Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-06-03

t"o s"tcs u you douot mo; watch mo; follow
me homo; givo mo into custody if YOU like;
l don't caro-, I'vc got whot wanted"
took her nrm us though had boon q
policeman, md said:
"Pass through tho cato then, and if YOU
sttcimpt to to got away from me shall oall
sho nodded to tho proposition. Tho
man at tho cato wus half asleep. l reused
him, and from his box pulled tho cord and
lot US pass through the wioket door into tho
Strand.
thon listened to tho strangost story
that over mortal lips had uttered, and
there was no doubt that oyory word of it
was truo.
Tho confession Which tho trembling
wretch had written at her diotatiou-S
as no beloved OF the dictaton of
his dcad wife-I had read. 1t was
plain statement of how ho had pois-
oned the poor girl whom ho had wcdded in
lit OF mad jealousy, aud how he had con-
| cealed his orimo; how at tho last moment
ho had overheard whisper that somo one
suspected foul play; and how, fcariug tho
body might bo exhumod, ho had, with tho
assistance of all accomplicc, since dead,
stolen the body that night md re-buried
it in tho garden of house in lonely part
of tho American town where this acoomplicc
lived.
This woman wns his wifes sister and
she had suspected foul play from tho first.
She was an actress and was AWAY on
provincial tour when Blissctt Ilmcrton
wood and won Drusila and took her
abroad with him. Emerton had noycr seen
this sister. Tho marriage had been secret
and hurried, and he had seemed strangely
anxious to leave tho country. They were
| to be back in fivo months.
Drusila-poor trusting fool-idolzed tho
man and obcyed him. 10 her ho vas o
knight without rcproach.
But soon his conduct to her altered
strangely, and she began to suspect that oil
was not right. He grew cold and oruol,
and sho was miserable and unhappy.
She wrote secretly to her sister, told hor
troubles and how quickly hor husbands
conducts had altered. rho sister urged
| hor to leave him and como home. Sho |
was expecting her to do SO whom thero
camo the news of hor illness and douth, and
thon of tho mysterious disappearance Of tho
body. From that moment Drusila Emer- |
tons sister made up her mind to fathom
tho mystery and bring tho guilt homo to
tho murdoror. She refused to accent tho
explanation of her sisters doath. She
believed Blissctt Emcrton to bo quite oapa.
bio of carrying out carefully matured plan
10 get rid of her. Tho disappearance of
tho body strengthened her suspicious. She
concluded at once that ho feared tho corpse
might afterwards bo cxhumed, aud as it
turned out hor suspicious woro correct.
When somo tmo afterwards ho arrived in
England, she commenced to put her plans
into execution. She would tcrrify his
secret from him. ! hayo said sho was ON
actress by profession. Sho was also an
exact counterpart in height and feature of
her dead sister.
When Emcrton went to 1.-Two in chambers.
sho managed by q clover artiGcc 10 get
duplicate set of keys Tho place is open
night and day, and as thoro arc only one or
two men in residence, it is easy to choose
tlme to step up tho stairs unnoticcd. By
getting into tho inclosuro boforc twolvo,
ono would not even DO seen by tho gate
porter.
The plan which occurred to the murdered
wcman's sister had been put into execution
for tho first time that night Early in tho
evening she had let him SEQ her face
among tho trees. | had been on uusus.
pcctcd witness of the success of hor ap-
pcaranco as opc from tho dead.
All this vas told at the trial in America.
lilo was extraditcd and went over as
witness. But not even on tho scaffold
would he tell whore rcposcd the remains of
his victim. Tho avenging sister is now
member of Mr.. -'s dramatic company
aud the story, although wcll-known in tue
States, is now, perhaps, known for the first
timo in England.
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