Smyrna times., 1857-05-27

and perhaps he may have been the cause of her
DEATH But we need not go into specuations
on this, it being irrelevant 10 our purpose. The
business with him is to get the woman's body off
his hands, because he could not, in the event of
her death becoming known, prevent people from
entertaining the idea that foul play had been
resorted to. She may have occupied u very
peculiar station in his household; she may have
been brought up from New York and secreted
about the house, without the knowledge of any
one, and she has died. Any one can appreciate
his case. Amy one can see whyit is necessary
for him to get rid of her corpse.
So he goes to Newburg; sees Miss Bloom;
tells her his delicate situation; offers her
large reward to aid him in disposng OF the body.
Or he could easily arrange the part for Miss
Bloom to act without letting her into the secret.
But whether he tells her or not, this plan is
agreed upon: Miss Bloom is to get Jenkins to
go with her, at late hour of the Dight, to
house near distant town. She contrives to
make it known that he is to start with her,
She SO arranges the matter that Jenkins will
think that she stops at the house of Mrs. Mas,
tin, while in reality she passes that house and
goes on to a lonely house in a lonely locality,
there, in accordance with previous arrange
ments, intending to stay until Jenkins is arrest
ed for her murder, tried and hung. though she
may not know anything about the conspiracy,
and may wonder why it is that the strange man
requires her 70 act as she does.
On that same night after Jenkins and Sarah
Bloom pass along the road, the stranger, the
murderer carries his dead victim--afer having
all things pre-arranged after stripping Off the
ring, which perhaps had his name on it, from
her fnger,--afler fracturing her skull to create
the impression that she died from the fracture,
while in reality she was dead before the blow
was struck-afler so disfguring the body that
the difference between her and Sarah Bloom
cannot be discovered, while the reselnblances
both natural and artificial, are alo we'd to re-
main--he carries the body to place where she
was found.
Mark, now he does not conceal her in the
woods on the opposite side of the road, but pla-
SOS hSA AZ ou OPCh why 10 tHlS IL IL
because, if placed in the woods, she might re-
main SO long, before discovery, that there would
not be any means by which to recognise her as
Sarah Bloom ! Decaying of the body would
commence and she would not be recognizable,
and the object of the conspiracy might be de-
feated, in consequence of excessive caution =
Nor does he put her in too public place.
Why! Because in this case he would be too
careless. He would be going to the other ex-
treme. His artifce would be apt to be seen
through by some cunning pind acquainted with
the science of detection. Men would know, at
once, that no murdered body would be left in
the road unless the murderer wished to have il
discovered. This man did wish a discovery,
but it must be such discovery as will lead to
to the belief that Miss Sarah Bloom was mur-
dered, and that Jenkins, on the night Of the ride
ito Mrs. Mastin's, committed the murder.
This is our theOry--our belef-of the man
ner, the cause, and the circumstances of this
mysterious DEATH We await the inevitable
revelations of time to ascertain its correctness.
1t is unnecessary to assign the causes that have
mpeled us to the formation of this belief, tor
they are obvious. P.
May II, 1857.