Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-29

/ packet of quill pens.
! When he had finished his dinner and
/ his landlady had cleared away the things
! and retired, he rose and having lighted
| his pipe paced the little room from end
| TO end for half an hour, from which he
| reused himself at intervals sufficiently tC
refill and relight his pipe
At length he suddenly shook himself
| and woke, as il were, with q start from
his reverie. He looked all around the
room, and out OF the window, and then
having carefully and Eoiselessly locked
the door, he put the paper and pens he
| had purchased on the round table i'll the
center of the room and, producing a
portable ink bottle sat down to write.
During his distractions he had deliber-
ately reviewed all the known circum-
stances of the murder, and was now
about to draw out an exact report OF
them, together with the differences he de-
duced from the various details This was 4
course he pursued III every case that Oc-
cuDied his attention, and he found that
the act of inscTibing the facts upon pa
per Strengthened his ideas wonderfully ,
and gave him much stronger grasp of
the subject.
For some time he sat meditatively re-
garding the nib of the pen that he had
selected from the packet, then he dipped
it in the ink and began to write slowly
forming with extreme percision each let
ter of his neat, round handwriting, as n
man in doubt as 10 what he is going TO
say fingers over his words to gain time
for thought.
g Mrs. Ennis was murdered on July
the fourteenth in bathing machine at
Westcliffe. Fact. -
He underlined the last word, and
paused to think before he resumed.
1.-The weapon employed was a pearl
handled Spanish knife. Not probably,
but Und0ubted.
So The knife was found in the sea, be-
low low water mark, about five yards
away, and was freely identified by Miss
Ennis as hers. Fact.
''Miss Ennis was known TO be antago-
nistic to the murdered woman. Fact.
1.-THE time was certainly between
twelve and half past one.
"a slight noise was heard from the
rear of the machine about l2:55 o clock.
Fact. Mrs. Ennis was probably alive at
the time
''COnclusion: The murder took place
between 1880 and l:30 o clock.
miss Ennis declares that she left the
home until 40 and refuses positively to
give any explanation of her whereabouts
meantime Why?'
ing paced the room several times before
recommending.
"Nobody can be found, by the most
diligent inquiry, who saw her leave.
eff she did leave at the time she
states, no one could have entered after
departure, as she herself admits that she
closed the door, which fastened with d
spring.
1.-The sound already referred to was a
gasp of surprise. not terror or pain.
- Conclusions: 1t was caused by the
appearance of someone whom she did not
expect but was not alarmed at seeing.
''There was no cutlery, and the spot
was carefully chosen for blow that
should be instantly fatal.
conclusion: She was stabbed by
some one who could approach her closely
without exciting fear or resentment.
"WhO was this someoue:' said Mr.
Padger half aloud.
He laid down the pen, and pondered
for long anne on the difficult point
Sonsea6w although all the circumstances
sEsSre suspicious, partly perhaps because
they were sosesaas Ripuously so, he could
not bring himsG4fstS accept the one inev-
liable conclusion Mntthe CYL was guilty
of so h6rrible a ~ rs asank ad-.
mission of tsso kership o kniGF
was possibly sher favof, ffoAgk ~ q,
would have psei useless and5Lxs 30
deny it&sskasf youth and beaJts headed
strong for her-and yet? -
Putting this matter ou;Snsfside fer q
was, he knew, ali axiom that it was wells
in such cases to begin by finding out7who
it was most likely to benefit isy the
death, but he knew also that ETts was
very often falacious, and even Mit we're
infallible there seems TO be no aleaas of
applying it on this occasion. Mr. Ennis
had no private fortune, and her life had
not been insured. Revenge? There was
nothing to point to that, for though Miss
Ennis was proved to have frequently
quarreled with her stepmOther, she was
scarcely likely to have adopted so ex-
tremely dangerous q method of removing
her from her path.
"What was the mOtiye:;' He wrote
Not robbery apparently, for though the
watch was missing, it was impossible to
believe that a thief would take that and
leave twenty seven pounds odd in money
What then?
The doctor who was on the spot ap-
peared to have some understanding with
Miss Ennis, though he denied knowing
her, and she ignored him in public.
Again Mr. Padger pausM to reflect.
Had that silent encounter oB9ooks, twice
repeated, been merely tHts work of his
No. That4trange look of
chill horror on each of Sthe two faces
when the pearl handled knife was ac-
for, was neither chance nor fan
cy. Had the doctor then found Miss En-
MS on the spot and cannived at her es-
cape, or had he discovered and Destroyed
some damnlng piece of eYidence?iHe had |
shown no excessive signs of tm5tion in
the machine. and had appeared sur
prised and Mortified on revealing the |
but he had been alone in the |
place for some minutes, and Mr. Padger !
could not be certain that he was not |
really aware of his entrance.
1.-The doctor knows something, and |
Miss Ennis knows that he does so. He /
2onceals that something; it is in some /
way connected with the knife, and both |
are Mortified at the prospect of It's revela- /
lion. For what reason?'
L. IL.