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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1896-09-04, Page 2rAs1 11-a WING11„t7,M TIMES, SEPTEMBER 4, rbv6 11 lives (.:,ri-r t CEO.) that all I t -hi do' vas to dispute the evidence inch by inch and in the last re- sort show that Chu, .son was given to emotional aberration, and was at times irreslxntsible, But t honever my mind reverted to the matt er that miserable woman's face rose t p with an awful re- proach in it, and th et I fell to excusing myself to myself a if I had not clone aright.. One morning, wit an entirely Mex. plicable impulse, I w nt down to the place in Varlets street. I ound Mrs. Clarkson living in one rooiu )n the third floor of a dismally dirty be cics, with two ex- traordinarily beaut , 11 children, scantily but tidily dressed, pit frig about the floor, and occasionally asks ig;whenpapa would .conte hada no had taken in some kind of needle work, wh ci she showed oto, She had to cover th fon frames of the - buttons with silk, a diiiiiilitrrange then,-- on ;a meal, for which site • ,t twenty-five cents a dc:zon, and by the a most industry could never quite make tw cards 0 clay of a <tozell A uttons each. Ht'r finger ends were dark with needle marks. She looked weary and sick, but sill did not complain. Nothing that over I had encuunteted in any experience as a laer or a man so moved my sympathy as this woman. In- stinctively I knew that o had been gently bred; that she had love a worthless moan and. this was her pent . ty for continuing to love hila. I knew thiat she would cling to hint through all misfortune and bo the last to leave him when: his doom came. I fed.; myself treatingi her with a fine courtliness that was in,' aired with respect, the respect we always feel for something that is a little above our human range. It was difficult to pull:myself out of this mood and come dowi>, to the practical business of a lawyer, bit it was necessary. "Mrs. Clarkson," 1 salad, "it is necessary that we look at this altatter in the most cold-blooded way. 'We have got to make the effort to stave your ehusband beset on almost every side by lamest insuperable difl':euhlee, and shut into one or two miserably narrow eoursas. I have got to prove an alibi or establish his insanity." "Do you mean by ins,• city that you will admit that ho commit ed the deed in a marl fit?" "Perhars that would a the most judi- • cions course,. and then t ow ourselves on the sympathy of the ju y and the mercy of the court." 1 She shook her head $h a sang dignity. "" He did not committhe deed," she said. "Perhaps not. That linty be a moral I f li f "BY PROVING TIIAT SOME ONE ELSE DID IT!'' certainty with you. But a lawyer nn)st, 'have facts. How aro we to prove the'• t'^ did not?" Her answer startled ants a little. a a said calmly, and as if she saw n0 c'"` ..._„ i about it. "By proving that someone else did it," she said. "Have you some one else in your mind?" 'I asked quickly. She hesitated a moment and then said: "No, but there must be some one else. Is that not your first and only task?" Size was standing in front of me. -The two beautiful children were clinging, ono on either side, to her dress. She reached down and put her hands on their heads. It was a lovely group of innocence, and made a touching appeal. s "I feel sure that you will do it," she added. When I came away, 1 frit that in some way my visit had been a failure. I hacl meant to place the obdurate facts before her and ask her to assist Ino in working out the alibi or establishing her husband's tendency to emotional insanity. She had looked upon both suggestions with a dig- iiiiiied contempt and 1151(0(1 11 a to find the erson who really committed the deed. made upm alined that 11 -as to set no I y I F. practical assistance front the wife, and in y extremity I sent for Amos, Daryl, who 'was then employed in the secret a ervice in ash infeten. I had not Been him in several years, but he owed his position to me and he was ho only detective I knew for whose a'.,ili- ies I had a profound resperet. Luckily 1 was able to get away, a1111 he mune to York 1•:ro111ptly to see me. Daryl Was a great, brawny, raw-boned allow with a child's simple niiltdeuues:t; 0 of those 111011 who deceive you 0010- ately in appearance and manner. He 1ght easily have been mistaken for an driondaek guide on n visit to the city. ut he was we11-known to tllts police horities and most of the criminal law - lie listened to Inn as 1 we'at over all the details of the affair, and I don't think he spoke once till I told hint what Mrs. Clarkson hecl said; then 11ccsmiled, put his long hands in his pockets, and stretch. ing out his interminable legs remarked: "A good idea." "I have told you all that there is to it. What, is your opiniont" "My opinion is that Airs. Clarkson sus- pects some one else and hasn't told you. Give ane a card to Mrs. Prinoveau, and three or four day's tinge." Just before ho loft, he said: "You'd better give Inc a card to Mr. Grove while you are about it, 1 want to see that bul- let, and I shall have to get an order from ]tint." After two days' time he came back. It was about ten o'clock in the morning and he sauntered intents' study in Itis careless mnanner,ttnlinibe+red himself in as big chair, • and then as usual waited for me to open the conversation. "Well, Amos," I sapid, throwing down my pen and whce1ii g round, "you've come back a. little sooner than I expected. Have you got anything to say to mei," "Not much." He said this with his aggravating vacu- ity, and stopped. One hand was thrust "1 TBINE: I KNOW woo COMMITTED TIIAT M.'EDEI(." into his pocket, the other supported his head in an easy, indolent, sprawling posi- 1.oI1. "I suppose you have marls up your mind; it is a waste of time trying to save that man. Well, I about mado up mind to that myself, some bolo ago," "Do you mind telling me -how you go into this case?" lie asked. "As that is 0 private matter and you aro not disposed to take alit' share in the case, I don't see why I should make you a con- fidant." "Did Mrs. Prinoveau ask you to defend Clarkson P" "Alt! Mr. Greve told^you?" "No he didn't." ""Then, Mrs. Prinovealui" "Mrs. Prinoveau would not talk to me. I scared her." "Scared her? you must have lost your tact." "No, I haven't." "Look here. Daryl," Isaid, a little net- tled. "You are one of the cleverest men in a, particular line I ever met. This whole tiling is 111 a nutshell. Either that man Clarkson shot Mr. ",Priileveaal or he didn't. If 11e didn't shoot 11111 he must have been somewhere at the time. Ho says he was druuk and if so some one must have seen him at some resort far away from the scene of the cringe. It's a plain piece of work to find out the man's resorts and get hold of the persons who , sew him there on that day. That's all there is to it, and I don't mind telling you that I haven't a bit of faith in the task, but there's a chance." Daryl did not say anything for a mo- ment. He worked itis big* list in his poc- ket mechanically, and looked down at his heavy boots as if he were at a complete loss. Presently he said, drawlingly: "Yes, that would be a waste of tinge." "Then you have made up your niind that Clarkson is guilty." "No—o. I've made up . my mind he is innocent." "IIave you seen hint? "Ye—s. Saw his wife, too." "And Ile convinced you that ho was in- nocent?" "N—o. His wife convinced age." I laughed . "You're more susceptible than I supposed," I said. "She would have couvinced age, too, if I hadn't kept any wits about .bout age•" Daryl threw his Head back and pulled at his iron -gray whiskers a moment. Then 11e said in a schoolboy way: "I think I know who committed that murder, old fellow." "Do you? Who?" "Mrs. Prineveau l" If he told me that lin thought I had committed it, I don't think I could have been More a: tonieln•cl. I gave an blerecl- ulous start. "I wish you'd give 1110 the facts upon which you have built that quick anal—pardon me for saying it—that preposterous conclusion." "I haven't got a single fact yet," the replied. "I'll look for the facts if you like, later on." "'What \1•hat in heaven's MUM! Ig 'lave (t (•n l at C yatt "+t to warrant such a conclusion?" "Binder got tl:e truth. It's different .sen facts. Can't foot it up, but you feel it all the sante. I anus prefer it to facts —to begin with, for the facts kinder fit into it easy Iil.e. " I got up and took a turn or two. My mind did not easily adjust itself to this possibility. Daryl reached out his hong tam and played with the paper weight on any table contentedly. "Antos," I said, "I don't know what to make of this, and I think that you ought to tell net exactly how this notion got into your mind." He toyed with the palter Wight, and diel net look at me. I could See that he was somewhat at a loss how to explain himself. "Well," he finally saki, "'ain't good at traeking laymen notions, as you call 'elms and I don't rind saying in a general way that the truth slips into some people's system witltvut their knowin' how. As a rule it's a woman's system, and text to one it's a woman like Airs. Clarkson. Why, her husband had murder on his clothe.e she'd smell it over night, She knows every turn of his big lubberly heart. Fite knows be hasn't killed anybody, and I'd take her word for it, A woman knows" a lot ,of things that a men don't," "Yes," I said, "silo knows how to play on a man's susceptibilities." "Mrs. Prineveau sloe" went to play on my susceptibilities, does she? You saw her, didn't you?" ""Yos, I did," "And she struck you as a canscient'ious, self-respecting, kindly olcl party, didn't she?" 'She certu1111y impressed incl as -a woman who had nothing to conceal and was anxious that justice should bo tem - pored with mercy." "Very cool, and col- lected, and dignified." "Idost assuredly." "Well, when she met me, she gave a start. 'Who brought you into the case?' she saaicl, 'Not you, nuulame of course,' says I, and she gave a little twitch. 'I wanted,' says I, 'to take a look at that bullet.' She snatched at the back of the chair, and bald in u big l)resth. `Yen had better go to any lawyer, I don't think he will let you see it.' 'I'm not sura tI1at ho has it, madam,' I said; 'I have seen it, and it was never made for a pistol barrel.' "Say, old fell, that's n great woman, and she'll beat us in the and if we. don't Use 0 w(008U's tactics. (Olio just braced. herself and began to eat, but it was tuo late. 'Ala,' says she, 'you have some new theory in the esso or some new light, . I wish you would go to any lawyer with it and if you wish any material assistance why you can come to me afterward.' "I call that simply prodigious; she says to herself: 'Here's a dangerous man. I'll get Mr. Grove to handle him and I'll han- dle Mr. Greve, and I'll throw out a hint of money at the sane thrice ' " • Then Amos Daryl struck the paper- weight that he hold in his hand emphatic- ally on the table, and„ turning round, Said: "My friend, that. woman had no sooner clapt her eyes on tine than s11e un- derstood the truth; and the truth was this: that soinebody land' arrived that she couldn't hoodwink. I tell you, a woman's thinking apparatus is lightning some- times." I sat down in front of Daryl. "You a1n(tze lige," I said. "Suppose you turn to the facts now. The bullet was not mice for a .pistol barrel,'.' "No. The pistol is 0 little French play- thing. There are not twenty-five of them in the country, for we make those things better here. But it was made at a French factory where the cartridges aro all mould- ed. The bullet from Mr. Prinoveau's body was not moulded. It was cut from a piece of lead and shaped with an instru- ment. You tan see the marks of a fine file on if it you use a gloss," "But," I observed, "the bullet entered Mr. Prineveau's side through his cloth- ing, the hole was found in his vest. It must haw been fired frpnl that side, and Mrs. Primes -can was on the other side." "See here," said Daryl, getting up sud- denly. "I don't mind being a little rash just • for once, and file bet you the trip ticket to Florida, whore you can see my little orange grove, after this ease is dc- cided, that Mr. Prineveiau didn'tewoar the vest with the Hole in it when he was killed in the carriage. Have you been up to Sixty-sixth street and Fourth avenue to look the ground over?" eaeae "Well, I have. It was five o'clock when Mr. Prineyeau was killed, and there was a steady 'tiff hind blowing front the northeast with plenty of snow, but it was 1:edit enough to Foe westward across the open lots to the Fifth'avenue. If there had been anybody within a thousand feet the coachman or Mrs. �Princvcau could. have seen him. To snpposo that a little French pistol could have carried further than that straight to ',Air. Prineveau's hearth; ono of those yarns that would make a marine sick. Myidear fellow, I've talked mores to -day than I llayc in six months. But Mrs. Meissen was dead right when elle 'arid the thing to do is to prove that *some ono else committed the crime." "Caul we. do it?" "We can find that person, but to prove it—well, to tell you the taiuth, I don't bo- lieve we will, for that person is as clever as four lawyers and eight ordinary detec- tives, and has hacl the start -of us for a year or more." "Whore are you going now?" "I'ni going over to take some thing; to that woman in Variek street. I don't he- liove she is couafortable,aandI'n1 deal sere she hasn't any friends. I'll see you in the morning with sono facts, if I ran across 'cur." CHAPTER IV. This interview, when I came to think it over, took the conceit out of 111e, and tI10 retaining fee of five hundred dollars had an ugly look. Daryl, it was true, alight be mistaken, but there was soniothing in me that respected. his opinions. Why did Mrs. Prinoveau have such confidence in MC and such distrust in Daryl? Why was I sent to her to be sized up, as it were. Evidently the kind of woman Daryl had insisted she was. She had counted on just tate stupidity that I had shown. This re- fieetion made may professional vanity a little vindictive. "So, so," Lsaid to my- self, I am retained r[ defend Clarkson. Very well. He shaali be defended to the best of my ability." When Daryl came to see ane the next; evening I told hint frankly that Mr.:. Prineveau had given age a five hundred dollar retaining foe. He said he felt sure of it, and aalt iscd me to send it to lairs. Clarkson if it hurt rue, "And who is to lay you?" basked. ' "I don't think either you or I will get any pay out of this," he resplied. "But we are into it and WO might as well carry it through." "I tans afraid," I said, "that we have undertaken a hopeless task. Let's divide it up." "You find out Mrs. Prinoveau's antece- dents and Twill find out if Mr. Prineveau wore that vest with the Bole in it when ha was killed. If ha didn't whit made boloitfor atpurpose?" tonandowh h i "Rather narrow ground," I said, some- what hopelessly. "0, I've been on naiTower and more slippery, and pulled, out, "But tell me what kind of a theory. can 7011 invent that will enable Mrs. Pring - THE RETAINING FEB AE '$.1"00 IAD AN UGLY L0011. veaau to kill her husband with a bullet on her loft siege, wade she is sitting on his right?" Daryl fe11 into' his vacuous attitude, stretched out his legs, thrust his hands into his pockets, and choked off a yawn. "Dial you reach all the testhnony at the coroner's examination?" he asked. "Yes, all of it." "Did you notice anything peculiar in the elements of time that entered into it?" "No, I didn't." Ho pulled out of his pocket a portion of the verbatim report, "Lot me read you a portion of it. This is the girl Rose Ken- ny's testimony: • "Q. What time was it when your pias- ter and mistress left the house to ride?" ".A.. Fight minutes of three. "Q. What make, you so particular as to the time? "A. I heard Mrs,. Prinoveau call to Mr. Prineveau and that was the time just as they went out, "Q. Wasn't therm. a clock in the room? "A. No, sir. Tho clock is in the din- ing -room. F "There the question of time stops. Now listen to MTs. Prineveau', testimony. "Q. What time was it when the shot was find? "A. Five minutes; past five—suddenly correcting he solf—or about that. "Does it occur to you that this particu- larity of time is unuitual?" "Yes; somewhat. But what is its sig- nificance?" i. "This—that something may have been arranged to occur at a. particular time, and Mrs. Prinoveau hod charged her mind • with it. Here is the coachman's testimony : "Q. Can you fix the exact time of the death of Mr. Prinoveau? "A. It was five o'clock. "Q. Do you carry a w.atcli? "A. No. "Q. Did Mrs. Prime -eau have a watch with her? "A. No, sir. "Q. How then did you fix the tinge? "A. Mrs. Prineveau looked at Mr. Prin- eveau's watch when We were turning into • Fourth avenue and said it 'o live o'clock and that I must hurry. • "Now here the platter is dropped by the examination just as it is getting warm. Lot's recapitulate," and Amos Daryl picked up my paper weight for illustra- tion: "First, Mr. Prinoveau carries a watch," and Amos Daryl put the weight down; "second, Mrs. Prinoveau knew to a minute when they left the house." Mr. Daryl picked up the mucilage jar and placed it by the side of the paper weight; "third," and 110 pio'kcd up a match re- ceiver, "she was aansious to know the exact tinge just beforethey reached the fatal spot." He put the match box down alongside the paper Weight and reached for an ash receiver; 'tfourth, she ascer- tained the time by looking at Mr. Prin- eveau's watch." Dow1i went the ash re- ceiver; "fifth," and he 'picked up the ink bottle, "if she ascertained the exact time by looking at Mr. Prineveau's watch, and that watch wan carried in no usual place on his breast, then her flingers were at his heart just before the murder occurred," and down went the ink :bottle. Tho us- ually scattiscd utensils o11• any desk were now in a little group covered by the mas- sive paw of my friend Daryl. "It is an interesting and startling theory," I said," "anal I see now to what it leaads." "I doubt that," replied Daryl. "Let mo tell you to what it leads—insuperable (lifli- cultios, for the woman las. all the clews in her own hands, and will baffle us at every step of 1110 reatreh, and have public sym- pathy in doing it." "Then if we cannot get hold of the facts to substantiate roar theory WO aro 011 a wild-goose chase:" "Not altogether." "Why, We haven't a log to go on with- out the facts." "0, yes; one leg." "What is it?" "The truth." I shrugged my shoulders; "The ,. lige tr11t}m will developowntits facts, , • and that is where Mrs, Prineveau, like all merely cunning people, is as little super- ficial. Suppose we set out to ascertain if Mr. Prineveau did not have two waist- coats of the same material, ono of which it was alleged was punctured by a bullet and the other was 1101, (anti WO wish to learn if Mrs. Prineveau did not have the opportunity when the body arrived hone, to change the waistcoats, we .shall be baffled by her, for shit has arranged for jest retell as contingen(ty." 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