The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-06-13
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cslly closed the book be was reading
and said: ION what charge, sir 81
"FOr murder says Bzues; auC
then I was sure Parkway did turr
very white. "F0r the murder Of A!is:
Parkway, st C3mestead, in IS5-."
4 Parkway looked tom one to th,
other OF Us for q few seconds with0u.
{ speaking st lss: his eyes settled
for an instant on Lythe-ly
then turning 10 B4leS, he said
pointing straight a. Lytherly
1t was that man man, l nave n
doubt, who set yCU on
"EOu had better not say anything.
sir," said the Chief Constable, "Gui
just give yCar servants what orders
yCu wish, and come with u. as We
cannot stop"
81 dare say it was he" continued
Parkway, not answering Mr.. Banes,
but seeming to 60 with his own
Z thoughts. II fancied he was dead. for
what took to be his ghost has been
seen in my room every night for this
past month. Where is my wife :"
! We told him she was not st home,
and that we were anxious to snare
her as far as possible ; but be gave
such bitter smile, and said (: '.She
will certainly be veXed to have had q
husband that wss hanged but she
will be glad 10 be q widow on any
| terms"
We didn't want to hear any more
OF this, so we cot him away not
without some little trouble, though /;
and il there had not been so many Of
Us Ge should have had a scene as it
was, we were obliged to handeuff
him.
The servants, four % them vra-s
naturally alarmed, and were in the
hall when We went out. Mr.. Park
way gave q very few directions, and
the elderly woman grinned quite
spitefully at him.
"DOnit insult the man, now he's
down." 1 said in a whisper, while
Parkway and the two officers got into
the fly. Lytherly and l were to ride
outside and drive.
"Insult him the wretch pI she
said. "YOu don't mean to suppose
he has any feelings to hurt. He has
been trying to drive nay poor young
mistress, that l nursed when a baby,
into her grave, and he would have
done it II 1 had not been here. The
only excuse is, he is, and always has
been, q dangerous lunatie.D
We drove off, and l saw nc more of
her, and never heard how Mrs Park-
way took the intelligence.
The lady was present at the preli-
minary examination and 20 her
great surprise her carOuncle brOoch
was taken from her and used against
her husband. This examination was
on the next morning, and we obtain
ed more evidence than we at first eX-
pected. Not only was the carbuncle
marked as Lytherly had said it would
be, but had been up at the station,
being unable TO shake off old habits,
and had made some inquiries there.
Strangely enough, the man who was
head porter now had been head pOr-
ter there five years ago lit is a very
sensible wsy railways have Of keep
ing 8 good man in the same position
always; promotion generally upsets
and cOnfuses thingsl, and he was
able, by secondary facts, TO fix the
dates and to show that not only did
Mr.. Parkway go to COmbestead fer
the funeral, but that he went to Lon
don and back just before; from Lon
don, OF course, he could easily get to
Ombestead, and bis absence left him
about time to do so. We proposed
then to have q remand and get evil
dence from Com bestead but it was
never needed.
Parkway had been expecting this
blow for some years, and always kept
some deadly poison concealed in the
hollow of his watch seal. This he
took on the night after his examina-
tion, and was found dead in his cell
by the officer who went the rounds.
He first wrote very long and min
ute confession, or rather justification,
showing that his motive had been to
prevent his Cousins marriage with
Lytherly, whom he seemed to hate
very much, although the young man
had never harmed him. He said he
went expressly to COmbestead to get
possession Of the money his mis-
guided relative had drawn and to kill
her. He felt that if he left her alive
she would carry out her scaldalous
plan, and therefore it was bis duty to
kill her; so in doing this he felt
that he had committed no crime, but
udu Ollly EEeu hu luSLEuueuE OF JUS
tlce. So 1 suppose he was, as the
hOusekeeper declared, a dangerous
lunatic.
However, the reward of G1C0 had
never been withdrawn, aud 1 got It
it was paid out Of Pathways estate,
too, which was about the stTsngest go
l ever beard of. Lytherly and his
wife are great friends with Mrs.
Robinson and myself; indeed, we
have usually one of their young ones
staying with US, when we haven't one
or two from my married daughter.
Mrs. Parkway, 1 heard, sold off at
the Mount and went away and some
time after saw by the papers that
she was married to some one else. /
I hope she made a better match the
second time.
On the whole, on looking back, l
am inclined to think that Of all the
clues by which ever found anybody
out, this was really the queerest.-
Chambers Journal.