The Herald, 1901-02-08, Page 5Interesting Items
The tallest living Int1.11 is said to
be Lewis Wilkinssetho is now axons -
hag great interest in the ecientillic
moles of Euro°. • ' was
born on a farm near St. Paul,
( • Minn., in 1874, • When he was but
. 10 years Oki b.e measured six feet
in height, and now has grown to
the tremendous height of 107.4
inches—just three quarters of an
inch loss than nine foot—..and weighs
364 pounds.
Winnipeg, Feb.• 1,—A deplorable
eceidlint happened here this even-
ing daring the progress of a hockey.
match in the Bankers' League at,
the Auditorium: Rink, Fritz W.
Barrow, one of the Doininion. Bank
tetun, was struck by the puck in a
vital spot, and expired M half an
hour. The occurrence was purely
accidental, as Barron plunged for-
ward to stop the puck as . it was
being lifted, and received the blow.
Deceased was a very popular young
man, 23 years of age, and came to
Winnipeg from Lindsay, Ont. He
was a son of Judge Barron, of
Strafford, formerly Liberal member
for North Victoria.
A petition is being circulated for
signatures throughout Western On-
tario asking the Dominion govern-
ment to appoint laraaJohn McMillan•
ex -M. P., for South Huron, to the
Canadian senate, The petition is
not being signed as „Generously as
Mr. McMillan or his friends would.
wish, and this we are pleased to
note. Mr. McMillian has already
had 18 years experience in the
House of Commons and was defeat-
ed at the last general election, and
when South Huron does not want
him, Canada does not want hint.
Let our Canadian senate, if we
must have one, be filled with
bright, young, broad-minded. mon,
and not with old picayune fossils.—
Blyth Standard.
Every man in public life who has
a grievance generally wants to
start a newspaper in the conummity
in which he lives. flo is careful
never to invest a cent himself. Up
in Windsor, at the annual meeting
of the• Conservatives the other
night, John R. Martin was fierce
against the editor of the World,the
Conservative orgrua because he
thought it was not aggressive
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THE ZU,R1CH
Yes! and nearly
Soo more, some
handsomer and
some homelier,
but that makes
no difference.
Everybody reads
the home paper.
coo before Feb.
xSt. ? It's a lot
for a young paper,
but a live paper will make lively
readers and plenty of them.
`---sesiesegi14Weete...-
Hath perfect,blessed=
11 CSS,
And goeth not es=
tray;
He puts his ad in the
noug ' probably in his special Herald
interest. Jim Dickson, the World A A
the first round by telling that 1
man, got in on Martin a solarplex us
in fill CI pro )1 i. LS every
Martin had been a subscriber for i
the World for fur years and had I 0
never yet paid a cent for it. The
world is full of Martins who are ex-
pert kickers at the expense of their
neighbors.
day
He also gets his Job
Printing done here,
Smile? did you ever see a broader
one? All our Customers and sub-
scribers get this smile on once
while.
A remarkable case was tried in
the Somerset county court, at.
Somerville, New Jersey, recently.
A farmer living in one of the coun-
try townships of Somerset counts -
sold a horse to a Seeiterset man.
The latter gave a note for $50 in
payment. The mat who received
the note paid little attention to its
-wording, but went to the bank to
have it discounted. The bank ofil.
eials refused to discount the note,
as it read t "I promise to pay 100
years after date, etc," The num
with the note was greatly- excited f
When he discovered the time of the
note, which he hacl not noticed at
all, and promptly brought suit
e,ainet the man who gave it. The 1
-ease mune up in eourt at Somerville. :•
The defendant elafined that he was;
perfectly able and willing to pay
the note when it came due, but pro. I
tested that there was no law that
compelled him to do so before that I
time. It NV1tS in Mark and white
On the note. and the judge had
nothing left to do but dismiss the
ease.
The roost navel criminal way' f
ranking money ha just come to
the attention of the police, says
nearby exchange. There is a goodi,.
looking young man and women
travelling, making all kinds of
money bygetting married. The
couple has a largo stock of raised
$1. and $2 bills. The bMs of the
lower denomituttion are raised to
appear as $10 bills, while the $2
ones seem to be $20 bilis. The
couple visits the unsuspecting
minister, the bride blushes, the
groom.- is very nervous, just like
most new grooms, and the clergy-
man performs the sacred ceremony.
He is given, in most eases, a ;10
bad bill and told to take his fee out.
Usually $5 is the limit of the fee.
and the fake bride and her "hubby"
leave 'with *13 of the good Inan s
good money in their purses.
Adverse rather than favorable
eirenmstanees make men.. It is
the rough weather not the smooth
sailing that brings out all that is in
the navigator. The course of most
yotteg men to -day is that they have
to many advantages. They spend
'Shore in a month than their fathers
did in a year- They are pampered
ta death with social opporturrities
that throttle ambition. Fathers
forget that the Very source of their
own success was their being thrown
upon their own resources ,and hay-
ing to fight their Way through to
success. It is this kind of thing
that puts moral bone and sinew
into a Man. Be careful not to spoil
your boys with advantages. Give
them a chance to take care of them.
selves, Throw them in and let
them SWIM. Don't fret your heart
out trying to leave them "comfort-.
able" when you die, Your legacy
of ease is more likely to be a curse
to them than a blessing. Give
theta a good all round education
and a little experience of hard
Avollt 04 they will bless year raem3
017,
HERALD
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a le? aaa Its, *Pe
A Detective Story
Of a Chicago Suburb. The
4i Murder at The Grange and How
Its Mystery Was Solved by
Darrent, the, Amer-
Ican Lecoq.
BY NORMAN HlJRST.
Copyright, 1899, by the 'American Press Association,
11E
SI.
man wad streak that tiqiiitice,i
swear it. It is in Paris we shall have
to look. In Paris we will seek until
some chance clew helps las to attain our
object. When shall I be set free? When
can we start ?"
"I shall start today."
"Good, and I will follow when they
have released nae. How is it possible
that such a murderous society could
exist2 'What are its Ubjects? What are
its secrets that, after years and years
of waiting, it yet took its revenge?"
"My dear Marsden," Darrent replied
calmly, "Paris is even now the hotbed
of such societies and was more so when
your father was there. It is full of se-
cret associations, French, Russian, Ger-
man and every other nationality. Your
father unfortunately became suspected,
and they never forget."
"Then go, Darrent. Lose no time,
and I will follow when I am released.'
Darrent rose to his feet and placed
his hands on Astray'a shoulders.
"You're so full of your father that
you have forgotten your own peril, " he
remarked.
"My own peril!" Astray exclaimed.
"Yes, the authorities do not look on
that diary as a complete establishment
of year innocence. Mind, you, I think
you will be reprieved, but unless I can
discover more I'm afraid your actual
release is a long way off."
"Let it proves I ani innocent."
"It does not go far enough. I leave for
Paris to get more evidence, to test
what is set down in this diary and then
to bring the chosen member of this
gang to justice, and so obtain your re-
lease. Do you understand?"
"Yes, I nnderstand. Tho law does
not want to lose its grip of its victim
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"hitt-Thai Ili hr tre i . siiiit ff.* tiiined out
to be very different from what I had
anticipated. A man, Maurice de Lanez,
was discovered shot dead, but"—Dar-
rent again paused—"there was no mys-
tery whatever.
"Maurice de Lanez caught his cashier
red handed in theft and sent for the
police, but before they had time to ar-
rive the man turned on him, shot him
dead and fled.
"He was captured next day on the
outskirts of the city, tried, condemned
and guillotined. He died confessing that
his sentence was a just one, for Lanes
had been the best of masters. There
was no other record of a murder of a
man named De Lanez in that year or
any other year."
"But the mystery?"
"There is no mystery."
"The assassins?"
"There are no assassins and never
were."
"The gang?"
"There is no gang."
"My brain reals. X cannot under-
stand. What does it mean?"
"Listen. On Oct. 8, 1871—I am in-
debted very much to chance for ever
having been able to put this peculiar
affair tog,ether—a party of student
were carousing in a top floor room in a
house in one of the worst quarters of
Paris. They were a devil may care lot,
and one or two were wanted by the
police, not for anything very serious,
mind you—for a drunken brawl, per-
haps, or a little oyerexuberance after a
students' ball. The gambling was at
its height when suddenly they heard
the sound of a man rushing up stairs.
The light was extinguished, and they
held their breath and waited. Then the
man burst into the apartment—an
Englishman."
"Yes, yes; go on."
"Well, I told. you they were a hare-
brained crew, an ingenious lot of prac-
tical jokers, an irresponsible set of
scamps. and one had a brilliant idea to
fool the Englishman. He told it to hie t
comrades, and it was hailed with a
suppressed roar of merriment. They .w.
were to pretend to the stranger that he t
had broken into a solemn conclave of a a
secret society. Make him take his
chance with them and draw for a life.
Do you follow the story?" p
"I begin to understand. Go on."
"Your father was that man, Al.ztray, 1
and his disposition was as yours is now ! h
—unable to face danger. As yon made , el
Go." ' teach him a lesson."
a mistake and fled from your accnser, h
he made a mistake and dared to defy si
ned. dthreewm.forEthe aecicifeeptoefdatlIzietapurc.)pToshael.y.abnet..1 Ills
r its San as a joke; they carried it on to fin
1:11.iellinsyle 1; sch:;13mifrealand dared them to take his life, po
A.s
l:31nueidn, 'rtefused to carry out the an
e
bell I and he would have discovered that the the
the Story from one of the clergymen of
the village. Your mother fell ill and •
died suddenly., very suddenly.. No one
knew where to send for your father,
and she was buried.
"Two days after a telegram came to
your mother asking her to come to Chi-
cago. ' No answer mold he sent, and so
they waited ter hint The rector broke
the news to hire and has since repeated
the story to me, told me how your fa-
tier listened without a word, walked
to the churchyard, gazed at the grave
without a tear and then returned to the
house and found the telegram which. he
had himself sent the day before.
"Then his reason left him. In a pay
°xylem of madness he charged them all
with deceiving him ; swore that' she
had not died, but had been lured away, r.
that they were all a party to it and g
that she had been murdered; swore • e
that 'a life for a life' should be the only I
object of his existence and left the vil-
lage with madness in Lis eye, foaming
for revenge. That is the whole story.
Your mother sleeps in her grave; your
father has been murdered, but by no 3
gang of assassins, for noire existed."
"No gang of assassins, " Astray cried,
rising to his feet, and struggling with
rage; "izo gang of assassins, when they
drove a man. to madness for the satis-
faction of their own humeri My bit-
terest curse be on each and every one
who had a hand in the torture of nay
father and blight what yet remains of
his life, ---for each and every one who
took a part in that night's devilment
shared in the murder! They robbed
him of his reason and left him an easy
prey to the one wleo took his life."
"The murderer is yet to be discov-
ered, " Darrent answered quietly. "We
have found nothing from this diary,
and we Insist begin at the beginning
again, and time presses."
"What do you mean by time presses?
The law dare not hang me in the face
of the statements in that diary. I shall
be released in a few days, and then to-
gether we will seek the murderer and
never rest until he is brought to jus-
tice."
"We will hope for the best," was all
that Herbert Darrent could say as he
shook- Astray's hand and. left him.
HERBERT DinCICAPRENTTPESROPDX.SIBS TOAST,
Herbert Darrent had left Astray
buoyed up with hope. Together they
had gone page by page through old
Marsden's diary and together had come
to the conclusion that here at last was
something like the truth.
Astray was exultant in what he called
the full establishment of his innocence,
but Darrent's enthusiasm was a little
pronounced. Re recognized that,
while there was undoubtedly much in
he diary that was true, there was also
much that revealed nothing but the
andorings of an enfeebled intellect and
hat in any endeavor to get the sentence
assed upon Astray Marsden revoked
here would be the greatest difficulty to
ersuade the governor where the truth
nded and imagination commenced. If
osiab. Marsden dreamed that he had
-Died his enemy, the man who dogged
is footsteps throngh Europe and had
ironieled as a fact in his diary that he
ad done so, when it could be conchs -
rely proved that at the date set down
had not been away from Norma%
Is., it was equally possible that the
al entry, the one that said that
tray had been and gone, might also
regarded. as the outcome of a dream,
d Darrent was bound to own this
ssibility to libuself, although he now
oroughly believed in the innocence of
man—that Astray might have re -
ale&
Ile felt that Astray was innocent,
d yet, if Astray had not committed
murder, who had? 'Was it a striae-
, Perhaps a tramp, after all?
t would be hard, very bard, to snake
cool headed governor believe that a.
n who had been stabbed had in the
°es of death written, "I am dying,
rdered by a stranger."
lzy should he? That was the clues -
that perplexed Darrent. Why? To
borate hie son, with whom he had
noted that night, in case he should
ceased. Hutu I It was poesible when
looked at it in that light.
crimps that construction placed on
paper, together with the diary,
it have sonic effect upon the govern -
Anyhow he could but try. His
ts had condemned Astray Marsden,
now his duty was to oht h
"Back at Zast, Darrent!" ha exclair
unless another is placed ready fo
vengeance. I will not detain you.
With a hearty handsheke, a pro
that "all would yet be right," Dar
left Astray IvIaralen and made his
to New. York en route for Paris.
Over a month passed before Her
Darrent was back in Norcombe.
asked. at the police station for the
dress of the woman who finned in
ease as the housekeeper of Josiah M
den and, learning it, made his wa
the cottage, which he left in about
an hour with a very satisfied look a
his face.
Next morning Astray was aron
from his apathy by- the entrance of
detective and in a moment was on
feet and gripping his hand.
"Back at hist. Darren -0" he
claimed excitedly "T thought I shol
be done for before you returned_ T
me at once, have you found him ?"
Darrent shook his head, and Asti.
ank back into his seat.
"Then you have been unsuccessful
"Not altogether," Darrent reline
'but things have turned out very d
ferently from what I expected. 1 rear
ed Norconibe yesterday afternoon a
visited the woman, Margaret Gad d
the light would have been turned up, th
Ile; cold barrel against his temple was only ,
ad- a short poker and would have been in- tar
the vita. to spend the evening with the ;
lightest hearted lot of scamps in Paris.an
y to 1 But he did not defy them; he agreed to'
go
"Or
ewe 1i their plans."
pan "Or pretended to." Any man would
have done the same. the
1 ma
Red "So they kept rip the joke. One or thr
the two were well connected, and they in- inn
his • troduceil him to a good set of people, w
1 and a pretty girl was chosen for the ; tion
ex- ± victim, a girl so gentle that they knew •
' the blackest hearted, foulest minded qua
exo
ell brute could not have raised a finger . be a
against her. Then they sent him. notes one
ay and letters urging him to do the deed."
?' cried, trembling with suppressed rage. mig.
"Murdering him by- inches.," Astray ' the
(1, "Goading him to deepair, A. good joke!
if- They mast have been a merry crew in- or.
11-
deed 1 Go an. What more?" effor
nd "There is no snore. Present tl and
who acted aS yonr father's hoesekeeper,
You remember ?"
Astray nodded his head.
"That visit was to settle the last
pointin connection with my jonrn
to Paris. Look at the page of the dia
headed June, 1894, and you'll see wh
it says: set out for Paris, not th
time to hunt for her, but to dernan
the Scriptural forfeit I have kille
•h'Tinli'at"*.i7s the part of the book tha
"Enough, enough!" Astray ctied.
haunts me. He died a murderer, mar
der"eIah'a've killed him," Darrent cake'
continued. 'anurdered himl"
Herbert Darrent paused impressively
and liesannioetgtratacy,ard Astray, said,
eT.1,;.,iavthat
"Yorir father had not been half a
dozen miles away from Norcombe dur-
in,ie last ten years. His mind wag
unhinged, He yearned for that entm's
life anti, in his dreams, he killed him;
that is all. I have tola you this first,
and now will deal with my visit to
Paris. This was the clew I started upona
this entry in the diaryt
" 'Nov, e6, 1871.—Hat father Wee
discovered shot dead. in Paris this morn-
ing. 1 dare not tell her. Who 'will be
the next? What is this nameless gang?
What is their purpese? I dare not stop
here.'
"To the Was Obvious that that was
the filet step in the solution of the nye-
tery ancl an easy ono. The records of
• the Preach police tit me in possession
of. tha whole of the. fleets connecte4
tired of their joke. The girl left Paris, lease
so did your father, and the whole affair woul
real
only became a good after dinnor story xn
—how the fooled the Englishman."
"Ent the tracking through Watts
of Astray, and. then together they
d search until they brought the
culprit to justice.
the midst of these reflections, dta
and anxious as to whet h
e uIti'
result would be, Darrent was in,
'ted. as he sat by the fire in his
'own at the Palace hotel at Noy
e by a rapping at the door.
ome in!" he cried, and Policeman
pson entered.
ell, Thomp74on," he exclaimed
ly, for he had taken a fancy to
ming policeman, "what can I do
n?"
nipson was evidently ill at ease.
ftel awkwardly from ono foot
her and twirled his helmet terve
between his fingers.
down, Thompson. Make your.
home."
ank you, sir."
Now, then, come. What is it 2"
uppose you're going back to Ch1.
r good, sir, now ?"
, seel You desire promotiote
ant me to say a word to your
2 P1I be delighted."
it's not that. It:s about the
1 We% what is it?"
you feel" --a And Themeison
ed. again.
1 feel what, mat? Go oh, go en."
1, do you feel you've got the
an?"
ray Marsden is e Ie
you've got to say?"
sir. I'm not blaming you for
take, because you've only pet
d that together, but there has
Mistake."
ey "our father's iniagination only, It
mate
term
y I never existed. This is the creel point, own 1
at: the pitiless part of that practical joke.
is Can't yon imagine the feelings cf a ac
comb
d ; man who thought he was being shad- Thom
d owed through Europe; that tho' day1
utast inevitably come whoa a sharp
i thrust would end bis life? In every ? the y
heart
t shadow he saw an assassin, in every ° for yo
y that evening's sun set; that he had en- i
- face a spy. The fear was always in his , Tho
mind that perhaps he would not see He ehl
tered upon his last day. Kept from the i ones"
the ot
woman he loved for fear of carrying «sit
danger to her, always on the alert, al- 1 self at
ways suspieions, always with the fear ; • 4,Th
of death hanging over hirn, to a sensi- !
aye man therecould be only one end- '
•
g. 0 Iost his mum lost it hopeless- 1 oagn fo
s
death."
"Of her death 2" 1 eh? W
1 mayor
"Yes, her death. She died suddenly ,,No
arid lies buried in a country churchyard trial, a
in a small alichie,an village, the church-
yard of the village where he hid her i i To
from the fear of their enemies. " l
I hesitat
diary?"
"But the abduction told in the i a To
i 4,w -a
"That account was written after her right m
her away- himself. Haunted b the •
ly on the day he heard of your mother's
"Oh
death. She was not abducted. He sent 1 "Ast
dread of assassination, they lived apart i exo,
that all
atter his visit to Paris, he going to the ) any nob
Michigan village oeee or twice in six : this an
%lentils for a day. I sheard this part of wan a
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