Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1919 — Murderer’s Oversight. [ARTICLE]

Murderer’s Oversight.

Perhaps the smallest creature that ever unrolled the curtain from before aitf* unsuspected murder was that which convicted the murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Newtown in 1898. A stationmaster sold a ticket at a small sta? tion and received a silver coin dated 1826, rather oddly marked. He put the coin In his pocket and placed another in the till, and that afternoon showed it to some of his friends. A man recognized it Immediately as one that Newtown had kept for some time as a pocketpiece and lucky coin, and this was the first hint gained by the detectives as to where they should look for tire murderer, who was subsequently apprehended and convicted. It was a minute trifle, this handing over a coin, but it brought the murderer to the just punishment which his crime deserved. Had he chanced on any other piece of money in his pocket—and it was afterwards known that he had a pocketful of money—he would in all probability haffe remained undiscovered. —London Mail.