The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-11-08

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makes that dog SO uneasy"
Peters merely replied, Shouldn't won
der and then slowly sauntered across The
: street, swinging his club by its string. Ht
looked at the windows and tried those with
: in reach and then pushed the door wide
i open, calling loudly to me as he did SO
6 Forgetting that had but light slippers
/, on, I Immediately Joined the officer. He
e was evidently excited: and as he pointed
to the sill of the door his hand visibly trem
bled- | heard him calculate under his
breath, 'sWhat fool was-what an ever
lasting fool l was"
j .s'What,' said l., sis the matter, Peters p
'Matter enough, he answered, ''as you
will soon learn. Last night / arrested a
we'll young woman, who was lettering in
a very suspicious manner near this house.
Her business she would not explain, and
her whole appearance and agitated manner
. pointed TO something very unusual. She
d wore a black dress of some WOODEN stuff,
and the right arm of it was half torn away
Her hand bore marks of blood, we kept her
, few minutes, but there was no real evil
= dence to Justify OBTAINING her. so she was
let out. Now look on that STEP there is
e blood. And look here-here on the floor
ID is piece of black stuff suddenly torn from
dress sleeve"
''What of it.-at all events let US find
! out something more. Stay, | viii get a
light" said |.
So | returned to my own house, and has
tily dragging on my boots and selling my
hat, a lantern that used to look to the
house fastenings before going to bed and a
small but efficient revolver, reioined Peters.
lie had meanwhile been reioined by the
patrolman on the beat whom Peters desired
to remain outside Number 80, and if we
wbistled, to rap for help. &<51l#1
Cautiously stepping into the dark passage,
J we nearly closed the door behind us, and
and began our search There were two
rooms on the first floor, and we looked over
them thoroughly. Next the basement, also
of two rooms But in neither of the four
was there any unusual appearance Of any
kind. And VIC resolved to go up stairs
| am not nervous man, | think, but
there was something about those stairs that
made me feel strange. | looked Peters in
| the face, and he me, as we placed our feet
on the first step We both knew that some
horror was in store for u.s. | saw in his
eyes the strange dilation with whicil men
/ gaze at a sudden accident And the dog
heard US too, for it began to yell frantically
and to spring at a door as if it would
tear it down. We both knew that the room
in which the dog was-a small half bed
room-must contain something But we
searched all the upper portion of the house
before that room. At last we stood before
its closed and apparently locked door
Shall we knock ~ said |.
''No matter and less harm, ne answered,
and he gave one solid blow upon the door
that sounded like "a thunder clap as it echoed
all over the house. The dog sank into in
slant silence. ~
Take the light p said Peters
did SO. He then put his left arm bebiud |
bis back, and, so to speak, concentrating his
whole weight and strength in his left shout |
der, fnng himself, full against the door
and as it flew open staggered almost head
long in.
What had we come to see A room dab
bled over-hoor, walls, rniture-with
blood. A dog with blazing eyes and bloody
feet, glaring from beneath a lounge. A bed
unsle pit in, but bloody And in large and
heavy chair a woman sitting bound hand
and foot, and by cords passing round her
body with her head dropping forward upon
her breast. And as we lifted hel head we
saw hideous gashthat had cut her throat
from ear to ear.
A policemen is but man. have found J
some of the most humane men | ever knew
among the force, and Peters was one Of
them. He was horror struck, and could
not utter a word. Pointing to the street
and to his mouth, knew that was to do
what he could not contract his lips to do
whistle to the patrolman in the street did
so at once, and in another minute or two
we were joined by two other officers
pass over what followed briefly. The
house was taken possession of by the po-
lice the dog was carefully removed and |
secured and in due time there came the
inquest, with an inevitable verdict of ''Wil-
full murder by some persons unknown"
and private and public inquiries of the most
searching description for the murderers
Money was the object of the crime, for a
broken desk was found, and from private
record it was discovered that bank notes to
a large amount had been kept in it, but
were missing. AS for the girl that had been
arrested and set free, she was not heard of
again although all the resources Of the po-
lice were taxed to the utmost to find her
whereabouts And the murder of Number
SO remained mystery which it seemed
would never be solved. The only relic of
the case was the dog, which took fancy
ito and brought to my house. Bob-that |
was the name l gave him-became quite a |
curiosity for time, and was looked on as
a historical character. This, too soon died
out. And when, five years later, took a
house several miles back of Jersey City, in
ope of the localities fast becoming popular,
the terrible story Of how our opposite neigh |
Dor died was very seldom thought of.
My business Increased. was getting rich.
Not rich in the past war sense of this year of
grace, eighteen hundred and sixty six, but |
had enough to keep me in quiet way with
out more work, if chose to remain idle. We
saw little company, and except some occa
sional visit from a client, saw but few new
faces at home People did say was getting
fat, but that was caIumny. | 51se
"Any body been here to-day, jackson ?" |
This to my clerk, with me now, man and
boy, for twenty years.
'Only one; queer looking chap, Mr.. Elder;
looks like a returned digger, or something
of that sort
What does be want?" / asked
''Some questions about california land
claim, think, said jackson; but he will
be here in half an hour to speak for him
SELF f931-L .s52lI.- DIG -a.F1Ls S ~ /
And in half an hour he came. Why Jack
son should compare him to a digger l could
not for the life of me imagine. He was tall,
we'll built, though rather slender, had black,
curling hair, and full, dark beard, and his
eyes were full of gentleness. There did not
seem even the cool, ready tongue and iron
watchfulness of expression that l have no.
ticed about many who have made fortunes
in a gold claim and lost them again in the
gilded saloons of San Francisco. But there
was somethiDg-no matter, | will get on
with the facts.
MIR. Layton-that was the gentleman's
name-had, he told me, purchased, several