The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-12-23
POINT PHEASANT MASON. 1EN

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;lpaage The man asked d
got any 6f your has6
4Yes / hass and
wont part sith the
9yEould they iit me .s1 ask;
ed.
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Mrs. Rand sad. ~,
Look here said the nlaEl ing
up the knife from the sas uy
ing Nitlfit yor Z 4 me
d good sait ofiyodr hasband 1les,
and I'll return It tor u say
no, he aaaJed, 1ifor tE d
.niakc y, z 1l9N g.s...
Ffho won.ar-.a great trepidaL ion
and fear, said she would have to sc
up stairs fer, The clothes, wherein pon
the man said he would accompany
her. The clothes wereprocured, and
the man insisted on the womans re,
naming in the room while he re
moved his old, worn garments, and
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put on a suit of the dead Mr.. Rand
"Now,7 said he, "if any oneaasks
you who I am, you must say am
your husbands brother, Just returned
from sea-"
The.woman then explained that
she was going to town, whcrGupon
the man said:
"That's first-ratc and I'll go with
you,
The poor woman was greatly taken
aback, but durt not declins, and
having aroused her two boys she left
the small shop in their charge and
started for town, accompanied by the
man. When they reached the sub
urbs of the town. the .man suddenly
disappeared, and that was al the
woman saw ofshim.
When Mrs. Rand returned hone
the same afternoon, the village was
in fearful. state of commotion. At
eighto'clocK that morning, Mr..
Greene, who resided at Houghton
Hall and: owned property adjacent
worth fits thousand dollars a year,
had beeafonnd in his bed room muir
dered. The hall stood only about one
hundredsyasds from, a street known
as the Qgaythe village .consistiago 9!
three thoronghfares iatle form q 3
,srDs ead Eas safts
over and childlcss; he was over fifty
years of age, and was muchrespected
for his simplicity of manners and
generosity.
Investigation showed that, a wall
over thirteen feet high, which shut
off the garden from the quay had
been scaled, and the perpetrator of
the crime had entered the house by
climbing a laburnum tree whose
branches extended almost to the
window OF Mr.. Greene's bedroom on
the second floor. He entered, it vas
thought, early in the evening, and
concealed himself in the garden: and
later on scrambled up to the second
story window. Mr.. Greene was
found lying on the floor close by a
desk, at which he had evidently been
sitting when assaulted in the rear
A towel had been flung over his head
and then his assassin had strangled
him, as was evident from the marks
on the dead mans throat. His desk
had been rified, butt was not known
that any money, or anything OF val
had been taken. as nobody was cog
infant of Mr.. Grccnc's private affairs
When Mrs. Rand heard the story Of
the crime, her mysterious guest of
the morning arose in her mind, and
she could not help asSociatirg him
with the murder Of Mr.. Greene. The
fact of his digging in the field behind
the house suggested the possibility
of his having hidden away plumber.
All the evening these things dwelt
in her thoughts, and she was once on
the point of communicating the
whole story to the police. She hest,
tated, however, to do SO from the
dread Of being mixed up in the
dreadful affair, and finally resolved to
keep the visit of the man and all
connected with it e secret.
The officers of the law had mean
while secured the neighborhood to
discover thcmurderer, and in Sunder-