Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
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be?' she thought as she approached them.
" Gould he have gone out 7" No, for
there was his hat, thrown, Just like him,
upon the floor near the door, his coat too,
lying across a chair and near it his gait
ers. A sudden tremor came over her as
she moved toward those doors; a name
less t~oreboding, a fear of something, she
knew not what. Placing her hand upon
the edge-of one of the doors she paused,
and.holding the light at arms length she
Looked into the room, but could see moth
ing unusual. She then thought of going
up stairs and calling her daughter. This
thought and the diversion it gave her
mind, from its morbid fear emboldened
her. She relinquished her hold of the
door and stood within the apartment
Now she could see all. One terrible
shrek, one fearful wild cry Of murder,
and she fell senseless to the floor.
What a magic there is in that one word
Murder when shrieked out upon the
night air. How it seems to penetrate
every house and nook and Granny for
miles around.
Murder! Men paused half appalled, in
the streets blocks away, as those .Aurrying
past whispered the word. Even the very
walls seemed to take up the cry and pass
it along from house to house, from ear to
ear, until, as if they had risen from the
earth, gaping crowds even at that late
hour, throng and jostle each other on the
pave in front of the house. a
The daughter heard the cry-the SER
want far below heard lit rung through
the house like the wall of the doomed.
Daughter and servant met at the door
leading from the passage to the real
room from whence the cry had proceeded;
the door was pushed open and they, TOO.
were appalled,.
Upon the carpet, near a bureau, one o.
the drawers of which was partly out, lay
Carlton, face upwards, one Of his legs
drawn up with his arms, one extended
upon the foor and the other. in a crampeo
position and under his head, as if he hao
caught it thus in falling. There be lay
his shirt bosom perfectly saturated with
blood, his face CHASTITY, almost white, the
lips slightly apart, disclosing the set teeth
and the eyes wide open but glazed in
death. l
There were no evidences that a strug.
gle had occurred, and the idea Of suicide
would have been absurd.
The continuous knocking at the door
below, and the repeated pulls at the bell
were answered by Maria, who, recovering
herself partially, was but too glad to es
cape further contemplation Of the horrid
spectacle. The front door was opened,
two or three officers entered and proceed
ed to the death room. These were fol
lowed by one Or two physicians, and they
by half a dozen curious bodies who hac
by dint of hard pushing and bare faced
lying forced their way in.
Aud soon the inevitable reporters o
the morning papers came, one after an
other; then the. coroner, in hot haste, anC
Heaven only knows how many more
Lastly, a detective, who soon began hi.
investigation.
AS far as>could be ascertained from the
position OF the body, Mr.. Carlton must
have been attacked when he returned to
the room, after having passed through il
to his bed-chamber, and Invested himself
of his coat, vest and hat. 1t was evident
that, when struck down, he was standing
at the bureau, the drawer of which he
himself had opened. The contents of the
drawer were undisturbed. There were
three wounds-one in the back, a little
below the vertrebr@ of the neck, one in
the breast, and one in the aeshy part of
the hand, which after the first blow he
may have thrown up to ward off the blow
in front. But who was the assassin p
The detective insisted that the murderer
must have been concealed in the apart.
ment, or under the bed in the trout room.
The window of the rear apartment was
not open but scarcely discernable to any
save the Watchtul detective, were marks
OF boot heels on the sill, the imprint upon
the paint showing that the feet were di.
rected outward. Five or six feet below
the window was a shed roof, the lower
part OF which was some ten feet from the
yard. The detective thus concluded that
the murderer had escaped through the
window, pulled down the sash, leaped
from the roof to the yard, and then made
his way through a small store house,
(once 1t had been used as a carriage house)
from thence into an alley which commu-
nicated with Washington street.
Upon a closer examination of the means
OF the unknown villains escape, the de-
tectlve discovered a small shred Of the
silk lining of a coat skirt clinging to the
point of a broken hasp on the outer door
casing s. the store house.
This oit, or rather strip, was the only
clue, so far. From Mr.. Carlton the de-
~tectiye learned the family history. Mr..
Cartoons habits, the names of those who
had been his intimate associates, who
were but few, and of those. who in any
degree might have had cause Of enmity
toward him. Thus, having gained all
the information he could III this respect.
the detective set to work.
Some ten days after the funeral Of Carl
ton, a daring burglary was perpetrated
In Greenwich street, aud some hive thou
sand dollars worth Of goods cdi fled off