Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Page 5

THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY

BY RODRIGUES OTTOLENGUI,

Author of “An Artist In Crime,” “A Conflict of Evidence,” “A Modern Wizard,” “Final Proof,” Etc. Copyright, 1896, by Q, p. Putnam > Sons. AU rights reserved.

r - [CONTINUED.] The two meii bowed, and Mr. Mitchel handed a chair, which Mora took. “Mr. Mora,” continued Mr. Barnes, “you may wonder why I have asked you to call here. I will therefore clear up that point at once. Since your release from the hands of the police I understand that yoU have offered SIO,OOO reward for the arrest and conviction of the man who murdered your father. Am I right?” “Quite correct.” “In that case I mean to earn the reward.” “I shall be as pleased to pay it to you as to any other man.” “Ah, no doubt! But would you be pleased at all at the arrest and conviction of the criminal—the real criminal, I mean?” Mr. Barnes spoke slowly, with significant emphasis upon some of his words, and both he and Mr. Mitohel observed the young man closely, but detected no sign of uneasiness. Ills reply was terse and pertinent. “I should. It is the only absolute proof of my own innocence which will be convincing to the world.” “Always supposing, of course, that you are Innocent,” said Mr. Barnes mercilessly. “My innocence Is not a supposition. It is a fact,” retorted Mora quickly, but without any show of temper. Mr. Mitchel was delighted with him, though his perfect defense against the attack of the detective was only what he had been led to expect from what he had heard of him. “So you have insisted,” resumed Mr. Barnes. “Your innocence, then, being a fact, as you call it, you have no fear of any Investigation that I may make?” “I have no fear of any truths that you might unearth. I am only afraid of your blunders.”

“Well, then, in order to avoid my blundering, would you be willing to reply to a few questions Which, if truthfully answered, might prevent my slipping into error?” “If you can convince me of your good faith, I would.” “And what do you ineap by my good faith?” ' „ “I will tell you frankly. If you are trying honestly to unravel the mystery of my father’s death, I will assist you to the extent of my ability. If, however, you are merely piecing together evidence upon which you hope to prove my own guilt, why, I am not such an ass as to help you.” , “No, of course not. Well, then, Mr. Morton, I can assure you of my good faith. lam honestly, trying to find the real tnurderer. Will you answer my questions?” . * • Mr. Barnes called him Mr. Morton to note the effect of his words, and he wsts satisfied, for, though the detective did not act as though aware of having used a wrong name, but con-

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tinuea so that one might readily nave thought it a chance slip of the tongue, Mora started perceptibly, bit liis lip and strained every muscle in his body in liis effort to preserve his self control. All of this Mr. Baines saw, and he considered that his maneuver had succeeded. Mr. Mitchel, closely observing both men, also comprehended the intent of the detective.us well as its effect, but he decided that Mr. Barnes had made a grave error. It seemed more than probable that Morton was an alias of the man before them, and so much had been proved by taking him by surprise. But at the same time he was now on his guard and could better prepare liis defense, especially as Mr. Barnes could not play his trump cards at once. The situation, therefore, to Mr. Mitchel was increasing in interest. “1 will answer whatever you choose to ask,” presently came Mora’s,reply. “You have suggested, Mr. Mora, that the murderer of your father took your plaid suit of clothes and wore them over his own when leaving the house. Do you still adhere to that theory?” “I never said that I believed it,” was the answer. “You did not claim to believe it!” exclaimed the detective, thoroughly astonished. "No,” said Mora coolly. “Let me explain. 1 think' it was you wlro advanced a theory that because a man in a plaid suit was seen at our house it stood proved that .1 was there. To parry your attack r suggested a theory equally tellable, which agreed with my claim of innocence as well as your theory sustained your charge of guilt. But you cannot find it in the records that I said that I believed my own proposition. It was the first that occurred to me, and I utilized it. -1 could think of others equally good, perhaps better, for that one had a flaw in it which I was surprised to see passed unnoticed.” .

“Perhaps you would not mind telling me the flaw in your own proposition,” said Mr.- Barnes, with a slight sneer. “With pleasure,” answered Mora, ignoring the tone of sarcasm. “It is very evident. -If the watchman was to be relied on when ho said that lie saw the plaid suit come out of the house, he must have been equally right in saying that lie saw it go in. See?” He laughed in a tantalizing manner, and Mr. Barnes was annoyed. Mr. Mitchel was startled a little to hear Mora using the identical argument advanced by Preacher .Tim. l r ot Mr. Barnes thought the latteif insane, wlule hero was an important point, overlooked by himself, though clear to two others.

‘'You said that you could advance other theories agreeing with your plea of innocence, -yet explaining the fact about the suit of clothes,” said Mr. Barnes, determined to press this matter. “I would like to hear one—one without a flaw this time.” ‘‘Nothing easier. Let us suppose that the murderer stole the suit before committing his crime, instead of afterward, and there you are. The watchman’s sto#y is true, and yet I am not in it, to use a slang phrase—not in the suit, I mean. What do you say to that?” “I asked yon for a theory without a flaw,” replied Mr. Barnes, “And where is the flaw in this?” “If your clothing had been stolen, you would have complained of the loss,” said the .detective. “Not if the theft occurred on the night of the murder and was therefore unknown to me at the time.” “Not good enoughs, Mr. Mora, No one entered that house that night but yourself and the murderer, if indeed there were two. No thief went in earlier in the evening and came out again, as he must have done to bo seen going in wearing your suit.” “You are very shrewd, Mr. Detective, but you are not omniscient. You argue from the premise that the suit was in the house, whereas, as a matter of fact, it was not.” “Where, then, was it?” “At some rooms I have down in Es-' sex street.” The audacity of this reply made Mr. Barnes start to his feet, while Mr. Mitchel, admiring llie craftiness of the move, listened with redoubled interest. “Then you admit that you have another home!” ejaculated the detective, “Why not, since you know it?” was the cool rejoinder.

“Ah, then you also confess that you call yourself Morton there and that you have a wife, who”— “Not so fast, Mr. Barnes. I am not confessing any such nonsense. I had a room there because I found it convenient in my slumming trips to sioep down town occasionally; also to have a place where I could change my clothing to less expensive apparel than I usually wear. I also think it safe enough to say that there is a Mrs. .Morton in the sayie house. I will go further and tell you that I know the lady very well and that it was she who recommended the room to me. When I engaged the place, I gave the name Morton, desiring, first, to hide my own identity, and, secondly, to account for my friendliness with the young woman. But no one in that house will tell you that I posed as t*he woman’s husband. They believed me to be her brother-in-law. Her husband is away somewhere.”. ...

“Then there Is nothing between you and this woman?” “Nothing but friendship. She often obtained entrance for me into places where I could study the life of that section, but which would have been to any one not known. She was useful to me in that way, and I have the kindliest feelings for her. If you find anything suspicious about that, you are welcome to make the most of It.” Mr. Barnes began to think that he misconstrued your action into a bold game of bluff,” said Mr. Mitchel, finishing it for him. that your idea?” “Yes; we’ll let it go at that.” He looked at Mr. Mitchel keenly for a few moments, then suddenly added, “I wish you gentlemen a very good morning,” and hurried from the apartment. Mr. .Mitchel waited for to speak first, and very soon the detective asked: “Well, Mr. Mitchel, what do you think?” “I think I could luive finished that young man’s sentence exactly as he had framed it mentally. I think I could supply the words which he suppressed. I think your case is getting to be intensely interesting. And I think that I will take a walk—alone—if you will excuse me.” frO BE CONTINUED.]

THE STOLEN BODY,

By H. G. WELLS. ,

[Copyright, 1599, by H. G. Wells. 1 [CONTINUED.] “We got it last night,” said Dr. Paget. With numerous interruptions from Mr. Vincent, he proceeded to explain bow the writing had been obtained. It appears that in her seances Mrs. Bullock passes-into a condition of trance, her eyes rolling up in a strange way under her eyelids and her body becoming rigid. ■ She then begins to talk very rapidly, usually in voices other than her own.' At the same time both of her hands may become active, and if slates and pencils are provided they will then write messages simultaneously with and quite independently of the flow of words from her mouth. By many she is considered an even more remarkable medirnn than the celebrated Mrs. Piper, i/was one of these messages, the. one written with her left hand, that Mr. Vincent now had before him. It consisted of eight words written disconnectedly, “George Bessel—trial excavn—Baker street help starvation.” Curiously enough, neither Dr. Paget nor the two other inquirers who were present had heard of the. disappearance of Mr. Bessel—the news of it appeared only in the evening papers of Saturday—and they had put the message aside with many others of a vague and enigmatical sort that Mrs. Bullock has from time to time delivered.

When Dr. Fagot heard Mr. Vincent’s story, he gave himself at once with great 'energy to the pursuit of this clew to the discovery of Mr. Bessel. It would serve no useful purpose here to describe the inquiries of Mr. Vincent and himself. Suffice it that the clew was a genuine one and that Mr. Bessel was actually discovered by its aid. He was found at the bottom of a detached shaft which had been sunk and abandoned at the commencement of the work for the now electric railway near Baker street station. His arm and leg and two ribs were broken. The shaft is protected by a boarding nearly 20 feet high, and over this, incredible as it seems, Mr. Bessel, a stout, middle aged .gentleman, must have scrambled in order to fall down the shaft. He was saturated in colza oil, and the smashed tin lay beside him, but luckily the flame had been extinguished by his fall, and his madness had passed from him altogether. But he was of course terribly enfeebled, and at the sight of his rescuers lie gave way to hysterical weeping. In view of the deplorable state of his flat lie was taken to the house of Dr. Hatton in Upper Baker street. Here he was subjected to a sedative treatment, and anything that' might recall the violent crisis through which he had passed was carefully avoided. But on the second day he volunteered a statement. Since that occasion Mr. Bessel has at several times repeated this statement, to myself among other people, varying the details as the narrator of real experiences always does, but never by any chance contradicting himself in any particular, and the statement he makes is in substance as follows: In order to understand it clearly, it is necessary to go back to his experiments with Mr. Vincent before his remarkable attack. Mr. Bessel’s first attempts at self projection in his experiments with Mr. Vincent were, as the

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reader will retnemoef, unsuccessful, but through all of them he was concentrating all his power and will upon getting out of the body, “willing It with all my might,” he says. At last, almost agaiust expectation, came success,. and Mr. Bessel asserts that he, being alive, did actually by an effort of will leave bis body and pass into some place or state outside this world. The release was, be asserts, instantaneous. “At one-moment I was seated in my chair, with my eyes tightly shut, my hands gripping the arms of the chair, doing all I could to concentrate my mind on Vincent, and then I perceived myself outside my body, saw my body near me, but certainly not containing me, with the bands relaxing and the head drooping forward on the breast” Nothing shakes him In his assnrance of that release, and he describes in a quite matter of fact way the new sensation he experienced. He felt he had become impalpable. So much he had expected, but he had not expected to find himself enormously large. So, however, It would seem, he became. “I was a great cloud, if I may express it that way, anchored to my body. It appeared to me at first as if 1 had discovered a greater self, of which the conscious being in my brain was only a little part. I saw the Albany and Piccadilly and Regent street and all the rooms and places In the houses, very minute and very bright and distinct, spread out below me like a little city seen from a balloon. Every now and then vague shapes like drifting wreaths of smoke made the vision a little indistinct, but at first I paid little heed to them. The thing that astonished me most and which astonishes me still is that I saw quite distinctly the insides of the houses as well as the streets, saw little people dining and talking in the private houses, men and women dining, playing billiards and drinking in restaurants and hotels and several places of entertainment crammed with people. It was like watching the affairs of a glass hive.” Such were Mr. Bessel’s exact word* as I took them down when he told me the story. Quite forgetful of Mr. Vincent, he remained for a space observing these things. Impelled by curiosity, he says, he stooped down, and, with the shadowy arm he found himself possessed of, he attempted to touch a man walking along Vigo street, but he could not do so, though his finger seemed to pass through the man. Something prevented his doing Ahis, but what it was he finds it hard to describe. He compares the obstacle to a sheet of glass. “I felt as a kitten may feel,” he said, “when it goes for the first time to pat its reflection in a mirror.” Again and again on the occasion when I heard him tell this story Mr. Bessel returned to that comparison of the sheet of glass. Yet it was not altogether a precise comparison, because, as the reader will speedily see, there were interruptions of this generally impermeable resistance, means of getting through again. But naturally there is a very great difficulty in expressing these Unprecedented impressions in language of everyday experience. A thing that impressed him instantly and which weighed upon him throughout all this experience was the stillness of this place. He was in a world without sound. At first Mr. Bessel’s mental state was an unemotional wonder. His thought chiefly concerned itself with where he mignt ne. He was out or the Doay—out of his material body at any rate. But that was not all. He believes, and I for one believe also, that he wassomewhere out of space, as we understand it, altogether. By a strenuous effort of will he had passed out of his body into a world beyond this world, a

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MEAT MARKET BctHT - Moody & Rotb, - Successors to CREYISTON BROS. _ Rkhsselakr. Ikd. .Shop first door east of Odd Fellow building. Everything fresh ana clean. Fresh an't salt meats, bologna, etc. Please give us a call and we will /uarantee to give you satis faction. None but good cattle killed. Remember the place. Highest marked price paid for hides and tallow.

REAL, ESTATE, LOANS, 3TO. J. F. Warren. J. F. inn WARREN & IRWIN/ Real Estate, Abstracts and Collections, Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office Odd Fellows Building. PHYSICIANS AlfD SURGEONS. DR E. C. ENGLISH, Physician - and - Surgeon, Office over P. O. ■Phnn«l Office 177. Rensselaer Ind F “ one j Residence 118. fc* Both night and day calls will be given prompt attention.

Dr. S. C. Johnson Physician and Surgeon, Office angl Residence over Porter A . Yeoman's. 'Phohb 205 RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. I. B. & I. M. WASHBURN, Physicians A Surgeons, Dr. I B Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye. Ear. Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyes for glasses. Office uy-stalrs, over Ellis A Murray’s store. Telephone No. 411. DBNTIBT\ Dr. Horton’s Dental Parlors Ask her what she thinks of the SET OF TEETH he made for her. She will tell you they were the best that can be pro .uced by any dentist. Then turp and ask your other neighbor about the $5.00 GOLD CROWN be made for ber. and the reply will be the. same. You can’t turnaround without meeting some one who is his patient. Any of th» ni will tell you bow much they like his modern, up-to-date methods. J. W. HORTON, Opposite Court House. 11. L. Brown, 1> 1> S. Hold Pillingm, Crotm and Bridge Work. Teeth W ithout Plater a Specialty. Gas or vltllised air administered fat the painless extraction of teeth. Give met trial. Office over Meyer's Drug Store.

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