St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-02

the graveyard. He dug down and
opened the coffin and took out the sods.
BREAKING THE GLASS
so that IL would look as though the
grave were robbed if any one should
ever examine it. Then he left the
country and we all scattered"
The sequel was that MIR. Hubbard,
who was then handling the insurance
conDany's business in Kansas and
Western Missouri, thought the condi-
tons warranted investigation. He
first found that Reddington had 800, 200
insurance on his life in half
Lakin and had the grave opened.
The coffin was empty, and the glass,
which was an afterthought, was re-
placed alter all the sod was removed,
and was thel broken. 1t lay in little
fragments all over the bottom of that
end of the coffin, and mingled with the
sand of the hill graveyard were
the pieces of sod from the
black soil of the lowland
claim belonging to Reddidgton.
The broken place in the coffin was much
too small to permit the drawing through
it of mans body, particularly when
that body was stilfened hy two days in
death. The three boys were found, ar
rested and locked up, with the result
that Bishop, as stated, made conteS-
sion.
But as though the elements empha-
sized their hlunder, Mrs. ReddingtOn,
mother of George. received the tele-
gram.
TELLING OF HER SONS DEATH
before the letter explaining matters
reached her. Being possessed of some
property. she wired the authorities to
eXhume the body, embalm it and ship it
home, placing $500 to the credit of those
directed 10 do the work. The unde +
taker reached the grave just i'll time to
see the insurance man and his assist
ants gazing at an uncovered and empty
coffin, while a constable who had ac-
cOmpanied them rushed off after war
rants for the consDiratOrs. In the pre-
liminary trial which followed their ar
rest the coffin was brought in the
court ROOM, to the great scan
daI of The people," as the de-
PENDANTS attorney declared, and,
sitting about that hollow mock
cry, the effort was made To fix grave
robbery upon the insurance agent, who
disputed Reddington's death. But it
failed miSerably, and short season in
Jail ended the CHASTITY farce. Two years
later George ReddingtUn wrote
To friends in Canandalgue and to
his mother that he had just been dis
charged from an insane asylum in Wis
cOnsin and was coming home. He said
that he had been drugged in the fall of
1887, and from that time forward all
was blank. He did not name the asy-
Ium nor explain any of the strange mat
ters about the ranch at Lakin. His
friends could not answer his letters, for
he gave no address. Had they done so
they would have told him that lit
tie son, now past two years of age,
awaited his return to the deserted wife
at Canandaigua, while similar story
could have reached him from his old
stamping ground" in Kearney county.
Kansas. Afraid to disclose his resi-
dence, haunted by the aching love
of home, pursued by the phan-
tom OF a tenantless grave, robbed
of his youth by his own
perverseDess. branded as false to every
claim of honor. the misguided young
man is a wanderer on the face of the
earth, whose bosom he pierced with a
shovel to force lie upon.a grave that
should have sheltered nina grave that
would have been kinder to him than
life and liberty and sunlight have been.