Contents

[Chapter I]
[Chapter II]
[Chapter III]
[Chapter IV]
[Chapter V]
[Chapter VI]
[Chapter VII]
[Chapter VIII]

To
my favourite lawyer

Edward Henry Hart

The Bellamy Trial

The Judge

Anthony Bristed Carver

The Prosecutor Daniel Farr Counsel for the Defense Dudley Lambert

The Defendants

Susan Ives

Stephen Bellamy

First Day
Opening speech for the prosecution
Second Day
Mr. Herbert Conroy, real estate agent
Dr. Paul Stanley, physician
Miss Kathleen Page, governess
Third Day
Mr. Douglas Thorne, Susan Ives’s brother
Miss Flora Biggs, Mimi Bellamy’s schoolmate
Mrs. Daniel Ives, Susan Ives’s mother-in-law
Mr. Elliot Farwell, Mimi Bellamy’s ex-fiancé
Mr. George Dallas, Mr. Farwell’s friend
Fourth Day
Miss Melanie Cordier, waitress
Miss Laura Roberts, lady’s maid
Mr. Luigi Orsini, handy man
Mr. Joseph Turner, bus driver
Sergeant Hendrick Johnson, state trooper
Fifth Day
Opening speech for defence
Mrs. Adolph Platz, wife of chauffeur
Mrs. Timothy Shea, landlady
Mr. Stephen Bellamy
Dr. Gabriel Barretti, finger-print expert
Sixth Day
Mr. Leo Fox, mechanician
Mr. Patrick Ives, Susan Ives’s husband
Susan Ives
Seventh Day
Susan Ives—conclusion
Stephen Bellamy—recalled
Closing speech for the defence
Closing speech for prosecution
Eighth Day
Mr. Randolph Phipps, high-school principal
Miss Sally Dunne, high-school pupil
The judge’s charge
The verdict