Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-01-31

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| II ,voi i,,noseihle IN On bo,oo rrho,, had
NV nomo. nv address WINS in the directory
| sbould ho arrested before davbrooL callcj
70 the driver no 60 10 leicester souore stoved
tin CLOSING time. then wandered about Lon.
ion T,en want into n cafe TRYING IN do
ride M, my, Milan of nct,on To Az tho CONN
try was the first course TINT suggested itself.
| Then I remembered the VIGILANCE with which
! the ports are watched when n sunnosed crirni-
| nal il mt lnrcr So [ wandered an for hours
wavcrinr ,niserably. | would mt n bravo
| front on the matter, and confess my share in
the tragedy; would tnke train TO IIewhaven
and cross to France; | would hide in come OBJ
scure part of London. and await the tprp
affairs took
Ii was by this time INST & o'clock ond was
walking along the HAMPSTEAD road weary
and disheveled with NV Journey Of the nrevi-
Gus night. when a newsbov decided me. He
carried a bundle of papcrs under his arm. n
poster in front of him. and in block letters n
foot long read; "Outrape ON the T,iverpool
line lmportan' clew to supposed murderer "
That poster shaped NV course. | went
into a BARRIERS shop and had my mustache
savcd OIL. Then took n colh,ie of rooms
in street near Kcntish Town. Here | lived
lay quiet, 50 to speak, for three horrible
had mover earned fine rcpnfntion Of cow
arIira vet the immediate result of that nm
happy flight was my Transformation into an
abjpct craven [ started violently Mt the
landladv's tap at my door. at a strange step
ON the stair. With the example of another
case before nN a case which n snort tir,o
before had greatly reused the public mind,
was afraid to keep entirely 10 the house
| lest my andlady should suspect NV identity
and hand me over to the police. On the
other hand. | ran great risk in going out
for on every blank wall my own likeness
| confronted me \ thousand times | cursed
my folly in acting Us did And each day.
each new edition Of the papers. increased the
difficulty of retrieving that folly.
read them all-thut the police had an i'm
/ pprtant ci'W that two or three unlucky men
. had been arrested, to be promptly dis, harged
when they proved their non-identity with
my unhappy self. read distorted accounts
/ Of my mode OF life, full of faulty family his
tories. ! was hiding in the East End | had
, evu'cd tn" detectives and had reached Spain.
T fortunately ! was not in Porter street,
Ecntish Town. And on the third night an
evening paper mentioned that "the young
lady to whom Mr.. Bigh had been engaged
was rendered PROSTATE by the blow which
had fallen on her, and that her friends pro
posed taking her abroad"
The paper dropped from my hands All,
my bright Betty! What would not give for
sight Of her dear face.
And why should not | see herr | wrote an
advertisement and sent it for insertion in he
/ AGENCY column Of The Times
i'm the Old happy days my pet name for
Betty was My maiden aunt" This sobri-
quot Sue earned from certain sage way she
haI OF giving me counsel and prettly advis-
lng III an elderly relative way on business
matters, etc, which she did not understand
/ III the least 50 my message ran thus: "If
Maiden aunt will call at No Porter street,
hehilsh Town, ON thursday, she will see her
nephew VINO Is III London for the day.
About . O'Clock ON Thursday the door of
my sitting room was thrown open aud Betty
tuicmly Nelled, ran in. Poor little girl
Y acn ! had bid her farewell at her fathers
hau,r "A fortnight before, she lad been ROSY
sd radiant. dainti!y dressed. Now her
'..!nes were carelessly huddled on, her
-H, were thin and pale, her great blue
eyes u.n.n d and mournful.
1" conversation would not be of general
'a'"r'a'. lovers dialogues rarely are, but be-
io" l4y Ncetheart left me had decided,
come what might, to make a clean breast of
'i.' lii''l i''l.
H"uN, who was of the nervous, not the
:.rpic type OF woman, vainly tried to dis
suail mo
They win hang you,' she sobbei, and
kissed me wildly, "or sentence you to penal
~ervitude for life know they will"
Nonsense, said, and tried to soothe her
They can't hang; they cannot even convict
on such evidence, ] was a fool, a madman
ever to shirS facing an inquiry, That is the
hlaciest thing they have against me"
Yes" cried the poor child vehemently,
and it is just black enough, combined with
| other things, to make them send you to
! prison or with a strong shudder, worse
They have really "a strong case. There is
the evidence Of the porter, who saw Won with
/ the pistol in Your hand, pointed at Andrews.
/ 50 he SAYS, only YOU tried to hide il when he
/ came TO the door And the medical men say
[ t.at though the suicide theory is possible. if
j, most unlikely, as when a man attcrnpts
/ s.lf destruction he invariably places the
weapon at his temple or in his mouth. Not
/ as Andrew did in the middle of his forehead
/ 1t all reads very convincing. nv poor bow. TO