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satorday, September p, 1888.
| THEORY OF THE sTRATFORD

MT. Charles F. Miller, an old and we'll known detective in Philadelphia, has sug- eested a novel theory of the murder of Rose AmbIer that is by no means without plausi-- biIity. In an interview published in the Philadelphia Times he says: Tho facts in, the crime are few. Mrs. Ambler was in the habit of asarsing with her intended husband and of returning alone to her home Whether she did so on the night of sSeptem- Der 2, that Is, whether Lewis accompanied her oa that particular occasion or not, is of paramount importance. But as that rests on Lewis' statements alone the past career of the woman should be thoroughly investi- gated. She separated from Lewis at nine. o'clock The night was dark and lowering. The distance from his gate to the spot where her body was found is mile and quarter. The hour of her murd@ is fixed at 11:35 by Prestoni Hodges, Mrs. Isabelle and Mrs. Mary Merrill, who live within three hundred yards of where the corpse lay. Now where and in whose company was she during the hours mentioned ? Where was she duing the shower? Surely not out on the road alone. At most half an hour ought to nave
  ler's theory on these facts is that Rose Am bIer had another admirer. 'I believe," he ssys, ''that it was to meet him that she al- ways returned alone from her visits to Lewis. She met this man on that Sunday evtning. They walked up and down the road fors time. Then they quarrelIed and he pinched or slapped her face. She threatened to shout or did shout and in his efforts to stop her cries the man seized her roughly. Then it vas she screamed murder and was ehoked to insensibility in a mad impulse to avoid scandal. The man was married. I should not go out of Stratford to look for him. Had he been young and single man he would have told her to shout all she wanted to. The crime belongs to class known as accidental murders"
 Of course the main point in this theory the supposition of another admirer, is mat ter of pure conjecture. And yet, as our readers can see, it explains with singular com pleteness the mystery of Rose Amber death It seems clear enough, as MT. Miller says. that she was not deliberately killed by anyone. No one who had laid prenedita- ted plan to murder her would have been like ly to do 1t by choking her to death. No mode of killing grown person could be chosen that would be attended with more difficulty and uncertainty than that of chok- ing to death. It must of course take into ac- count desperate resistance and the possibil- ity of the victims getting chance to make an outcry. On learning that a person was ehoked to death the most natural thought would be that the assailant was not provided with weapons of any sort and that the honi- eide was probably the result of a sudden quar- rel and assault, in short, as MT. Miller ex- presses it, that it was an accidental murder.
 It is now said that Lewis is to be arrested. The theory that he killed the woman rests upon the supposition that he was tired of her, wanted to marry somebody else and so had strong motive to get rid of her. This theory of course supposes that he killed her deliberately, but it has never seemed proba- ble to us that this theory was correct Very few murderers whossmake up their minds to kill carry out their purpose by such an awk- ward method as choking.