The Herald, 1901-02-15, Page 51
Interesting Items
The weather during the month of
January was iii 1.11tu1y x espocts very
remarkable, Acoording to the
report issued b,, the Weather
Bureau, the mean temperature was
23,5 degrees, being a trifle aver one
degree higher than the average of
Januar•y for the past 60 years, 'and
2.7 degrees lower than. January,.
1900, The highest temperature 45.2
degrees,. occurred on the 9th, -and
the lowest, 11,3 below zero, on -the
19th,
On some of the days of the month
the record of the thermometer
varied with great rapidity. Be-
tween the•seeond and third of the
•-month there was a fall of 23 degrees
aTicl on the following day a rise of
30 degrees, varied on the 5th 'again
'by a fall of 27, and on the Oth by a
rise of 30 degrees. Most noticeable
Of all the variations' was the cold
snap, which began on the 16th, the
. thermometer going down no less
than 88 degrees in three days, 20:' -
lowed by a startling rise of fp
degrees in the course of a few
hours.
The number of hours of direct
sunshine hi the month was 71,6 out
of a possible 285.7. being two per
cont. below the average. Rain fell
on five days, and snow on 13 days,
-the total snowfall being 16.9 inches.
'The average wind velocity- was 10,5
:miles an hour, but between 5 and 6
zl,. m. on the 10th it rose to 36 miles
- an hour.
Aluminum as paper.- Experi-
limits with aliuninum as a sub-
stitute for paper are now under
-way in France. It is well known
that paper used to -day in the2nanu-
facture of books is not durable. It
is now possible to roll aluminum
into sheets four -thousandths of tin
inch in thickness, in which form it
-weighs much less than paper. By
the adoption of suitable machinery
these sheets can be made even n thin- + nth ' h ems; ' e ie.
ner and caii be used for book and i
writing paper. The metal will not • eSS
oxidize,is practically- fire and water t 9
', to indestructible �ruc a o by the And
,� ,�-•t, ,+ g, 1101::
7tat4'S of ivOTn15 • �.,.
Some idea of the magnitude t)1
the requirements of an army such
as the British now have in the field
in South Afiica is afforded by the
details given of the stores and
animals sent out up to a short time i-
before the occupation of Pretoria,
These included 170,000,000 small And
arni cartridges of various calibres,
1:5,000 horses and mules gathered
from al • .• + - "' +
pairs of boots, 420,000 blanket,:
and tents, sets of camp equipage ,a
hairless and other articles in :unci- He also 'e►? s his Job
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Everybody reads
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'Tine late Philip Armour gets
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1.5 11 E n A Detective Story
L O 0 0$ a Chicago Suburb. The
fiturder at The -range and flovi
1--,\' `'r 4 its Mystery Was Solved by •
UU Barretts tale timer -
Licari Lecocg.
BY NORMAN H U RST.
Copyeight, 1890, by the American Press Association.
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"Weil, if that's the case, we'll get
him out just as easily as we put him
in. Now, then, my boy," Darrent con-
tinued, rising and clapping his visitor
on the shoulder, "you didn't come to
see mo just to tell me that. What more
do you know?"
"Well, sir, of course I'm not a de-
tective like you are, but I've read a lot
of detective tales. I'm very partial to
them, and---er"---
"Well?"
"I've always found in them that de-
tectives tool: such a lot of notice of
footmarks, and-er--we11, you didn 't. "
"Tho footprints were obliterated,
trampled out by a lot of jays who had
nothing better to do than stare through
Darrent snatched the raper and excitedly
examined it,
the windows and fancy they could see
stationery and submitted it to the
same scrutiny, but without result.
The police station boasted only about
half a quire of the commonest paper,
too common even to show the faintest
watermark, Every drawer, cupboard
and box Darrent erainined minutely,
but discovered nothing to reward his
painstaking search. Then the floor, a
loose board -ab 1 He gasped with ex-
citement as he inserted the blade of his
knife, and up it carne. Nothing there?
Yes: a small parcel! In an instant it
was in his hands and untied -only a
book! Ah, but what a boort-a bank-
book of a Chicago bank, and a glance
at the figures showed that Edward Dob-
son had accumulated the respectable
little balance of $0, 150 woks was
standing to his credit! Darrent slipped
the book into his pocket, replaced the
board and strolled back to the Palace
hotel.
"He mast be a wonderfully clever
policeman who saves over iai.000 with-
out getting into some dishonesty," he
murmured to himself as ho Mounted the
stairs and ()penal the door of his room.
"Well, we s11a11 see."
Chief Dobson, a very plain and
washed out specimen compared with
the highly colored one Darrt'nt encoun-
tered on his first visit to Norcombe, was
sitting in a dejected attitude, with his
elbows on his knees and his chin rest-
ing on his hands, and slowly raised his
head as Darrent entered.
"Good evening," he said in a sub-
dued voice, so subdued that Darrent 1
almost pitied him.
"Good evening. No; don't rise. Hold t
up your foot, the left -thanks," In an
natant ho had caught the foot, glanced
ghosts, long before I got to The at the solo of the boot and let it go
Grange.'" again, while Dobson went pale to the
"Well, sir, I saw them when they vefy lips.
were fresh." that will do. Consider yourself nn -
"`I took this cu
"Yes? What were they like?" der arrest for the murder of Josiah i
Marsden, and I warn you"-
P3',' Thompson said, "My God, sir, Mr. Darrent. von
""It's thea exact size.)" v
pulling xof paperfroul bispocltet' don't mean itl I'in innocent! I'm in-
ac
Darrent snatched the paper and ex- nocentl"
citediyexnmined it. Toe tics, heel tips, ' "That you'll have an opportunity of
hobnails. "Confound it, a farmer!" 1 proving to a jury."
And there rang through Darrent's "I swear I am. I would not herder
brain as plainly as if the than were a man- I haven t the cotuaee."
standing beside him speaking the
words, "And the strodinary part of it.
"You were the one who walked up to
The Grange and left by the back z-
was that I got up in the morning and to the river. Don't Bel"
w0 of them =cows was froze," "I won't,. sir; I won't. I crier that,
`"Why have you kept this to yourself j but I did not murder hint. On my soul
all this time?" Darrent sharply asked, I didn't, Mr. Darrent.>> o
turning an the man. 1 Then who did?"
"Well, yon were so mighty sure. I "Astray Marsden!" ; p
"What .lid he say?"
"fie said, `ll cep off, or I'i qrain
you,'
"Well?"
"1 said, 'It's Dobson,and he said:
' Ob 1 1 vs'as just corning for you. There's
been murder done here.' Then he took
nae in and showed rocs the old man lying
dead on tlielioor, He said that he camethere to get some more money out of
Marsden, and as lie carne . tip to the
front door a man .rusbod out, nearly
knocking hire over, and took to his
heels. I said: 'Then it's young Mars-
den. He's back,' 'Well,' he answered,
'we don't want to be in this, and we'll
clear out, but not the front' way, in
case we run against any ono and get
suspected. Colne on. I know how to
escape.' And then he took me through •
the conservatory at the back of The
Grange, out down a flight of steps and
along a tunnel to the river. "
"Well?"
"Next morning I had a fearful feel-
ing that Gosnell had done the murder
himself, and I went over to his cottage
about 7 and told him so."
"What did he say?"
"He laughed and said I was mad and,
then took a paper from his pocket, the
paper I gave you, Mr. Darrent, and
said, `I found this hi old Marsden's
hand when I went into the library.'
"That was the paper that accused
4strav R't
"Yes, sir."
! "Well, go on."
"Well, he gave me the paper and ad-
vised me to say nothing about it to the
authorities, but to keep it quiet, as it
would be worth thousands to bleed
Astray with. So • later on, when the
woman Gadsden fetched me. I pre-
tended to take the paper out of old
Marsden's hand."
"You're a nice blackguard, Dobson."
"Yes, Mr. Darrent, bat 1 did not
commit the murder."
"Now, then, come on," cried Dar -
rent. "Let's see if we can find Mr.
Silas Gosnell."
He began to realize that lie had been
too wedded to one set of incidents alone.
had ignored all other clews, and while
he had been forging the chains around
an innocent man the guilty wretch had
had time to put thousands of miles be-
tween himself and justice.
"Where does Gosnell live?"
"At a little house opposite The
Grange, on the other side of the river-"
"Come on. Look sharp,
Together they started off and, after
looking in at the police station for a
chisel, made straight for the abcde of
Silas Gosnell. There was no answer to
their repeated knockings.
"Gone, curse him 1" Darrent mut-
tered, "Now, then, Dobson, put your
shoulder to it. Go on. Now, together-
ahl"
With a splitting, splintering crash
the frail door gave way beneath their
united efforts, and they stumbled into
the cottage.
Darrent, much to the amazement of
Dobson, turned on his electric Iamp and
made for an old writing desk in the
orner. There was no need for force.
Every drawer had been left open, and a
ile of burned paper in the grate showed
hat Mr. Silas Gosnell had had a good
clear out and had destroyed everything
o did not require before he shook the
ust of Norcombe from his feet.
A sheet or two of plain note paper
y in one of the drawers, a sheet or
two with the watermark of a five star
iamond, and Darrent placed thein care-
ily in his pocketbook.
"I think this is for you, sir," Dobson
claimed, handing Darrent a note he
ad picked up from the table, and Dar -
feared you would have thought it im-
pertinence for me to have tried to show
you anything, " the other retorted. with
some amount of irritation.
Darrent bit his lips, thoroughly an-
noyed. He remeinbered how he had
taken a carious delight in mystifying
and surprising this novice, and he had .
been caught in his own trap.
"Thompson," he said aaftera moment
or two, "you're quite right. I was an
idiot, but we aro together on the ri :ht
side now, and I'in going to save.' Bray -
Mareden."
"That being so. sir, I'm snrry"•
"Nothing to be :'arry about. my 11,43-, but yon should not have giv,we 1 to •
temper. It might have been lea for
Astray. Never grind. Leave me new,
and well soon have hint oat of jail maid
put the right Alan there in: ttaad,"
""Snppo,,s it war that thick h t., -d
fellow who lost OW cot; ti •I" i a:Wilt
annsecl as Ids visitor departed. ""t;`>•!1,
stranger tlieai i have Iu ppencd. Come
in, come in. What is it e"
"A latter kr you. just come, sir."
Thaniti, Hum! Chid',;;o postmark."
Tho content., of the .iota etatrsed Lila •
to start to his feet in surprise.
""Astra isso nethingtoward'Astra.
and so it is toward 'a stranger,' " h
read. and that was all.
'Caren some one else had canght on to
the same idea as himself, sono one who
was afraid to sign his name, some op
perhaps ---lie gasped es the idea .,true
hint--whta did Biot mind killing an of
man, but had enough conscience lef
not to let a young man suffer for the
cringe. A clew at last to the actual
naurderer1
Turning again to the penciled copy
of the footprint. Darrent ,gazed at it
carefully. Three of the hobnails were
missing from the solo just behind the
toe piece. Ile shook his head. No; it
was not a farmer's boot, after all, but
a strong, well made- He jumped up
and pulled the bell.
"Send a, messenger to the police sta-
tion for Chief Dobson at once!" he
ericd as his ring was answered.
Ho looked at his watch -5 minutes
to '7. Dobson would be there in telt
minutes. In eight minutes Darrent
walked down stairs. "Tell Dobson to
wait," he said and then stepped ori
tied stood in the shadow of a tree nntil
the chief had arrived and entered the
Palace hotel, and then ho strode rapid-
ly down to the police station. He push-
ed. open the door. The room eras empty.
A pair of Chief Dobson's boots stood in
a corner by the firpelaco. In an, instant
he had thein in his hands. No nails
were missing,but
they were exactly the
size and shape.of the drawing on the
paper. So far so good. But Darrent was
not yet satisfied. Ile took out the note
that he lead received by mail that even-
ing andlyelse it to the light of the raring.
fitar diamond, he mtlttoretl,
and then, searching about, he discov-
ered Chief Dobsoru's limited stook of
"Dahl That's all over. Don't try to
l shield yourself that way."
"But the paper"`
"You wrote it, you liar!"
'"No, no1 I swear I tlidn'tl I'll tell
the truth -the whole truth, air. I'm
everything, that's crooked, but I ain't a
murderer 1"
Darrent made the wildcat random
shot lit" ever ventured upon in his life.
"Josiah Maredcn never wrote that pa-
per," he sai;i,
"`Then Pa did. and lie murdered
hila!"
"Who?" almost shouted Darrent.
"`511a z Goent'Yl. "
'"What d", ease glean?"
""I'11 tell you all, sirs I'll tell the
truth. I swear I will; I swt'ar I will."
"You'd letter rug ,ahr'ad, then.,,
""Well, al:t>tlt a year and a half ago
oltl Mar,:den calve to my house one
night to see Inc. Ere need to incl in now `
and at,nin ,sir. jrlst to talk, IL, 1i1.t'd
me to tall him etc>rics about the police."
"Well, go on. T , )
" he tour ala, that he'd mar -
"Sai
d
gran.''
`"Said he'd hem over to Paris, lured
t
h
d
la
.d
fu
ex•
, him to a quiet place and stabbed Liu!
to the heart. "
•
e _ ""I see. Wen ?"
""I didn't know et'hat to do, so
asked Mr. (xasnell. "
"Well, I let it slip in talking to hum
d ; one day."
t "What an awful fool you are, bob
stln t"
"Yes. sir," he replied, moistening
his parched lips; "I believe I aam, ""
Drina: this, ejaculated Darrent,
scarcely able to conceal his disgust at
the pitiful state of the man, as he hand-
ed him a glass of brandy and water.
"Now, then, go on. "
"Gosnell said we'd struck it rich,
and ho fawncied it would pan out a
bonanza."
"Right. That sounds like GosneIl."
"He told neo t
.o leave it to him. and
he'd make money, and we'd divide it,
and we've boon dividing it ever since.
He used to go up to The Grange and
threaten to give the old inan up to arts-
tice and talk about hanging until Mars-
den pearly died of fright, and then he'd
say how much he wanted to keep quiet, !
I've had $6,000 as lay share."
""Six thousand cue hundred and fifty
dollars. Dobson 1"
"No, sir, I saved the $150 tnysttlf,"
Dobson mournfully answered, and Dar-',
rent almost bnrst into laughter at the
sudden transition from the sublime to
the ridictglous.
"`ti e!!, g o on. Get to the right of
•the murder. "
"On the night of the murder I was
on my round, and es I passed The
Orange about 1 I saw some one stand-
ing lit the window. I could tell it was
not Marsden, and I walled gap to the
.1
""1-t;,Ink this is for volt, sur,"bobsott ex+,
clatiiud, handing Darrnt ca note.
rent as he read the superscription felt a
` ` horrible desire to kick some one, or, for
the matter of that, even himself; fail-
ing, a better target.
""To the smart (*detective in charge
of the Norcolnbe teenier case."
With. a cnrco he tore open the envel-
ope and perused the contents, written
• itl the same sprawling hand as his note
of the afternoon:
To the American Leech:
Rt lay, sir, I fancy you've had a nice long
1 sharp. Wake up and own yourself a fool. 1,
SilasSilas Gnsnclt, kiilcd -hot murdered, but kihed-
h Jhusden.
lie haul been kind enough to ray me an an-
nuity, and 1 went, as usual. to collect 1 allow -
:time on the night of the unutlet. o
'Me old man was madder than ever, talked
about blackmail and all that sort -of thing, work,
ed Limon. up into the fury of a maniac and sud,
dcn}v trent bang for me with the poker, Z reeled
baok, and my hand touched a knife. 1 wish it
ha,h,'t, but it did. 11 fuss his life or mine. 1
preferred his. As to that paper, you've all been
I tricked, 1 wrote it -wrote it because that soft
brained ass of a policeman, that old fool Dobson,
smelled a rat. 1 thought the best thing was to
tare him a chance etrtlatrtdto
krop hian quiet. Tofile idiotbleding gaveAsti,oay whole sehllotr
away.
Z thought When 1 wrote it If anything trent
wrong it might be pleaded that the old man was
going to write ")a stranger," but 1 did not think
such a brilliant young detective as yoursetf would
take op the case and effectually condemn an in,
went man.
Things are too hot for 1ne. 1'a i oft.
s:dl>y.
1 amoo, my dear ],toot, ever indebted to yeti i"b't
your blind stupidity and to sign myself, alwayro
gratefully yours. Stu as cosyst r.
Darrent
door, and as I reached there Gosnell rage. He hard been fooled from start to
ground his teeth together in
opened ft " [ 'o be continuodl