To all my friends in La Porte who helped me to relive a trial and solve a mystery—and especially to fifteen eyewitnesses:

Isaiah Alderfer

Martha Maxson Alderfer

Eldora Hutson Burns

William Clifford

Frank Coffeen

Frances Lapham Dawson

Emil Greening

N. E. Koch

Evaline Hutson Maxson

Albert Nicholson

Dr. Jerold Siegel

Elmore van Winkle

Otto Volheim

Bessie Folant Worden

and not least—Charles F. Pahrman