Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-09

packet. containing, besides, q letter from himself and a copy of Samuel Fieetwood's confession, which he had delivered to Mdlle. Rosalie. kept thinking to myself, What could be in this missing letter. and was not at all satisfied with thin :,s as they stood WIS confident that there was q mystery which it might pay me to clear up. Another circum- stance led me to this conclusion. A man of the name of Redwing, who had been taken on by Mir. Pardon for few weeks to assist the gardener. had also disappeared. What was there sin. nlar in that2 you will ask. We'll begging your pardon again. MT. Stanmore-I had seen enough to convince me that Mdl!e Ro saAe and Redwing were lovers. ea:ght them more then once in Ivybush Lane kiss ing and embracing. There was but one con- clusion to draw from that.
 "This, gentlemen, is how matters stood on the day of the disappearance of Mr. Pardon, to be done was to track them.
 "But here found myself at fault. The fact is. did not feel myself quite justified in spending large sum of my own money in the search, and 1t was. dare say, because of this that did not succeed. After some time had passed gave up the idea, and left the force, as have told you, with the intention of starting business on ownlmy account.
 ''Then came yor visit to my comrade. The suspicion of some strange mystery In con- nection with the murder of MT. Wilmot re- vived. You supplied my comrade with funds and with these funds we set to work. I'll not make my story too long by telling you all about our operations. It will be satisfactory to you to know that we tracked two of the three missing persons--Mdlle. Rosalie and Redwing. She had not gone away with Mir. Pardon; she had gone away with Red wing. They had passed some time on the continent, in Franco and Italy. and it was when they returned to England that we got fairly on tho scent. From that moment we never let 1t escape US. We acco:a panied them everywhere in various disguises; we slept in the next room to theirs whe rever they put up. We overheard their conversation, and took it down in writing. Putting all we heard intel- ligiby together, it makes a strange story. Your divorce Is all right, MT. Stanmore, but there is something much more serious behind all this than you can imagine. Shortly, sir, , what we learned was this:
 "From the day Mdlle. Rosalie entered MT, Pardon's service under false coiors she com menced to plot and plan. She tried to in- veiglo him into making love to her, but she failed. An urtful woman. gentlemen, is this Mdiic. Rosale, otherwise Mrs. Stanmore. They don't make them much artfuller in these days. Failing, she took great pains to en- tangle him. so that for her own purposes by and by she might mako it appear that he was her lover. The unlucky gentleman was sleep-walker; had ber.. so from childhood, and it was an infirmity he could not cure himself of. We'll, one night Mdlle. Rosalie happened to see him in this state. What did handkerchief into his pocket; and on the next day, when he found 1t there, he couldn't for the life of him remember how it came upon him. That was her first move.
 .'Hcr second move was the introdu. i If her lover, Redwing, into the temporary vice of MT. Pardon. Only one person knew that she was acquainted with Redwing; that person was Samuel Fleetwood. Correctly divining that Fleetwood had communicated his suspicious to Mr. Pardon, she sought that gentleman in his garden in the dead of night and worked so artfully upon his feel- ings that she succeeded in destroying the unfavorable impressions which he had gained from FIoetwood's account of Rod wing She informed MT. Pardon that Red- wing was her brother. and he believed her. Chance played into her hands on that night. The interview, by her contriving, took place after midnight and in the dark. She was in deshablle, ans! she and her master were sur prised by Samuel Fleetwood, who passed them without speaking. Thus, in Fleet- woods eyes, MT. Pardon was seriously com promised. There are other minor details which need not mention at present; will come at once to the tragedy of the murder.
 'sThere is no doubt that Mdlle. Rosalie in- troduced Redwing into MT. Pardons house for the purpose of robbery; but before the plan they were devising was ripe higher game presented itself. Mir. Wilmot paid q visit to his nephew, Mr. Pardon. He brought with him sum of E5, GOO. Mdlle. Rosalie, al- ways on the watch, asoertained that there was discord between the old gentleman and her master with respect to the marriage of Miss Pardon, who had fixed her affections upon one gentleman, whereas MT. Wilmot wished her to favor another. Mdlie. Rosalie and Rcdwing decided to murder MT. Wilmot and rob him. To reach the bedchamber of
 
 Samuel Fleetwood, upon whom they in- tended to cast the suspicion of the murder; !; If he awoke thoy resolved to kill him also. In silence the deed was done. The old man was weak and with swift cruelty he was strangled, and scarce a murmur came from his lips. He could not have screamed if he had tried, because Mdlle. Rosalie's hands were tightly fixed upon his mouth the mo- ment the cord was pulled. There he lay dead, with the cord round his neck.
 'They found the keys of the despaich-box in his pocket; unlocking 1t, they took out the s5, ,.,oO relocked the box, replaced the key in the dead mans pocket, and were about to leave the chamber when they were startled by the sudden appearance of Mir. Pardon. Certainly the devil was on their side on that night, for Mr. Pardon was in one of his sleep walking frances. Quick as thought they changed their plans, and resolved to throw the suspicion of the murder upon him. Mdlle Rosalie slipped a diamond ring of the rgc Q,o,- c1iJ ;,,tD