Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1894 — Page 2

N STUDY IN SCARLET.

PART II . {Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M. D . late of the Army Mediea Depart ment.] CHAPTER VI-CoNTiNCtD.

“I have little more to say, and it’s , as well fori am about done up. I weti t oh cabbing it for a TTay dr sb/ intending to keep at it until I could save enough to take me back to America. I was standingin the yard when a ragged youngster asked if . there was a cabby there called Jefferson H >pe, and he said that his cab was wanted by a gentleman at 221 b Baker street. I went round, suspecting no harm, and the next thing I knew this young man here had the bracelets on my wrists and as neatly shackled as ever I was in my life, that’s the whole of my story, gentlemen. You may consider me to be a murderer, but I hold that lam just as much an officer of justice as you are.” So thrilling ha J the man’s narrative - been, ahd- his tn an tie r was so . impressive, that we had sat silent and absorbed. Even the professional detectives, blase as they were in every detail ofcrime, appeared to be kqeniy interested in the man’s story. When he finished we sat for some minutes in a stillness which was only broken by the scratching of Lestrade’s pencil as he gave the finishing touches to his short hand account. “There is only one point on which I should like a little more information,” Sherlock Holmes said at' last. “Who was your accomplice who came for the ring which I advertised?” The prisoner winked at my friend jocosely. “I can tell my own secrets,” he said, “but I don’t get other people into trouble. I saw your advertisement and I thought it might be a plant or it might be the ring I wanted. My friend volunteered to go and see. I think you’ll own he did it smartly.” “Not a doubt of that,” said Holmes, heartily. “Now, gentlemen,” the inspector remarked, gravely, “the forms of the law must be complied with. On Thursday;tbe prisoner willbe brought before the magistrates and your attendance will be required. Until thenl will be responsiblerfor him,” He rang the bell as he spoke and Jefferson Hope was led off by a couple of wardors, while my friend and I made our way out of the station and took a cab back to Baker street,

CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION. We had all been warned to appear before the magistrates upon the Thursday: but when the Thursday i came there was no occasion for our testimony. A higher Judge had taken the matter in hand, and Jes- ■ terson Hope had been summoned before a tribunal where strict justice I would be meted out to him. On the ■ very night after his capture the aneurism burst, and he was found in the morning stretched upon the floor of the cell, with a placid smile on his face, as though he bad been able in his dying moments to look back upon a useful life and on work well done. “Gregson and Lestrade will be wild about his death,” Holmes remarked, as we chatted it over next evening. ’‘Where will their grand advertisment be now?” “I don’t see that they had very much to do with his capture,” I answered. “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The question is, what cqnjyou make people believe that you have done? Never mind,” he continued,'■more brightly, after a pause, “I would not have missed the investigation for anything. There has been no better case within my recollection. Simple as it was, there were several most important points about it." “Simple!” I ejaculated.

“Well, really, it can hardly be de«cribed as otherwise," said Sherlock Holmes, smiling at my surprise. “The proof of its intrinsic simplicity is that without any help, save a few very ordinary deductions, I was able to lay my hand upon the criminal within three days.” “ I hat is true," said I. “I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem Of this •ort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful accomplishment and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much, in the every-day affairs of life it is <jnore useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for onq, whocan reason anylytically." “I confess," said I, “that I do "not quite follow you.” “I hardly expected that you would. Let me see if I can make it clear. Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, If you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of

BY A. CONAN DOYLE.

reasoning—backward, or analytically.” “iMinderstand.” satiTTr - “Now, this was a case in which you were given the result and had to find everything else for yourself. Now, let me endeavor to show you the different steps in my reasoning. To-begin at the beginning. I approached the house, as you know, on foot, and with my mind entirely free from all impressiont. I naturally began by examining the roadway, and there, as I have already explained to you, I saw clearly the marks of a cab,. which,l ascertained by inquiry, must have been there during the night, I satisfied myself that it was a cab, and not a private carriage, by the narrow gauge of the wheels. The ordinary London growler4s considerably-less wide than a gentleman’s brougam. “This was the first point gained. I then walked slowly down the garden path, which, happened to be composed of a clay soil peculiarly suitable for taking impressions. No doubt it appeared to you to be a mere trampled line of slush, but to my trained eyes every mark upon its surface had a meaning. There is no branch of dtftective science Which is so important and so much neglected al the art of-tracing footsteps. Happuy, I have always laid great Stress upon it, and much practice has made it second nature to me. I saw the heavy foot-marks of the constables, but I saw also the tracks of the-twb men who had first entered the garden. It was easy to tell that they had been before the others, because in places their marks had been entirely obliterated by the others coming upon the top of them. In this way my second link was formed, which told me that the nocturnal visitors were two in number, one remarkable for his height (as I calculated from the length of his stride) and’the other fashionably dressed, to judge from the small and elegant impression left by his boots. “On entering the house this last inference was confirmed. My wellbooted man lay before me. The tall one, then, had done the murder, if murder there was. There was no wound upon the dead man’s person; but the agitated expression upon his face assured me that he had foreseen his fate before it came upon him. Men who die from heart disease or any sudden natural cause never by any chance exhibit agitation upon their features. Having sniffed the dead man’s lips I detected a slightly sour smell, and I came to the conclusion that he had had poison forced upon him. Again, I argued that it had been forced upon him from the hatred and fear expressed upon his face. By the method of exclusion I ' had arrived at this result, because no other hypothesis would meet the facts. Do not imagine that it was a very unheard-of idea. The forcible administration of poison is by no means a new thing in criminal annals. The cases of Dolsky, in Odessa, and of Leturier, in Montpellier, will occur at once to any toxicologist.

“And now came the great question as to the reason why. Robbery had not been the object of the murder, for nothing was taken. Was it politics, then, or was it a woman? That was the question which confronted me. I was inclined from the first to the latter supposition. Political assassins are only too glad to do their work and to fly’. This murder had, on the contrary, been done most deliberately, and the perpetrator had left his tracks all over the room, showing that he had been there all the time.- It must have been a private wrong, and not a political one, which called for such a methodical revenge. When the inscription was discovered upon the wall I was more inclined than ever to my opinion. The thing was too evidently a blind. When the ring was found, however, it settled the question. Clearly the murderer had used it to remind his victim of some dead or absent woman. It was at this point that I asked Gregson whether he had inquired in his telegram to Cleveland as to any particular point in Mr. Drebber’s former career. He answered, you remember, in the negative. “I then proceeded to make a careful examination of the room, which confirmed me in my opinion as to the I murderer's height, and furnished me I with the additional detail as to the Trichinopoly qigar and the length of his nails. I had already come to the conclusion, since there were no signs of a struggle, that the blood which covered the floor had burst from the murderer’s nose in his excitement. I could perceive that the track of blood coincided with the track of his feet. It is seldom that any man, unless he is very full-blooded, breaks out in this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the cripiinal was probably a robust and ruddy-faced man. fcvents proved that I had judged correctly. “Having left the house, 1 proceeded to do what Gregson had neglected. I telegraphed to the head of the police at Cleveland, limiting my inquiry to the circumstances connected with the marriagb of Enoch Qrebber. The answer was conclu siye. It told me that Drebbe* had

already applied for the protection o! the law against an old rival in love, named Jefferson Hope, and that this same Hope was at present in Europe. I knew now that I held the clue to the mystery in my hand, and all that remained was to secure the naur derer. ' • > ' “I had already determined in my own mind that the man who had walked into the house with Drebber was none other than the man who had driven the cab. The marks in the road showed me that the horse, i had wandered on it| a wiy which it would have bech impossible had th ere been anvone in charge-of it. Where, then, could the driver be, unless he were inside the house? Again, it is absurd to suppose that any sane man would carry out a deliberate crime under the very eyes, as it were, of a third person, who was sure to betray him. Lastly, supposing one man wished to dog another through London, what better means could he adopt than to turn cab driver? All these considerations led me to the irresistible conclusion that Jefferson Hope was to be found among the jarveysof the metropolis. “If he had been one there was no reason to believe that he had ceased to be. On the contrary, from his point of view, any sudden change would be likely to draw attention to himself. He would,-probably, for a time at least, continue to perform his duties. There was no reason to suppose that he was going under an assumed name. Why should he change his name in a country where no one knew his original one? I therefore organized my street-arab proprietor in London until they ferreted out the man that I wanted. How well they succeeded and how quickly I took advantage of it are still fresh in your-recollection. The murder of Stangerson was an incident which was entirely unexpected, but which could hardly in any case have been prevented. Through it, as you know; I came into noseession. of the pills, the existence of which I had already surmised. You see, the whole thing is a chain of logical sequences without a break or flaw.” “It is wonderful!” I cried: “Your merits should be publicly recognized. You should publish an account of the case, If you won’t, 1 will for you.” “You may dq what you like, doctor,” I answered. “See here!” he continued, handing a paper over to me; “look at this!” It was the “Echo” for the day,, and the paragraph to which hq pointed was devoted to the case in question. “The public,” it said, “have lost a sensational treat through the sudden death of the man Hope, who was suspected of the murder of Mr. Enoch Drebber add of Mr. Joseph Stangerson. The details of the case will probably never be known now. though we are informed upon good authority that the crime was the result of an oldstanding and romantic feud, in which love and Mormonism bore a part. It seems that both the victims belonged,in their younger days, to the Latter-Day Saints, and Hope, the deceased prisoner, hails also from Salt Lake City. If the case has had no other effect, it at least brings out in the most striking man-

ner the efficiency of our detective police force, and will serve as a lesson to all foreigners that they will do wisely to settle their feuds at home, and not to carry them on to British soil. It is an open secret, that the credit of this smart Capture belongs entirely to the well-known Scotland Yard officials, Messrs. Lestrade and Gregson. The man was apprehended, it appears, in the rooms of a certain Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who has himself, as an amateur, shown some talent in the detective line, and who, with such instructors, may hope in time to attain to some degreo of their skill. It is expected that a testimonial of some sort will be presented to the two of. ficers as a fitting recognition of their services.” “Didn’t I tell you so when wo started?” cried Sherlock Holmes, with a laugh. “Tnat’s the result ol all our Study in Scarlet; to get them a testimonial 1” “Never mind.” I answered; “I have all the facts in my journal, and the public shall know them. In the meantime, you must make yourself contented by the consciousness ot success, like the Roman miser: “ ‘Populus me slbilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi slmul ac nummos contempler in area.’ ” THE END.

Intercalumite.

Dr. M. V. Hunt is accumulating quite a museum. His latest addition is a piece of flexible sandstone from Columbia, S. C. Tn appearance it is a big piece of white rubber, in reality a freak of nature. The piece he has is a half-inch thick, two inches wide and a foot long. It can be drawn out as well as bent. The technical name for it is intercalumite.

A Soft Answer.

New York Weekly.

Actress (angrily)—Did you writethat criticism which said my impersonation of “The Abandoned Wife’ was a miserable failure? Critic —Ye—y-c-s; you see, you looked so irresistibly beautiful that it was impossible to fancy that any man couid abandon you. It is told of a farmer in lonia county, Michigan, who used green willow for corner posts for his barn, that the posts have taken root and gi"own, and that the building is con - siderably higher than it was. Some limbs have also oiwout for him to hang his harness on? y 4

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A fine bed of aluminum clay has been discovered near Rushville. The new K, of p. Hail at Russiaville was dedicated on the evening of Dec. 12 Bindley’snew block at Terre Haute was destroyed by lire Dec. 10. Loss, 575,000. The Wilson & McCulloch fruit* jar and bottle works at Marion W’ere destroyed by lire, Dec. 13. Loss on buildings, 510.000. Judge Holman will begin the work of writing a book of “Recollections of Coni gressional Life” at the expiration of his term in Congress. ’' , Ex-Gov. Gray, noyv United States Minister to Mexico, returned to Indianapolis, Dec. 12, being called home by the serious illness of his son Pierre, Saloonkeepers who violate the law at Ft. Wayne find themselves confronted with remonstrances against further renewals of their licenses.

The Seymour street railway has been sold to J. 8. Crump, who will tear up the track and remove the entire plant to Columbus, to be used in extending his lines in that city. The body of Mrs. Simeon Ellis, who died at Greenfield six years ago, was exhumed for reintefment Dee. 10, and was found to have been petrified. The appearance life-like. Tbe estimated weight of the body was 1.000 pounds, and it was apparently of solid white stone. Even the garments were perfectly reproduced. On several occasions tempting baskets of dried fruit have been left in ,Mrs. August Fricke’s yard. Acting on the advice of a neighbor she fed the fruit to the chickens and they were taken violently sick. Many of them died. The lady is frightened and has no idea who is attempting the dastardly work. She has been a widow for twelve years and lives entirely alone.—Ft. Wayne Sentinel. At Velpen, twelve miles east of Oakland City, Dec. 10, Justice of the Peace Copehart fined some prisoners brought before him. The evidence had just been completed and the parties were being 'tied with rapes preparatory to being taken to jail in default of payment of fine when Lon Survant, a tough in attendance, grasped a poker and assaulted the Justice, inflicting wounds that will probably prove fatal. Survant then escaped. The Indiana Supreme Court, Dec. 11, in the case of I. D. Johnson vs. the commissioners of Randolph county handed down a decision in effect holding that the Legislature can not pass special acts to reimburse public officials for money lost through no fault of their own. Johnson, as treasurer, lost 52,000 in a failing bank. On petition the last Legislature released Johnson and his bondsmen. The case was appealed with the above result. Chairman Taggart, of the Democratic State committee, has written to all the Democratic congressmen of the State urging their attendance at a conference to bo held at Indianapolis, Jan. 8. to consider plans for an aggressive campaign which he proposes to inaugurate on that date. Mr. Taggart regards the Democratic defeat of last month as only temporary and thinks if the party is united it can again secure control of Indiana.

The Diamond Plate Glass Company at Kokomo, in the past five days have drilled live new yas wells, all of them prodigious producers. The smallest shows an output of 5,000,000 feet per day. They are in territory that has been perforated with wells for five years, and do not bear out Dr. Jordan’s theory that natural gas is rapidly failing. The Diamond Company owns 20,000 acres of rich gas territory that has not had a drill in it. They have enough of the ideal fuel to operate their immense plants for many years to come. Thomas Tennyson, a farmer near Versailles, was waylaid and shot in his dooryard, Dec. 8. The bullet struck Mr. Tennyson in the right groin. His cry for help alarmed the household, and as members qf his family ran to his rescue the, stranger fired a second shot, sending a bullet through Mr. Tennyson’s right thigh. The stranger then rushed away, avowing a purpose to kill the entire family before he was done. The Tennyson family is among the best in Ripley county. -No cause is known for the assault. cWhile a farmer named Ott was killing hogs, Wednesday, near West Franklin, an uncle concluded to have some fun with Ott’s six-year-old son, and lie caught the little boy and hold him over’' the barrel filled with hot water, used in scalding the hogs, The child slipped from his grasp, falling into the scalding water. The result was terrible, the lad being so badly scalded that his eyes fell from their sockets. A messenger was sent for a physician, but he returned with a faith-cure doctor, who could do no good. The lad died.

Daniel Mobley,a farmer near Hartsville, and his sixteen-year-old daughter Ethel, disappeared from home several days ago. Last Saturday they were located in Cincinnati by the Cincinnati police, and not knowing of their blood relation they were released on promise of getting married. The recordsshow that Mobley and daughter were afterward married, she giving the name of Mary Gallcntinc. Two days later the police discovered the relationship, and a warrant was issued for the arrest of Mobley, but ho had fled, leaving his daughter in a destitute condition, with but 25 cents in money. Patents were Issued, Tuesday, to the following Indlanlans: A. J. Bowser, Ft. Wayne, barrel truck; F. A. W. Davis, assignor to E.~K. Davis, Indianapolis, street box for gas or water pipes; D. Dobbins, assignor to J. Coyle, W. B. Jennings, P. E. Valentine, F. N. Whiteside, W. D. Welsh. E. P. Jennings, B. P. Brown. J. T. Overstreet and L. B. Whiteside, Franklin, and J. C. McNutt, Indianapolis, voting machine; F, E. Hardman, Indianapolis. pump and electric motor propelled elevator; J. L. Hutchins, Laporte, watch; C. P. Lancaster, Jonesboro, wagon bed; L. O. Orton, assignor to Dodge Manufacturing Company. Mishawaka, lubricator: E. Warner, Elwood, well packing; J. P. Weis, Anderson, furnace; J. Seipp, New Albany, fire bucket or grate. John Carpenter and Dan Liggett became involved in a quarrel in the saloon of John Ackerman, at Roanoko, Dec. 11. The marshal was called in to settlo the difficulty. Carpenter sprang upon the officer. who is a man over sixty years old, and beat him unmercifully. He was rendered unconscious, and at last reports was expected to die. Carpenter escaped from the room and led the officers a chase into Allen county, before he was captured. Tie was given a preliminary hearing and r.hargod with assault, and was convicted. Papers were filed against him for riot, Md when be was being taken to the town

lockup by the constable, he escaped Sheriff Leverton and a posse of men are it pursuit. At last accounts he was still at large.

Chas. E. Wise, son of Mrs. Aaron Wise, a wealthy widow of Carroll county, disappeared from St. Louis, August 29, whih en route home from California. It non develops that young Wise-was muideret 1 and robbed by an unknown St. Louit thug, who decoyed him to Clarksvile, a small town eighty miles north of thai city, un a pretense of securing him remunerative employment. Wise’s body was found underatree, Aug, 30, with a bullet hole in the head. There was nothing by which he could be identified.-Photo-graphs and descriptions finally have es. tabllshed the identity of the remains and they will be re-interred neat’ his old homt in Carroll county. Miller & Sons, of Frankfort, recentlj purchased eight hundred sheep in the Chicago market and shipped them to tfieii farm. Dec. 11 the Millers were called upon by G. W. Edwards, of Rock Springs Wyo., who informed them that the Sheep were part of a drove of 3,000 that wen stolen from the Edwards ranch Jn November. Telegrams from their Chicagc agents convinced them that the story was true, and the sheep were restored to Edwards. The theft was perpetrated by 3 man named McCarty—aided by one McClain —employed by Edwards to ship the stock, which was sold in bunches through Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. The loss will fall on the Chicago commission merchants unless they can recover from McCarty, whose whereabouts are at present unknown.

THE SOLDIERS' HOMES.

The report of the board of managers ol soldiers’ homes shows that the whole number of soldiers cared for in the National and State homes during the yea: was 35,564, During the year, the report says, on account of the great number ol applicants for admission to these institutions, it became necessary to suspend admissions, and this caused great distress. The men not admitted, although entitled thereto, must in general be eared for by the charity of Grand Army posts or charitable institutions of the.cities where they are stranded. There are only two branches which can economically and properly be enlarged—the one at Marion, Ind., and the other in California. An alternative proposition suggested is the establishment of another branch home in some centra) place.

The annual cost of the maintenance ol each'man at the homes was 512?. 45. a decreaso/frnmthepre.vioiis year of 513.50. The deaths were 1.050, an Increase of twenty. Every year the original admissions to the various homes more than make up the losses by discharges and death. There are now 1,000.000 persons living, who, if they become non-support-able, will be entitled to admission to the national homes. >-

GAGE VS. CARLISLE.

Lyman J. Gage, the eminent Chicagc banker, appeared before the House committee on banking and cnrrency, Dec. 12 Referring to the recommendation of the President and Secretary Carlisle, Mr, Gage sai(L _ Agreeing with the criticisms made by these officers of the Government as to the present weakness of our situation and the great desirability of separating the Government from the direct responsibilities ol currency issues I am persuadeded that the country is not ready to accept their recommendations as to the methods proposed. In making any change the method should be so simple that all can comprehend it, and it should be seen that the incidental effects would not be in any direction disturbing to trade, commerce ot industry. I believe the “Baltimore plan” carries the true principles of a credit cur rency, but we can not reach it by any one step, and years may intervene before it can be realized. He recommends issuing 5250.000,003 of bonds to retire Government notes and tc amend the banking act so that National banks can issue notes in place of the redeemed currency.

VOORHEES FOR FREE SILVER.

Senator Voorhees has issued a statement favoring the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. A Washington dispatch. Dec. 12, says that the Senator’s course in. the matter has aroused surprise and indignation among Indiana Democratic Representatives. They say tJiat Voorhees is not sincere, and that his course in the matter Is for the purpose of securing Fopullst support in bis race sot Senator, two years hence. Outside of Indiana circles the Senator’s course is ridiculed.

THE MARKETS.

Dec. 15,1391. Jn<ilena;>oll i. CHAIN AXU HAY. Wheat—s2c; corn. 43e; oats, 33%c; rye, 48c; buy, choice timothy, S9.OJ. LIVE STOCK. Catti.ic Shippers. f2.50<?4.25: Stockers. *2.25(<42.75; heifers, cows, »H<s3.oo; bulls, 11.50<<52.75: milkers, 118.00 (<540.00. Hoo«-fi3.(XX»4.55. bUKKV— fI.UOIft2.SO. rour/ruY axu otiikr pnonucs. (Prices Paid by Shippers, i Poui.rnv-Hens. 5c per iti; spring chickens, sc; cocks, 3c; turkeys, toms, 4c; hens, 6c per lb; young turkeys, 6c; ducks. 6c per lb; geese, f4.80(g)85.40 per doz. for choice. Eons—Shippers paying 18c. BuStkii—Choice. im<sl2c. JIOXKY 18e Fkathxiw— Prime geese, 30@32c per lb; mixed duck, 20c per lb. Bicicswax—2oc (or yellow; 15c for dark. Wool—Medium unwashed, 12c; Cottswold and coarse Combing, 10<$l2c; tubwushed. 16<gl8c; burry and unmerchantable. 5c less. Himes—No. 1 G. S. hides, No. 2 G. S. iiides, 3%'c; No. 1 calf hides, 6Xc; No. 2 calf hides, 4%c. Chicago. Wheat—ssVc; corn, 47Xc; oats, 29%c; pork, 111.95; lard, t6.B2>|. lor .. Wheat-60&c; corn, 56,\fc; oats, 34X-. Haltiinora. Wheat—6oc; corn, 49c; oats, 39c. St. LouU. Wheat—s2%c; corn, 46c; oats, 30% c. t’lilluilalpul Wheat—OO.tfc; ’brn, 51%c; oats, 39% c AlliineapolU. Wheat—No. 1 hard, 59%c. Detroit. Wheat—s7c; corn 43,’<c; oats, 33%c. Vast Liberty. HoGB-f4.2.>@4.54.

intense Headacues “For four years I have been a constant suflertr. My head ached from morning till night. After trying everything I could think at, the only thing that gave me any relief was to keep my head bound Tl the air from striking it. '■Y) The nasal passages of "x/w my head and my throat jLM were very sore and me i® l ® ll9 ® P 9 ' o much corrupt matter. I was told that the weight Of ny hair was the cause of my trouble, and I had it cut off, hut this gave me no reflet. Reading ihout a lady similarly afflicted who was cured »y Hood's Sarsaparilla, I began to to take it. before I had taken one bottle I felt greatly improved, and at the end of three bottles was en.irely well. I now weigh 240'pounds, which is a lain of 10 pounds in the last three months. tfBS; Maky A. Whitk, Franklin, Indiana. Hood’s Pills do not weaken, but aid digevion and tone the stomach. Try them. 25c.

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