Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-08-05

tlOn, sir, like your tatherY said the doc
ter.
The young man answered, with cur
on the lip, 4 suppose one can subscrib
to what paper he pleasesY and thus say
ing, he pocketed his newspaper and wen
out of the Office
DIR. Thomas wended his way to his owl
house, slowly and thoughtfully. Charles
Redington was above uspicion-wealthy
son of a member of Congress, born in tn,
village, and of good name and fame. Ye
he was the only one that took the Star
and it was a torn portion of the Star which
formed the wad of the bullet
1T is possible another may have found
or torn the aper.-Perhaps he does not
file them, and throws them away. If so
any one might pick them up l must be
cautious. will call on his mother, and
ask her for the loan of volume of the
folio Encyclopedia, which belonged to
her husband. This will enable me to look
about, and perhaps learn something.
Thus he unused as he walked on. That
day he called on the widow, and was
shown into the library for the book by
Charles himself, who looked pale, and i'll
at ease-so much so, that the doctor said,
'Mr. Redington, you do not look WE'LL
You must look after Yourself
The young man laughed and turned
away his head Upon char the doctor
saw, piled in a heap, a great number of
the Star. He took up one, and said,
This is singularly American Journal,
Mr. Redington, to be edited by jew
Il seldom read it. I am not a politi-
clan. [ keep it as waste paper
'Ah, indeed Permit me to look over
some of them p
yes; but you will excuse me as l have
an engagement. You can borrow any
other books you please, besides the Ency-
clop@da.'
After the young man had gone out, the
doctor proceeded to examine the news
papers upon the chair but found them all
whole but seeing one wrapped around
parcel upon the table, he approached it,
and saw that it contained melon seed. A
portion of this paper was torn off. A
glance showed him that he had the missing
part in his drawer, at his own house
Instantly and adroitly he poured out
the seeds, and secured the paper. He
was overwhelmed with surprise and pain.
As he was leaving, Mrs. Redington met
him in the hall, and said, after few re.
marks about books, Have they discovered
the murderer, doctor p
Not yet I believe
Poor Ida Charles thought worlds of
her, and has not been himself since he
heard how she is almost beside herself
| think he loved her; but | always told
him she was too poor match for him. [
am very sorry for her, and for the poor
young man. How shockingp
The doctor left and proceeded to the
house, took the wad. and went to the re-
sidence of the justice of the peace. The
two gentlemen remained closeted together
for an hour. That night Charles Reding-
ton was arrested, while at table, by two
officers of the law, and conveyed to
prison.
He denied all knowledge of the murder,
and assumed the front and bearing of in
jured innocence. He was in due time,
brought into court for trial The only
ground of evidence against him was the
fragment of newspaper. But the defence
ably argued that the assassin, whoever he
was, might have stolen the paper, as no
such paper was to be found on the prison
er's premises, or brought it with him from
another town.
The Star circulates four thousand
copies weekly he added 'and there are
four thousand chances that my client is
innocent.
When everybody in court looked for an
acquittal, the torn newspaper, which the
doctor had taken from the library, with
Mrs Eleanor Redington's' name upon it,
was produced, and the fragment fitted to
it before all eyes,
When Charles Redington saw this pa
per produced, he uttered cry of despair,
and sprang from the prisoners box so
unexpectedly, that he had reached and
leaped from an open window before he
could be arrested. Mounted men follow
ed his wild fight, and he was overtaken
and caught at the very spot where the
body cf William had been discovered
The result was that he confessed in prison
the deed of murder, so clearly established
by circumstantial evidence. He said he
had gone home, after leaving Ida Boyd,
loaded his pistol, tearing off portion of
the Star for the wadding, resolved to meet
Appleton on his return from his visit to
Ida Boyd, and compel him to relinquish
her to himself That he met him on his
way, and upon his refusal to comply with
his demand, he shot him in a moment of
uncomfortable jealousy.
Three mouths afterwards, Charles Red
ington expiated his crime on the gallows
and the evening of the same fatal day the
dead body Of the fair Ida Boyd was laid
by weeping mourners in her last home,
b95- The Chicago Tribune, of Tuesday
says of wheat;
At no period in the history ofthe grain
trade Of our city has the wheat market un-
dergone such sudden fluctuations as have
occurred during the past eight or ten weeks
and i'm mn venr has thprp hepn as m,irh mn