Connecticut western news., 1880-03-24

he seized the door, swung it to, and boited it on the inside.
 Then, for the first time, the dead woman trembled.
 She seemed strangely nervous and agitated now. She clasped the papel closely, then put it in her bosom, and glided from the room. .--
 I had got over the sudden terror in. spired by such strange sight, and had made up my mind that I had detected some terrible imposture. There was a slight pause in the lobby, and the noise of a garment being drawn off; then the outer door opened and the visitant passed out to the staircase.
 followed as quietly as I could. The staircase was lighted with gas. As l trod on the second landing the ghost heard the noise and locked up. She was dressed in an ordinary black cos tune now, and her face was 8 natural color. To my intense surprise she never screamed nor attempted to run away. She stood still, and beckoned me to her side.
 "What are you going to do?" she said.
 "To give you into custody"
 "Are you friend of his ?'
 "I answered "Yes," mechanically.
 "Then let me go free if you value his ife."
 elf I let you go I am your accom- plice," murmured; "your accomplice in some vile imposture."
 "No. If you are my accomplioe to. night, you are an accomplice in the holi- est deed woman ever wrought. Pass me through the gates if you doubt me i; watch me; follow me home; give me into custody if you like; don't care, I've got what wanted"
 I took her arm as though I had been a policeman, and said: "Pass through the gate then, and if you attempt to get away from me I shall call for help"
 She nodded to the proposition. The man at the gate was half asleep. I reused him, and from his box he pulled the cord and let us pass through the wicket door into the Strand.
 I then listened to the strangest story that ever mortal lips had uttered, and there was no doubt that every word of it was true.
 The confession which the trembling wretch had written at her dictation-as he believed at the dictation of his dead wife-l had read. It was plain state ment of how he had poisoned the poor girl whom he had welded in fit of mad jealousy, and how he had concealed his crime how at the last moment he had overheard whisper that some one sus- pectsd foul play and how, fearing the body might be exhumed, he had, with the assistance of an accomplice, since dead, stolen the body that night and re- buried it ID the garden of house in lonely part of the American town where this acsomplice lived.
 This woman was his wife's sister, and she had suspected foul play from the first. She was an actress, and was awsy on prov incial tour when Blissett Elm erton wooed and won Drusilia and took her abroad with him. Emerton had never seen this sister. The marriage had been secret and hurried, and he had seemed strangely anxious to leave the country. They were to be back in five 
 Drusilla-poor trusting fool !-idol- lzed the man and obeyed him. To her he was knight without reproach.
 But soon his conduct to her altered strangely, and she began to suspect that all was not right. He grew cold and cruel, and she was miserable and un- happy.
 She wrote secretly to h CT sister, told her troubles and how quickly her hus- bands conduct had altered. The sister urged her to leave him and come home. She was expecting her to do 50 when there came the news of her illness and death, and then of the mysterious dis. of the body. From that moment Drusilla Emerton's sister made up her mind to fathom the mystery and bring the guilt home to the murderer. She refused to accept the explanation of her sisters death. She believed Blissett Emerton to be quite capable of carrying out carefully matured plot to get rid of her. The disappearance of the body strengthened her suspicious. She concluded at once that he feared the corpse might afterwards be ex- humed, and as 1t turned out her sus- picions were correct. When some time afterwards he arrived in England, she commenced to put her plans into execu- tion. She wonld terrify his secret from him. I have said she was an actress by profession. She was also an exact counterpart in height and feature of her dead sister.
 When Emerton went to live in cham bers she managed by clever artifice to get a duplicate set of keys. The place is open night and day, and as there are only one or two men in residence it is easy to choose time to step up the stairs unnotioed. By getting into the inolosure before l2 one would not even be seen by the gate-porter.
 The plan which oc cured to the mur- dered woman's sister had been put in execution for the first time that night. Early in the evening she had let him see her face among the trees. I had been an unsuspscted witness of the suc- cess of her appearance as one from the dead.
 All this was told at the trial in Amer