Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-02

ttou, daoiAS tudt DIS he was stranger the
peddler might take him to some house
where he could get accommod alton. The
peddler replied that he was going to
"TheiTraveler's Rest on the outskirts OF
Doncsster, as it was a good house, and
he knew the landlord.
When the smith removed the shoe from
the horse Of the last conner, he examined
1T closely, remarking that it had been
made in Holderness, pointing out the fac,
that the nail was peculiarly made, nav
ing split in the head, and saying that
that was a Holderness fancy.
"I'llkeep this nail, ;" said the smith, and
he drove it as a wedge into the handle of
small hammer, where it passed through
the head.
The peddler sent for fagon of ale
and they stood drinking and talking for
some time. When the blacksmith joked
the peddler about being in such hurry
when he came in, ne laughed and said
sOh, that's all right. I've made ur
my mind to sleep in the big clubhouse,
where I have slept before; it's comforta-
BILE, and you take anybody you like in
there, you know" the peddler added with
wink.
When the two men were ready to de-
part, TIE peddler took large wallet from
the valise on his saddle bow and paid the
smith. The peddler seemed to. make a
rather ostentatious exhibition of his wal
let, which was crammed with bank notes
and gold.
The two men rode off together, and the
smith cleared his place and closed for,,the
night.
In due time the peddler and his new
friend reached 1.-THE Travellers Rest,
aud told the landlord they would sleer
in the outbuilding IN the rear, in which
there were several beds. The landlord
said there we're good accommodations
there, and promised to make them COM
Portable. The peddler retired first, and
the stranger remained behind to have
supper and linger over Lis ale Ateleven
o'clock he went to the outbuilding, and
five minutes later the landlord observed
the light put out.
Next morning neither the peddler nor
his friend appeared, and the landlord
went to the outbuilding to arouse them.
He found the door open, and on enter
ing the room discovered the peddler in
his shirt, lying on the floor at the far
end in pool of blood His head was
battered in, and near him was lying a
hammer with blood and hair on the head
He was cold and dead.
When the alarm was given it was found
that the man who had accompanied the
Deddler and occupied the same loom
with him was missing, and suspic
ion at once fell on him as the murderer.
The authorities were notified and officers
were in pursuit of the supposed assassin
before the day was an hour older. They
tracked him to Comm bro, but lost trace
of him just outside that town, on the
road to Sheffield. The keen eyes of the
officers, however, caught sight of a horse
among the brambles in the valley to the
left of the road, and there the man was
captured. He was terribly frightened
so much so as to be unable to articu
late for some time. Strapped to his sad
dle-bow was. valise, ana on opening it
a heavily-iilled wallet identified as the
peddler's was found.
Before the coroner the prisoner, who
said his name was Henry Scott, told g
most astonishing story. He said that
when he went to the outhouse the ped
dler had already gone to bed, which was
a high, old-fashioned tent bed with cur
tains. Scott took bed at the opposite
end of the room. This bed had curtains
also, as the room was large and draughtv.
&c placed his clothes on chair and
flung his valise, or holsters, on bit of
carpet at the side of the bed. When he
put out the light he observed that the
moon was shining full into the room. He
lay awake for some time, and presently
heard footsteps in the room. The next
moment the curtain of his bed was gen
tly drawn and he saw a face looking
down upon him. He lay quite still,
though greatly alarmed. The face dis.
appeared, and retreating steps were heard.
He rose on his elbows and peered
through the curtain. He distinctly saw
two men at the further end of the room
near the peddler's bed. They passe d
round the foot Of it and disappeared at
the other side That moment he heard q
scream and saw the face of the peddler
protrude from the curtains. There was
scuffle and suppressed cry, and the
next moment the peddler bounced from
the bed and ran screaming "murder!" to-
ward scott's bed, holding his valise at
arms length. The two men followed the
fugitive, and Scott, Mortified and fear
stricken, slipped from his bed on the
other side and hid himself in closet.
He heard the groans and blows, and the
sounds of retreating footsteps. then all
was still. The next instant, however, the
door opened, other footsteps were heard
along the floor, and the curtains of SCOTS
bed were hastily drawn. The visitant,
whoever he was, uttered an oath OF dis
appointment and fled flom the room.
After waiting some time, Scott came
forth from the closet and found the ped
dler lying on the floor, dead. Scott was
in terrible dilemma, and saw at a glance
that be would be suspected of having
murdered the peddler. Panic stricken,
he hastily dressed himself, picked up his
valise from the floor, took his horse from
the stable, and departed from the inn, re-
solving to seek safety in flight. It was
daylight when he reached Coninbro, and
then for the first time he discovered tbs t
the valise he had taken from the floor
was not his, but the peddler's, which he
had no doubt dropped when the murder
ers fell upon him, and in place of which
they doubtless seized and carried off
Scott's, which lay on the carpet close by.
This extraordinary story was not
believed by the corners jury in the face
of all the damning evidence against Scott.
It was shown that he had seen the peddler
produce his wallet from the valise in the
blacksmith shop; that he offered to ac-
company the reddler to Doncaster, and
that he had taken up his quarters at the
same inn, and slept in the same room with
the murdered man. Besides this, he was