Connecticut western news., 1878-02-14
VOL. VII.

Ito bed, and about daylight was awaken ed by @ scream. He ran down stairs, and to his aunt's door. and then discov- cred she was dead.
 "But the body was cold at daylight, ," I answered. "The deed took place at least two hours earlier. Have you any reason to suspect any one p ... "When came in last night" he an- swered, '' 8 stranger moved away from the gate across the street. and as he found that I was watching him, he skulked along down the street"
 ..Did Miss Williams have any money in the house," I asked.
 --E< <s3-.- have tssd tS fcw 7Onars, " he answered. n He did not know where she kept the money, he said :; and he was certain that she was asleep when he came in on the previous night. His theory was that the stranger whom he saw at the gate had entered the house and committed the crime.
 "H seems strange that he should have known that the money was hidden under corner of the bedroom carpet, said.
 He made no reply, and l continued, "She must have made desperate fight, and I think the villains sleeves must be i stained" a-.a =-ss. ....
 His eyes went down to his sleeves as I spoke, but he quickly raised them.
 "I don't know, I'm sure" he said, after while. ''It's an awful thing, and I'm 50 nervous that I can hardly think of any one thing for moment at time.
 "Poor boy '! it is hard blow on you" put in one of the constables, in a con- doling voice. - '--.
 Tom covered his face with his hands, and seemed to be much affected and I told him I had done with him.
 "H Hold p said, as he was leaving the house. Have you any idea of how much money she had hidden away ?" "No." =..-
 It makes no great difference" went on "I have ascertained there was near ly thousand dollars, and the bills were all ives and tens on the Ocean Bank of New York and the Drovers' Bank of Brooklyn" ......
 I saw he had look of annoyance and chagrin. I had found no such memo randa, and only judged of the value of the bills and the banks represented by those left behind. --- .- Well, there was my case. The young man was guilty, and knew it; but if I said so, and made his arrest, I would have been mobbed. It was the general idea that stranger had committed the deed, and it would have been folly to take Tom on such evidence as had ac- cumulated, much of 1t having no weight except in my own mind. '..'. A couple of old nurses were allowed to come in and prepare the body for burial; the servants recalled; and I asked Tom to return to the house, and guide and direct so far as he could. One of the constables went aud fetched 8 justice of the peace. He followed me over to the hotel, and when we were seated, he asked, "Well, what have you d1s- covered ?' ......
 "That the crime was committed by some one living in the village" an. swered. sss
 "You don't mean that p | "Yes."
 "Who is the man ?" ~
 eff I knew I would arrest him." re- piled ESQ far, have only suspicious but perhaps before tomorrow morning we may have the villain in custody"
 q hope so p he exclaimed, much ex- cited. 5.......
 then told him that wanted to pass the night in the house with the corpse, and wanted his company. I did not wish to go in until Tom had retired to his room, and would rather none of the servants should see me. I cautioned him not to betray my intentions, and warned him that the capture depended on silence and discretion.
 At 10 o'clock that night, MT. Parsons (the iustice) and myself were admitted to the house by one of the back doors. The servants and Tom were up stairs and three women were watching wltl the corpse. It was bright moonlight night, rather cool, and Parsons hac brought some cigars.
 We sat in the room beyond the dining room, having no light in the room but the door was partly open, and lamp or stand in the dining room shone in, an6 the light fell upon large mirror hang , ing on the wall to the left of us , I had to prepare him very gently fol my proposed search, and I did not dare , to tell him that I believed Tom to b, the original, although he could not helI F seeing that was trying to fasten tn,
 crime on some inmate of the. house. l It was just three minutes of twelv, z o'clock, and we. had been very quiet fo
 8 long time, both thinking, when sud B denly saw face In the glass on the wall
 It was Toms, and looked round, ex F pecting to see him in the doorway. H, F was not there and as turned to tn B glass his whole body came into view l being clad only in night-shirt. Tn l moon was streaming in at the window 6 falling In shower on the glass, and be t tween moonlight and lamplght tn I glass was converted into magic miro s to represent what was transpiring in tn J. rear of the house in the yard behind tn d kitchen. I turned from door to glae L- three or four times before I solved tn
 mystery, and by that time Parsons wa
 watching Tom.