Nevada County picayune., 1889-07-17

violet tint under the white outside
 But when looked more carefully
 saw that this potato was not Ne shamrock, but an Early Rose, whicl as ] soon proved by scratching it had no such colorcd second skin and l observed that the blue colo seemed to @o deeper than merely tn, surface.
 w ho, asked myself. would b, iikrlv la llnhiluaiiy carry under his finger nail, such an abundancc o color as would leave deposits lik, these; Welt, q dyer for one. Yes Uf course. a dyer, bu, there wer, more dFers in the city, for aught know, than one could shake q stick at. and it would be ridiculous to seek q blue handed dyer. since hands that were blue one day might he red i or green the next.
 "Ihc newspapers next day ill i their sensational treatment of the incident characterized il as q pro- found mystery, and said that the police had absolutely no clew to the murderer. As l had hoped, that encouraged some persons who had known Harriet Wardrop to come for ward. \ small. neatlY-dressed. re- spectable-lookiug, middle-agcd man, with keen, furtive eyes and an habit ually dcprccatory manner, presented himself at the inquest. He came to see if the woman, whose death he had read of III the morning paper, was his wife, from whom he had separated in Philadelphia q year be- fore, and had not seen or heard from since. His name? John Wardrop. His occupation: Dyer. Where did he work? With Henri Detaille X Co.,, parisian dyers, on Blecekcr street. Yes. the dead woman was his wife. He recognized her per fectly, and the sight made him weep. Poor woman. she was hard to get along with, but she had 3 good heart.
 made an excuse of his signing a formal recognition to get him to take off one of his gloves. His hand was of a brilliant orange tint. While the coroner kept him in attendance at the inquest l hurried to Detallle & Cos. dye house to ask some ques- tious.
 Yes, John Wardrop worked there. He was a quiet, steady man and an excellent workman. They had employed him about ten months. Did they know anything more about him: No, except that they fancied there was likely to be match be- tween him and Jane Blair, good looking, plump woman, about thirty years rld. who had been their cashier for several years. Had they done any dark blue dycing lately :: Yes, only the day before yesterday, Who did the work? John Wardrop.
 II saw Jane Blair. With a good deal of hesitancy she admitted that she and John Wardrop were engaged to be married as soon as he got a divorce from his bad wife who had left him, and expected that he would soon be free. Was she well informed as to his habits? Perfectly. They boarded in the same house, on West Washington place, and he very sel- dom went out in the evening. Did he go out the night before last! No; they parted on the stairs, going to their respective rooms at twenty minutes before ten o'clock, their usual hour for retiring. He could have gone out afterward, without her knowing it? Yes, but of course he didn't.
 "When l got back to the inquest the coroner's jury had just returned verdict that the deceased had come to her death by violence at the hand or hands of some person unknown. I had made up my mind to arrest John Wardrop on suspicion, but was in no hurry about it. As l had not been on the stand did not have to tell anything of my suspicious and the potato could not give anything away, for had it safe in my pocket, wrapped in tissue paper. The re- porters went away to write the case up as a protounder mystery than be- fore. John Wardrop went to draw some money from his employers to give his poor wife q decent burial
 And l, having taken time to get I