Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

forbidden love. or course, the hus.
pand was furious, or pretended tn be,
ne was on the make: an ve. .ho
nao they put up job to rob thc a., :
dent Z Was the plump wife the hs;.
on the hook that WAS to catch roiS
| Was Allison; the janitor, weaving The
web about the student, and using the
charms Of his wife to lure him into
the meshes So a quarrel arose
Rumor said II was about book, bu
alas the students
Books were Il woman's looks"
This tall, dArk-haired student, Ar.
risOn by namc, was w0rsted in the
quarrel, and he vowed vengeance
He threatened openly and above
board, but he took mis- revenge secret
ly and by diabolical stealth.
HOW HE WAS CAUGHT. rs
Arrison ran to his fathers farm,
near Muscatine, Iowa, and from there
wrote to q friend in this city. The
letter was taken from the Office by
smother of the same name, and this
tell.tale sentence occurred: "HAs the
excitement su ubsided any? Is it SAT-,
for me to come back? Had best 20
to Californian" The letter was
shown to Chief Rnflin.
That worthy adjusted his gold eye-
glasses, rubbed his capacious paunch
and said, "7Aat's the man." Detec-
tives were AZ once dispatched to Iowa.
The shcrif of the county promised
aid, but the bird had flown. Ruffn
came back without Arrison. Detec-
tives, however, laid in ambuscade for
him. 1t was six months before he
was caught. He made resistance, ran
for horse-pistol that lay behind
grocery-store counter, but the officers
of the law were too quick for him,
and, handcuffed and in irons, he was
brought to Cincinnati. His trial
speedily followed. The boy whom
he hired to carry the box identified
him. The man who wrote the label
that was on it identified him. Hive
ly, the man who made the box, iden-
fed him as the man who ordered it.
This three-fold Identification, COUP
led with the threats and quarrele, in
duced popular indignation to convict
him, and the jury brough in a ver-
dict OF murder in the first degree.
The court sentenced him to the peni-
tentiary for ten years. Within the
iron bars his conduct was az mild as
q pet lambs, his behavior as exem-
plary as q dying Christian. They
taught him the cooper trade, and let
him out in eight years. Why he was
not hanged was then and Ia now q
mystery. Some hinted that money
was freely used. The crime was GER
tainly murder Of the first water, de-
liberately planned and devilishly ex-
ecuted. No quick, passionate knock
ing down, but calm, cautiously,
thoughtfully planned murder in cold
blood, and If guilty Arrison should
have swung.
~ FH THE MACHINE
that carried Allison and his wife to
their long home was a most simple
contrivance, ingenious from its very
simplicity of construction. A walnut
box ten inches long and about four
wide contained the bOmb--egg-shap-
ed--which was filled with slugs and
powder. The bomb was an eighth
of an inch thick, made Of brass and
some composition. Into the orifice
of the bomb pistol. barrel was in
serted. The pistol was cooked and
the trigger tied by string which
was fastened to nail in the lid
When the nail or lid was removed, the
tension of the string on the trigger
looscned, the cock came down on the
cap, flashed into the powder of the
box. simultaneously that the pistol
was discharged into the bomb, caus-
ing the deadly explosion to follow.