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i Now la the time to order. i Cole's National M'g6 I SPARKS STREET, BABT CARRIAGES 1 1 1 BICSXCLB3TH Vt MRS. BELL TELLS I HER SIDE OF ENTERS THE BOX; DENIES ALL THE CHARGES: CALLS IT Alleged Confessions by Percy Short of Many Small Offences Dane and Attempted Filed The Boy Says he was Forced by his Grandmother to Write Them Denies the truthfulness of Tbem-Onelta Short's Evidence The Defence Produce Med-' leal Opinion Tongue Tying- Details of One of the Most Sensational Trials Known to Ottawa Courts The most remarkable, as well as the i mott Interesting document that have cer been made public in the history of Ottawa law courts came to light In the hearing of the Bell case yesterday afternoon. 1 They are Percy McDonald Shirt's "confessions" such is the word used to designate the documents written as he and his sister both claimed In court yesterday, at the dictation of his grandmother, Mra. Bell, that they mifc-ht be evidence should Percy dli from his Injuries, that she, bis grandmother, was not responsible in 'any way for his denth.

Percy's "confessions" fill up a quire of paper, which Crown Prosecutor Rlddell remarked was "House of Corn-men's written closely on both aides. These important documents were made public Just before Crown Prosecutor Rlddell concluded his three hours' examination of Percy Short yesterday afternoon. They were, in the possession of the defence, but Mr. Rlddell demanded that they be forfeited, and tha judge sustained hint in his demand when Mr. Fripp announced that he intended to use them in cross-examination.

The confessions cover a period of several months. Including the dates In which it is alleged Mrs. Bell committed the cruelties to her grandchildren. following is the last confession made by Percy. It was v.

ritten a day or two before he was taken to the hospital with his feet frozen and sores on his legs and arm fiom the effects of being tied naked night and day to a. chair, as alleged. THE CONFpSSIONS. Extracts from the Remarkable Documents As Presented. The confession which is very lengthy, reads in Tr grandma I have one more request to make.

I am aorry from the bottom of iny heart that when I promised you that I would never hurt any more of. your peta it gives me great pain because I did not keep my word and keep from stealing as I promised Oh my Uod forgive me foi; all I have done to you, grandma. The Dear God has punished me by ending bolls on my legs and feet, for swearing false to ynu and God. I am sorry. I led my little sister to do wrong.

I should have set a better example to her because I was four years older. New ir loose my toes it will be a good punishment for me for life. If God spares my life I will be a man of my word. Grandma you have done your best to save my feet and health by taking the best care of me. Tou lost many nights of sleep snd many days of rest, nursing me and cooking things for me to eat God bless you dirling you were more than a mother ndi a grandmother to m.

My wn mniner. all she thought about waa rur.nlng around the world with men poor worthless one at that. I hope God 'will nnen' h.r imr gbu t. io jesus ana rerorm. Tou think of a man like Tom Short calling himself father when he gave ns children to you "In Boston and that you could hare us as your own.

He said if I did not ret out of his way kk-khell and damnation out of so God knows he turned us children out on the streets and then grandma you took us home with you and you gave us a lovely home. If we had been truthful, and honest to yon us children would have been the happiest in the world." Made to Write It. After the reading of this document In court yesterday Mr. 'Rlddell aaked Percy If his grandmother really made hlra write such things as these about his father and mother. Percy said she did although he had nothing but kind recollections about his parents.

The Attempted Hanrlns-. Another document contains Percy's confession" of an attempt to hang himself, which he says was written from a copy made by his 1 It waa also written a short time before he waa taken to the hospital, and is dated- "January, w. It reads Now grandma, I want yen to know how I tried to make you believe the vay I was going to purish myself and lying. On th January. I stole lot of kt of the refrigerator and told some lies.

i tnougn would punish myself and by doing so I was in the jaws of death. Only for the spirits telling, grandma, hurry and go to him he is up to devilment." and behold when grandma came I was hanging by my aeck. Just before that I kicked the chair frem under my feet: I took a irope r.d put through the hook that' th curtain used to hang on Just In front of the window. I took each end of the rope and put It around my neck three times and then I fastened the two ends to the centre hook. I stool on a chair and took a strap, tied it arouad mj.

left band rski bvicUtd. it. IT. A. XL0T When I heard grandma coming upstairs I kicked the chair from undr my feet.

I began to choke and I could not apeak, and at that mlnuts the Lord sent grandma to save my life. Thank the Lord. I hope He will protect me and keep the devil from putting that in my head. (Sgd.) "FEP.CT SHORT." A Christmas letter from Percy to his grandmother told how "the devil within him" caused him to do many misdeeds such as poisoning his grind-mother's pet snlms.ls, all of which Percy says is a fabrication. The Devil was In Him.

This confession reads: Dec. 23. 1SS3. Grandma I wish to make a confession to you In writing. In the first place I must say you have been In every respect more than a mother to me and my little sister.

When our father and Mother gave us children to you to look after to be a mother and a friend to us, you did your duty nobly by always giving us a good home fcnd you used to pray with us and you taught ua to read and write and you learned ua bur Catechism and our prayers. Tou tried to have us to be good children by saying when you died we should have all your expensive things, your horse and harness and covered carriage and cutter and on painting of my mother's photograph, and sold watches and many other costly thing a Tou gave us plenty to eat and drink and wear, but all of this did not make us good children to you. The devil was in us to disobey you after all your kindness to us children I set a bad example for my little sister after ten yean. I am a boy of fourteen years and should be ashamed of my bad behaviour. Now I will tell you of some of my devilish pranks.

When you first brought me home I wanted ts have my own way and would do cruel things behind your back. Because you would not let me pound my baby sister and do other bad things to her. I took It In. my head to at.al everything oold get my Jianda on and destroy thlnga and to eat and drink all I ceud get inside of me. I even kicked your little pet dog Jeff, that you had for many years.

He was so little he could not help himself. I UfeJ to kirk blm and pound him and slap his little head and stick pins In his ears, throw him down the cellar. would go and kick him when he could not walk or stand on his fret, I would put htm out In the cold shed and leave him there until he was stiff with the cold. One day it was wsy down below sero. I picked him up and took him to the fire and rubbed him on the back of Jhe stove and then took the little pet up to grandma.

She asked me what kept me so long away. I told her I had to kindle the fire. That waa my excuse. Grandma and baby alster were sick In bed with la grippe. Then I took It in my head t.

kill the little dog one day. I beat him almost to death. I ran outdoors thinking it was dead, but the Lord ssved Its life till another time. Fo on day It came running up stairs and it ran by me, I up with my foot and kicked It with all my might until Its bowels began to protrude. That was on the fatal day; for it died In great agony.

Also 1 pullrd the feathers out of her little rsnarls I fed. poison wornyt to the birds." Talked of Poison. In another "confesalon" an attempt poison his grandfather and grandmother and to kill his sister Onelta is related. This confession Terry said was written In November and the facta it contains are, he said, untruths. HE VSED WORMS.

Fercy's Alleged Attempt to do Away With His Grandparents. It brains thus: "This is my confession Now, grandma. I am going to make you a confession of the wicked and cruel things that 1 have done since I came home from school. The first is I kicked grandma's little pet dog. Jumbo, the third or fourth day after I came home, and I also alapped it on Its lltt head many, times to make It lay still in Its little bed.

I stepped on its little toes and made it get out of my way. For the robin I used to get poison worms and feed It to him, and I would put my handa in the cage and pull the feathers out of his tall and wlngtJ To the bobolink I did the I stopped It from singing, and the pelly parrot I used to tease with my broom. I scared every one of grandma's birds, and even her little I thouj-ht it was Jeffy's little spirit. I also pounded the little thing with a stick I pounded its little nose, its neck and Its belly. I also pulled hairs out of its little tall and I would also steal its ruts out of Its cage.

i also tried to poison my grandfather and grandmother. I took one of those poison worms that I had teen giving robin and put it up the tap, and I thought that grandpa would think, it had com from the water. I waa going to put them In the tea kettle and then I thought the water wouM poison grandpa and grandma, and then I would be my own boss and do sl I liked. I would stuff and eat so much that I would make myself vied to pile my plates full enough ifor and little sister sick, and grandma t- THOSE WAR SHIPS EVERYWHERE. British Pacldc Squadron Takes a Look at Cores.

NewTnrk. April 17 A special to the Herald from St. Petersburg saya Just at the moment when the English are thought to ba occupied li other parts of th world a telegram to the-Vovoe Vretnya from Chemulpo 1 announees that the British Pacific squadron has ttken up a position of observation off the coast on the Corean peninsula, and is being concent i a ted at Port Arthur and also at Port Hamilton. Par from being quiet, the Jcpanese are exciting tumults in Corea In order to show the futility of Russia's at-Umpts at pacification. Corea Look to Russia.

Yokohama, April 17. The Corean envoy to Japan has gene to Russia under the? authority of the King Corea to negotiate a loan of S8.000.000, giving the Corean province of Ham-glny a security. DEPARTMENTAL AND P0LmCAL AMENDMENTS TO THE CRIMINAL CODE. Hon. Mr.

Dickey yesterday Introduced In the Commons a bill for a number of interesting amendments proposed by the government 'to the Criminal Code. The bill was read a first time. The following are the main points JeglsUt'bn In many states of the union -having stopped continuous horse-racing under rambling auspices, the Americans prompted a sixty days' meeting at Windsor. last year. Mr.

Dickey pruposea to amend the Criminal Code by a clause confining race meetings to ten days at a time, with at least 40 days' interval between two meetings. When lotteries were prohibited, an exception was made In favor of "distribution of art works." This has been made a cover for a straight lottery business lc Montreal. The clause permitting the exception is therefore to be struck out. Section 183, regarding seduction by employers. Is repealed add re-enacted to Include women and girla employed in shops and stores aa well as in factories.

Sections 107-. prohibiting the sale of obscene books; is amended by Including the "manufacture" aa well as sale. It being found that such books were being printed. The law Is also made more severe against the transmission of obscene and immoral books through the malls. THE ADJUTANT-GENERALSHIP.

In anewtr to a question of Mr. in the House yesterday, Mr. Dickey, late minister of militia, aaid that Col. Powell had been retired from the offlde of adjutant general agains: his will. General Oascoigne.

and himself when minister of militia, had recommended Lt CoL Aylmer for the poeitlon. THE LATE DENISON. The leaders of the Commons, and the late Denlson's fellow Toronto members, yesterday paid a warm tribute to the memory of the deceased officer and M. P. Mr.

Laurior'apoke of Col. Denlson's manly character being a guarantee in the House that what he said on any subject came from bincere and honest convictions. MONTREAL LIBERALS. The Liberals of St Antoine ward. Montreal, have asked Robert McKay, the millionaire dry gooda merchant, to oppose Fir Donald, Smith In the coming elections.

Mr. McKay has taken a few days to consider. THE COMMANDANT OF THE QUEEN'S OWN. Hamilton of the Queen' Otyn was in the city yesterday and held an interview with Major General Gasrolgne in reference to the request of the department for his resignation. 1 be result of the interview, it is stated, has not changed the attitude of the Opirtment to the commandant of the Queen's Own.

MORNING SITTINGS NE7CT WEEK. Sir Charles Tupper will more this wek for morning sittings on and after Monday. The House mill commena sittings at 1A a. m. and will continue through until p.

resuming work again st 7.3 o'clock. One hour will be devoted on- Mnndy Wednesday afternoons to pr'vate busines. A STRONG TEAM FOR BISLET. At a meeting held in the Rusvell House on Wednesday evening, preliminary "arrangements were mad for the transport and accommodation the Bisley team for this year. Military men think that the team will be about the best ever sent across the pond, for of the first twenty-flve men on th; list, twenty hsve already announced their Intention of going if selected.

On June 27 the team will sail for England on the Parisian, and upol arrival in the old country will have a few days practice upon the Runny-tneade ranges. The Bisley commence on July 14. Those present at the meeting were White, chairman MacPherson. Tilton, Stark. Bacon.

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The distance is the only drawback. But the club expect that a spur of the Hull Electric Railway will run out to Wright's quarry, and it is only a quarter of a mile from besides most of the members bicycles. So It is likely the tiew grounds, will be accepted. Along with the proposal of the new grounds is a scheme to open a country club house ar the links. A building- capitally auited for the purpose can be had in the old Brlgham house.

The Idea of the officers of the club, who are moving in tbe matter, if that the building will be fitted up as a club, with a resident Stewart and staff In charge, the same as at a city club the dub house to be the rendezvous for tbe golfers and their frienda In the evenlnzs dances would be held. The golfers think, the Ottawa Siding Club. the. Polo Club and similar organisations could be Induced to take part in the scheme and thus reduce the expense. The matter will likely come up formally at the neit meeting of the Golf Club.

NOTES OF SPORT. In tbe Boston cushion carom tournament yesterday Sen safer defeated Dary 300 to 260, and Ires defeated Gafnter 300 to 208. Schaefer and Ives play tonight for first glace. The National Baseball League season opened yesterday. At Philadelphia, Boston defeated the "home club, 7 to 3 at Brooklyn, Baltimore was defeated, to at Washington.

New Tork was beaten (to Pittsburg (champions) did up Cincinnati to 1 Chicago won at Louisville, 4 to 2 and at St. Louis Cleveland -was defeated, 5 to S. At the annual meeting ot the Almonte Cricket Club. James Rosamond was elected president, Alex. Rosamond captain, and Dr.

Hanly sec-treasurer. The committee are Robert Tees. D. Williams. G.

M. Rhoma, Jack Wilson, J. F. Hanly, A. Sheriffs.

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