The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-02

II wish to tell you something that may
indicate who he is, and then you will be
able, perhaps, to help me find out where
he is and what his record is. l don't
suppose you know that Percy was not
my only brother?'
The detective intimated that he did
not.
my other brothers name was Jerrold
He died a few years ago. They had rea-
son to think that his death was fastened
by foul means. The man whom he ac-
cused of it was tried; the case was ap-
pealed several times, but at last, after
! having been confined for over year, the
accused was acquitted. He said that he
would be revenged upon us. Why may
he not have taken this way to be re-
venged?"
The inspector began to be interested.
What was his manner" he asked.
His name was Horace Dupee. He
was medical student"
Tell me the circumstances. 1 may
recollect something Of it"
w hSLl OCIAOlA NOIlSSoC
be decided to be physician, and he be-
gan the study of medicine here in New
York. He attended lectures and went to
the hospitals. He was fond of fun and a
favorite with his fellow students, and l
suppose he was rather imprudent in his
habits. He was good natured and excit-
able and the others led him on.
1.-The way the end came was this:
There was a supper given to one of the
students who had got through his course.
He was the Horace Dupee l spoke Of
He was a clever man, | believe. never
saw him, and he and Jerrold were great
friends. There were ten or twelve other
young men at the supper. They drank
good deal of wine and became noisy
and excited. They began to play practi-
cal jokes on one another. AT last Hor-
ace Dupee got up to make speech. My
brother, who sat near him, kept inter-
rupting him with jokes and laughing.
He got angry finally-Dupee did-and
made some threat or said some insulting
thing. My brother Instantly threw a
glass of wine in his face, glass and all.
"Dupee rushed at him and struck him
with his fist. They began to fight; but
my brother was the stronger, and he
struck Dupee in the face, SO that he fell
over a chair. Then the others separated
them; and my brother, after moment,
forgot his anger, and wanted to make
friends with Dupee again, but Dupee
would not for q while, but the others
urged him, until at last he laughed and
came and shook hands with my brother, .
and pretended that he was quite recon-
ciled; but he said afterwards to one of
the young men that he would be even
with Nolen yet
They had been on the point of break
ing up, but after this they got to drink
ing and talking again; and Dupee came
and sat down by my brother, and kept
filling his glass for him, but only pre-
tending to drink himself, until my
brother got quite intoxicated and acted
foolishly. 1t was then after midnight,
and the young men began to go home,
and Dupee said he would see my brother
to his lodgings. My father and mother
and myself were not in New York just
then; we had gone down to southern
watering place on account of my mother
being delicate, and Jerrold was staying
in furnished rooms in a boarding house.
'He and Dupee started off together
after leaving the others. Ny brother
could walk, but he was not fit to take
care of himself. The boarding house
was on West Twenty-third street, some
way down. The door had covered
porch to it and was nearly on level
with the sidewalk. Il was a winter
night, but there was no snow on the
ground.
''It was not quite 1 o'clock in the morn
ing when they left the restaurant to-
gether. At 2 o'clock the policeman whose
beat was on that part of Twenty-third
street saw some one lying in the porch
of the boarding house. He examined
and found that he was in evening dress,
with an overcoat on; he was insensible
and his pockets were empty. There did
not seem to be any mark of violence on
him. The policeman thought he was in
bS1LolD4O 4lO1I III lin liz h1OChCu up
the people in the house, and when he
found that my brother lived there helped
to take him up to his room. But there
was physician living in the house, and
he came and looked at my brother and
saw there was something wrong. At
last he found bruise on his head, be-
hind the ear, made with some blunt in
for the skin was not cut, but
it had produced conclusion of the brain.
Towards dawn he partly recovered con-
and when he was asked about |
his injuries he mumbled something about |
Dupee; but they could not get anything
definite from him. A telegram was sent |
to us at Old Point Comfort, where we
were stopping. My mother was too Ill
to move; Istayed with her, and my father
went on at once, but he arrived too late.
My brother"-
Her voice faltered, and she broke of.
The story had been told with entire SIM
plicity, but with intense vividness and |
earnestness. The scenes which she de-
scribed seemed to be before her as she |
spoke, and the emotion which she had |
striven to repress broke forth at last in
few quick sobs. She soon controlled
herself and added, my father had an
inquest held; the young men who had
been present at the supper were called
upon to testify, and they told Of the
quarrel and the apparent reconciliation,
and it was shown that Horace Dupee was
the last person seen with my brother.