Fair play., 1875-12-02

steele, the village constable, confirmed
Redd's statement, as they were in com
pany, Steele leaving the house only q
few minutes before Redd, who remained
to get light for his pipe. Beyond this
there was absolutely no testimony.
Coulter, accompanied by his friends
searched the neighborhood for the miss
ing girl, but with no success. George
Routledge, her lover, who had been no.
titled, reached the village in the after.
noon, and joined in the search. Mount.
ed police from BromptOn, and then
officers from Carlisle, were speedily on
the spot, and the whole countryside was
secured. No traces, however, of the
lost one were met with.
Days and weeks went by, and the
mystery remained unsolved. One day,
about a week after the girls disappear
ance, Armstrong; old mother put her
head in at Coulter's door, and said, in a
bitter tone:
"Ah, Mr.. Coulter, so you've lost your
pretty miss. Now we're even. You
drove away my boy, and now the devil
has drove away your daughter"
Then she gave a malignant laugh, and
departed.
Toward the middle of March two
country lads, amusing themselves around
Black Tarn, saw something white
among the rushes. On closely examin-
ing the object they discovered it to be a
human arm. With a branch of a tree
they pushed aside the rushes and water
plants, and the body of female was
disclosed. They were at first disposed
to run away, but finally resolved to haul
out the body. This they did with some
difficulty, and laid it on the grass. 1t
was in an excellent state of preserva-
ton, owing to the ice, which had just
broken up, and the features were per-
feet. Both the lads identified the corpse
as that of the missing girl, Kate Coulter.
Covering it with rushes and leaves, they
started for the village and informed the
grief-stricken father of their discovery.
The body was carefully removed to Coul-
ter's house, and a Coroner's inquest was
held. A surgical examination showed
that the girl had been outraged, and
marks of strangulation were distinctly
visible on her throat. The body, when
found, was entirely naked, and search
was made for the unfortunate girls
clothing. They were found under pile
of stones about two hundred yards from
where the corpse was discovered. They
were torn and mudstained, and traces of
blood were observable on them. What
the object of the murderer was in re-
moving the clothing was beyond COM
prehension; but that he had an object
was evident. A verdict of willful mur-
der against some person or persons un-
known was returned by the Coroner's
jury, and the corpse was inferred with
becoming solemnity.
A large reward was offered for any
information which might lead to the ap-
prehension of the guilty person, and
the Lord Lieutenant of the county speci-
ally interested himself in the matter, and
caused expert detectives to be- sent from
London to investigate the affair thor
oughly. 1t will be remembered that
Kate Coulter disappeared on the night
of February 9. The detectives acci-
dentally came across one Robert John
stone, a shoemaker, who said that on
the night mentioned, about o'clock, he
was at work in his shop in Brompton,
which was on the direct road to Coul-
ter's, when young man, a stranger,
put his head in at the door and asked
for light. It was very cold night,
and the shoemaker asked the man to
come in and shut the door. He did so
and stood with his back to the shoe
maker while he got the light. John
stone asked him whether he had come
by the train from Carlisle, and he said
he had. JOhnstone remarked that it
was going to be sharp night, and the
young man replied that he judged so,
and abruptly quilted the shop.
What did he light his pipe with?"
the officer asked, after a pause.
"That's more than can say" John
stone replied, ''though it may be he
took bit of paper from his pocket"
"HOw often do you sweep yorr
shop?" the detective asked.
The shoemaker laughed and said:
"Once year, maybe"
Then the detective, very much to the
surprise of the shoemaker, went to work
the floor carefully all over.
Then he began in one corner and lifted
every thing from the floor, replacing it