The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1890-03-06
His SIN FOUND him OUT.
Fatal Error Of an Iowa Physlclan--HI
Took Chances for $4,000.
He wanted q Life Insurance Policy
and Get rive Years In
the Fen.

practieing physician In Reading, Iowa, In
1884; and in the long summer afternoons,
when business was dull and health dis
couragingly good, he and Dr.. King used
to sit on the sidewalk together and won
der what they could do to make money.
Quigley's Office was . small, onestory
frame affair, like many another Of its
kind, and here the two used oitenest TO
meet and compare note about medicine,
politics and finance. Finally they hit
upon q scheme which promised golden
results with very little outlay Of time or
trouble. They sat inside the Office mostly
nowadays, although 1t was pleasanter on
the sidewalk, and encouraged less and
less the accidental caller who had time
for social chat. At length Quigley took
out q 5000 policy in the Bankers asso-
citation and 5000 In the Northwestern
Life. He made them payable to King,
who was claimed as Q cousin, Q relation
ship which had only been discovered
since the summer began.
Quigley slept in the back room Of his
Office, and one night the little building
was found to be in flames. 1t was dry
and the fire burned rapidly, but the lusty.
citizens came 90 promptly at the cry Of
fire raised by some late wanderer that the
small frame housewas deluged with water
inside and out; the books were saved, the
furniture was piled in the street, and two
men plunged through the thick smoke and
found q mans body on the doctors bed.
"Wake himl" drag him outl" "Save
DR.. Quigley" These were few Of the
ordinations, and then two local heroes
lifted the body from the blazing bed and
rushed with Il TO the open air.
1t was not Dr.. Quigley.
It was the extremely defunct corpse Of
man about his size who had been buried
in cemetery fifteen miles away two days
before. It was clad in an incomplete
manner with some Of Quigley's clothes,
and in the pockets were the DOCTORS watch
and bunch Of keys. But 1t was not the
doctor. In the general bewilderment the
haif-extinguished FIRE blazed again, and
the populace once more turned in and
fought the FIRE. TWAS at last extinguiShed,
leaving q most dilapidated wreck, and
Just as the last Pickering fame succumbed
to pail Of water young DR.. King rushed
up, hatless and coatless, and frantically
called out:
ooh, Quigleyi Oh, my cousini Oh,
save my cousin, DR.. QuigleyI" But when
he was led to that strange corpse from
distant graveyard; when be saw the mis-
Ct clothes and the watch and keys on this
man, who was quite another man than
Quigley, he weakened. He made no effort
toexplain the matter, but suspicion point
ed to him 90 strongly a. one who had
asslsted in an undoubted felony that he
was arrested and locked up in Jail. No
claim was ever made for the Sl6,0OO in
surance money, but q search was set on
foot for Quigley which must result In his
ultimate capture.
The enuied doctor, for his part, had
played bold game. He and his pre-
tended cousin, with one other man, had
engaged in the scheme that promised well.
They arranged the pEeliminaries, the third
party found the corpse, the iirst good one
that came TO hand, and then they stripped
1t and dressed 1t as well o. they could in
Quigley's clothes. They put It into the
bed, the doctor fred the building and
then walked through the night to a dis
tant railway station, from which he made
his way to q distant part Of the state. He
dared not even let his profession be known,
and not having enough money to live on
in leisure, he found work on Q farm In
Sac county, where he gave himself up to
hard labor and waited. He had not long
to wait. Within week the strange facts
were Published. King, with the confed-
crate, was in jail; the game was all ex-
posed. He could not leave and dare not
stay. So months have passed; and one
day when he was chopPing wood in the
sparse timber two strange men approached
and accosted him by bis right name.
The end had come. After weary weeks
Of awful suspense, after wakeful nights Of
agony, he was taken manacled back TO
Ringgold county, where his crime had
been committed, and there was put on
trial for arson. A second charge for grave.
robblng was supplemented to the first,
and all the facts came out. He was found