Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14

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81 left tho house at 8 o'clock last
night. Exactly at took the train fer
Providence. I reached there at 10. Is.
1 went to the - Hotel. 1 was u.s.
signed to room 80. After registering 1
went to 240 Blank street to see q girl
named Matte Davis. She was no. at
homo. returned to the hotel, played
two games of billiards, and went to bed.
went up stairs with John Carow, n
Boston drummer. 1 slept until 9 in the
morning. Had breakfast, strollcd
about, had dinner, aud left for home at
1.45."
All this seemed straight and reason
able, and | took care 10 hide my sus-
picions. l went to Providence and
verified his statements up to certain
point. He did call at 2lO Blank street
and ask to sec Matte Davis, bu; WHEN
told that she was out and would rc.uin
within ten minutes he would not wait.
Whyf That was hi, object in going Ia
Providence, rs he admitted, and he In
plenty Of time. He did 90 up stairs
with john Carcw, but ten minutes after
entering his room he came ont again. A
chambcrmuid saw linn. She saw that
he wore IL different hat, or, rather. he
exchanged his hat for u cap. When he
went down stairs he went out by the
ladies door. In every corridor Of every
large hotel the hep arc scnlincls II is
part of their duties to watch the
guests. This woman suspected and re.
mcmbcrcd young Brush. When the
night watch came on, he was told to
look out and see n. what hour the YOUNG
man returned.
A train loft Providence at uidYiiri.t-.
hunted vi the conductor who had the
run that night, and he remembered TAX
ing up the tickle. of a young man who
wore cap and sat in the smoker. The
passenger had his nose in newspaper
and seemed deeply interested, although
the light WAS very poor and it was a
strange hour to be reading the news of
the day. lie was sure this passenger not
oil Mt the town were the murder was
committed A train left here
again for Providence at 3 o'clock
III the morning. found the conductor
OF that, and he remembered taking n
cash fare of a young man wearing ii can.
who got on Mt that pIncc; remembered il
more distinctly because the younr man
was curlcd up in the seat ms if nsiccp. ar
us If anxious TO beat his way. returned
10 Providence and interviewed the night
watch nj the hotel and he said the vo,,uo
man assigned to 70 IN No. 50 came .oft-
y III at about $50 and staggered along
rs II drunk. He figured il out that the
young fellow had come into TIE CITY for
II lark, and had had it.
1t took me ten days to study all this
out, and, meanwhile, the murdered wo-
man had been buried the Coroner's
jury had returned n verdict, and public
opinion had settled down to the convic
ton that the crime was the work of
tramp, who had gotten safely away. /
must be sure of my case before moving
against young Brush, rs would stand
entirely alone. When l had the evil
dcncc rs above given, began n hunt for
the back door key. In search of half
an hour l found it in the garden, where
1t had been thrown after locking the
door 1t had fallen in the snow.
but the snow had melted Then I not
the chambcrmaid and night watch down
fora quiet look at james, and both idcn-
tilted him. AS the train from Proyi
dcnce entered the depot it stopped for n
moment ut street crossing. This street
crossing was quarter of mile nearer
the Brush house than tho depot. 1 CON
Guided that Brush got on and off here.
The nearest building was the office of
coal yard which had man on watch ali
night. When came TO interview him
he remembered seeing a man alight from
the train and walk rapidly up The street.
The night and the hou, conceded with
my figuring.
The Brush house had been practically
shut up since the murder, though James
had visited it several times in the COM
pany of rolativc'. l was allowed to
go and come at will, and on the next
day, after interviewing the wntchman at
the coal yard, l went to the house about
the middle of the forenoon to take n
last look before bringing my accusation
While was in idc 1 heard some one en-
ter. OF the upstairs hall was n closet
into which stepped and held the door
slightly ajar. My idea was that it was
young Brush, and that he had
come alone for purpose He
could