The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-05-30

death, md it performed its dread work
silently and surely, and left no external
trace.
touched it with feeling akin to
horror, and asked:.
tHas this no other use than to deprive
animals Of life?'
'None,' vas the smiling response.
Gan you operate it7'
:Better than any I ever met
I was standing facing this man as he
made this bonst.
Iiaid my hand ON bis shoulder.
HI started snd seemed not to know
what to make of my conduct.
Your crime is discovered, sir" said
atcrnly. you are patricide, and ar
rest you for the murder Of the man who
lies in the other cnamber.'
His face turned fairly purple with
rage and fear, and then grew inky
black.
He sat down in the chair without
word.
His courage, aud above all things
his Incompatible audicity, had altogeth
er aband ned him at this terrible crisis !!
spoke to him again and again sever
al times, but could get no answer.
Then I rang the bell and sent for the
coroner physician.
He came, looked at the man still sit
ing on the chair, specchless anl BLACK
in the face, and shook his head.
This man has lost his reasonl' were
his fearless words. what has caused
it7'
told him, aud showed him Casturi.
mis- air syringe.
We took our prisoner into custody and
conveyed him, in close carriage, to the
police station.
The ride somewhut restored him, but
he was still altogether overwhelmed and
crushed.
We left him in cell and went ou,
various ways.
In the morning was the first to call
to see him.
The officer in charge told me he had
been up the greater part Of the night
and was then sleeping.
I waited half an hour, and then, in
company with the doctor, who had by
that time arrived, went to the cell.
The mau was there on the bed. lying
in his shirt aud pautaloous, with his ia &c
downward, and motionlcss.
The doctor touched him-he was cold
aud stiff. The parricide was dead.
BY his side lay paper, crushed ant
rumpled, as if in his last agoniea ho had
endeavored to tear it up.
l took it and read, written in LEAF
pAncil, the following:
'The shrewdness Of the detective has
been too much for me. twas night
when l did it, and I fancied the mean
put it beyond reach Of discovery. was
mistaken, and pay the penalty Of tina
mistake freely now. That doctor is {
shrewd practitioner. A man does moi
counterfeit madness with him with iu
punity. Had he been as wise in hi
way as the detective was in his, the Law
would not have been cheated ofits prey
l had my reasons for the deed, fully a
potent as those have for this
Here followed the signature of tn
suicide, traced in full, bold hand.
I turned to the physician aud office
who were with mo, and had read tn
letter over my shoulder.
! must confess that think my fac
showed triumph triumph at having su
ceeded in tracking and taking Grim
nal SO adroit and calculating.-an'
possibly l had some good ground 70
being ola'ed.
I did not ask the family Of the mu
dcred man for u reward, but / carrie,
away the air syringe, and have it I
this day. have made repeated exper
ments with it since it came in my 20
session, and rach succeeding one hut co..
vinccs me tho more Of its deadly an
dangerous character.
There is another thing must say b
foro l close, and that is this have sol
ed the mystery of that limp piece o.
handkerchief found on tho day unde
took the investigation Of the affair hav
just been speaking Of: it was amploye
hy 4bo rnurdror >, roo.a,,.J H..