Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1882-07-14

between all human beings. and of n far
fetched kind of responsibility in which I
don't believe, and 1 will take pleasure
in conflict with you on these points
next week. And now, do you know it' s
confoundod coldP am half inclined TO
drive you away, old friend; can YOU de-
duce anything mathematical or psyche
logical from thatP"
HBoth.n said Crane, "two straight
lines intersect in only one point. Five
minutes might make a man too late for
the inevitable. certainly ought not TO
be too cariy for my fate" And with
these laughing words on his lips he, in
deed, went straight to his fate.
Crossing the little park which seemed
doubly desolate from night and storm,
as though to balance its summer beauty,
there was a sudden cry litde ahead.
A quarter minute two men seemed en-
gagged in terrible struggle, but before
he could reach them one had rushed
away among the trees, and the other
had fallen to the earth. Cranes first
impulse was to follow the runaway; his
second, and the one he acted upon, was
to assist. the other. Crane had studio d
medicine before his father had prevailed
upon him to be banker, so as to per-
petuate the business in which tho family
had grown rich for three generations.
1t scarcely needed more than the
glimpse he could get of the wounded
mans face in the darkness and the
sound of his falling voice to prove to
him that all that the poor fellow had to
say must be said at once. The knife in
the other mans hand had done its work
only too well.
"How long will | livep" said the
stranger, in wonderfully calm and
even voice. There was perfect SINGER
ity in the tones he used; he evidently
felt that "Will l live'' would have
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II.
Thomas Crane testified at the Inquest
to the conflict he had seen, and to be
ing with the man at his death. To hi
father and to Harry Fenton only did hi
tell of the fearful oath he had taken il
the tempest of that January night
Both grieved that he had taken it, bu
neither said one word to induce him tc
break it.
MY legal knowledge is at your com
mand, said Harry Fenton.
g My fortune is at your command,
said his father.
Long before noon the dead man
relatives had come to claim him-hi
widowed mother and his sister; but the,
had nothing to tell which would throy
any light on the murder. Charlie Jack
son had spoken the truth when he salt
he had not an enemy in the world. I'll
had no great amount of money. 1t wa
most terrible mystery.
The next day Thomas Crane begal
his search. Search around the scene o
the murder was rewarded by finding tn
knife with which the deed was done
The police had failed to find it. Gran
found it himself.
Days followed in which he CAREFUL,
examined the stock of cutlery in on
store after another in his search TO
knives like it. He found its mate at las
in a little variety store far out in tn
suburbs, the only one like it which h
had seen for sale in the whole city. II
bought it, treated the man who sold
to a glass of beer, praised the little chill
who came into the store from the dwell
ing behind it, and so won upon the ma
that he learned where the other tw
knives from the quarter dozen he ha
had, had gone when sold.
He took the likeliest case first.
A fellow who had been indicted fo
manslaughter once, and who was popt
larly believed to have escaped by falls
swearing, was followed first. Whateve
he had been doing, he was evidentl
covering up his tracks. But whe
found at last, late in March, n thousan
miles away from where Crane had con
menced to follow him, he was sitting
bar-room whiting shingle with I'll
mate of the knife which had kille
jackson, and two months OF hard wor
had come to nothing. Crane was di
gusted, not disheartened.
The next day he was on his way bac
to begin again.
The other man was an express me
senger An honest, Woodworking
straightforward man. 1t seemed a
! most mockery to follow him. Crar