Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Page 5

THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY

BY RODRIGUES OTTOLENGUI,

Author of “An Art.Ut In Crime,” “A Conflict of Evidence,” “A Modern Wizard,” “Final Proof,” Etc. CopyrfflM, ISS6, bv G- P- Putnam’* Son*. Afl rtvht* referred.

CHAPTER XV. PERDITA. Colonel Payton observed this scene in great surprise, while Mr. Mitchel only smiled, the denouement of his experiment being what he had expected. Lilian sat in the chair and crooned over ty*r baity, apparently oblivious of those who stood near her. “When you brought this girl here, did you think she was the baby’s mother?” asked Qolonel Pay ton. “I thought so,” said Mr. Mitchel, “but I was not sure. She denied it. Therefore I brought the mother and child together, relying upon the instincts of nature to reveal the truth. There is yet much to be explained, however.” “Much to be explained!” cried the colonel. “I should say so. She will have to explain why she abandoned the chil<L and she must explain it before a Jury tod.” “Before a jury? What do you mean?” “I mean that I will have her detained /here until the authorities are informed of what has taken place. Then she must go to prison. I have no doubt that with your assistance she will be indicted by the grand jury.” “Oh, indeed! But you will not have my assistance.” “You mean you will not testify against her. Well, well! You are a poor citizen. You hesitate to do your duty, deterred by a pretty face. If alt men were like you, crime would go unpunished.” “You are quite correct, colonel. If all men shared my views, the punishment of crime would be abolished.” “Bah! It makes me sick to hear a man of your brains Indulge in such mawkish sentimentality. You allow your senses to bXled astray by a woman’s pretty face. “This woman has com- ' mitted a crime, and she must suffer the consequences. You are new at this sort of thing, but I am an old band. I know my duty.” “And you think it is your duty to : punish this child ?”

“Why, no-not the child, but the mother.” The colonel did not quite comprehend Mr. Mitchel’s meaning. The latter therefore added: “Ah, but the mother Is herself a child!” “Oh! I see what you mean. But youth is no excuse in a case of this kind.” “Then you are determined to have her punished?” “It is my duty to see that the law is carried out." “But why?” “Because she has confmltted a crime.” “What evidence have you of that?” “Why, did she not admit that the child is hers?” “Yes, but that does not prove that she abandoned it.” “Why, who else could have done it?” “Why not the father? Fathers have done such things, have'they not? Did you never hear of such a case?” The subject evidently was distasteful to the colonel, and, besides, it was ever his habit when he found himself worsted in an argument to bring the conversation to an abrupt close, as he endeavored to do now, “That's most unlikely,” said he. “Anyway I leave the proof to the district attorney. It is none of my business.” “You are mistaken. It Is exactlyyour business to learn the truth before you blast this young girl’s future by bringing such a charge against her. It will do no harm to question her. Will you listen to her replies while I talk with her?” r “Oh, I haven’t a doubt that the lies will roll off her glib tongue faster than We could.write.them down! But you are determined to have your own way, I suppose, so fire away. You’re a crank, Mitchel; that’s what you are, a crank.” Mr. Mitchel approached Lilian, who was still busy playing with her baby anff 'talking in a low tone with the matron, who sympathized with the pretty young mother. Touching her gently on the shoulder to attract her

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attention, he said: “So it is your baby after all?” “Oh, yes! I am so surprised. How did she get here?” “Did I not tell you? She was found crawling among the tombstones in an old graveyard down town.” “You mean that was a real story you told me? And it was my baby? I don’t understand it all. What does It mean?” She gazed at him appealingly, perplexed beyond measure, and Mr. Mitchel felt assured of her sincerity, but the colonel sneered and said: “You stated that she is an actress, did you not? She plays her part very well. Quite an Innocent, is she not?” Mr. Mitchel did not seem to notice the cruel speech, but again addressed Lilian “Yes, it was all true, as I told you the story. You remember, you asked me who could have placed the child there.” “Yes, and you said you suspected the father. But, If you were talking about my baby, then you are wrong, Matthew never would have done such a tiling, never, never, never!” “You mean Matthew Crane?” “Yes; but you said you know him. Why do you call him that?” “ You mean I ought to call him Jim,” said Mr. Mitchel, “Preacher Jim?” “Why, no. Preacher Jim is not my—my husband. How could you think that?” It was now Mr. Mitchel’s turn to be bewildered. When she had told him that her name was Mrs, Matthew Crane, he had felt satisfied that It was the criminal of whom she spoke. Now it dawned upon him that he had been under some misapprehension, but he did not yet see wherein he had been in error. He hastened to lead her on now, lest her own suspicions might be aroused and she should thereafter refuse to make further disclosures. “I thought you told me so. Then t Matthew Crane is not your husband’s real name?” ? “Why, no! If you know” him, you ought to know that. His name is Matthew Morton." “Matthew Morton,” thought Mr, Mitchel, quickly grasping the truth.

“She plays her part well. Quite an innocent, is she not?”

“It was Matthew Mora, alias Matthew Morton, who was the father of this waif. How very strange that what had at first seemed a totally different affair should now prove to be connected in so important a manner with the case which Mr. Barnes was investigating!” “Of course, of course!” said he aloud, “It was to you, then, that he sent the note yesterday morning when you left the house in Essex street in a carriage?” That he should have this knowledge seemed to reassure the girl, for she now spoke to him more freely. “Why, yes,” said she. “Matthew wrote me that I must leave the house and go to a boarding house in Tenth street, and he told me to call myself Mrs. Cranfe till I heard from him again. That’s why I gave you that name.” This seemed very significant to Mr. Mitchel. Did Matthew Mora know that Preacher Jim’s true name was Matthew Crane, and did he instruct Lilian to assume that name as a means of throwing detectives upon a false scent in case they should track the girl to her new abode? It began to look as though Mr. Barnes’ estimate of the man was correct. But the main point at present was to learn what part he had played in the removal of the child from its mother and in its subsequent abandonment. Mr. Mitchel dismissed all idea of collusion on the part of the girl. “You say your husband did not place your baby in the graveyard. How do you know this?” “I suppose I might as well tell you the whole truth. Well, one night we were to a ball at Apollo hall when who should turn up but an old gent, who walked straight to where we were dancing. He grabs me by the arm and squeezed me so hard I screamed. Then he threw me one side, and, grabbing Matthew, he says, ‘I want you to come out of this.’ Matthew never said a word, but went with him. They went down to the saloon,’ and they had high words together, but after awhile Matthew came ud again and

tried id tnake out as if nothing Was wrong. But I Wouldn’t have it, so finally he told me the old man was his father; that he was on to us and was in an ugly humor. I got scared at that and began to cry, but Matthew told me there was nothing to cry about. There was nothing the old man could do to me anyway, whatever he might do to him. Then all of a sudden Matthew turned white like, as though he had a sudden idea, and he says to me: ‘You wait for me here. I’ll be back.’ Then he rushed off. He was gone a long time and only got back as the ball was breaking up, and he took me home. When we got there, baby was gone. I was frightened, but Matthew explained everything to me. ‘I got an idea at the ball,’ said he, ‘that the gov’nur might have found out where we were living. If he had come here and seen the baby, it would have 0 been all up with me. He would have disinherited me, sure. So I rushed round here, and there was the little cherub in his crib. But I know my gov’nur, and I ain’t taking chances. So I’ve taken baby to a nurse I know up town, and she’ll be all right till this blows over.’ ‘Till this blows over,’ says I. ‘You ain’t never going to keep baby from me for a long time?’ ‘Oh. no,’ says he, ‘only till the old gent gets off his high horse. That won’t be more’n a week. But it’s best for you not to see baby for awhile, You might be watched. The old man is full of that sort of thing. If I find it out, I may have to move you out of this In a hurry. So be ready any time you get word to change boarding houses in a jiffy.’ Then he kissed me and went off. I haven’t seen him since, but that’s why I wasn’t surprised when I got the note yesterday morning,” “W’here did this nurse live? Did your husband tell you?” "No. He said if he didn’t tell me it would be safer, as-nobody could get it out of me. So, don’t you see, he was so particular about baby’s safety he never would have harmed her.”

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CHAPTER VI THE FATE OF ASTRAY MARSDEN. The last day of the trial of Astray Marsden tor the murder of his uncle one of the Chicago evening papers contained the following: Norcombe. Feb. 26, 9:30 a. m.—The court is crowded—more crowded, if possible, than it has been for the past two days, for the last act of the drama will be reached today, and the verdict rs the jury will be given, the verdict that shall condemn Astray Marsden to an awful death or shall set him free among his fellow men. Never before in the history of this country have the people experienced such a condition of suppressed excitement as that which permeates the courthouse this morning Even the cold blooded, phlegmatic court attendants cannot, try as they will, escape the contagion that pervades the swaying audience awaiting the final act in the great sensational trial. Like all others in the building, carried away by the suppressed excitement of the moment, they hold their breath and wait The minute hand of the clock slowly travels to the hour of 10. One by one the lawyers enter and take their seats, chatting as idly as though the matter to bo-tried is not of the gravest import in the whole wide world —life or death. Think of it! Within a few hours the decision will have to be given—guilty or not guilty, life or death I 10 o’Clock.—Dismally the ten strokes of the court clock sound, echoed a few seconds later by ten deep notes from the belfry of an adjacent church, and the judge enters the, court, takes his seat and opens his book. The monotonous voice of the court crier demands silence, and the indescribable murmur inseparable from a body of people overwrought with intense excitement subsides, dies away like the sound of a retreating wave as the water flows down the beach. Astray Marsden, the prisoner, enters the court, looking paler and more haggard this morning than ever before, and, almost overcome with nervous anxiety, grips the rail in front of him as he faces the crowded court. Then his eyes wander to a woman, closely veiled, sitting near his attorney’s table, where she has sat throughout the

The prisoner enters the court, looking paler and more haggard than ever.

whole of the trial, a woman whom it is whispered Astray Marsden has promised to marry, but she has been called as a witness by neither side. For a single instant, for the first time during the trial, the girl raises her veil, and the prisoner batches a glimpse of a pale but beautiful face. A tremulous smile of encouragement hovers for a moment around her quivering lips, and then the veil is lowered again, and the man braces himself for the final ordeal. The Summing Up. 10:05.—The judge commences his summing up. “Gentlemen of the jury, ” he says, “you have today entered upon the last stage of your labors in a case which to me has proved at once the most painful and the most obvious in all my experience of criminal trials. It only remains for me. as impartially as lies in my power, to review the whole of the evidence that has been placed before you both in favor of and against the prisoner. Astray Marsden, and to leave it to you to decide upon that evidence whether he is guilty or not guilty of the crime with which he stands charged—the willful murder of Josiah Marsden. “The evidence that ’ has been placed before you, gentlemen, is, with one exception, but that is a fearful exception, of a purely circumstantial character, and it will be for you to say whether the series of circumstantial facts that have been detailed to you and which the defense has ingeniously endeavored to explain away are sufficient to justify you in returning a verdict of guilty and by that verdict ridding society of as cold blooded a scoundrel as ever breathed or whether there is sufficient and reasonable doubt in your minds to justify you in giving to the prisoner the benefit of the doubt “Gentlemen, let us look at the evidence. On the morning of the 12th of January Josiah Marsden was discovered in the library of his country home, called The Grange. Norcombe. stabbed to death with a Norwegian clasp knife, which weapon you have had produced.

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There is no dispute that tne murder was committed with that knife, and equally the defense does not attempt to deny that up to the very night of the murder that knife was in the possession of Astray Marsden. The Stained Paper. “In the hand of Josiah Marsden was found this paper. ’ ’ The judge pauses impressively and takes up the blood stained paper that has caused such a sensation throughout the trial “This paper, ” he solemnly continues, “was found in the dead man’s stiffened fingers. Death had overtaken him before he could frame his thoughts in words, and so his last message is only a broken one. ‘I am dying,’ he wrote, ‘murdered by Astra’—a—s—t—r—a—and his life departed. “The prosecution has told you that he intended to write ‘Astray Marsden. ’ The defense has been unable to deny it. The prosecution has said he wrote so that justice might be meted out to his murderer. The defense has hinted, only hinted, gentlemen—even they have not dared to do more than whisper—that Josiah Marsden hated his ward or son and did what he did in revenge, faced eternity with the foulest sin that man could commit upon his soul, died with a lie in his heart, that a young man might be hanged. The defense has hinted that this is why the paper was written. I will not venture to express my own opinion of such a method of defense. Let us look at the matter dispassionately. If we are to believe that Josiah Marsden committed this loathsome deed as his last act on earth and that Astray Marsden did not murder him, then that murder was committed by some unknown enemy of the old man. “Has the defense been able to hint at any such person ? No. Has the defense been able to assume or deduce that any other person was in the house on that night? Na It has simply contented itself with a categorical denial of everything and a plea as surprising as it is abominable. “The value of that plea, gentlemen, I leave for you to decide. Let us pass again to the circumstantial evidence and deal first of all with The Norwegian Knife. “This knife has the letter ‘A’ branded upon its handle. The knife was in the prisoner’s possession, it is agreed, until a few moments or a few hours before the murder. It is admitted that Astray Marsden was with Josiah Marsden on the night of the murder. It is also admitted that he used the knife to open a cigar box in the presence of his guardian and then left it behind him ready for the murderer, who. we are told, entered the house after the prisoner had left it. The value of that plea, gentlemen, is again for you to decide. “The murder was first discovered by the woman Margaret Gadsden, who was in the habit of going daily to attend to the domestic requirements of the deceased. On the morning of Jan. 12 she went, as usual, and gained admittance at the side entrance by the key she always had in her possession. “You will rec dlect that between the night of the 11 th and the morning of the 12th there was a phenomenally heavy fall of snow, and the woman noticed that ther3 were footprints leading to the front door of the house, but none leading from it. “Becoming alarmed at the unusual stillness which reigned through the house and unable to get any answer when she knocked at Josiah Marsden’s door, Margaret Gadsden hastened to the police station and returned with Chief of Police Dobson. “That man, gentlemen, you have had before you. He has told you hipaself of his attempt to blind the aims cff justice by withholding the most important piece of evidence in this intricate case, the paper that Josiah Marsden left behind him. Dobson has expressed his contrition and regret for the disgraceful course which he took, but whether that contrition will absolve him from the penalties of his action I very much doubt I cannot refrain from referring to the supreme and utter idiocy manifested throughout by Chief Dobson in relation to this case and cannot too warmly applaud the indefatigable energy, the zeal and acumen, of Mr. Herbert Darrent, the official who took charge of the case and was fortunately able to retrieve all the errors—l will content myself by calling them errors at present—which Dobson committed prior to his appearance on the scene. Returning to the events of Jan. 12, you will remember that Dobson and the woman returned together and upon entering the library found Josiah Marsden lying dead upon the floor, stabbed to the heart. By his side was the paper which has had such an bearing upon the case, the paper which Dobson retained, showing it only to the prisoner. Astray Marsden. You have heard Dobson’s account of that interview—that the prisoner turned pa£g&nd trembled and then promised to see tim later in the day ffeO VK CONTINUED.)

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REAL ESTATE, LOANS, ETO. J. F. Irwin. 8. U. ibwiw IRWIN & IRWIN, Successor* to Warren & Irwin. Real Estate, Abstracts and Collections, Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office Odd Fellows Buildins'. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. DR E. C. ENGLISH, Physician - and - Surgeon, Office over P. O. ■pl.. Office 177. Rensselaer Ind Phone-j Resldence 116 , E3K“Both night and day calls will be given prompt attention. Dr. S. C. Johnson Physician and Surgeon, Office and Residence over Porter & Yeoman's, 'Phonb 905 RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. I. B. & I. M. WASHBURN, Physicians & 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 up-stair*, over Ellis A Murray’s store. Telephone No. M. DENTIST? I Ask | Your (Neigh- Whfjp |bor ! about the den- ZA’ : tai work she had done ’ | 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 s any dentist. Then turn and ask your : other neighbor about the $5.00 GOLD CROWN j he made for her. and the reply will be the s same. You can’t turn 'round without • meeting some one who Is his patient, s Any of them will tell you how much they : like his modern, up-to-date methods, |j. W. HORTON, Opposite Court House. H. L. Brown, D. D. S. Hold Fillings, Crown and Bridge Work. Teeth W ithout Plates a Bnee* laity. Gas or vltilized air administered for the painless extraction of teeth. Give me a trial. Offlceover Meyer’s Drug Store.

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