Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-11-13
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pious people think that a parson has no
right to he a man of the world, forgetting
who it was that told us to be wise as serpents,
I'm not the popular idea Of q parson,
you know, by any means; but 1 can serve
q friend as well as your straight-laced
specimen of the breed"
He was q man Of Astounding cheerfulness
and infinite capacity for work, as prone to
embellish his conversation with occasional
flowers of modern slang now as he had been
forty years ago at Etoa. He was just the
man George Caulfield wanted in this crisis
of his life.
He telegraphed 10 the Grandchester at
torney, and got the inquest postponed from
four till five. He saw the medical man. he
talked to the police. A police officer had
started for Grandchildren by an early train
to hunt up the owner of the card, and oh.
tain as much information as could be gos in
a few hours.
The inquest was held at the chief hotel in
Milldale. in a large dining room, which was
only used OH civic and particular occasions.
Here, under a blaze Of gas. the curate Of st.
Philemon's, South Kensington, found him
self, for the frs time in his life, face to face
with a British jury and Il British coroner.
Mr.. H%argrave. NJ. r c. S., general prac-
titioner at Milldala, dec AIRED that the de-
ceased, name unknown, had died from the
effects of a large dose Of laudanum. There
had been no post mortem. and he saw no
necessity for one. The color Of the face.
the odor Of the lips, the abnormal coldness
of the corpse. were sutli lent evidcnc, as to
the nature Of the poison. The bottle found
in the prisoners possession contained lau :
anum.
Sensation!
The railway guard and station master
stated all they knew about the arrival of
the deceased at Milldale Junction. Both de-
scribed the prisoner as v"o emily agitated.
TIE constable who had been sent to Grand
chester was next examined.
He had found Mr.. Elsden, of Briargate-a
man of sixty, stout, gray, bald, in every at
tribute unlike the man described so graph
ically by Mr.. Caulfield. Mr. E!sden had
been able to offer no suggestion as to the
stranger who had made such u shameful use
of his card.
The constable had afterward gone to no
less than four cab yards, where he had m de
all inquiries possible in a limited time. He
had been unable to find any cabman who
had driven an invalid lady to the station on
the previous evening. He had next hunted
out tho only bath chair proprietor to be
found in G~randchester, with tho same re-
suit. Time had not allowed him to visit the
numerous chemists shops in that thriving
city, and that remained to be done.
There was no evidence OH Mr.. Caulfeld's
behalf, except the vicar of Freshmead's
evidence as to his character and ante
cedents, and to the fact that he only parted
with him at eleven o'clock on the previous
morning at the Freshmead Road station.
Freshmead was seven miles from Grand
chester.
"What was Mr.. CaulGeld going to do when
he left you?" asked the coroner.
HE was going to spend the day in Grand
chester"
"Has be friends or acquaintance in that
city3
mo. He was going to look at the cathe-
fral and law courts, and 10 spend IN hour
or two in the Ollbury library"
"EIe was to dine somewhere, I supposed"
He meant to dine at a restaurant. There
are a good many dining places in Grand
chester; he could take his choice among
them"
After this witness had been examined tho
inquiry was adjourned for a week.
At the close Of the proceedings, MI.
Brockbank, the lawyer, asked If his client
might be released OH bail, the vicar of
Freshmead being prepared to offer himself
as security to any amount, but the coroner
replied that the case was Of too serious a
nature to admit Of bail.
So Mr.. eau field went back to the stony
place whence he had come, where the
utmost privilege that could be accorded
him was the liberty to see his friends at
stated hours, and to AVE his meals supplied
from an adjacent hotel.
His spirits woull have assuredly gone
down to the point Of utter dependency on
that gloomy winter evening, when the moldy
fly that had conveyed him 10 the George
hotel carried him back to the Jail. had he
not been supported and sustained by the in
vicar.
"What do you think of the case nowg" he
asked.
"Thinki" cried Mr.. Leworthy. @Why,
that l shall have so much to do in Grand
chester ferreting out this mystery of yours
during the next six days that l don't know
how the deuce my parish work is to get
done"
"Won't you employ tho police?"
"Of course I shall; but l shall employ my
self. too. Don't you be down hearted.
George. I mean to see you safely through
this business, and I shall do it right away
as they say on tho other side Of the At
lantic."
George Caulfleld's confidence in his fathers
old friend was unbounded. He had seen in
the past how the vicar of Freshmead could
conquer difficulties which the ruck of mon
would have found i~nsurmountable. Mr..
Leworthy dined with him as cheerfully as
II they had been eating white bait at Green
witch or turtle in Aldersgats street under
the most exhilaratine circumstances; and
stimulated by the force Of example. George,
who had scarcely brok, his fast since he
left Grandches:er, found himself enjoying
the tavern steak and the tavern c'aret.
His friend left him soon after dinner to go
back to GrandcheSter by the nine o'clock
train, and then came a dreary interval until
ten, when the prisoner lay down on his pa!
let bed and slept souadly, exhausted by the
bewildering emotions Of the last twenty-foui
hours. He was very downhearted, now that
he had before him the prospect of n weeks
solitude in that miserable cell, for Mr.. L.
worthy had told him that he should not re-
turn to Milldale until the day fixed for the
adjourned inquiry, by which time he hoped
to have unearthed the man who had us,d
Mr.. Elsden's card.
An agitating surprise awaited Mr.: Caul-
field next morning. While he was break
fasting dismally upon tea and dry toast, tn,
guardian of his solitude came in to tell him
that a lady wished to seq him.
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