The evening world., 1890-04-12

after sine had been murdered on the IsvA a
December. had died in a hospitsl many day,
later. and the Coroner's verdict on her ovr
dying statement was that she died from I'll,
after effects Of poison administered by her
self.
One little experiment the Inspector tried.
lust 20 make sure that he wasn't making
tool OF himself.
lie sent al anonymous letter TO Charles
Goldberg at the Grand Hotel. There were
only these words on n sheet OF paper:
"Ought you rot TO put a headstone over
Jane Ellis's grave beneath the pear tree ~
Two days afterwards, on making inquiries
at the Grand, the Inspector was informed
that Mr.. Charles Goldberg and his wife had
suddenly left London. called abroad by
urgent private affairs.
II Thought sor' cried the Inspector.
THAT man believes. as Mnrlelgh did. that
his first wifa's murdered body lies in the
garden OF The Retreat, which he bought to
he her sepulchrc."
But it was useless to follow the case any
further; there was no charge. even of big
amy. for Jane Dickson was undoubtedly
tcad before her husband married again.
Murder there could bo none, for the woman.
w = -" Wy hAH III nv
hospital, committed suicide.
The lnspoc tor has a theory which may be
the right one. He believes that the poor
woman was poisoned in the house in some
way by her husband. After she was. as lie
believed. dead, she had been hurriedly
buried. aud the earth lightly thrown over
her, aud then the men had left her, intend
ing to resume their task in the morning and
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The woman must have come to and freed
herself from tic loose earth. and escaped
into the ttrcct when she was found. In
struggling with the earth upon her her
bracelet might easily have come of.
Whether tine woman. to deceive her MUIR
derer, had pense enough TO throw the earth
back again that she had displaced one could
never know. but it is probable that the men
in their terror hastened TO fill up the place
and remove all trace of their crime with the
daylight to guide. them. aud were too con-
scioncC-stricken and terrified to remove any
of the earth to look upou the features Of tho
murdered woman again.
MarlCIRl. the Inspector concluded, had
been bribel by q large mones payment to
assist in removing the traces of the crime.
and might not even have known his em-
ployer's real name.
This may be only theory. but the fact ro-
mains that everything points to the fact Of q
woman having been buried in the deserted
garden of that bijou residence, and having
died days afterwards III IL London hospital.
Mr.. Charles Goldberg is beyond the reach
OF the law, but It is probable that his wealthy
father-in-law's millions arc powerless to
make him either happy or comfortable. and
that he will he larntol tn the last da NJ
his life by the remembrance OF the anony-
nous letter lie received at the Grand Hotel.
The whole story has been told me again and
again by the Inspector. WHO has now retired
from active service. and never pass Labur-
mum road without looking at the modest and
retiring little bijou r, sidence called ''The
Retreat. | noticed the other day that it
IN to let again at a moderate rental. Mr..
Thomas Smiths tenancy has evidently OK
pred.
THE END,