The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-14

the seat as If asleep, or as if anxious to beat
his way. | returned to Providence and
interviewed the night watch at the hotel,
and he said the young man assigned to
room No. SO came softly in at about $3.50.
staggered along as il drunk. He fig
ured it out That the young fellow had come
into the city for lark, and had had it.
1t took me ten days to study all this out,
and, meanwhile, the murdered woman had
been buried, t 10 coroner's jury had re-
turned verdict, and public opinion had
settled down to the conviction that the
crime was the work OF a tramp, who had
gotten safely away. l must be sure of my
case before movi' z against young Brush,
as | would stand entirely alone. When /
had the ev dence as above given, began a
hunt for the back door key. In a search of
half an hour / fond it in the garde where
it bad been thrown after locking the door.
1t had fallen in the snow, but the
snow had melted. Then / got the
chanbermad and night watch
down for a quiet look at James, and both
identified him. As the train from Provi-
dence entered the depot it stopped for
oment at a street crossing. The street
crossing was a quarter Of mile nearer the
Brush house than the depot. / concluded
that Brush got on and off here The
nearest building was the office OF coal
yard, which had man on watch all night.
When | came TO interview him he remetn-
bered sect & man alight from the train
and walk rapidly up the street. The night
and the hour conceded with my figuring.
The Brush house had been practica 'ly
shut up since the murder, though James
had visited it several tim S in the clm a y
of relatives. | was allowed to go and coma
at will, and on the next day, after ter
vie wing the Waterman at the coal yarl, |
went to the house about the middle of the
forenoon to take a last look befo re bringing
nv accusation. While was inside heard
some one enter. Off the upstairs hall was
a closet, into which step0ed and held the
door slightly ajar. NV idea was that it was
young B ush, and al he had come alone
for purpose He could n It have known
of my presence, but he came
in very Quietly, and as he
got to the head of the stairs, where
cou d see him, saw that he was pale I'D
nervo is. He acted like one who had dreaded
t. C me, but had sti been forced to. had
overhaul d the clothing in his room, and
had searched high and low in hopes to Fl I'd
the knife with which the stabbing had been
DONE I was ce tain that he could not have
escaped blood stains, and that he had
changed at least portion of his clothing
after committing the murder. | was there
for a last search, and it wasn't Ave minutes
before had the proofs that | had been
blind.
Young Brush dared not enter his mothers
om He started to but backed out. He
walked and down the hall two or three
times, evidently trying to get his courage
I'D, and then entered his own room. | gave
him couple of minutes to work, and then
left nay place Of concealment and tip-toed
to his d or. 4 chimney ran up through
his room and was fitted for stovepipe, but
the hole was stopped up by an ordinary lin
stopper. He had removed this, AMI Was
standing on a chair and had his arm in tbs
hole as l entered the room. For half a
minute he looked down into my eyes with
a fright ened, despairing expression. Then
be made a spring for me, and as we
both crashed to the floor she grabbed
for my throat. He wss desperate, and des-
peration gave him false strength, but, after
a struggle of three or four minutes, l had
him handcuffed aud helpless. Then / In-
vestigated th4 chimney. There was fire.
place down stairs, buG it had been stopped
up. opened it and found the emit 9 suit
he had on when he committed the murder.
Every garment was splashed and spotted
with the blood of bis mother. Not only the
clio hes hu the bloody knife was there. 1t
was a farmers Jack-knife, with a blade
large Rough to prune trees. Not a word
was spoken between US until had all this
evidence. Then the young man askei:
Ibid you suspect me from the 1lstF'
az did"
t'I thought so. / was a fool to come
here in the day time. suppose the jig is
upm
81 have all the proofs to convict you"
Sitting on a chair in his own room, with
the blood evidences before us, he confessed
every hing and related all the detail. Wnlls
he expressed no contrition. he said be
should plead guilty d humbly accept his
fate An hour later. when had him ia jai l.
he had decided to fight to the bitter en- /. He
bad rich and ! fiuential relatives tc
back him in this decision, and whel the
case came 10 trial he was actually &C
quilted in spite of proofs enough to con
Wet him ten times over. The defense
ct up that l, as the detective in the case
could not find the real criminal, and there
fore made my pla $ to convict young
Brush. They even charged me with pre-
pairing and hiding the clothes and wi b
buying and fixing the knife. l was de-
nounced as a monster and dangerous man,
d many people summed me. Six mo .tns
after the verdict you & Brush drowned
nimself in q pond. 1t was deliberate sui
eide, and he left note behind him, read
ing: II cannot longer endure this burden.
I was Gle 4red bY the law. but | AN the