"Miss Delary," said the district attorney, "I want to ask if it is your hat that was found hanging in the billiard-room after the crime ?" "Don't you dare ask that girl that," interrupted the magistrate.

"Miss Delary, you may step down." But the principal sensation of the day arose out of the evidence offered by Masterman Throgton, general manager of the _Planet_.

Kivas Kelly, he testified, had dined with him at his club on the fateful evening.

He had afterwards driven him to his home.
"When you went into the house with the deceased," asked the district attorney, "how long did you remain there with him ?" "That," said Throgton quietly, "I must refuse to answer." "Would it incriminate you ?" asked the coroner, leaning forward.
"It might," said Throgton.
"Then you're perfectly right not to answer it," said the coroner.
"Don't ask him that any more.

Ask something else." "Then did you," questioned the attorney, turning to Throgton again, "play a game of billiards with the deceased ?" "Stop, stop," said the coroner, "that question I can't allow.