Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-15
'POTHECARY'S FOLLY.
Cho Clergyman's Satisfactory So-
 lution of Strange Case.

y In the century the scene of the spasmedic eff fort of local patriotism, which produced the Folly" building which, perhaps, only owes 1t survival to the need of a Historic fact to mark that such patriotism ever ex- isted.
 A wealthy apothecary, being persuaded that a certain spring in the neighborhood contained all the principalingredients of the pharmacopoeia, built bath-house or scale that should have proclaimed to far and near the natural attractions of TwentyforG. Hay ing done so he slept with his fathers, and his heirs and assigns were left to 6-3cover that it takes other ingredients besides those of chemical nature to assure the reputation of spa
 The apothecary had travelled, and ia so do- Ing had acquired a taste for Moorisr archi- lecture The bath-house profited bs many B minaret But he was also of 5rugal mind, and having launched out in en un- wonted indulgence of his favorite tastes in design, it became necessary to stear his course somewhat differently in the matter of the intended material. which he changed from stone to wood, painted a dull red for the sake of ''rich and quiet effect The result did not appeal as it might hava done to the minds of the inhabitants wSo un- gratefully S lied it "Pothecary's Fcuy."
 That solitary bath-house, however, was to become tho scene of one strange event in the commonplace history of the town.
 The cider apples were red on the trees the hop gathercrs singing in their loaded wagons, and wholesome smell of brewing In the air lent an additional hospitatle and comfortable feeling to our usually ccnfort- able county on the morning in question, which rose, as like It's fellows as nature could make 1t, when Twentyford awoke, hnnr s.I- eyes and listening again discovered that a been murdered in one of the bath-rcom pms of the Folly"
 She WAS Q sort of amateur comEaercial traveller who sold French flowers to shops and had passed the previous night at small inn in the town. She had been heard to complain of 'le rheumatism" being, as the landlady said, "absut the only Christian thing she had said"
 But she had proceeded to cure her eilment by bath In the saline spring, an act vhfeh the worthy landlady' would by no means have approved. Perhaps it was ths com mereAal failure and general neglect by the great world of the "Folly," which had brought the springslinto such discredit that every inhabftant who respected himself would have endured the racking and twing- Ing of every Joint Rther than have recourse to the baths. Perhaps so; greater minds are Influenced by like considerations s'Any- how, the woman dikd-what else could one expect" My aunuand I, quiet folks as a rule, even for Twemtyford, were mixed up In 1t, in so far as there was but the length of Pear street between us when the prisoner was apprehended- We,saw but the backs of the only two policenpen for miles round. and Chow they came to be there at that mo- rN lyY1nx h %es,or ~ somebody between them, and were told that we should receive & subpoena as witnesses To my amt this information was Gull o1 terror. My dear," she said, ''I shall never forget how your poor upcle's nerves were upset by the unprdncipled young counsel who examined him about that most disa greeable soap boiling business. He oaid- your poor uncle, naean-that we were in undated by 'blueboatles' from the Aorrid smelling works. and they asked him if he was quite sure 1t was not black bo1tles oI brandy bottles he meant, and, if so, wherein they differed from bluebottlel Disgrace ful treatment it was, and what WE hEd sui fered from those insects no one kn7wsi think Ellice, we will just turn into S.3tter's for that pink ribbon I wanted; we nay per haps hear what really has happenedm
 MT. Slater said ~'the prisoner waas q young lady of 'prepossessing appearances' t wal thought, by one of his young ladBeA, that perhaps the prisoner was 8 flower Eartist, too, and that perhaps professional jealousy afforded . motive for the crime,'" but the opinion did not find favor; the young lady, ranked professional zeal at a roma9aicsll, high figure.
 We gathered at last that the pofa3e hai taken her up becauae there was no o9e elss they could take up-a very sufficient zssson that is to say, no one whom they Had no ''known from baby" and were thGrefor, Rblc to vouoh for any thing they night d, or say in reason of course; "gettiA' bi lively Saturday nights, burning ricksc break Ing into shops," etc, "but this 'eTa aim reasonable" The police were p-9babl- right; they had not imagination enonSh 10 tho kind of crime.
 Tho police had bean summoned, irstantl, too, 1t appeared, by theories of the ''attend ant" who, unaocus&omed to duty ia tha capacity, had returned-soon after ad-aittinl the murdered woman to the bathroom from the washtub, which habitually laaime, her attention in her own cottage.
 Astonished at the silence which 7reete, the application of her ear to the s-hole she opened the door, which was guilEesso 0 lock or bolt, and found the unfostunab woman lying on the floor with hey thros cut, and queer big kind of lSnife lyin beside of her, and all her rattle trgDs an them big red and yellow flowers ou: of he pack all strewn about; Tor bless yo, the did fatter the natural flowers, th6y wer that beautiful; thinks. to myself she'v
 killed herself sure, but the perlice e9ght t
 sec to 1t, SO 'ollers aa1h screams wsEh al my might, and ye knows the rest, MSes- Aunt" said, on my return fre-a wall ing on the afternoon of that day. ..snt3Vv oal we give witness against this unfo7suRat
 young creaturee I would as soon Gaspec
 myself. l have seen her."
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