The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-03-12

| Oy NO. or 1OOt. IL was 1OnS anu
narrow one, showing a fine boot. A
fine boot belongs to gentlemen's wear.
How many suicides by hanging have you
seen?''
"A dozen, perhaps"
'And l have seen twice that number.
Did you ever notice the knot in front be-
| fore?"
Never"
Nor no one else See how the slack
Of the rope is made fast to the hook.
Did you ever see such knot before?"
"Yes: the men who do up large pack
ages for shipment make just such .
knot"
''Observe the face of the woman"
continued Graham. HAS it the color
of one who died with his or her neck in
noose-by ten minutes struggling
and strangling? No! Come. now, and
look at the neck. This is coarse, harsh
rope. Has it rubbed the soft skin any?"
Net Bit
1.-THE eyes are open to their fullest
| extent. One who dies by hanging almost
| invariably shuts his eyes very tightly.
Notice the limbs Her arms are down,
and her body hangs plumb. People who
suffer the agony of strangulation by
| the moose contract their limbs. She
has solid shoe on her feet. Let us ex-
anime the soles. See-you can rub of
dried mud. Now look at that chair. She
evidently upholstered the seat herself.
The goods are pale blue, the worst she
could have selected. There should be
dirt there if she stood on the chair.
| Can you find the least trace?'
| The coroner had come, but Graham
requested him to delay little longer,
and when we returned to the inner room
he resumed:
| ''Notice the furniture Would tidy
woman like her arrange it in this hap
hazard and slovenly fashion? And do
you see that bird? He is dumpish and
ruffled, but no wonder. This cage has
been knocked to the floor. See how the
wires are bent There is seed on the
carpet where it fell. Now look at the
bed and tell me what you see."
1T has been disturbed since she made
| it."
| Correct. Some one has been over
hauling it in search. and it was a man.
No woman would replace the pillows in
| that fashion. Now what do you see be-
tween the bed and the lounge? Get
down on your knees"
Faint impressions of that same boot,
and here is knot of ribbon and part
of an earring smashed fat under a
foot
Exactly. Half of the earring in her
left ear is missing. and that bit of ribbon
was torn from her neck as she struggled
for her life. She was chOked to death
on the floor. After she was dead the
murderer arranged the rope so as to give
| it the appearance of suicide. He was
cool, nervy fellow, but he was not as
sharp as he thought himself to be. Now
for the coroner"
That official and his jury were admit
ted, the body taken down and examined
by physician, and the verdict was MUIR
der by strangulation. The doctor was
not five minutes in agreeing with US that
human fingers had produced death by
clutching the throat, and that the body
had been suspended at later period.
When we had the case fairly in hand we
began the outside work. While the
landlady had neither seen nor heard any
| thing to arouse her suspicious, she ad-
mitted to being somewhat deaf, and to
having retired at an early hour the even
ing previous with sick headache On
one occasion, being in the room when
Miss Ryan was making her bed, she had
caught sight of letters and papers be-
tween the mattresses. While we found
none there, we could justly conclude
that search for them had tumbled the
bed as we found it.
The rope was new, and it measured
just fifteen feet in length. We visited
twenty hardware stores before we found
where it had been purchased. 1t had
been bought on the afternoon of the
murder by young man about twenty
five years old. we'll dressed and of gem
teel speech. There were several reasons
why the salesman remembered the cir
cumstance. The young man had stated
that he wanted it for gymnasium. He
had rendered $40 bill, which could not
be readily changed, he had cut of some
Of the trays at the end with pair of
scissors; he had ring on his left hand
with a green stone in it, and he had
asked the salesman to do it up in a
small compass and make square pack
age of it. AS this was several hours be-
fore the murder it was plain enough
that he had planned to do what he did do.
A closer search of the dead woman's
effects resulted in the discovery of note
in pencil, written in a clerical hand.
The paper was the same as is used in
dry goods stores to wrap up parcels.
The note was between the leaves of a
pocket Bible, and had perhaps been
written months before. 1t read:
Ishall call this evening at eight O'Clock. when
hope to find you prepared to look at the stu
alton in q more reasonable light.
There was no signature, but Graham
declared it q valuable pointer just the
same. He was satisfied that the paper
came from some store, and that the note
was written by clerk. While Mrs.
Holworth declared that she never knew
any one to call on Miss Ryan in the
evening, it did not follow that no ono
had ever called. Any one could pass up
or dNun without hoipO aoou amd uu1oee