, 1880-04-10

Nr. ireland. who iives on Dry ereek, va
IN sovn Yesterday. and threw moee light
II such was aeeessary-oa the dead certainty
that the parties Thomaa and AEam6eld,
were the men ~ho lefthere with the;r w;yea
Mr. l. states that he gave these men . writ
ten description of the route they were to
take: be wrote it in the note book Of the
murderer. and amongst other directions he
gave them. Was to cross the Touchet at Har-
vey Shsw's place 1t will be remembered
that tiais Is the very place where the mur-
dered man. who was brought to this city. on
Sunday, the eth of March, was found in an
eddy Of the river He had long coaversa.
ton with the old man. who told him ne had
been travelling for eight months and that il
cost him nearly tao thousand dollars. also
that he had been TO California, hut still lad
plenty cf money left, and wAs going on to
hun, ND q stock ranch and settle down. Now
that the murdered man is known. there are
several citizens who can recognise him, who
were in doubt at the time when th, = saw
him lying dead; this il BY reasnn 4 the
great change in his appearance through ly.
ing in the water so long and having had his
long beard cut off by the murderer Mr..
Ireland came To town soon after the body
~a. placed in the coffin and the lid screwed
DOWN, and his request TO view the body w.s
-siused; but for this. it 10 more than proha.
hi- that the whole affair would have been
cleared mp then. for he il . man Of more
than ordinary shrevdness But really il
seems a. if the evil one himself assisted the
murderers 70 escape; they we're brought
right back to this city BY Rassets and driven
night 70 the railroad station, whereas il they
had STAYED in the city for only hall An hour
they would, in all probability. have been
recognized IS q potion Of the party who
left in company enquiries as 70 the where.
shouts Of the others would have been very
natural, and the sight Of one may have -.
sisted the memory Of many OF those who
saw the murdered man, and the conclusion
would have very speedily been reached that
they were the murderer il Is very eYas.
psyating t. our citi.ens, and no donbt also
TO the poii.,a for allowing such . chance to
svenge innocent blood to slip through their
hands % very eaaily. The STATESMAN claims
b0c CIcUib OL OclnR the IlrSS 70 SSart the
idea that the two murders were connected !;
in last Fridays iasue Of the Daily We pub
habsd the following, which, in light OF later
evidence shows We hit the right nail on the
heAd:
I'm many circumstances this latter mur.
der bears striking similarity to the deed
recently perpetrated on tho Touchet In
both instances the death wound was caused
by bullet in the hack Of the head, and
both were stripped of every vestige of cloth
ing the woman was of small stature with
dark hair and eyes. 1t is very open but
probable theory of ours that perhaps the
two murdered ones may eventually turn out
70 dove tail into each other What is more
likely than that the two should have been
man and wife, and the man killed first for
the money he may have had and then the
woman
HAvIN.- KNOWLEDGE oP TIE ATRO'IrY,
Put out Of the way on the principle that
dead men tell no tales" We are in pos.
session of certain circumstances, that, II We
were detective we would follow up with
the assiduity of sleuth hound on this very
theory. 1t would be strange indeed if the
Touchet murder case were to {" ont in this
manner, and be Brought to light by the very
means taken to destroy the only evidence
thereof.