The Newtown bee., 1878-01-31

Had it not been for one fact l should have abandoned, in the press of other business, the matter at once. That one fact, which told me in tue imperative voice of duty to bring every faculty into plny, and solve the fate of Zanone, was his possession of the enormous sum of Gi5, 900.
 What las become of itY was the ques- ton which occurred to me a thousand times a day.
 There, as unmistskably as the letters of fire on the wall, was the clue, the only clue now left me.
 l must find what became of the money.
 Once more reviewed the facts.
 Unfortunately the same hand had trsc. ed the letter from Paris. had hoped to have found it forgery. Again the light had left me, and l was feebly groping in the dark. Then l called to my aid two experts in the art of penmanship. These letters were placed before them. Every characteristic of the earlier letters agreed with the letter from Paris. The experts pronounced the chiregraphy tha. of the same person.
 was completely baffied.
 From Dublin, Zsnone had gone to London. From London. therefore, he must have gone to Paris. Accordingly. ! resolved 10 return to Paris by the way of London. Was ever case shrou6ed in more complete and impenetrable mystery Could l, with an experience of twenty years, discover the circumstances of the mans death?
 Again the voice of reason bade me to look for the G15, ,000 Find what became of the money, and had solved the prob lem.
 was about retiring for the night when : ray of light broke through my brain. ] consulted my timetable. There was yet time. In twenty minutes l was be- ing whirled through the environs of Pa. ris, on my way 10 Dublin. 1 would examine the letter which re- quested Messrs. Goeff & Sons to forward the money to Paris.
 Two days later I was seated in the ban. ker's office, with the letter before me Two other letters. written by the deceas. ed-one from Londonderry, another from Belfast, relative to trivial matters-were also placed before me. The letters were written few days after the deposit had been made.
 An Italian stranger arrives in Dublin from whence is not known. He depos- it's large sam of money with reputa- ble banker. After while he leaves Dublin, and is next heard of in London from whence he writes letter of inquiry to his banker in Dublin, and speaks of shortly going to Paris, and in due sea- son is heard from in Paris, where he lodges in the Rue Rampant. At his written direction, his banker in Dublin ren:is to him an enormous sum of mon ey. On the 3d of February, after proper identification, he receives the money from prominent banker in Paris; the game day he leaves his apartment, say. ing that he is suddenly summoned away without stating whence Fourteen days atterward his body is discovered floating in the Seine, with few francs in his pocket and the marks of blow over the left temple.
 Through channels known best to the profession, traced my man to the Tav. istock Hotel in Covent Garden. It was near the Haymsrket--the place where the night-side of nature luxuriates--the haunts of brazen women and bold, bad men; where wild reyelry and mad orgies rule the midnight hour; where treacher- ous sirens weave their fatal webs where the wild red wine gurgles OCT the goblet; where eyes shine brightest, and uaholy passion rears it's hydra head.
 1 began to weaken in my work when I discovered that Zanone had plunged in- to this vortex of dissipation. don't know why, but take keener interest in my work when it leads me into better scenes. However, detective can't af- ford to spend his time moraiizing.
 A few judicious inquiries put me in possession of the fact that Zausne had become fascinated with beautiful En- glish girl not unknown to the police on account of her utter recklessness-
 Had I at last struck the trail of this labyrinth of vice which would lead to the solution of the nysterys Once more the voice of reason whispered the an- s&er.
 The woman and the money were link cd inseperably together.
 Inch by inch I traced her with her victim. Step by step 1 followed them he 10 the destruction which was inevita- ble. she to the cnnsummation of this most bloody deed They left London together. On ihe evening of January eoth, 1868, they arrived in Paris