the one shown to her now.That time, she also saw a tripod.Clyde found everything very strange, and remembered it in a state of meditation and half sleep. Yes, the girl had indeed been in that room. There were so many different, unconnected and unexpected places. Clyde was amazed and pained at the same time, as a series of facts that could not be refuted, all of which were from the long past.

After her, five more doctors testified.But it was presented in later days, and Belknap and Jefferson debated the content of each of these testimony in detail.Once Roberta's body was shipped to Bridgeburg, Mason invited five doctors.They have now testified under oath that, given Roberta's physical condition, the trauma to the face and head was enough to cause her to faint.Examination of the corpse's lungs by immersion in water revealed that she was alive, though not necessarily conscious, when she fell into the water.The main injury appeared to be on the top of the head and was deep enough that a blood clot had formed, as evidenced by photographs of the injured area.

At this most psychologically appropriate moment, when the audience and jury were grieving and excited, some photographs of Roberta's face were taken when Height, the doctors and the Lutz undertaker workers took care of the body. .The distance between the scars on the left side of her face is exactly the same size as the sides of the camera.Immediately afterwards, Burton Burleigh was brought to the witness stand.He testified under oath how he had discovered two small strands of hair identical to the hair on Roberta's head, so to speak Mason wanted to prove it, sandwiched between the lens and the shutter.After countless hours of testimony, Belknap, annoyed and alarmed by physical evidence of this nature, tried to refute it in jest, pulled a pale hair from his own head, and addressed the jurors He Burleigh asked: Can a single hair on any person's head tell the color of all the hair of this person, if not, how can it be believed that the hair must come from Roberta's head?

Then Mason heard a Mrs. Rutger Donnelhui.She explained in a very calm and serene manner that on July 05th, at dusk, between 30:[-] and [-]:[-], she and her husband set up a tent in Moon Lake in advance, and then went fishing by boat.When they were about half a mile from shore, and about a quarter of a mile from the northern end of the woods and land surrounding Moon Pool, a call was heard.

"You said between 05:30 and [-]:[-] p.m., right?"

"Well, sir."

"Tell me what day it is?"

"July eighth."

"Where did you happen to be?"

"we are at……"

"Don't talk about us. Where are you yourself?"

"My husband and I were rowing a small boat through a place, and later learned that it was called Nanwan."

"Okay, let's go on, what's next!"

"As we rowed to the middle of the bay, I heard a call."

"What kind of sound does it sound like?"

"It's terrible, like someone calling out because of pain...or it's calling out in danger. This sound is very harsh, and it stays in my ears afterwards."

At this time, someone filed a motion of "revocation", but the last sentence was ordered to be revoked.

"Where is this sound coming from?"

"It's far away, it's from the woods, or it's behind the woods."

"Did you know then that there was another bay, or a place called Moon Lake, just under the woods?"

"I don't know, sir."

"Well, what did you think, that it might come from the woods below you?"

(Someone objected, approved)

"Now tell everyone, is that a man or a woman calling? What kind of call?"

"It was a woman's cry, like 'Ah! Ah!' or 'Ah, my God!' It was high-pitched, clear, but far away like a person in severe pain."

"You can't make a mistake whether that call is a male voice or a female voice."

"No, sir, I am sure it is a woman's cry. It is so high-pitched that it can never be a man's cry or a child's cry. It cannot be anything but a woman's cry."

"Understood, then tell everyone that this point on Mrs. Donnelhui's map is the place where Roberta Alden's body was found. Have you seen it?"

"Yes, sir."

"Did you feel that the voice came from the Moon Lake?"

(An objection is raised and supported.)

"Has the cry been repeated?"

(End of this chapter)