The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-03

/ man."
Here the cobbler paused. He remain
cd SO long silent that / began to think
his story was concluded.
Is that all?' at length asked.
All. , exclaimed the cobbler, with 8
start Wish it WAS all! | have but
just begun.'"
SO saying he took from his pocket 6
large colored handkerchief, wiped hi,
face, and proceeded:
Nothing more came to light for five
years-fve years. The whole affair
went to Observation-Disclosures things are
IN New York. Often, though, | used tc
think of that sweet, pretty girl, who
/ opened the door for me the day | took
Mr.. P.'s boots home, dressed for her trir
to Boston, and of her eager anxiety when
she asked me, DO you think anything
has happened to him?' Oh, DEAR oh
dear! / never could bear to recall it,
and to think | had her fathers blood on
my finger the very time she asked me
/ the question:
We, as | was saying, nothing more
for five years--five years to a month. /
was working hard as usual-just as | ex-
/ pect to work all the days Of my life.
don't know what made me cast my eyes
up to the street-it is seldom [ do it
but did do it, and-may the Lord help
me! l saw going by, at that moment,
MIR. P.'s murderer.
He had young woman on his arm.
and she held by the hand little tot of a
child not more than three years old, who
tripped along with her.
! The wretch cast strange glance into
my place--he could not see me-and
then turned away.
" threw down my work and ran into
the other room for my wife.
/ "' have seen him, / have seen him,
have seen the murderer! screamed in
her ears. Put on your hat and shawl,
and follow him-follow him to the ends
of the earth, and see where he goes
young woman and child with him
young woman and child. Do you hear?'
"Quick as thought, almost my wife
was on the sidewalk.
"' Be CAREFUL says I; don't let him
suspect
Before the words were fairly out of
my mouth, she was out of sight.
81 sat like petrifcation for more
than good long hour. Nobody can tell
what | went through. Nobody call tell.
/ First, | was so crazy glad to discover
! that wretch I did not know what to do,
Then began to settle down more quiet.
and when half an hour passed. and my
wife did not get back, l fell into a great
thinking, and SO many things came
crowding, crowding into my mind.
"'That is his wife with him. | said tc
myself, and that little tot, trudging is
his child. God forgive me, what am
trying to do? To make that young
woman a widow, and the little tot an or
phan?
"The perspiration stood in big drops
on my face-I could scarcely breathe.
suddenly, the vision of the young
girl waiting for her fatherto come home
appeared TO me. There she was, stand
ing in the doorway.
He shall Langp / exclaimed, aloud
He shall hang! What is his young wife
to me, or the little child, eitherT
After that | settled down, weak as 6
kitten, and remained in a tremble til
my wife came back.
When she did come, she did not looB
to me to be the same woman she was
She had taken of her hat and was swing
ing it, crazy-like, in her hand. Her
eyes were as big again as they were be
! fore, and she looked neither to the right
nor left, but pumped herself square into
her seat, and said nothing.
Well, where did he go to? asked
after waiting little.
Peter said my wife, solemnly, are
you sure he is the one?'
90 Sure as | am that we are now talk
ing together
"Then may the Lord have mercy on
our soulsp she exclaimed.
II thought she had gone off in fit,
but she came too, presently, and under
took 10 tell me.
ar followed them to Mr.. P-'s
house. she articulated. AS sure as /
live, ] followed them to Mr.. P-'s
home, where Mr.. P-'s widow lives,
and there they went in. Iasked the ser
want, who stood on the stoop q minute,
/ if the gentleman and his wife were stay
1 ing there"
| " What's that to you, Impudence,
she said.
"'Nothing,' l answered; 'only
/ thought | knew the gentleman
"'Then you ought to know he stays
here, without asking And with that
the door was slammed in my face. Oh
/ Peter, Peter, it can't be the one
"'It is the one,' | repeated, 'and that
I'll prove in less than an hour
Istarted for Lawyer E. He went
with me once more to the head police
The head police took me all to pieces
again; then he charged me to say moth,
ing myself, and not to let my wife
/ breathe word TO any one.
! l heard not a thing for three days, and
began to think it is all given up, when
slap came the arrest, and l was called
on to be present at the examination.
never told the particulars of the
awful tale but once since. I doubt if ]
ever can do it again"
The cohb!er stopped, took a long
breath, and proceeded:
What do you suppose? 1t was Mr.
P--'s own nephew, who lived in Phil.
adelphis, who murdered him. He con.
fessed the whole before he came to trial
He had been on here for two days, and
taken leave OF his uncle the night be.
fore, expecting to start for home in the
morning, but being detained, next day
he walked to the counting-room and saw
the uncle stepping down to his vault
He entered, unperceived, and waited til
the vault was opened, and then com.
mitted the murder and robbery. He
/ escaped without notice, and in thirty
minutes after he left my shop he was on
the train, and, strange to say, was never
suspected. Three years afterWard be