Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29

case in point; what was to think of the
strange action of the pretty lone Grandef
| Staring up at her window / could not per-
suade myself that she was less innocent than
imagined her to be; yet the little wretch
dabbled in signals with the bsld-headed,
speetacied DIR. Brandt.
casters, dangerP'
That was q pretty plain hint leveled
| against me. But danger from what? In
what way could the doctor and the artful
little lone suffer from nv Investigations
The more 1 grappled with the subject, the
more important this question became. If it
did not relate to the murder, it was mystery,
! and mystery is a nightmare to me until
solve 1t. determined to keep q close watch
| on the doctor, and for this purpose to snatch
few hours from sleep every night.
AT this point will set down here the in-
| formation / received later in the day from
Policeman Grope, whom, among other things,
had sent to the city 10 find out facts con-
nected with the murdered woman, Ella Con-
slant. Following my directions, he found
without difficulty the house in which the
/ unfortunate woman had resided, and the
facts he discovered proved, if iuture proof
were needed, that Ella Constant and the
| dead woman were identical. Ny agent v:s-
! tied other houses in which Ella had resided
| and thatin all these places the girl was spoken
of most favorably. She worked then at arti-
fetal flower making, and, when she was not
at her place q business, she was home in
her room, reading or writing, receiving no
visitors, and with no eccentricity that the
most critical could point at. However, in
her last boarding house, all this was
changed; the once placid Ella was exeitable,
rarely at home, always impatient Of re-
straint; prone to hysterical tears and laugh.
ter; sad always, and the recipient OF many
letters to receive which seemed to be her
principal object in visiting the house in
which she had room. On the morning Of
the day on which she was murdered she
came for 8 moment to the house, and a SER
want, who was playing the part of spy out
side her door, heard her groan and sob: "t
am ruinedi I am ruinedi NY heart ID
brokenI'
The servant peeped through the keyhoIe
and saw Ella kneeling BY the bed in an at
titude Of despair. The landlady, hearing Of
these facts, faced Miss Constant as she was
leaving the house-for the last time-asked
her what allied her. Miss Constant was in
a hysterical mood, and with sobs and
laughter, said:
IF you ever see me again, Mrs. Wort (the
lsndladys name), you NAV congratulate
me, for tonight shall win happiness ot
DEATH"
The landIady, under the plea of SYM
pathy, piled her with question:, but only
received vague answers, all pointing, how.
ever. in one direction, and all summed up
in the words-that on the night in question
(the night of the murdsr) Miss Constant waS
to meet somebody who would bring her hap
piness or death.
81 have dressed in my best attire to meet
him" said the poor girl, doomed all my
cheap jewels and fnery. This is new
gray dress, Mrs. Wort. and if he will not
love me in it, I will goad him into making
it my shroud."
To the pronoun ''he" she refused to add q
proper noun; she was vague, incoherent,
excited, nervous and expeotant
I'll am happy" she said BY way Of eons