Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 1 January 1894 — Page 2

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MONDAY. AX.. 1, 1894.

WISDOM liY EXPKK1EXCK. There is some comfort in knowing tluit people who cannot learu wisdom in any other way can .Ic-urn it from experience. There were thousands who could not IH1 made to believe that the election of a free trade President and a free trade Congress, on a platform which denounced protection as unconstitutional. would fill the country with want, poverty aud sorrow, but these unbelievers now see their error. They see that just what Republican statesmen predicted is coming to puss, aud they are rushing to Washington in sqjiuds to urge Congress not to carry out the Democratic platform.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, which has long been a free trad*- organ, now pleads with Congress to stay its hand and let the tariff alone. It now urges that the tariff must be reduced by piei'e-nieals. that to go from protection to free trade in a single session of Congress will be ruinous to al! the industries of the country. But, if a thousand men are to be killed, how much of the horror will be prevented by killing one at a time, with an interval between killings? If our industries are to be destroyed shall we gain anything by killing them off one at a time instead of killing them all at once? The suddenness with which the Enquirer has changed its tune shows there is a nigger in the woodpile not far from Cincinnati. Mr. Engalls. president of the 1!ig Four system of railroads, is becoming alarmed about free coal, lie is very near to the Enquirer. l'ree coal, as provided for in the new tariff bill, it is well known, would ruin the coal interest of the whole Kanhawa

Valley and leave the Big Four branches of that system which traverse the coal fields of West Virginia, and carry hundreds of thousands of tons of coal to the eastern sea-board, practically with"out freight. Free coat from Nova .Scotia means death to the entire coal interest of West Virginia. Hence we find Mr. Engalls. the Cincinnati Enquirer. and even the free trade Gov ernor of West Virginia protesting against the passage of the Wilson bill.

But why could not these astute gentlemen have foreseen all this before they adopted a free trade platform at Chicago and elected a free trade Congress? Thousands who had neither coal mines nor coal roads, and had no selfish interests to sharpen their wits, clearly foresaw these calamities and warned the voters of the country against, free trade. But warnings amounted to nothing. Blinded by party prejudice these mine owners' and railroaders rushed to their ruin. Anil now they are appealing to Republican members of Congress to save them from the effects of their own folly. If a vote could be taken throughout the country to-day on the Wilson bill it would be knocked so far into th depths of space that no attractio could bring it back to the earth.

OlTH ROADS.

Montgomery count}* has as good a system of improved roads as any other county in the State, and still it is a lucre makeshift system, expensive anil poorly adopted to the real needs of the people. There is one fact that the world seems slow to "catch on to. and that is that money spent to make good loads and keep them in first-class repair, is not wasted, but judiciously invested where it will yield the very very largest income. Could we estimate the damage dyne each year to buggies, carriages, harness and horses, by traveling on roads full of "chuckholes. ruts, stones, etc., we would be appalled at the amount of tax imposed on us by bad roads. The man who grumbles most at a tax of five or ten dollars year for road purposes, usually pays four times that amount for repairs on his vehicles anil harness,

Would it not be better to spend on the road, one-half the amount now paid for«uch repairs and save the other half? Take a road thai is smooth and level, with a solid surface, and a buggy or carriage will last on it twice as long as on such as we have. Would it not be altogether preferable to spend more money on the roads and less for vehi:les and harness? liesides being a cheaper plan, 'it would add very much to the pleasure of our travel.

TJIH Indianapolis Kcwn thinks it is an outrageous state of affairs that enables the owner of an iron mine to make per ton 011 iron ore while the miner only gets 4 cents per ton for mining it. Would the Xeivx have the miner who has not a cent invested in the enterprise get the same income per day as the one who has perhaps .a million dollars invested?

I'KKSIDKM M. E. I.VOALI.fi. of the ]5ig Four Railroad Company, is one of the most prominent Democrats in Cincinnati but when he was asked the other day when he anticipated the re vivnl of business, he answered:

When these foolish Democrats throw the tariff bills under the table, or modify them to such an extent that our industries can safely resume operations. This is no season of the year to Coddle with the tariffs.

A STUDY IN SCARLET

Bj A. CONAU DOYLE.

CH&PTEU VI, CONTISI:RI!

'He still carried the heavy stick which tho mother described him as having with him when he followed Drebber. It was a stout oak cudgel." "What is your theory, then?" '"Well, my theory is that he followed Prcbber as far as the Brixton road. When there, a fresh altercation arose between them, in the course of which Drebber received a blow from the stick, in the pit of the stomach, perhaps, which killed him without leaving any mark. The night was so wet that no one was about, so Charpentier dragged tho body of his victim into the empty house. As to tho candle, and the blood, and the writing on the wall, and the ring, they may all bo so many tricks to throw the poliee on to the wrong scent."

Well done!" said Holmes, in an encouraging voice. "Really, Gregson, you are getting along. We shall make something of you yet." 'I 11atter myself that 1 have managed it rather neatly," tho detective answered proudly. "The young man volunteered statement, in which ho said that after following Drebber somo time, the latter perceived him, and took a cab in order to get away from him. On his way home lie r-.et an old shipmate, and took a long wall: with him. On being asked where this old shipmate lived, he was unable to give any satisfactory reply. I think tho whole case fits together uncommonly well. What amuses tne is to think of Lestrade, whe had started off upon the wrong scent. I am afraid he won't make much of it. Why, by Jove, here's the very man himself!"

It was indeed Lestrade. who had ascended the stairs while we were talking, and who now entered the room. The assurance and jauntiness which generally marked his demeanor and dress were, however, wanting. His face was disturbed and troubled, while his clothes wero disarranged and untidy. no had evidently come with the intention of consulting with Blierlock Holmes, for on perceiving his colleague he appeared to be embarrassed and put out. lie stood in the centcr of the room, fumbling nervously with his hat, and uncertain what to do. "This is a most extraordinary case," ho said at last—"a most incomprehensible affair." "Ah, you find it so, Mr. Lestrade!" cried Gregson, triumphantly. "I thought you would come to that conclusion. Have you managed to find the secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson?" "The secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson," said Lestrade, gravely, "was murdered at Ilalliday's private hotel about six o'clock this morning."

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The intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected, that we wero all three fairly dumfounded. Gregson sprang out of his chair and upset the remainder of his whisky and water. I stared in silence at Sherlock Holmes, whoso lips were compressed and his brows drawn down over his eyes. "Stangerson, too!" he mutterod. "The plot thickens." "It was quite thick enough before," g-. umbled Lestrade, taking a chair. "I twem to have dropped into a sort of council of war." 'Are you—are you sure of this piece of intelligence?" stammered Gregson. "I have just come from his room," said Lestrade. "I was the first to discover what had occurred." "We have been hearing Gregson's view of the matter," Holmes observed. "Would you mind letting us know what you have seen and done?" "I have no objection," Lestrade answered, seating himself. "I freely confess that I was of tho opinion that Stangerson was concerned in the death of Drebber. This fresh development has shown me that I was completely il f'

BESIDE TIIE WINDOW LAT THE BODY OF A MAS.

mistaken. Full of the one Idea, I set myself to find out what had become of the secretary. They had been seen together at Euston station about halfpatit eight on the evening of the third At two in the morning Drebber had been found in the Brixton road. The question which confronted me was to find out how Stangerson had been employed between half-past eight and the time of the crime, and what had become of him afterward. I telegraphed to Liverpool giving a description of tho man, and warning them to keep a watch upon the Amorican boats. I then set to work calling upon all the hotel and lodging houses in tho vicinity of Euston. You see, I argued that if Drebber and his companion had become separated, the natural course for tho latter would be to put up somewhere in the vicinity for the night and then to hang about the station again next morning." "They would be likely to agree on some meeting place beforehand," remarked Holmes. '80 it proved. I spent the whole of yesterday evening in making inquiries entirely without avail. This morning 1 began very early, and at eight o'clock I reached Halliday's private hotel, in

Little George street. On my inquiry as to whether a Mr. Stangerson was living there, they at once answered mo in the affirmative. 'Xo doubt you are the gentleman he was expecting,' they said. 'He has been waiting for a gentleman for two days.' 'Where is he now?' I asked. 'He is upstairs in bed. Me wished to be called at nine.' "It seemed to me that ray sudden appearance might shake his nerves and lead him to say something unguarded. The Boots volunteered to show me the room it was on the second floor, and there was a small corridor leading up tojt. The Boots pointed out the door

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to me, and was about to go downstairs again, when I saw something that made mo feel sickish, in spite of my twenty years' experience. From under tho door there curled a little red ribbon of blood, which had meandered across the passage and formed a little pool along the skirting at tho other side. 1 gave a cry, which brought the Boots back. He nearly fainted when he saw it. Tho door waa locked 011 the inside, but we put our shoulders to it, and knocked it in. Tho window of tho room was open, and beside tho window, all huddled up, lay the body of a man in his night-dress. Ho was quite dead, and had been for. some time, for his limbs were rigid and cold. When we turned him over the Boots recognized him at once as being the same gentleman who had engaged the room under the name of Joseph Stangerson. The cause of death was a deep stab in the left side, which must have penetrated the heart. And now comes the strangest part of the affair. What do you suppose was above the murdered man?" 1 felt a creeping of llesh. and a presentiment of coming horror, even before Sherlock Holmes answered.*

The word 'raohe,' written in letters of blood," he said. 'That was it," said Lestrade, in an awe-struek voice and we were all silent for awhile.

There was-somothing so methodical and so incomprehensible about the deeds of this unknown assassin, that it imparted a fresh ghastliness to his crimes. My nerves, which were steady enough on the field of battle, tingled as I thought of it. "The man was seen," continued Lestrado. "A milk-boy, passing on his way to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the mews at the back of the hotel. He noticed that a ladder, which usually lay there, was raised against one of the windows of tho second floor, which was wide open. After passing, he looked back and saw a man descend the ladder. He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel. He took no particular notice of him, beyond thinking in his mind that it was early for him to be at work. He has an impression that the man was tall, had a reddish face, and was dressed in a long, brownish coat. Ho must have stayed in the room some little time after the murder, for we found blood-stained water in thfe basin, where he had washed his hands, and marks on the sheet where he had deliberately wiped his knife."

I glanced at Holmes on hearing the description of the murderer, which tallied so exactly with his own. There was, however, no trace of exultation or satisfaction upon his face. "Did you find nothing in the room which could furnish a clew to the murderer?" he asked. "Nothing. Stangerson had Drebber's purse in his pocket, but it seems that this was usual, as he did all tho paying. There was eighty-odd pounds in it, but nothing had been taken. Whatever the motives of these extraordinary* crimes, robbery is certainly not one of them. There were no papers or memoranda in tho murdered man's pocket, except a single telegram, dated from Cleveland about a month ago, and containing the ords: 'J. II. is in Europe.' There was no name appended to this message." "And there was nothing else?"

Ilolmes asked. "Nothing of any importance. The man's novel, with which he had read himself to sleep, was lying upon the bed, and his pipe was on a chair beside him. There was a glass of water on the table, and on the window-hill a small chip ointment-box containing a couple of pills."

Sherlock Holmes sprang from his chair with an exclamation of delight. "The last link," he cried, exultantly. "My case is complete."

The two detectives stared at him in amazement. "I have now in my hands," my companion said, confidently, "all the threads which have formed such a tangle. There are, of course, details to be filled in, but I am as certain of all the main facts, from the time that Drebber parted from Stangerson at the station up to the discovery of the body of the latter, as if I had seen them with my own eyes. I will give you a proof of my knowledge. Could you lay your hand upon those pills?" "I have them," said Lestrade, producing a small white box. "I took them and the purse and the telegram, intending to have them put in a place of safety at the police Gtation. It was tho merest chance, my taking these pills, for I am bound to say that 1 do not attach any importance to them." "Give them here," said Holmes. "Now, doctor," turning to me, "are those ordinary pills?"

They certainly were not. They were of a pearly gray color, small, round aud almost transparent against the light. "From their lightness and transparency I should imagine that they arc soluble in water," I remarked. "Precisely so," answered Holmes. "Now, would yoti mind going down and fetching that poor little devil of a terrier which has been bad so long, and which the landlady wanted you to put out of its pain yesterday?"

I went downstairs and carried the dog upstairs in my arms. Its labored breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end. Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence. I placed it uion a cushion on tho rug. "I will now cut one of these pills in two," said Holmes, and drawing his penlcnifo lie suited the action to the word. "One-half we return into the box for future purposes. Tho other half I will place in this wine glass, in which is a teaspoonful of water, pcrceive that our friend, the

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"This may bo very Interesting," said Lestrade, in the injured tone of one who suspects that I10 is being laughed at. "I cannot see, however, what it has to do with the death of Mr. Joseph Stangerson." "Patience, my friend, patience! Yott will find in time that it has everything to do with it. I shall now add a little milk to make tho mixture pulatable, and on presenting it to the dog we find he laps it up readily enough."

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