The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-24

way to the mainland by one Of their
boats. The next day was Saturday.
On Monday the mutual exodus was to
be made.
With the true egotism of English.
men, neither of the Europeans had
given more than a passing thought to
their oriental accomplice. He, on his
part, was Matching a plan which was
destined to completely fustrate theirs.
The stolid brown.skinned Hindoo, un-
der his apparently calm exterior, har-
bored fire of cupidity and greed of
gold full equal to that of his fellow
plotters. On Saturday, an hour after
consuming the early coffee, which &C.
cording to tropical custom was served
them at six o'clock, Gibbings and
DAYTON complained to one another of
an unusual difficulty in respiration.
They went about their work, however,
in remote parts of the plantation.
About noon a cane-cart approached
the managers house, and drew up at
the steps. Within lay Dawton, ap-
parently dead; but, upon being remov-
ed to a bed, he managed to speak in a
hoarse whisper, enough to make
known the details of the occurrences
we have narrated. His mysterious
sickness baffled the skill of the planta-
ton surgeon entirely. 1t was an en-
tirely unknown phase of violent inter-
nal pain, accompanied by a sense of
suffOcation, and not affected by any
remedies that were administered.
Symptoms of poison were entirely alb
sent, and the physician was utterly at
fault. Late in the afternoon new hor-
ror was announced from the cane.field
where Gibbings was employed. The
Latter had gone raving mad, had es-
capped the hands of the coolies who
had endeavored to hold him, and fed
into the mangrOve swamps toward the
coast.
The confusion into which the plan
tation fell at this complication of dis
asters, can be as easily magined as de-
scribed. In the midst of it, party of
the constabulary arrived, bent upon
an investigation of the murder of the
mulatto. Rangoon, who had been
seized by the orders of the manager of
the estate upon the declaration of
DAYTON, was handed over to them.
His wife was, by the direction of the
leader of the police, also arrested, and
from her the key to the later tragedy
was obtained.
Bamboo poison was the cause Of the
illness of the two Overseers. It an.
pears that ever since the treasure had
been left in his care, the idea of DOS.
sessing it entirely had grown in RAN
goon's brain. After the departure of
the overseers, ON Friday night he had
removed the packages from their hid
ing-place in the hut and buried them
deep under the rude outdoor hearth
at which his food was prepared.
Early next morning he had applied
himself to the preparation of one of
his national poisons-the most deadly
and irremediable known. The fine
silky flaments hidden in the Joint of
the bamboo are in frequent request in
India as poison.
Their effect is an irritation, constant
and increasing, which ends only with
sickness and death. This effect had
been evidenced in Gibbings- gone
mad, and fled in despair into the fast
nesses Of the mangroves, and in Daw-
ton dying in ever-increasing agony in
his own room.
The opportunity for the application
of the poison Rangoon had found at
early morning, when he encountered
the Chinese house-servant carrying the
coffee to the Overseers' room. He had
dispatched the Celestial on a spurious
errand to one of the other Overseers.
and carried the deadly draught to his
victims himself. The rest we know.
Finding the details of the crime
known, the coolie with the true stoic-
ism of the fatalist, acknowledged his
guilt. The treasure was exhumed and
passed into the colonial treasury. The
news of the murder had scarcely
grown cold when swift English Justice
set the murderer swinging in the jail
yard at Port de Spain. DAYTON af-
ter lingering through two days of
terrible agony, breathed his last. Of
his companion no trace was found un-
til nearly a year later, when macaw
hunter came upon a heap of bones and
human skull in the heart of the
great swamp, almost within sight of
the spot where the fatal treasure had
first been found.
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