The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-06-13

10 forced open, and every valuable ez
J. trsCted, the only trace Of them bein
Il few links OF a slight chain Of yer
d unusual pattern, which, With a curl
/ Gus stone, the lady generally wOT
+ around her neck. This chain had eyi
n IDENTIFY been broken by the viOIenc
b used, and part Of il scattered abOu
r, but the stone was gone.
Il Information was, cf course, ssnt &
Te Miss Pathways relative who came
! sometimes t0 visit her. Aud the re
ID suit Of all the inquiries msde was Z
I make things lOOk so very suspicion
against young Lytheriy, and so mucl
:, stress Was laid upon his quarrel witt
P, Miss Parkway upon her refusal &
e iend him money-which seemed
Il known to every0ody-thst / wa
r obliged to spprehend him. / didn'
e want to burt his feelings, so I wen
II my self with a fly, although his lodg
e ings were not half q mile from tbt
o Town Hall, so as to spare him from
u walking in custody through the
e streets. found him at home, look.
?. ing very miserable, and when he saw
/, me he said 81 have been expecting
d you all the morning, Dir. Robinson
IS 1 am very glad you have come"
y "WelI, I'm sorry" / answered
e "But you may as well remember that
2 the least said is soonest mended, Mr.
y Lytherly."
Thanks for your caution, old
A friend" he says, with a very sickly
4 smile ''but shan't hurt myself, and
l feel sure no one else can do so.
! Why said L was glad you had come
E was because from Sunday night,
3 when the murder was found out, un.
; til now, middle-day on Tuesday,
] everybody has stunned me and avoid
/ ed me as II bad the plague. | know
why, and now IL will be Over.n
} l didn't put handouts on him or
anything Of that and when we got
into the street he saw the fly, round
which there had already gathered at
least score Of boys and girls, who
, hadi 1 suppose, seen me go in. He
looked around and said This was
very thoughtful Of you, Mr.. Robin
son; 1 shall not forget it," We drove
OIL, and spoke no more until we ar
rived at the Town Hall. Here mag
istrstss were sitting; and here 1
found q tall, dark, grave-loOkiDg
gentleman talking very earnestly to
Mr.. Wingrave, our chief solicitor.
soon found this was Mr.. Parkway,
the cousin OF the murdered lady. He
was giving instructions to the lawyer
to spare no expense to offer q re-
ward If he thought it necessary; to
have the detectives down from Lon
don, and goodness knows what. Mr..
! Wingrsve introduced me, and was
kind enough to say that there was no
necessity for detectives to be brought,
as they had go eminent functiOnRry
as myself in the town.
| It was supposed that this would be
merely q preliminary examination,
but it turned out differently. A few
OF Lytherly's cOmpaniOns-Rlthough,
as It trRnspired afterwsrd, they fully
believed him guilty-were yet deter
mined he should have 8 chance, and
so subscribed guinea for old Jenny
CrOttOn, the most dlsreputable Old
fellow in the town, but very clever
lawyer for all that and Jenny soon
came bustling in. He had q few min |
utes' conversation with Lytherly, and !
then asked that the hearing might be !
put of for an hour. This was, of
course, granted, and by the end of |
that time he had overwhelming evil |
dence to prove an GLi6i, for the land |
lady's son hadn't slept wink for his |
tOOJhache, and he was with Lytherly |
until dinner time on Sunday; and |
then the accused went for walk with |
couple of friends, anG did not return |
until after dark, having spent two or
three hours ut a public house some |
miles of, as the landlord, who hap
pened to be in town, it being market |
day, helped to prove the rest Of the |
time he was in the Bell, as was usu-
al, poor fellow.
There was no getting over this. |
There wSs not shadow OF pretense |
for remanding him, and so-much to l
Mr.. PaTkWey's evident annoyance
Lytherly was discharged. He became |
more popular than ever among his |
associates, although respectable peO-
pie Of the town looked down upon /
him, and they had q supper in his
honor that night, at which old Jem-
my Crotton presided. In default of
Lytherly no cIeW could be fnund Not /
shilling Of Miss Parkway's money |
was ever discovered in her apart /
ments so her murderer had got clear
away with his booty. Many wise
acres said we should hear of Lytherly
quietly disappearing after things had
settled down.
Some little excitement was created
by Lytherly attempting to get in the
sole funeral carriage that attended
the hearse but Mr.. Parkway would
not permit such a thing, and was
himself the only follower. 1t was
very clear that the stranger, in COM
mon with msny others, was not half
satisfied with the explanation which
had secured Lytherly's escape, and as
/ was on the ground at the funeral l
saw, IS did everybody else who was
there, the frOwn he turned on the
young man, who, in spite of lis re.
buff, had gone on foot to the church
yard.
Mr.. Parkway left that evening,
having placed his business in the
hands of Mr.. Wingrave for, as there
was no will, he was the heir at law.
Now, this was q very curious affair
about the will, because Miss Park
way had told her landlady not many
days before that she had made her
will, and, in fact, had shown her the
document as it lay, nearly tied up, in
her desk. However, 1t was gone
now and she had either destroyed it,
or the person who had killed her had
taken that as well as the money; and
even If the latter was the case, it was
hardly likely to turn up again. So,
as have said, Mr.. Parkway went
home. The solicitor realized the poor
lady's property and all cur efforts
were In vain to discover the slightest
clue TO the guilty party. As for
Lytherly, he soon found it was OF no
use to think OF remaining III COmbe-
stead, for, guilty or not, no one OF any
respectability cared to associate with
him and, as he owned to me, the
worst part of it all was that old Crot.
ton, the lawyer, whenever they met
at any tavern, would laugh and wink
and clap him on the shoulder, and
call upon every one present to re-
member how poor old Jenny Crot-
ton got his young friend off so clever
ly; how they "fiummOxed" the
and jockeyed the peeler5,
when it was any odds against his /;
young friend.'
So he went and a good many de-
clared he had gone of to enjoy his Ill !:
gotten gains but l never thought so;
and one of our men going to Chat
uauu W iueALlig FhloOnOA saw sIJ al ! I
erIy in the uniform OF the Royal
and, in fact, had a glass OF
ale with him. The young fellow said
1t was his only resOuTce-dig he could
not, and to beg where he was known
would be in vain. He sent his re-
spects to me, and that was the last we
heard for long time OF the Combe-
stead murder.
CHAPTER II.
had left the police altogether, and
was living very comfortably, my good
lady and |, I'D at IslingtOn, in the