The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-11-05

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e and We could bring it against Brews
: ter on the trial, OF better still, &c
o him TO abscond fof rear of the reVe
b lation! "All's fair. etc. as I sal
: before.
0 Mrs. Goodwin wsRt to the room o
5 the poor, dead girl. which vas open
: ed for the frs, time since her death
5 There was 10 mistake Egerythin
= vas recognized; and the poor, broken
= hearted mother was in agony. hat
r sent for Sanford, and he had arrived
; and was shown directly to the room
Mrs. Bramble took the mother ava,
to comfort her, and the lawyer ant
) | discussed the situotion. In the
centre Of the room was table. on,
Of those old fashiosed. polished
! mahogany tables, seen only once in
while. On fhe fard,er side of thi
sat Sanford, between mysel f and thr
window. While I sas talkirg CLAN
eed at fhe table and presently my eye
rested upon some scratches. Why
noticed them, iudittiqet as they we're
cannot tell; bat ny eyes would no
leave Them uuil a6 last / bent dowT
close, and saw tllaf they were tht
marks made by the sharp pOint of 4
hard pencil, through lhil paper, and
The very marks made my Brewster
prescription on The night Of Miss
Goodwin's death The wax-rubbed
table had taken the impression plain
( iy; and there [ read, while Sanford
looked al me wouderingly, MOI only
the prescrip fion, now in Che hands OF
T, the law, but the impression ofanother,
almost identical, only substituting tbe
word atropia for assafetida. l was
thunderstruck, and called Sanford
round to my side Of the table. He
read il, and We looked in each Others
faces. The whole fling was as clear
TO me as day.
! l called ~ Mrs Bramble and Mrs
Goodwin, and both read the marks.
Quick work should now be made OF
the whole thing. The room was clos
ed, but not until [ had made most
accurate copies of prescriptions. San
ford went to the police headquarters
and brought one of their principal
men, while Mrs. Bramble, in her own
name, sent off for Brewster to come
directly to her on a matter of import
ance. He arrived just before San
ford's return with the minister Of the
Law, and seemed very much taken
aback by meeting me, whom he re-
membered, at the inquest, as friend
of Charley's. I said to him " Doc
tor, there are some matters connected
with the death of thai lady Upstairs,
which [ want cleared up, and in
duced Mrs. Bramble to send for you,
satisfied that you could enlighten
me-"
"Enlighten you he sneered.-
"What have you to do with it at alp
"Oh p l said, carelessly, "I have
taken an interest in Miss Goodwin's
death, as I have in Mr.. brakes life. =
She name Of Goodwin staggered
him, and he turned livid.
Goodwin y he mnttered, al don't
know any Miss Goodwin"
"Perhaps you would not know her
mother" / said, as that lady entered
the room with Mrs Bramble. BreWs-
ter staggered toward the window
jumped between him and it, for
thought he intended to throw him
self out.
"Perhaps, doctor. you don't recog-
nize these two Prescriptions | con-
tinued, showing the copies I had
made. "Here is the one calling for
atropia, which you exchanged for the
other, when you cane1 at the drug
store Of Marcelin, anI asked Drake to
show you the original. The very
same, Doctor
That's lie = he hissed /; 81 de-
stroYed that
"Oh I! did you? Well, you see it
has come to life again However, I'm
glad you've confessed that you tried
to destroy it. And now, doctor, my
advice to you is to make clean breast
Of this thing, and throw yourself on
my mercy
He caught at this like cowardly
wretch, and, as Sanford came in, he
knew him, but did not know the man
with him. He told the whole story.
He had beguiled Miss Goodwin with
marriage, which, of course, was big
amy, and was in daily dread of de-
lection. He had plotted her death,
and this plan had occurred to bi the
very evening of its execution. He
knew the working of Marcelin's store,
and that, by changing the prescrip-
tor, Charley could be made the vic
tim, and himself exOnerated. And
then, as he finished, he said:
"And now, gentlemen, l have done;
what do you intend to do with me ?"
"Have you hanged. /" 1 said calmly.
'Is that your mercy | threw myself
on?'
"That's too much mercy for a vii
lain like you. There's your man, Of
fcer. Well go with you till we sec
him safe under lock. We don't want
to take any chances on that fellow"
And that was my first case, and my
first arrest. The next morning l Yves
sent for by the authorities, and coolly
informed that Brewster had hanged
himself the night before 10 his cell,
so you see only erred by proounc-
ing who should hang him. As to
Charley, the district attorney arrang-
ed his business in a few hours, and
he was free man. Marcelin was very
anxious to have him back but 1 OBJ
tanned for him 4 better place, in a
larger store, with less work, more
sleep, and larger pay.
AS to myself, a few days afterWard
1 was sent for by the President of the
B Bank, who, having apologized
for his strange proposal, told me that
he had heard from Sanford the whole
story of my amateur detective bust
ness, and he felt satisfied that if
would take in hand.the matter of the
robbery of their bank-it had los
eighty thousand dollars some week:
before-whieh the regular detective!
could do nothing with, he was satisfi-
ed I could make something out of it
At all events, on his recommendation
the board of directors bad told hin
to offer me five hundred dollars to try
whether succeeded or not, and ffteer
per cent. OF all the money l recover
ed, if I succeeded. | laughed at the
idea, and listened. Five hundred dol
lars was a deal to begin on. 1t would
be long time before l would get such
sum as a medical fee I was inter
ested in the story of the robbery, aud
1 took the job professionally. Two
months later l closed it up, having
recovered seventy-two thousand dol
lars of the money, and received ms
Gfroap nor oapt tan fhousaud aiob .