The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1889-06-13

at SEEMS PROBABLE now" HE SAID.
servants had returned, the assassin ha
five hours to cover up all traces Of h
crime"
But suggested the chief, sit is nj
conceivable that having committed Ii
crime in the house, he could have carrie
the body on his back through the streets
New York. He would have been obliged I
take carriage. He could not have put III
body into a carriage and taken it out agai
without making the coachman his accom-
plice Now, he had had no time TO prepare fc
this completely, as he did not know an hou
before seven O'clock that all the servant
were to be out that night There is Just
bare possibility, however, that he may hav
planned this thing deliberately, for you wi
remember that he permitted his own coach
man to go to the theater of his own fire
will, and it looks as if he had dismissed hir
for the evening with special purpose. ]
certainly follows that his coachman wa
not the one who conspired with him 10 dis
pose of the body. Therefore, although
| agree that the house should be most thor
oughly searched, it is highly important tina
we should look after all the hack-driyers il
the neighborhood, if not all in the city ant
yicinity.p
The next day the search was begun a!
Ketcham had suggested. Almost all tn,
detectives were confident that in tn,
thorough search men of their calling know
how TO make they should find some direc
clew to the crime in the house. For al
though hackman might have been in com
plicity with Mr.. Brownlow in the terrible
affair, every thing pointed to generalization
inasmuch as he had arranged matters 81
that he could be alone with his wife fol
several hours.
The police searched not only every corner
every armoire and cupboard, from cellar &c
garnet, and all the barrels and boxes and
packages; they sounded the walls; they
dug up the stones of the cellar that seemed
to be loose; they ripped up the floors and
the steps of the stairs; for three days they
devoted themselves TO systematic and
unremitting search, and literally left nc
stone unturned that might by any possible
ty conceal clew to the CRIME. They
found nothing.
They had to come back TO the first hypothe
sis that Mr.. Brownlow had induced his wife
to leave the house and had led her to some
out-of-the-way spot and there murdered
her, where eventually they would find the
body in such state OF decomposition that
its identity could not be established. II
would only be one more body TO add 10
those which are found daily in the river and
by the docks and in out-of-the-way places.
Another consultation was held in the chiefs
office, in fact, they were held every day,
but at this one a new theory was suggested,
this time also by Ketcham
sit seems probable now,n he said, 'sthat
this deed could not have been committed
in New York at all. Brownlow must have
known how difficult it is to hide for any
length of time the traces Of murder upon
ground which is traversed daily in all direc-
tions and watched over by a police whose
effective force is the standing admiration
of the entire country. He had plenty OF
time not only to get out OF the city but TO go
for long distance. There are great many
railroads running from New York with fire.
quent trains in the early evening. He could
have taken any one Of those and gone out as
far as from fifty to one hundred mics and
yet have had two hours or more in which TO
carry out his purpose and return to the city
by the last train and reach his home, as the
servants will testify that he did, at three
O'Clock in the morning. 1t will be necessary,
then, to have the search proceed until all
ground is covered within a radius of one
hundred miles from New York"
This plan of the campaign was SO expen-
sive and so difficult that IL the murder had
not been one OF unusual interest the detect
taking it. But the popular clamor was
so great, the newspapers were so constant
in their publication of sensational clews,
oil la1
upon the department as TO compel it to take
every chance, no matter how chimerlcal it
might seem, TO ferret out the truth of this
mystery. The general cry was: "Let there
be the same law for the rich man as well as
for the poor.'' The widest sort of stories
were circulated and even published to the
effect that the wealthy friends Of Mr..
Brownlow had bribed the police, from the
chief TO the humblest patrolman, not TO find
evidence In this case. Smarting under this
sort of criticism, therefore, and with a nat
ural pride in their work, the detectives put
their most earnest endeavors into the case
and studied and worked night and day TO
get at the truth.
One of the detectives who had been au-
thorized to make special investigations into
the family OF Mrs .Brownlow reported one day
that the theory of sudden anger would real
~ not hold in this case; that there must be
some other satisfactory motive for the deed,
and that he believed that it would be found
by examination Of the papers of Mrs,
Brownlow. Up to this tune all the private
documents found in the Brownlow mansion,
when it had been searched, had been care
fully kept without examination. The de-
tective averred that the Champion family
felt so strongly that Mr.. Brownlow had
married their daughter for the sake of her
money that he now believed that he had
been instrumental in putting her out OF the
way for the sake OF getting secure and
undivided hold upon it, Accordingly, an
examination was made OF the property
which Mrs. Brownlow held. 1t was found
that nothing had been touched by Mr..
Brownlow, and that the property which
stood In her name consisted almost entirely
Of unregistered bonds, which, as every body
knows, are good for their face value on pre-
sentation.
Among the papers, however, was will
made by Mrs. Brownlow, in which her hus-
band was nominated as her sole heir, and
his will bore n date six days previous to
he crime. The finding OF this testament
,reaied sensation among the detectives,
,ut its discovery was for considerable
'eriod kept from the public. They knew
low what interest the husband had In the