St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-31
MURDERED AT AMIENS.

slight pause, shat he had bequeathed
the policy to me. and had told you so in
order that there might be no trouble"
''Indeed," answered Mr.. Haddem, ''he
seems to have expected trouble. Well.
Mr.. Quelch, let me tell you we shall not
pay till you have proved to our salts
toned in this WILL"
z Mr.. Quelch thought for moment.
81 have obtained probate of my
brothers WILL" he said at last; lis that
not sufficient"
h mo, it is not" replied the secretary.
"Would certificate of birth satisfy
you?" he inquired.
l"Well, replied Mr.. Haddem. II won't
| say it will satisfy US. but it will be evil
dence, at any rate"
/ "You see," Mr.. Quelch explained, II
have been in Australia for twenty years
past, and so nearly all my old friends
here have forgotten me or died long
ago, shall have difficulty in finding
iany one who'll recognize in me the lad
they knew in their youth"
s Ppm afraid you'll have to try and do
|Iso," said Mr.. Haddem.
p l''There's something wrong here"
said the secretary to himself gS soon as
j. w. Quelch had left, 'taDd before l
pay that money I'll take care to have
thorough overhaul of the whole matter.
Where have l seen that man before?
I'll swear | have seen him, but can't,
for my life, remember whefe it was"
And the secretary lay back in his chair
and pondered deeply.
Eyes, | must have seen him, but
where, that's the question:" he went on
as he lay back swinging his feet gently.
Suddenly he sprang up in great ex-
citemenJ.
"Good heavensp' he exclaimed, sis it
possible? Can it be that have struck
on it? The same build, the same eyes.
the same features-I believe I'm right,
and that James Walter Quelch is no
other than the murderer Corser!"
This ide a so startled Mr.. Haddem
that for second he was quite dazed.
ence of mind, he reseated himself and
calmly considered the suggestion. In
moment he saw the difficulties in the
way. If the person who claimed to be
the late Mr.. Quelch'S brother were
really Corser, where was the late
Mr.. Quelch's brother? That he
had brother in Paris was
certain. Mr.. Quelch had referred
to the fact himself. Was it possible
that Corser and the brother were really
and truly the same person, and that the
brother, for reasons of his own, went
under false name when in England?
This seemed the most likely hypothesis.
1t explained everything, too-the ex-
traOrdinary resemblance between the
two, their intimate friendship, and the
claimants knowledge that Quelch had
told Mr.. Haddem of his existence. 1t
gave motive, too, for the murder-a
motive infinitely stronger than the wish
to rob his victim of his watch and
purse.
Without wasting moment, Mr.. Had
dem summoned John Wylie, the pri-
vate detective to whom the Office con-
fided it's inquiries. He told Wylie all
he knew and all he suspected, and asked
him to spare neither labor nor expense
in attempting to solve the problem.
Mr.. Wylie set to work at once. By
means of the birth certificate which
James Walter Quelch duly forwarded,
he was enabled to discover the native
place of the Quelches. His inquiries
gthere gave some results that might
prove Important. In the first place,
they proved that, if Corser was really
the late Mr.. Quelch's brother, he had
reasons for Disgusting his identity,
for James Walter Quelch's depart
ure from this country had not been
voluntary. He had been guilty OF
murderOuS attack on a neighbor. and to
escape punishment bad had to fly. This
ffact also accounted for j. w. Quelch's
] hesitation about calling many of his old
friends to testify to his being the late
; Mr.. Quelch's brother. A strange cir
cumstance, however, was that every
body at BraXby--the Quelches' native
place-was surprised to hear that James
was still alive. They all heard years
ago of his death, and none of them
seemed to have entertained any doubt
as to its truth. Mr.. Wylie was inclined,
however, to regard the reported decease
of James as device of himself and his
friends to prevent any attempt to pun
ish him for his offense.
Having discovered all he could at
BraXby, Mr.. Wylie went to Paris. His
inquiries there were not unfruitful
either. he established beyond ques-
ton that James Walter Quelch had
lived there in flat in street off the
Rue St.Honore. From the concierge he
learned that James Walter was rather
hard liver, and that he was little at
home, often being absent for a week at
a time. Where he was on these occa-
sions did not appear. The one impor-
tant discovery Mr.. Wylie made was that
James Walter was away for week be-
fore his brothers. murder, that he re-
turned on the morning following it, and
that when he returned the heavy beard
which he had hitherto worn was all
Shaven off.
This discovery seemed not merely to
support, but almost to prove, the secre-
tary's theory OF the identity OF James
Walter Quelch alrd COrSer. Indeed,
Haddem was so completely convinced
now of its truth that it was only at Mr..
Wyie's request that he agreed not at
once to give information to the police.
Mr.. Wylie did not desire decisive step
to be taken until he had made some in
Quiries in London regarding CorSer.
For some time Mr.. Wylie failed alto
gether to discover anything new about
Corser. He came across several per-
sons who were slightly acquainted with
him, and from what they said it seemed
that Corser's habits were as loose as
those which the concierge had attrlb-
uted to J. w. Quelch. This was, so far
as it went, confirmation OF Mr.. Had
denis theory that the two were really
one and the same. Soon, however, by
chance he learned much about Corser
which threw that theory all away,
Mr.. Wylle, guided by his knowledge
of Corser's habits, made Investigations
among the women who frequented
certain music hall. AS luck would
have it, he happened upon one there
who knew the man Intimately. She
was also, it seemed, acquainted with the
late Mr.. Quelch, who, from her account.
was not unlike Corser in his, tastes.
Corser she had known since she came
to London. She described him as
good-natured sailor, who arrived home
with little money, which he soon got
rid of. He was hanging about town in
rather an impecunious condition. when
one night he interfered in a street row
/ in favor of man who was being rather
roughly treated by couple of DULLES.
The rescued person turned out to be
Mr.. Quelch, whom he had since been
accused of numbering, From the time
of their meeting. Mr.. Quelch and ne
had become fast friends, he living more
/ or less on Mr.. Quelch's bounty, and the
two going about together until they left
for France. This woman was excess