The Bellamy Trial by Frances Noyes Hart Garden City, New York Doubleday, Page & Company Copyright, 1927, Frances Noyes Hart 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 CHAPTER I