Brierly do you dare tell the jury that you had not an interest in the removal of your rival, Col.

Selby ?" roared Mr.
Braham in a voice of thunder.
"Nothing like this, sir, nothing like this," protested the witness.
"That's all, sir," said Mr.Braham severely.
"One word," said the District Attorney.

"Had you the least suspicion of the prisoner's intention, up to the moment of the shooting ?" "Not the least," answered Harry earnestly.
"Of course not, of course-not," nodded Mr.Braham to the jury.
The prosecution then put upon the stand the other witnesses of the shooting at the hotel, and the clerk and the attending physicians.

The fact of the homicide was clearly established.

Nothing new was elicited, except from the clerk, in reply to a question by Mr.Braham, the fact that when the prisoner enquired for Col.