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below. He paralyzed the prosecution, how ever, by stating- that his testimony before the justice was utterly untrue; that he brought a false charge against the defendant because he was angry with him for the reason that the accused would not consent to his mar riage with his daughter; that Raymuldo, the alleged victim, was still living, and that he had seen him since making the false accusa tion. He denied that any inducement had been held out to him to withdraw his state ment before the justice, but that his con science impelled him to confess; but whether the promptings of a guilty conscience or the offer of a cariboo prompted the confession is a matter of doubt. The defendant being asked yhy he admitted the act of killing Ray muldo before the justice, stated that after his arrest for the alleged offence, the Presidente and justice advised him to state that he committed the deed, but that it was done in self-defence, as such story would appear more credible than a complete denial; acting on the suggestion, he went before the justice and told the story as advised by the two vil lage functionaries as best adapted for his case before the higher court.

pino jurisprudence will be replete with the peculiar proceedings of native justices. .A case decided by the court since the com mencement of this article illustrates the pop ular view concerning punishment for crime as well as what is considered the correct procedure by the native official. Fabiano, ac cused of homicide, before the justice pleaded guilty of the act of killing, but justified on the ground of self-defence. The first witness in the trial of the matter before the Court of First Instance, on being cautioned to tell nothing but the truth, remarked that he did not wish to testify, being a relative of the accused, as well as the complaining witness, and that one man being dead, it was not well to kill the other, and have two dead men instead of one. After thus giving his views on judicial penalty, in which he expressed the views of numerous of his fellow-country men, much better educated than himself, and occupying much higher social position, he proceeded with his testimony, showing that he had no knowledge of the case. The next witness called was the one whose testimony was relied on by the prosecution, having been the principal witness in the court

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v. THE TRUST BALKED. BY WALLACE MCCAMANT. ONE day at the club at iSt. Louis, Ander capital behind the scheme; he further learned that conferences had been held with the offi son overheard two men from Boston cers of the most important mills, the details talking at an adjoining table about a move had been threshed out, and there was every ment, then just starting, for the amal reason to expect the consolidation to materi gamation and consolidation of all the impor tant boot and shoe factories in the Union. alize. Next day Anderson was on the train for New Within a few weeks thereafter Anderson York; there he investigated the report; and became a stockholder in eleven of the largest satisfied himself that there was substantial corporations engaged in the manufacture of