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Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bince entered the court-room late on Friday morning
following the brief ceremony that had made them man and wife. It had been
generally supposed that to-day the case would go to the jury as the evidence was
all in, and the final arguments of the attorneys, which had started the preceding
day, would be concluded during the morning session. It had been conceded that
the judge's charge would be brief and perfunctory, and there was even hope that
the jury might return a verdict before the close of the afternoon session, but when
Bince and his bride entered the court-room they found Torrance's attorney
making a motion for the admission of new evidence on the strength of the recent
discovery of witnesses, the evidence of whom he claimed would materially alter
the aspect of the case.
An hour was consumed in argument before the judge finally granted the motion.
The first of the new witnesses called was an employee of the International
Machine Company. After the usual preliminary questions the attorney for the
defense asked him if he was employed in the plant on the afternoon of March 24.
The reply was in the affirmative.
"
Will you tell the jury, please, of any occurrence that you witnessed there that
afternoon out of the ordinary?"
"
I was working at my machine," said the witness, "when Pete Krovac comes to me
and asks me to hide behind a big drill-press and watch what the assistant
general manager done when he comes through the shop again. So I hides there
and I saw this man Bince come along and drop an envelope beside Krovac's
machine, and after he left I comes out as Krovac picks it up, and I seen him take
some money out of it."
"
"
How much money?" asked the attorney.
There was fifty dollars there. He counted it in front of me."
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