The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-07-14

folded up the paper, for at that moment
Charles Redington entered, and asked
for his papers and letters.
$50 you keep up the old Star sub
scription, sir, like your father?" said the
doctor.
The young man answered with a curl
on his lip, 81 suppose one can subscribe
10 what paper he pleases?" and thus
saying, he pocketed his newspaper, and
went out of the office.
Mr.. Thomas wendell his way to his
to his own house, slowly and tho't-
fully. Charles Redington was above
suspicion-wealthy, son of member
Of Congress, born in the village, and of
good name and fame. Yet he was tho
only one who took the Star, and it was
torn portion of the Star which formed
the wad Of the bullet
Z" 1t is possible another may have
found or torn the paper. 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 Encyclopedias,
which belonged to her husband. This
will enable me to look about, and per-
haps learn something"
Thus he unused as he walked on
The 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
well. You must look after yourself"
The young man laughed and turned
away his head. Upon chair the doc
tor saw piled i'll heap, great number
of the St0r. He took up one, and said,
''this is a singular American journal,
Mr.. Redington to be edited by jew"
" | seldom read it. / am not a poll.
tioian. / keep it as waste paper"
"Ah, indeed Permit me to look
over some of them?"
eyes; but you will excuse me, as I
have an engagement. You can bor-
row any other books you please, besides
the Encyclopaedia"
After the young man had gone out,
the doctor proceeded to examine the
newspapers upon the chair, but found
them all whole; but seeing one of them
wrapped around a parcel upon the table
he approached it, and saw that it con.
tanned melon seed
A portion of this paper was torn of.
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 scared the paper. He
was overwhelmed with surprise and
pain. As he was leaving, Mrs. Reding-
ton met him in the hall, and said, after
few remarks about books, Have they
discovered the murderer, doctor?'
Not yet, believe"
E'Poor Ida Charles thought worlds
of her, and has not been himself since
he heard how she is almost beside her.
self. l 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 shocking 20
The doctor left, and proceeded to his
house, took the wad, and went to the
residence ofthe Justice of the peace
The two gentlemen remained closeted
together for an hour. That night Charts
Redington was arrested, while at Ia
BILE, by tive officers of the law, and con-
veyed to Prison.
He denied all knowledge of the muir.
der, and assumed the front and bear,
ing OF injured 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 prisoners 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
When every body 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
paper produced, he uttered cry of de-
spair, and sprang from the prisoners
box so Unexpectedly, that he had reach
cd and leaped from an open window
before he could be arrested. Mounted
men followed his wild flight, and he
was overtaken and caught at the very
spot where the body of William had
been discovered, The result was that
he confessed in prison the deed of MUIR
der, SO clearly established by circum-
stantial evidence. He said he had gone
home, after leaving Ida Boyd, loaded
his pistol, tearing off a portion of the
Star, for the wadding, resolved to meet
Appleton on his return from his visit
to Ida Boyd, and compel him to relin-
quish her to himself That he met him
on his way, and upon his refusal to COM
ply with his demand, he shot him in a
moment Of uncomfortable jealousy.
Three months afterwards, Charles
Redington 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 its last home.
PLowING BY STEAM.-The N. Y. Sea-
entijGc An1eric0aa learns that company
has been formed in Chicago, with a cap
ital of $4,000, for introducing into prac-