It will be a case of Timson's word against Beard's and, since it is impossible to obtain corroborating evidence, the judge will have to charge the jury to acquit Beard.

But with Timson up here to be used as a club, I think I can force Beard to tell what he knows of the killing of his employer." "Well, go ahead and obtain your writ of habeas corpus for the substitute.

I'll communicate with the Attorney-General in Washington and see whether he'll agree to the immunity proposition," said Wells.
From the Federal Building Britz went to the financial district to look up Ward.

A plan of action was forming in his brain, shaping itself as molten lead shapes itself to the mold.

If Horace Beard was stained with Whitmore's blood, there was one man who could be made to direct the finger of accusation against him.