Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 362, 5 November 1911 — Page 2

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THE RICII3IOXD PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRA3I, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1911.

A STORY WRITTEN BY

Manuscript Found in Mr. White's Desk After His Death. A Tale of Mystery, for Which a Singular Solution is Offered.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. The following story was found among the effects of Raymond Perry White, a brother of the writer, known to his friends and acquaintances as "Kay White" with which name he also siKned his artistic product. While this was the only fiction Mr. White was known to have written, his work as an artist in various media was heKlnnlnK to attract attention at the time of his death In December, li0H. This story was written for Mr. White's own amusement, and never intended for publication and that he did not regard the theories advanced as scientifically accurate was indicated by Bpaces in which "look tills tip" was Inserted. However the tale Is so apropos to certain current murder mysteries that its local publication may bo interesting. THE DARE MYSTERY. It was a curious case. The Doctor said ho and the Doctor's reputation for truthful and veracious statement was unexceptionable. The reasons for this were quite simple. The Doctor never, by any chance, talked upon anything about which he Old not possess a lare knowledge and as he. was by no menus a silent man, the argument in favor of th possession of much information on many subjects was not altogether unconvincing It must not bo understood by this, however, that the Doctor himself claimed a comprehensive and universal knowledge. He had. Indeed, been beard to frequently observe that he knew nothing whatever about several things, including geology, which he regarded as Inconsequent, but in the various "ologies" connected with his profession his information could only be looked upon as amazing. And so tho Doctor's statement that the Dare mystery was "a curious case" hand instant credence with the limited. If select, audience which heard the pronouncement. "The girl is dead." he observed. "So far as my experience goes people who die nearly always do so with reason." he continued with that blank-faced whimsicality which caused him often i be misunderstood. "Always one, sometimes more, according to the personal taste. I think I may say that I have never observed a case where thsre were no mitigating circumstances. When, therefore, a person, comely and of goodly seeming, apparently in good health and lnferentlally enjoying, to some extent, the benefits of such a series of advantages, shuffles off this fairly livable existence and takes the chance of a so-called "reward," it seems just probable that there must be some reasonable, p'ausiblfe excuse. One does not die as he eap, because death is a comestible for which, once swallowed, there is no known emetic. "The girl is dead beyond question. "But what did she die of or from? "The coroner and his medical assistant, both, by the way, very capable men professionally, have made all the ordinary and extraordinary tests to de-1 termine the cause of her death. "She was wet but as eho was In the water less than a minute and was rescued practically instantly many witnesses testifying to this fact death could not have resulted from drowning, and there was no evidence that she died of shock. "Furthermore the lungs contained practically no water and neither had water penetrated the stomach or any other vital organ in sufficient quantities to cause.even, discomfort. "Let us review the evidence collected by the coroner: "On Friday, the thirteenth day of October 190 , Jane Dare, aged twenty-three, spinster, daughter of Jonathan and Helen Dare, residing at 2754 Kim Place, in the city of Brooklyn, state of New York, about the hour of three o'clock entered, for the purpose of crossing from Jersey City to the city of Brooklyn, a ferry of the annex line operated by the Pennsylvania railroad and known as A547; that she was accompanied to said ferry by a friend with whom she had been calling and whose testimony is attached hereto; that she appeared to be in good health and her accustomed spirits, laughing and joking and exhibiting no pain or physical discomfort; that just as the ferry cleared the slip she was standing beside the rail at the rear of the boat on the right side, and she leaned suddenly forward as if to wave a last signal, lost her balance and fell overboard; that as she so fell a man (name unknown), who was standing beside her, grasped and clung to her arm and clothing, but was unable to check her fall; that seeing he would be unable to check her fall, he released her and sprang overboard striking the water at practically the same time as the deceased; that both went under but reappeared fh a few seconds, the girl In the grasp of the unknown man. who proving his ability as a swimmer by immediately striking out for the head of the slip, the ferry proceeded without stopping to offer aid; that at the foot of a ladder forming a portion of the head of the slip, the girl was taken in charge by the officials of the company and the rescuer disappeared iu the crowd and has not since been discovered; that the girl had every attention from the said company's officials, which officials are accustomed to giving aid in like cases, and every effort was made along the usual lines to revive her but to-no avail; that the symptoms were somewhat unusual being accompanied by profuse hemorrhages from the nose and mouth; that the company's doctor, who was called immediately the accident happened, was unable to account for the death, as due to drowning because of these unusual features and that it became necessary, therefore, to hold an autopsy; that said autopsy being conducted by the help of my assis

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tant developed uo abnormal or unhealthy condition of any of the organs which might have resulted in death; and that the ease should be examined most thoroughly by an expert pathologist to determine, if possible, the ,aiiBe of death, etc' 'Curious wasn't it! Now it so happens that 1 was that gentleman so kindly represented as 'an expert pathologist' by my friend, the coroner, and the case forthwith f'l to me. "The coroner, an you may know, is a very busy man and while in ordinary cases of sudden death from apoplexy, etc, he can get at tin; cause as well as anybody, he hasn't the time to give n the more obscure cases. He hastily looks over the subject and if the evidence Is plainly disceruable, he reaches a quick conclusion. "Hut sometimes the mere accident of examination by artificial light, instead of daylight, makes a difference in tho conclusions reached. "So when I was called in, 1 rather expected to find it a case of too hurried examination, and that a very careful overhauling of the body would disclose the real cause. "I was somewhat surprised when I found the wholo of the body not only normal in every particular, but finely healthy to boot. However, just at the j base of the brain, I came upon a tiny clot of blood so tiny, indeed, that except for the very best of light, I should not have noticed it. myself. Hut as it was, of itself, too minute to have caused any serious disability, it was j necessary to make a fuller and more extended examination. "I will spare you the details, but a large clot was found, beginning at the large blood clot was found, beginning at the base of the brain, and it had been caused by some sharp instrument, such as a very fine dagger or a very large hat pin, which had been thrust into tho brain through the nostril. "The girl had been murdered! "Cut off in her youth and strength. "But by whom and for what reason? "The last person known to have touched her or to have been near en-

ough to her to commit such a deed j ionally run to the use of some instru- i Hfe and pursuits and another had was her 'rescuer.' But was he her j ment. a club or knife, or, in fact, any- been added to the list of inexplicable rescuer? Instead of clutching at her j thing with which the maniac, is, in hia murders, and an extraordinary inclothing to keep her from falling, was j saner moment, familiar. stance to criminal records " he in reality throwing her overboard "In the case of the Whitechapel It a sounds convincing enough)" oris Unf hertof' a,,?, , u I murders, the bodies had each been said the Doctors au(Ji ..but hQW Did he jump overboard-not for the hacked and cut wUh some fine, sharp ) do you propoae to catch man?

vuifuac viil ni ins uci uie or ctiiempi-1 Ing to assist her but that he might j Burely cause her death? Did he, down! there under the water he, an expert swimmer and diver there, where she, heloless and voiceless, unable to nrn. 1

tect herself and call for help, did he all of those cases was a surgeon's scal-i1118 verdict or submit a tentative retreacherously etab her in this unusual ! pel. i port of death by drowning, reserving manner, leave his instrument on the! "A very eminent mrgeon had been ! evldece as I am able to furbottom of the. river, bring her, to the! noticed about the time of these mur-i nisl again8t a Ps,8lble apprehension c..nnn ! :ki ..,! ...lti. 1 1 1 , 1 of the criminal. Also I shall advise

ouiiubc inrriisiuie, dviiui nnu uvr tho hni f th Dii h f,, t- I to the authorities then quietly dis-! i v. uamu uuv I. I V V V, 1 appear knowing that not one expert in many would discover the minute incision which caused death? "Did he do this? "It would seem so. "But why and how ? "Down there under the water, for instance, just at the end of the slip where the water would be clouded by the mud stirred up by the ferr s screw how was it possible to find the maid and commit this heinous crime without leaving any external evidence of his work? How would he know the possibilities of such a wound escaping detection? How would he know of its fatal termination surely and beyond all doubt? So certainly that he would risk having her submitted to the ministrations of one of the profession in the absolute certainty that death would ensue before the cause could be determined, and even if determined, that nothing whatever could be done to save this life? "How came he to know these things?

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"For what purpose did he acquire this knowledge? "Who was he? That is what I want to knew Who was He?" And the Doctor rose and began to pace the floor, hands in pockets, chin down, thoughtful. "Now if the coroner returns a verdict of murder," he resumed, "the chances for catching the murderer are few. Of course there is a possibility that he was recognized. A wet man

always attracts some attention and it j is not impossible that evidence tend- j Ing to establish his Identity may yet be forthcoming. "Hut even supposing some such wet man was seen near the scene of the accident, it would b'f difficult, if not impossible, to prove he was the murderer. "If however, the coroner should de1.,.. ki.. nrriini ci .i ; ;n v... .. n,i HI ilia v ' 1 1 I , , I (l t iiuuillfi. Ill ill.: v r 1 null' , xa .v,.,, I HI 11 1 T l. UUCI DlUU , IJ11V.1 HViailJ . dial I .. ... . . .. . . I tne verciict win ue aeatn ny urowning, i

then should some such man bo iden-i of this girl gave him a chance easily j ject. tifiod as the probable rescuer, he to take advantage of her and to take j "The lamentable outcome of his admight be led to acknowledge his share ; it in such wit-e as to lord to his action j venture was a painful surprise to the

I in the crime because he would think ; no suspicion would attach where no one was suspected. And yet " The Doctor resumed his seat. "You have heard, of course, of the celebrated Whitechapel murders. Did you ever hear of anyone being convicted for the perpetration of those mur ders? Did you ever chance to read any explanation for them? "Well, no one ever was convicted and there is an explanation an explanji'ion. It involves a case of mania of an unusual, or, rather, of a more than ordinary type. "Vou will remember that there were several of these murders practically identical in character, close together, and all of them committed w ithout any apparent motive. Robbery was not attempted nor criminal assault. The victims, indeed, were women of the , street ami the sweepings of humanity, j Hut in each case there was a practical-1 ly identical effort at mutilation mere-1 ly for the sake of the mutilating. "There is a form of mania which has periodic manifestations and is more or less related to the subject of sex.

where the victim absolutely without 1 tence. any control or power to abate, is I "A sudden seizure of the periodic seized with a desire to cause physical mania; the auto-memory of the unuspain to some one of opposite sex. Uial crime; the presence of the envied "It takes different forms, varying j one of health an ideal victim! The with the individual, and the ingenui- j instant observation of the opportunity or quality of the torture varies, oflty; the unhesitating grasp of the ad-

course, with the intelligence and heredity of the person attacked with it "Sometimes it is merely the desire to choke or strike, but It may cccas-; lubii umtiiii mm il was esiauusiieu mac the knife used was not of the ordinary shape or even general character. "Neither was it a razor, "Finally it was found that the only thins? w-hirh pnulrt hVA hoen ikpH in :

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IU1 1 Y LX, I, VIAUCO dUU l LA W U V i.A XI 171 UUl was ever found to connect him witn them, his sudden death saw an end to the period of slaughter which had immediately preceded it, "It was also established, through an examination of the body and brain of the deceased that there were the abnormal conditions present always attendmt upon this form of mania. "Now the person who committed this extraordinary crime the killing of Jane Dare was, to my way of thinking, not improbably some victime of such a mania. That he was a person of attainment is proved by the extraordinary character of the crime. No one but one versed in surgery would ever know tha such a wound would produce death inevitably, nor would he ever, of himself, think of inflicting any such unusual wound. "There is but one record of a murder committed through such means and this occurred in France and was reported in a French medical journal of limited circulation. "Supposing him not to have been a

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surgeon, or to have any knowledge vernacular he is a trifle difficult to j sut on the fire escape and close the which goes to press earlier than the of surgery, yet an inteligent reading ! understand. This is what the clip- j window afterward? Then assume ; regular, so it did not get primed unof an obscure French journal of a ping said : j some semblance- to connected, coher- j til this morning."' technical character would argue no . "The sad case of the drown'ng o! j ent and seemly discourse. You annoy t "What are you going to do about

little erudition. Had he been a native of France, even then his posses- j sion of this form of literature and this

particular periodical, would sustain , attempting to wave a farewell to a the contention that he was not an or- friend und was apparently rescued in dinary person. time by some unknown man, has re"Furthermore, he was at home in ': ceived added interest through the disthe water. So much so that, hampered ' covery of her rescuer. He turns out

by clothes, shoes and stockings, etc., , he was yet able to perform the act of producing this peculiar and rather ; delicate operation down beneath the surface of the water. Produce it, too, , nicely, precisely, and with the utmost exactness, and to carry the fainting girl to the slip's head. This is no ; j small thing considered as a physical feat alone. "Ho nnaaeii initiation unH omfan. 1 - " t- - - ...... . . . - itv YVit,,sa hi. ir,tar,t ,,.. f ,h I - . . - . . . v. ... j . 1 . 1 . l i c 1 ti" luimj iieu me leaning lorwaru , every appearance of offering assis-1 tance. Consider the open daylight,

the presence of many persons who larly inconvenienced by her involunwould witness his every act. She was j tary immersion. He was unable to bestrong and in the best of health and j lieve that one could die of drowning

spirits and to gain an advantage com-; parable to this might involve considerable struggle, with attendant chances of outside interference. "What was the reason for the crime? "Robbery? "She wore some jewels and carried a purse but the jewels were found in place and the purse on the deck of the ferry. "What then? "I will tell you! "A sudden, maddening desire to deprive of life in a manner of which there was but one recorded case m all the history of crime, this person of the opposite sex, full of life and health and in the enjoyment of youth and strength an overwhelming and overpowering will to master and kill this thing of life and beauty; to destroy, annihilate and forever quiet this epitome of the promises of exisvantage and commission of the crime; the easy escape from any detention because of the excitement attending the rescue: a resumntion of the usual "I do not know exactly how to accomplish the capture," replied the Doctor, "but I intend to lay my argument before the coroner, together with my finding, and advise him to delay ; the identity of our lngemus and learn1 -k Wi n w 1 - A " ! ed maniac. Time passed as time has a habit of i doing, anc! I did not get to see the Docj tor for some ten days after our conversation relative to tne Dare mystery. Neither had I seen any references to the case in the papers. So I was not a little surprised when, , one Monday morning, just as I was starting to my office, a messenger rushed up, demanded my signature to his pesky book, gave me a sealed envelope and rushed off again. Such expedition from a member of the leis- ; ure class donated either a fat fee or the proverbial new broom and the phenomenon fixed my marked atten-1 tion for as much as thirty seconds, j Then I tore open the envelope and I found a clipping. It had been hastily torn out of a paper and, written across j the margin, in the Doctor's ungodly scrawl w ere the words "been and went and done," and his initials, "F. L." When the Doctor lapses into the j G0, (3, Main Street

Miss Jane Dare in the ferry slip of the

Pennsylvania annex on October thir-: teenth when she fell overboard while to have been Dr. Franklin Hodge, of Sockem. N. J.. professor of chemistry in James university, and, after his gallant conduct, to have proceeded on j his way home. It is not surprising to j be informed of his Heroic feat even! though his effort tc save the young ladies' life was unavailing. Dr. Hodse is a chemist and stands high in his ; profession being the author of a worK on jewels oi me iaooratorv a learned and vastly interesting dis- - niiicitinn in o enm hot ftKnifn a , , K l"'-"'-"-'" w" - - vua,ui suu-; professor as he had supposed she j revived quickly and was not particuwho had been in the water but the

j short time Miss Dare was and thejditi'on nablts and ' affiliations--actual

news of her untimely demise was a great shock to him.'' Chemist eh? Author! "Jewels of the Laboratory," lapis lazuli, ferro cyanide, etc., etc. Remarkable and original! Hodge! Sounds English! Must know French since French are great chemists. Jove! Rescuer is he? 'Shocked" is he? "Lamentable outcome!" "Unable to believe!" 1 wouldn't be in his boots for any

consideration underlease he would promptly argue that it

heaven. A six foot drop and a dangle into eternity on the free end of a bunch of manilla! Nice rescuer! Hold on. though he's crazy! Crazy as a bedbug! Can't hang a crazy man! Some such jumble as this ran through my head as I hurried to the

Doctor's office. Mine would not be op-; clothes though it is possible to a ened until rather later than usual but j semi-aquatic bird such as the Docit so happened that nobody would be tor. However, we would not be surinconvenienced because if anyone ever j prised to learn that our distinguished called he did it either before I came fellow citizen was the hero who resin or after I had left and he never ! cued Miss Jane Dare from the river at seemed to have cards about him. ' the ferry slip, risking his life to save

I found when I arrived that, as usual, the dear gentleman w as up to his chin in work. Just what it was pass - es the understanding of such a duffer as I but it seemed to have something to do with dinky pieces of glass and some kind of micro thing scope or otherwise how do I know? Fortu - nately it did not appear t- interfere with his liow of language unless the evil smelling pipe between his clinched teeth and through which he mostly spoke could be said to be work. "Get my note?" was shot at me as I entered. "Nice thing isn't it!' came next with a couple of disgusted puffs. By the way is fiendish tobacco supposed to keep the little wigley-tails properly subdued? Because Doctors always affect it. "Always thought there was some - thing wrong," said the Doctor conit i t, .. ... j templating his slides Puff! puff! "My dear chap," I interposed, "will you kindly lay that diabolical inven - . tion o nis Satanic majesty, no less,

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guerrilla fire of small calibre state-"Pnnfi-inml vnu .m,i? vrmr sarcasm! , : . . - .- f!n into thp lihrarv And you will find a Sockum weekly "paper open e the proper place. Road it and bring it here or bring it hore and read it. 1 don't care which." Suppose vou tell me what it says and save the optical strain the job would entail on me," 1 said. 1 "You lazy, lousy beggar--v. h.. : the what the " words failed the Doctor. I am not accustomed to denying j the niands of my aggressive friend but that pipe was more than even my amiable disposition could stand. So , , , . r t . . placed my&elf firml in the open ami1 JT ' UO where the maximum of fresh air s and the minimum pipe obtained. At- J ter k muttered grumble which i un-1 derstood was not a prayer because it had something to do with my charai ter, he submitted. "Since you are so beastly cocky this morning I suppose 1 will have to tell you. It appears that that ass Hodge went home wet. Went home to Socand imagined are discussed over the I j grocery store counter and are the subI iec-.t of conversation among the leisurely populace "It shows he was 'off in his works.' ... , , , , Anyone would have known that the condltion of his clothing would elicit mmmpn. -nri ft, t hard rid.lon roim - comment ana tm.t a nam licuun coun - try editor pounce on it for an item. Then when he (the editor) read in the city papers the account of this was li is dear Doctor Hodge who had done the gallant deed of rescue. So he made an item of it ""Dr. Frank Hodge blew into town Friday afternoon twenty-four hours ahead of time and the curious part of it was he was wet as an April day. It is not the custom to swim in one's j that of the unfortunate girl who was j i unable to survive the shock. The j j Doctor's well knrwn modesty prej vents our giving definite information j j but the accident happened at three j j o'clock and the Professor arrived ; ; home at four-ten and everybody! ! knows how long it takes to reach! ; Sockem.' j "The account ran something like j that," went on the Doctor, "all the j facts in a jest semi-aquatic bird!' ! Sockem the right distance so he could j have caught the three-fitteen train j and get home nt four-ten. Paper datj ed Thursday, October nineteenth." i "Why did the city papers fail to get! j this item? The exchange man on some! ! of them ought surely to have run J across it." j "They didn't miss it. Figure it out 1 for yourself. The exchange man left his weeklies until the lust because , i not very important. This one came j I in on Saturday morning it takes a country paper awhile to get into the ; ; mails. The exchange man found it j too late for the Sunday edition

I asked. - what am I going to do about it! .NGining. Not one sincle little thsnsr'lite coroner has my reoort and h.s ! own Pinion. He can do just as ho j pleases about it. Hodge's a pretty j big card to draw on such a deal and j might be a hard one to play. He got ; his job in tho of P opposition ' i" 01 ib.. i lacuny or trie institution through, a political pull inherited from his father, urele. aunt or something or other -don't know just what or how. Rut if he's that strong he would probably be strong enough to pull out of this game: manufacture an alibi, pack th jury and get off easy if not scot tree. Do! I shall do nothing!" "Put isn't it dangerous to have him around loose? Isn't there some sort of a patent writ to lock him up with?' "Can't say." The Doctor was becoming laeouic, and the pipe had been resumed. "B;iT he's crazy!" I protested tentatively. "Crazy as a bedbug!" agreed tho Doctor. Puff! Puff. i .. PlICS ! PllCS ! PllOS! j " " .V V , ' V,, Williams Inaian I lie Ointment will euro j rtund, Bleeding and Itching Pils. It ab1 sorbs the tumors, allay? itching at one. 1 'l',s as a Poultlce. givs instant relief, , wm(ams. Tn,1l;ul nu, ointment is prI pared for Tiles and U'-hing of the private j E?.r:!;.1 r'15f,sfi -l and i.uo. HU.1.IAH19 urn. tu., rrop., iietrtiana, Vn For sale bv T. F. McDonnell. Krone & Kennedy you stopped to consider why you should buy your clothing from this store. knowing the value of the K. 4. K. line of clothing, would never hesitate. We have a very unusual large variety of styles and beautiful patterns. Our customers have mar. veled at the selection we are offering this season. As for fit they fit perfectly. This is due because they are made right good linings and other material. The hardest to fit can be satisfied here. SHOULD buy your clothing here this season. If you have had trouble in getting just what you wanted, your troubles are at an end for here is where you get perfect satisfaction. OYS! want you to be comfcrtalbe this season In other words you should buy your clothes here where warm wearables are to be had at unusual low prices.

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