Chapters+20-Conclusion

This section starts in the courtroom. The whole town has showed up to watch the trial of the twins, and Pudd'nhead Wilson is nervous, for he still has not discovered the true identity of the thief or the killer. But he has a plan. The trial began with Pembroke Howard reciting a brief yet emotional opening statement and calling up witness after witness to the stand. Wilson knew there was a little information to be found and didn't waste time cross-examining. The examination of Wilson's witnesses was stopped until the next morning. Wilson had found a finger print on the knife and knew it belonged to the veiled woman he had seen the night before, but none of the prints from women in the town matched. Later that night he was having a chat with Tom, and after Tom grabbed one of Wilson's finger print slides, Wilson noticed that Tom's fingerprints matched the ones on the knife. When Wilson assembled Tom's full set of prints he made another startling discovery: That his prints from when he was young did not match those of his later years. Something was not right. Pudd'nhead prepares a set of enlarged versions of the fingerprints for the court. The next morning he arrives at the trial and informs the judge that he has new evidence. Drawing in the crowd and making several guesses, Pudd'nhead lays out his case for the twins' innocence, telling the crowd why he takes fingerprints and the purpose that they serve. He gives a demonstration of how it's done, using people in the audience and taking their prints. The twins are found innocent, but Pudd'nhead doesn't say who really did it. Instead, he tells and shows the crowd, with evidence, about Roxy's baby switch. In conclusion he names "Tom" as the murderer and also tells the crowd that he is a black slave named Chambers. Chambers passes out and is arrested promptly. The town was shocked by the revelation that a slave, posing as a white man, murdered someone. The town's view on Pudd'nhead Wilson was drastically altered. They hung on his every word and treated it as if they were the words of God. They say that themselves are now the Pudd'nheads and David Wilson is no longer. The twins promptly retired to Europe. Roxy's heart was broken. Her hurts were very deep and only found solace in church. The real Tom found himself rich and free. He went from a slave, back to his true heritage. He, however, still retained the lack of reading and writing and his slave dialect. The real Chambers confessed and was imprisoned for life. The owners of the Driscoll estate, stated that by being a slave, Chambers was property of the estate. After the Governor understood, he pardoned Chambers, but he was promptly sent down the river.
 * Chapter 20: The Murderer Chuckles**
 * Chapter 21**: **Doom**
 * Conclusion**

//**-Will Carter and Matt Brannen**//