New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-10

ing you to favor Inc with your friendly ad-
vice."
SIN what way, DR.. Lamson 7" inquired the
magistrate.
Captain Walton in the hope it m " to some
extent convince him that have been telling
the truth and am innocent of the great
crime idle tongues have been laying to my
charge. On my return home from the in
quest, among other letters lying on my
table. found this, which. as you will see,
has been sent me through the post
SO saying he handed Captain Walton a
letter whose envelope, already OPT bore
the address, CDR. Lamson," with only a
single post mark. that OF E. itself.
The stamped date showed that the Letter
had been dropped into the office that same
day. 1t read tnus:
"If DR.. Lamson will consent to part with
one thousand pounds out of the ten thou
sand he is TO get by Miss InglewOIth's will
he can have restored 10 him document
signed with her name and which he may
stand in need of to keep his neck out of the
hapgman's halter. II he agrees to this
proposal, and will signify so by burning a
blue light in his bedrcon window this night
at twelve, by tomorrow mornings post he
will receive another communication telling
him how to pay over the money aud get
possession OF the paper SO precious to him.
There was no name signed nor any ad-
dress; only the bald conditions as above.
.'Have you any idea or suspicion of who
wrote i'll" asked Captain Walton, address
ing himself to the doctor.
"Not the slightest. The handwriting is
entirely unknown to me-"
ITO me, too" said Mr.. Charlecote, after
examining it, 1T seems disguised hand
in all likelihood is.'
perhaps l can put you IN scent, doc
tnr ~ ipterpnsad Cantaro Waltnu altar q
whispered communication with the magis'
trate. "If mistake not you have in your
service a young man named Nudin."
II have; as honest fellow as ever
breathed; ut least go believe him.
SIT may be that you overrate his honesty.
have reason to think him the very OppO-
site, and that he is not only dishonest, mt
as great a traitor as ever served a trusting
master"
x "Iou astonish me-. Captain Walton. l
have always found him faithful"
9Th { Is because you have not found him
out. You may have an opportunity now
Does he sleep in your house!'
INC; he is only there curing the day. AT
night he goes home to his mother, who
town.
At this Captain Walton and the mseis-
trate exchanged significant glances. NJ
diD's sleeping outside the doctors house
made more probable the suspicion they had
conceived.
Mr.. Charlecote spoke first.
'You have said, DIR. Lamson, YOU were
coming to me for friendly counsel. For
from what my friend Captain
Walton has told me, am able to bestow it.
l advise you, then, to lose no time in hav-
ing Mr.. Nudin handed over to the custody
the police. As magistrate. l am able to
give You the necessary authority, and if
you wish will make out warrant this very
minute"
doctor, you will do well to take Mr..
Charlecotes advice" counseled Captain
Walton. sit is altogether in your own in
terest and for your good"
"But, gentlemen, would it not be wrong,
my having him arrested-an outrage on an
innocent young man2'
"If be prove innocent" put in Mr.. Charlie
cote, lit will do him no harm. II the con-
tIary, you will have no reason to regret the
steps taken
"Dr. Lanson," said the captain. "I've
good reasons to believe Nudiu guilty of
pnrloining the paper you have spoken of.
could give them to you. and would, bnt
for promise made that l can not lightly
break. But there ia no need, as it will not
our action ia this matter. All l
can say ia. that your honest assistant is a
traitor to you. have had proof of it; and
If You act upon Mr.. Chailecote's advice,
and have him at once taken into custody.
you will in all probability fnd upon his
person the documents tor which this auony
nous scribbler wants you to pay fl00O.'
DR.. Lamson was thunderstruck: but at
length yielding to the conviction that his
assistant must be as represented, he re-
luested the magistrate to give him the war
rant already offered.
1t was Immediately maze OUT, and, with
a note addressed by Mr.. Cbarlecote to the
police superintendent of the district. placed
IN DIR. Lamson's hands, who, thanking the
gentlemen for their unexpectedly friendly
reception of him. took his leave.
1t was IL p. NJ. before be reached the
n adm was in the safe keeping of couple
Of blue-coated constables. He was not
taken at his mothers house, but in shaded
allev of side street. where be was found
skulkiDg, with eyes fixed on DR.. Lamson's
bedroom Misunderstanding for the blue
light. No doubt had that appeared to his
satisfaction, he had concocted some plan by
which he could safely receive the blackmail
money; for, jast as Captain Walton had pre-
iicted, on his person. carefully put away in
one of the pockets of his thread bare paletot,
was found the missing evidence of his mas.
Lers innocence.
The document c. ntained declaration by
Mics fngeworth. in which she minutely par
ticularized everything that re ated to her
covenant with DR.. Lamsou--describing her
own apprehensions upon the subject of re-
and her instructions 10 take
measures against it-even to providing him
with the needle with which her heart was
to ba pierced! 1t concluded with testi-
nony of his reluctance to undertake the
strange trust-only yielding to her most
earnest solicitatiOn-in short, completely ex-
onerating the physician as far as such decla-
ration could.
There could be no doubt about the genu-
neness of the document. 1t was Helen
lngeworth's own hand writing-knOwn to
her autograph underneath,
beside the family seal.
Next morning, on the inquest being re-
sumed, this paper was laid before the jary,
with the testimony of the police as to how,
when, and where obtained. The medical
had already put in their report;
which completely cleared Dr.. L,mson from
the charge Of taking the young lady's life
atrophy Of the heart having been at length
decided by them as the cause
Of her death. The new evidence of the
doctors innocence satisfied the c0roner's
jury; and the case that came so near beng
carried to the criminal court Yves thus ab. 1
ruptly brought tn close.
But although DR. LIANT ou's character was
end no one any longer coupled
his name with the crime of murder, still Q
certain odium attached to it on account of
his taking the fl0,O00 legacy, which in due
course OF the Wills administration was. paid
over to him. mart ~. -. -.
In the end, finding residence in E. no
longer either pleasant or profitable, he dis.
sppeared from the place, having gone, ~
was supposed, under . changed name, to
Australia. re. ,,.et