The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-06-03

! COUlulCLCCO WOlN14lSS lOS5SL1lSI c&s part
ners, Strange owed me eight hundred
pounds, and I held policies of insu-
rance on his life for two thousand
pounds.
Our business trips used generally
/ to last from q week to q fortnight
! Sometimes we were detained at the
port to which we had brought the ami
mails, for four or five days, awaiting
the means of shipping them to Eng
/ land; for it is not every steamer that
will take bullOcks or sheep or pigs as
cargo. Sometimes one of US would re-
main in London, conducting the sales
of such animals as his partner sent him
abroad. And this had happened when
! the event of which I am now going to
! tell you took place.
"As Strange could speak French
very we'll, I often sent him to the fairs
at Normandy and Brittany, nearly al
ways going myself to those in Holland
and the North of Germany. 1t was
! somewhere about the end of a certain
| May that he went over to France, in
tending to be there about six weeks
and 600 one fair to another OH
ertail and. Three or four cOnsign-
ments OF Beasts had reached me in Lon
! don, and the last was to come over in
la day or two. My partner had visited
all the fairs he intended to go to, and
| was to join me. [ wrote him at South
amptOn where he was to land, saying
I would meet him there, take a look at
| the cattle he had bought, nd send
! some to London, and go wit the rest
| to some of the southern q untries,
where there was likely to be a market
( that would suit my book.
" I reached Southampton on the day
named, and met Strange. We dined
| together at a small inn near the docks,
and, finding we could not get twOe Id
| rooms, engaged a dOuble~bedded room
| for the night. 1aThen we began to
square up accounts, and sp ut the ar
| ternOOn seeing how we stood in the
matter Of money. But something that
| Strange had done YeXed me sOrelY.
| He had, in the face of what had W.
| ter him i'll London to the contrary,
| paid some two pounds head more for
about thirty or forty beasts than we
should ever realize. When ! told him
how foolish he had acted, he answered
me back that he had done his best, and
| that he had as much right as l had to
| speculate with our joint funds. To this
! [ replied that, although he was un-
| dOubtedly q partner i'll the concern, it
was I who had put in all the capital,
and that he had only an interest of %
! per cent. in thG.prOtits. His rejOInder
l remember WI He said that, if he
died, l would get all the money he owed
me, and more. To this I retorted in a
passion that l knew it, and that l did
not care how soon he dsd. All this.
wrangling took place in the cOffee-roOm
| of the inn, before the girl who waited
on us, the cook of the house, the bar
maid, the Iandlady, and the landlady's
| husband. The latter, when he saw we
were getting angry tried to make
| friends between US, but III vain. We
were each annoyed at what the other
F.! had said, as we'll as our own folly, and
1 neither would be the first to say he waN
sorry for whAt had passed.
"About SIX o'clock L took up
| hat and w see some friends in
town. Wh1 i got back it was
1 II o'clock, and Strange, the hOuA
maid told me, had been in the bed a
| asleep more than an hour. I paid
share Of the bill, for 1 intended
| ing early, went up stairs, an
/ Strange fast asleep and went
myself Next morning was c$A
/ of coffee, and in IN an hour was on
my way to London. On leaving the
| inn Ahe porter that my compan-
hon sp, and that, as he was
Oh Athe ten o'clock coach to
+ leed not call on him
| ye It forget to tell you that
/ sssing in the morning,
| StTttrs, Foke, and that he shook
hands over our dis1 1Rte of the previous
J day. We morrow agreed to change
ur plans, and Stra was to meet me
; in London on the N day. As was
/ closing my carpet-b5s aasked me to
! lend him one of my 5rs-a thing
which l had the greateS objection to,
/ (fOr if am particular about anything I
! possess, it is about my TaZOrS,) but,
/ having only made up my difference
with him, l could hardly refuse him so
small favor.
/ "The days / am writing of were be-
! fore railways had extended to South
amptOn. Leaving the latter place at
! half-past five in the morning, it was
/ half-past six in the evening before I got
! to town. | went to bed, got up next
day, and, while [ was sitting at break
/ fast with my wife, our servant told me
/ that two gentlemen wished to speak to
me. | went down to see them, and,
/ before / could open my mouth to ask
what they wanted, found myself with
handouts on, arrested for the murder
of Edward Strange.
"It seems that, finding Strange did
not come down by half-past nine, the
porter went up to call him. He found
/ the door locked, but no key in it. AT
/ ter knocking some time on the outside,
/ the door was broken open, and poor
! Strange was found with his throat cut
from ear to ear, and razor in his hand.
The key of the door was afterwar1 /
found in the cOffee-rOOm, under the
very bench on which l had sat 20 drink
my cup of coffee before starting.
q l was brought before the magis-
trate at Bow street the next morning,
and was by him sent down to South
amptOn to await the result of the Cor
oner's inquest upon my partner. The
verdict was Willful murder, and, after
commitment by the magistrate to the
Sessions, 1 was put OIL trial for my life
at Winchester.
"The trial lasted only a few hours.
1t was fully proved that Strange and
myself had quaTTeled and had high
words the night before, and that 1 had
said | did not care how soon he died, so
that l could recover the money [ had
lent him. a great deal was made of
the fact that by Strange's death 1
I should be entitled to the insurance up
on his life to the amount of two thou
sand pounds, by which L should be a
clear gamer of one thousand two hun
dred.
4 at was further shown that the razor
found in poor Strange's hand was mine,
and three medical men declared their
conviction that, although that in
strument was undoubtedly used to kill
the dead man, it must have been placed
in bis hands after death. Moreover,
there were not only evident marks of a
struggle about the bed and clothes, but
StTange's throat was cut from right to
left, which no one could have done
unless he had been left handed man,
which Strange was not. Then, again,
the fact of the bedroom door being
locked, and the key hid, close to where
? I breakfasted, told fearfully against
me. 1t was clear that Strange could
, not by any possibility have cut his own
! throat, and then locked the door of his