The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-02-23

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What remained he carefully gathered
up and deposited close 70 the wall.
Then the group separated, and slowly
descended into the cart, which 1 knew
was concealed by high hedge and two
walnut trees on the other side-an
open space Of the level Of the road
having been retained outside the wall,
but within the old boundary of the field,
for purposes best known to the de.
signers Of the cemetery.
When the cart drove away and was
lost to sight we cautiously left our
place of concealment and approached
the white cross. George 'Saumerez
grew deadly pale when he read these
words:
Sacred to the memory of Gregory
Saumarez, who died 21st September,
1S-, aged sixty-three years; and Mar
garet Nehlson, his wife (afterward the
wife Of Godfrey Hassard), who died
18th of November, lS-, aged fifty.
three years"
"Great Heavensr' he cried, ''what 10
the meaning of thisp"
81 can not say" was my reply, "but
/ have . shrewd suspicion that your
mother is alive. Were you at her
funerale"
THE coffin was closed before I got
home" he answered, "snd / was so
dazed with grief that ] did not recog-
nize the grave again. Besides, was
so hurt at her marrying DR.. Hassard
that could not make up my mind to
visit her grave agar"
The next morning applied with my
chief for . warrant against st. John
Marsden, and other persons unknown,
for sacrilegiously breaking open GER
tain grave. When had arrested him
at his Office, hurried to the residences
of the doctors who had signed the
death certificate of Mrs. Hassard, hav-
ing sent other officers with the date of
the decease to the principal insurance
Offices.
One of the medical men, DR.. B,
was q grave old gentleman, who o.
once said that he had been brought in to
consult with DR.. G., and being sat-
isfied with the symptoms Of heart dis
ease and the other gentleman's treat
ment, he signed the certificate after
viewing the dead body. He was ap-
empty, and readily accompanied me to
the house of his colleague.
We found him in, and when men,
toned the name of the lady who was
supposed to have been dead, he cried:
II have been expecting this for years,
and it is q relief, now it has come.
Hassard was a deep one, and knew
more of certain drugs than the whole
faculty. A great gambler, he lost and
won large sums. / met him at the
gambling tables and soon fell in his
power. To prevent his sweeping my
home and practice away, consented
to Join him in q terrible fraud to cheat
insurance companies. His control
over his dead wife dated long before
their marriage He compelled her to
take certain drugs that brought about
the semblance of death. When she
had recovered and weighted coffin
was buried / took her at night. dis
guised, to Liverpool, where she lived
nearly six months, until he sold all and
got the three thousand pounds for
which her life was insured. Remem-
Der this, whatever comes-I don't be-
lieve Mrs. Hassard was voluntary
party in the fraud"
When brought before the Magistrates
DR.. B was liberated on his own
recognizance, but DR.. c. was re-
mitted to prison.
st. John Marsden confessed that the
firm discovered that one Oscar Nelhson
died worth thirty thousand pounds in
New South Wales. They traced Mrs.
Saumarez as his niece, and, in the be-
lief of her death, endeavored to secure
George, her son and natural heir. In
the meantime his uncle discovered two
daughters of younger niece, and by
! this time q will was found which left
all the property to his eldest surviving
niece at the time of his death. The
mother of these girls was certainly
alive when he died. So they were
looked upon as the heiresses, and it
was thought wise by Uncle Marsden to
"get George out of the way" The elder
! Marsdens separated, and as William.
the eldest, favored one sister more
than the other, the younger left his
: side in disgust and came over to Henry
and st. John, his son, and then whis-
pered, for the first time, that she be-
lieved her aunt Margaret was still
alive, from something she had heard
, while visiting her at DIR. Hassard's.
| This opinion of hers led to the mid.
night excursion to the cemetery.
st. Johns plan was to marry the
younger daughter himself, and hurry
TO find the real live elder niece of the
defunct Nehlson, and make good terms
with her. since, If all he supposed
turned out to be true, she could not re-
turn to England. As it happened.
was sent to America myself, and in q
month discovered DR.. Hassard and his
good-looking wife living and prosper
Gus in Boston. The old chemist, al
though prosperous as far as wealth
was concerned, was on his death-bed.
and a Judge, at his own request, was
called in to take his dying deposition.