Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-03-30

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,".What did you mean by telling me such
81 spoke under my BREATH" he replied in
the same tone.
"About what 2"
"About the reason we stopped just now"
He smiled.
ITO tell the truth, stopped to take on a
single passenger-a gentleman who has come
down from Bayswater."
"For the pleasure of travelling once more
over the same route ?"
EXACTLY so-for the pleasure of travelling
1T in certain society. Don't be alarmed
for your own safety-its detective police
man." ..
| "-n
was about to repeat the words in aston
ishment, when he motioned me to silence.
"And who is the offender
VI don't know myself" He don't want o
scene until the moment of arrest we are
safe enough until we reach Bayswater."
"Where is he2 2"
"The detective3 He sits by the door
yonder with a ragged fur-cap pulled over
his eyes Did you ever see more perfect
specimen of the dilapijated countryman 2"
81 smiled could hardly help it.
"What is the case2"
GA murder-a man and his wife and two
little children-their throats cut, last night
and the house set fire too afterwards"
Great heavens what monster ~
We had continued the conversation in
Whisper scarcely above our breath, and
now the conductor rose and left me to study
the faces of my fellow passengers with curl
Gus dread and horror.
Somehow, often as revolved the matter
in my mind, my fancy would settle on a
coarse, gross looking man opposite, with a
bushy beard and coat of shaggy wool,
with the collar turned up round his ears. l
felt convinced that this man with the brutal
eyes and the heavy, hanging jaws, was the
Cain and as l looked furtivey across |
caught the wide open blue orbs of the fair
little girl.
Obeying the instantaneous impulse of my
heart, rose and went over TO her.
"You heard what we were saying my child
"Yes-a murder-oh, how horrible! !"
"Do not be frightened-no one shall hurt
you.'
She smiled up in my face with sweet, con-
iding innocence
Our stay at Exmouth was but brief but
during the delay could see that the watch.
ful detective had changed his seat to one
nearer the British man in the shaggy over
coat.
J See said the faltering "they-they
locked the car doors at Exmouth; they are
unlocking them now"
She was right.
"Probably they were fearful lest the
criminal should escape,' remarked, in an
undertone
"Will you-may trouble you to bring
me glass of water9"
rose and made my way towards the ice
cooler by the door, but with difficulty, for
the train was again under rapid notion
to my disappointment the tin goblet was
chained to the shelf
mo matter" she said with a winning
smile, II will come myself"
drew the water, and held up the cup |;
but instead of taking it as she approached,
she brushed suddenly past me opened the
door, and rushed out upon the platform.
stop her Stop her ~ shouted the detec-
tive, springing to his feet. She will be
killed; Observation-Disclosures hold up!'
There was rush-a tumut-a hustle, |
serted, save by half-frozen looking brake
man, who seemed horror stricken.
"She went past me like a shadow, and
Jumped off as we crossed Cairn turnpike
road" he stammered.
Jumped off the express train Well, "
said the conductor Struggling his shoulders,
"she must have been killed instantly. What
mad folly !"
"Its five hundred dollars out of my pock-
et," said the detective ruefuly. | didn't
wan. row before we got to Bayswater, but
l was confounded fool. A woman cor
nered will do anything, believev"
"What !" calculated; "you surely do not
mean that child"
81 mean," said the detective, calmly,
shat that child, as you call her, is Atti!a
Burton, a married woman of twenty-six
years DID, who last night murdered four
persons in cold blood, and was trying to es-
cape to Canada. That what l mean"
The train was stopped, and party of us,
headed by the conductor and detective
went back to search for any trace of the
beautiful young creature, whose loveliness
and apparent innocence had appealed to
my sympathes so earnestly. Nor was it
long before we found her lying quite dead
by the SIDE of the track, frightfully mang-
led by the force of the fall, and mutilated
almost beyond recognition.
"Well, she's escaped justice in this world
if not in the next" said the detective gloom
lily, as he stood looking down upon her re-
mains.
"Do you suppose she expected to be able
to spring off the train without injurya"
T asked.
"Without much injury-yes women are
, unreasoning creatures. But l never dream
ed of such insane folly, or / should have
f taken prompt measures to prevent it."
; They lifted up the fair dead thing, ant
carried it to the nearest place of refuge,
q lonely farm house among the frozen hills
and we returned to the train, reaching Bays
water only few minutes behind our regu
lar time.
And when in the next mornings pape
l read the account of the murder, and tn
tragic end of the murderess, thought o
the slender creatures blue eyes and rosebu'
mouth, with strange, pitying thrill at m
heart.
y How COLD AFFECTS Us.-Dr. Farr, i
discussing the effects of the cold weather il
i 1855 on the public health, came to the cor
: clusion that the power of cold on life varie
according to definite laws II WAS found b