Old faces disappear and new ones take their places and the stream of life ever hurries on to empty where death's waters meet.
* * * * * At the next sitting of the Court John Coots was arraigned, tried, and convicted of murder in the first degree.

His lawyer tried to bring in a plea of emotional insanity but failed.

If insane he was insane through the influence of strong drink.

It was proven that he had made fierce threats against the life of Loraine, and the liquor in which he had so freely indulged had served to fire his brain and nerve his hand to carry out his wicked intent; and so the jury brought in its verdict, and he was sentenced to be executed, which sentence was duly performed and that closed another act of the sad drama.

Intemperance and Sensuality had clasped hands together, and beneath their cruel fostering the gallows had borne its dreadful fruit of death.