The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-02

morning after. Better clews could not
be asked for, but, hunt as | would,
could not turn him up. He seemed to
have dropped right out of the world.
For SIX weeks went up and down the
country, seeking everywhere, but all
in vain.
"There was one thing in the case
which puzzled me. Why had the MUIR
derer packed up and carried away the
trifiing articles have mentioned? A
tramp wouldn't have done it; and
what the nephew could want of them
was more than | could understand.
had never met with any thing like 1t In
all my experience, and my mind was
half made up on the very start that the
crime was the work of lunatic. After
six or seven weeks of faithful work the
case was practically abandoned. One
day l was at the Air Line junction, a
| couple of miles north of Toledo, and
among other people there, waiting for
the train, was lone woman about
fifty years of age. As she sat reading
her spectacles fell off and one glass
rolled out of the frame. 1t was my
fortune to sit near her and to pick up
the glasses. AS | did so she said:
"'There they go again! Inever saw
such pair of glasses in my life!'
The optician did not give you a
good fit l observed.
ooh, didn't get EN- of an optician;
l bought EN- of stranger while | was
travelling, but | was never so cheated
in my life
"'Was it very long ago?'
"'About three weeks
"'Here?'
"'Oh, no. 1t was while I was wait
ing at Monroeville. 1 had lost my
glasses and was fretting about it, when
the man asked me to try these. They
seemed to fit me nicely, and l gave
him half a dollar for Them
81 was breathing hard about that
time, and it required a strong effort to
control my voice as / said:
81 think he was cousin of mine.
Can you remember his descriptions
Certainly. He was smallish
man, having black hair and eyes, and
he walked lame. On the back of his
right hand was an initial in India ink. ;
"'He's the one, madam, and I'm
sorry he cheated you. Let me give
you this two dollar bill in exchange for
the glasses
"'Oh, thanks! thanks!'
"Well, L got away by myself to
think. | had seen that man some
where. Where was it? / began and
followed my work all over in my mind
but l could not locate him. 1t was
midnight, and was fifty miles away
when | suddenly placed him. He was
one of the jurors at the coroner's in
quest! Next day | was back in the vii
lage where the murder occurred. The
spectacles were identified by several of
the neighbors, and when / came to
make some cautious inquiries about
the man | found him to be worthless
sort of fellow living a mile or so out of
town, and making a poor living for
himself and family by digging wells
and doing odd jobs. 1t was true that
he was juror on the inquest, and it
was also true that he had been at
Monroeville at the time named.
went alone to arrest him. called
at his house in the evening, under pre-
tence of engaging his services, and as
he sat by his own fireside, surrounded
by his wife and children, I told him
who was, and charged him with the
crime. He wilted like weed in the
sun as he comprehended what nv
words meant, but his wife was made of
different stuff An axe stood in o cor
ner of the room, and she seized it and
tried to split my head open. | had just
all | could do to put the handouts on
her, and then she turned on her SILVER
ing husband and reviled him until he
stopped his ears to shut out her voice.
he turned out to be a weak minded
fellow, and it was plainly shown that
she not only put up the job but went
with him to execute it. While he was
searching for the money she packed up
the other articles, even taking her
brushes, combs and towels. She had
braced him up to appear at the inquest,
and he had come through it all unsus-
pected. While it was a clear case for
the hangman, some bubble of law
saved their necks, and both are serving
long sentences in prison."
"And how about the nephew?n I
asked, as he seemed to have finished.
"Well, on the day of the murder he
took the train, as | have told you, but
got Oft at a town below Blankville.
There he fell in with some local sports
and won about four hundred dollars at
poker that night. Upon his return to
Cincinnati his life was threatened by a
woman for some grievance, and to be
rid OF her he made clean lump to
Nashville, and was arrested there for
gambling and sent to jail for three
months under an assumed name.''
Eyes, luck sometimes plays into a
man S hands in a strange way said
another of the group, as he elevated
his feet a notch higher on the stove.
1.-TWO or three years ago one of the big
distillers at Peoria, Illinois, was robbed
of a goodly sum by his confidential
clerk. | was sent down from Chicago
to work up the case. The name of the
clerk was Charles Albright, and he
was described to me as dapper little
fellow without beard, and voice as
soft as a woman's. His photographs
showed him to be pretty cookbook
ing fellow. The money had been
drawn to make purchase of grain. 1t
was to have been paid out on that day,
but was not called for, and the clerk
gobbled it some time between six O clock
in the evening and eight o'clock next
morning.
''The first move, las you will agree.
was to ascertain what trains had left
Peoria during this time and seek to
find which one Albright had taken.
The place is quite arailroad center, but
in one day ascertamed that the thief
had not left the town either on freight
or passenger train. Had he gone by
the highway? / visited every livery sta
BILE, but no trace of him. AS a matter
of fact, | was up a tree. He had gone,
but how?
after two whole days spent in fruit
less search, | got desperate, took a train
at a venture, and brought up at Deca-
tur. On the train was q young lady
whose home was at Decatur. As she
had several parcels with her, volun-
teered to help her off the car. AS her
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