Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-19

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"We have nothing to do with that
now" said the magistrate. Zone thing
at a time, please. / cannot let these
people murder a convicted felOn. Tar
less a suspected criminal that has not
been tried. The wounded man pro-
ceeds, according to law, through a re-
spectacle attorney. These men, whom
yycI arc virtually defending, have taken
the law into their own hands. Are your
witnesses here. Mr.. Middleton"
Not at present, and when | was in
terrupted. / was about to ask your
worship to grant me an adjournment
for that purpose. 1t will not be a great
hardship to the accused. since we pro-
coed by summons. / fear | have been
too ~lenient, for two or three of them
have absconded since the summons was
served"
Il am not surprised at that" said the
magistrate; however, you know your
own business"
Then the police applied for a warrant
Of arrest against MoncktOn.
"Oh!" cried Middleton, with the air of
a man thoroughly shocked and scandal
lied.
Certainly not" said the magistrate;
II shall nOtdisturb the course Of Justice;
there is not even IN &c pdTte case against
this gentleman at present. Such anap-
p~lication must be supported by a wit
ness, and a disinterested one" So all
the parties retired crest-fallen except
Mr.. Middleton; as for him, he was i'm
itating a small but ingenious specimen
of nature-the cuttle-fiSh. This little
creature, when pursued by its enemies,
discharges an inky fluid which ObscureS
the water all around, and then it starts
off and escapes.
One dark night, at two o'clock in the
morning, there came to the door of the
Dun Cow an invalid carriage, or rather
omnibus, with a springfield and every
convenience. The wheels were covered
thick with India-rubber; relays had
been provided, and Monckton and his
party rolled along day and night to
Liverpool. The detectives followed, six
hours later, and traced them to Liver
pool very cleverly, and, with the asSis-
tance of the police, raked the town for
them, and got all the great steamers
watched, especially those that were
bound westward. hol But their bird
was at sea, in a Liverpool merchants
own steamboat, hired fora two months
trip. The pursuers found this out too,
but q fortnight too late.
"It's no go, Bill" said oneto the other.
"There's a lawyer and a pot of money
against us. Let it sleep awhile"
The steamboat cOaSted England in
beautiful weather; the sick man began
to revive, and to eat a little, and to talk
a little, and to suffer a good deal at
times. Before they had been long at
sea Mr.. Middleton had a confidential
conversation with Mrs. Monckton. He
told her he had been very secret with
her for her good. Il saw" said he, this
Monckton had no deep regard for you,
and was capable of turning O adrift
in prosperity; and / knew that if ] told
YOU everything you would let it out to
him, and tempt him to play the villain.
But the time is come that | mustspeak,
in justice to you both. That estate he
left yOur son half in joke is virtually
his, Fourteen years ago, when he last
looked into the matter, there Ue4e eleven
lives between it and him; but, strange
to say, whilst he was at Portland the
young lives went one after the other,
and there were really Onlyfive left when
t~raOrdinary part; a fortnight ago three
of those lives persisted in single steam
boat accident on the Clyde; that left a
woman of eighty-tWo and a man OF
ninety between your husband and the
estate. The lady was related to the
persons who were drowned, and she has
since died; she had been long ailing and
it is believed that the shock was too
much for her. The SurYiYOriSt the actual
proprietor, old Carruthers; but [ m the
London agent to his solicitor, and he
was reported to me to be IN ertl enlGs
the very day before / left London to
join you. We shall run into a port near
the place, and you will not land; but L
shall, and obtain precise information.
In the meantime. mind, your husbands
name is C~arrutherS. Any cOmmunlca-
L. $500 49, Ill 1~~4@ NJ NA-r,,fhnxnC
and you will tell that man as much, or
as little, as you think proper; if you
make any disclosure, give yourself all
the credit you can say JOu shall take
him to his own house under a new
name, and shield him against all pur-
suers. AS for me, | tell you plainly, my
great hope is that he will not live long
enough to turn you adrift and disinherit
your boy"
10 cut short for the present this ex-
traordinary part of our story, Lewis
C~arrutherS, ALIAS Leonard MOnckton,
entered a fine house and took posses
sion of eleven thousand acres of hilly
pasture, and the undivided mOiety of a
lake brimful of fish. He accounted for
his change of name by the favorS Car
ruthers, deceased, had shown him.
Therein he did his best to lie, but his
present vein of luck tnrned it into the
truth. Old Carruthers had become so
peevish that all his relations disliked
him, and he disliked them. So he left
his personal estate to his heir-at-laW
simply because he had never seen him.
The personality was very large. The
house was full of pictures, and China.
and cabinets. etc. There was a large
balance at the bankers, a heavy fall of
timber not paid for, rents due, and as
many as two thousand four hundred
sheep upon that hill, which the old fell
low had kept in his own hands. So,
when the new proprietor took posses
sion as Carruthers, nobody was surpris-
ed. though many were furious. Lucy
installed him in a grand suit of apart
mentS as an invalid. and let nobody
come near him. Waddy was dismissed
with a munificent present, and could be
trusted to hold his tongue. By the adj
vice Of Middleton, not a single servant
was dismissed, and so no enemies were
made. The family lawyer and steward
conversation was avoided. In a month
OF two the new proprietor began to i'm
prove in health, and drive about his
own grounds. or be rowed on his lake,
lying on soft beds.
Rnt in the fifth month of his resi-
dence, local pains selZed MIN, and he
began to waste. For some time the
precise nature of the disorder was OBJ
cure; but at last a rising surgeon de-
clared it to be an abscesS in the intes-
tines (caused, no doubt, by external
violence
BY degrees the patient became unable
to take solid food. and the drain upon
his system wa too great for a mere