Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-03-11

he believed at the dictation of his dead
wife-I bad 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 conceal
ed his crime; how at the last moment
| he had overheard a whisper that some
one suspected foul play; and how, fear
ing the body might be exhumed, he
had, with the assistance of an accom-
plce, since dead, stolen the body that
night and re-buried it in the garden OF
a house in lonely part of the Amerl-
can town where this accompllce lived.
This woman was his wife's sister, and
she had suspected foul play from the
first. She was an actress, and was away
on provincial tour when Blissett EN-
erton wooed and won Drusilla and
took her abroad with him. Emerton
had never seen this sister. The mar
rage had been secret and hurried, and
he had seemed strangelyanxious to leave
the country. They were to be back in
| FIVE months.
Drusilla-poor trusting fooli-idolized
the man and obeyed him. To her he
was a 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
unhappy.
She wrote secretly to her sister, told
her troubles and how quickly her hus-
bands conduct had altered her. The sis
ter urged her to leave him and come
home. She was expecting her to do SO
When there came the news of her i'll
ness and death, and then of the mys-
terious disappearance Of the body.
From that moment Drusilla Emerton's
sister made up her mind to faith
ON 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 a
carefully matured plot to get rid of her.
The disappearance of the body strength
ened her suspicious. She concluded at
once that he feared the corpse might
afterward be exhumed, and as it turned
out her suspicious were correct. When
some time afterwards he arrived in En-
gland, she commenced to put her plans
| IlllO SA6CuIlOI. DIG WOulu lGIGIY lis
secret from him. I have said she was
an actress by profession. She was also
an exact counterpart Ia height and fea-
ture Of her dead sister.
When EmertOn went to live in cham
bers she managed by a clever artifce to
get 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 stairs
unnoticed. BY getting into the inclos
ure before II one would not even be
seen by the gate-porter.
The plan which occurred to the MUIR
dered woman's sister had been put in
execution for the first time that night
Early in the evening she mad let him
see her face among the trees. had
been an unsupported witness of the sue
cess of her appearance as one from the
dead.
All this was told at the trial in Ameri-
ca. He was extradited and I went over
as witness. But not even on the scat
fold would he tell where reposed the re-
mains of his victim. The avenging sis
ter is now a member of Mrs dra-
matte company, and the story, although
| well known in the States, is now perhaps
told for the first time in England.