The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-01-08

that it was anything but comfortable
to be looked upon as a murderer,
although knew that I was innocent.
Thus three weeks passed without
anything Of interest occurring, and at
the end of that time, [ could endure
the suspense no longer. Therefore, [
wrote to an old friend of mine. who
was then on the detective force OF
p, to meet me at 80, and to-
gether we sat aboutthe search IA
A week passed without bringing
more to light, and causing US to des-
pond, for we feared that the murderer
had covered his tracks so that il would
be impossible for US to discover him.
We had heen 20 work two days 10 the
city of G., ia being about TO leave,
[ entered she hotel Office toasettle.
Giving a large bin, there was consld-
cradle change handed back-among 1t
a two. dollar bill which had been torn
in two. As / turned 1t carelessIy
over. / found that the parts had been
fastened together with the margin of, a
couple of postage stamps, which. had
printed upon it : No. 15--Piate," but
the Mo- and 'SPIate = had been cross
ed out, and substituted In their place
was +" Mar" and = 1864" making it
read Mar. 1864, (which was the
day before the robbery and murder.
This may all seem common enough,
but TO me twas ray of light and
hope; for the alteration was In my
own hand writing. / remember per-
fectly we'll making the change; also,
that | placed my initials on the IN
derside, and that the bill must have
been In the safe at the time of the.
robbery. Calling my friend, we went
into a side room, and there carefully
removed the paper. On the under
side, we disc0vered,s as | expected.
the letters n j. B." much blurred
from wetting. but still legible My
friend agreed with me that 1t was a
very important discovery, and In or
der to press it forward, we called in
the landlord and questioned him.
He remembered having received4
the bill that morning, and had rather
questioned it on account of the tear.
On being asked to. describe the man.,
he said: ST. sfasa q g
As near as / can recollect, he was
about five feet ten inches in height,
and quite stout in proportion. He
was dressed entirely IN blaeka The
only peculiarities that1 noticed were
deep scar running across his face,
and the absence of his left eye-the
place being supplied by piece of
black silk, which he showed very
plainly when he winked." asis
/ think / must have started very
perceptibly, when I heard this de-
scription, for [ recognized the man
| Immediately as runner tor the firm
of Bagley q Mason, of Boston, who
had been in our town for q week pre-
vious to the murder, and had left the.
same morning. His own name was
James Durham.
As we could learn nothing more
from the landlords save that, he heard
him order the hackman to drive to
the Boston depot, we dismissed him,
and held a consultations We both
agreed that it was best to go immedi-
ately to Boston, see Bagley & Mason,
and if possible learn of Burnhau1'
whereabout. Carrying out this plan,
we learned from the firm. the Follow
ing facts:
James Burnham was a good. relia-
| BILE business man. He had been in
their employ for about fifteen years,
]
with any amount of their funds. He
was now in Vermont, where he had
been since leaving l., and had.
not to their certain. knowledge, been
| at O..
This rather perplexed US. but at
1 last we determined that ne must have
deceived his employers, and although
we did not think that we had sufh
cient cause to arrest him, still we de-
termined to track him. With this
purpose, we went to Vermont, and
j fell inwith him at Montpelier. For
week we observed him closely, but
at the end of that time had discover
ed nothing. save that he would stay
q in town about one week longer. Feel
/ ing that my friend was fully capable
of watching him alone, determined
to go to Boston, to- see if I could
learn anything new, and, accordingly,
on the, morning of the 2lst day of
April, left, having first arranged q
communicate with each other if oc-
casion required US to. " sla III
Early on the morning of the I'D. I
was standing on the steps of the -
Hotel. when a. paper dropped at my
. feet, apparently from one of the
upper windows. STOPPING down. I
picked it up, but discovered that il
was but an envelope, and was about
! to drop it, when the name upon i
; caught my eye. 1t was that of &
leading merchant L. Look,
I ing up at the window, / saw to my
surprise the face of James Burnham
aud that he turned deadly pale wher
l be saw me- Feeling certain that b.
knew my Grand, [ saw thatIit wouls
i not be safe to let him escape me an!
. longer. Immediately determined
: on having him arrested at al
! hazards. HurriedlY writing a dis
patch which to the operator would
/. read, Join me in Portland to-mor
: row. Immediately on the receipt 0
!, this you may close the bargain | spok
: to you about yesterday" but which
, to my friend would read, Jane
v Burnham is in Boston, Why are yol
. not? / have a clue. Shall arrest hin
3 Immediately" / sent to the tele
! graph Office, and then hurried to tn
4 police station. Here L told my stor
: as briefly as possible, and in ffteel
/ minutes more was at the door of th
4 room from which the envelope hat
Is fallen. A noise of some one MOVING
;. rapidly about, told that the occupan
q was still there. -fala
n The door Of the room was not fast
= ened, but as the officers approached
= Burnham sprang to lock it; put the
were too quick for him, and had en-
d tered before he could get it done. A
ID we came in, he stepped back, and j
/ no gentle tones demanded the caus