s him,
And makes me poor indeed."

The announcement also that the liquor men had reported their enemy to
the railway company, and that his discharge had been ordered, is
significant in the light of later events. The complaint made by them
to the company seems from the above to have been that Mr. Smith was
examining goods shipped into the county by way of Sutton Junction, and
this, we are assured, was a false report. However, it seems probable
that, if the hotel keepers had not been receiving illegal goods in
this way, they would not have been so suspicious. Another account of
Kelly's testimony was published in the Montreal _Daily Star_. Omitting
those parts which do not differ materially from the report in _The
Templar_, this report is as follows:

"The reason that Kelly did not get his hundred and fifty dollars
for half murdering Mr. W. W. Smith, it appears, was 'that he did
not half finish his job;' at least that was the reason given in
another letter of Howarth to his friend Mr. Flynn in the United
States, who showed it to Kelly. It is left to the imagination as
to what the result would have been if he had finished the job.
Kelly's testimony occupied all the afternoon, and he stood the
ordeal extremely well. Mr. Racicot tried to shake him, but in
vain. He told his story in a straightforward manner, and it
showed how easy it is even in our present civilized and advanced
age to get rid of or punish people without running personal risk
of bodily injury if you go the right way about it. The case is
also a forcible reminder of the truism that the laborer is worthy
of his hire, and that things done on the cheap are apt to turn
out badly....

"That night he drove in the vicinity of a friend's home, where he
was told that Smith was not at home. He went with the intention
of seeing Mr. Smith. If he had met him he would have licked him
then and there. He always stayed at the Wilson's, when he had
nothing better to do, and they did not charge him anything. He
was convinced that the Wilsons, though they did not say so, knew
perfectly well what he was doing. Kelly met Smith once at the
Sutton Junction station while he was on the train. The night of
the attempted murder he asked Jim Wilson to drive him. Wilson
must have know what Kelly was going to do, for the latter
undressed while they were driv