The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-17

asked him, that the man could hay,
got the body overheard without oul
knowing it?
''He could have choked her to death
carried her to one of the open cabin win
dows, and dropped her through that,
he replied.
Impossible" answered, "without
the splash being overheard by the mar
at the wheel, or by some one on deck
Besides, I doubt If he could have
squeezed the body through either of oul
cabin windows, which. you know, are
very small"
Tom, however, seemed to think il
could have been done, owing to Miss
Merwin being SO slender, and in spite OF
all my efforts, could not entirely rid
his mind of that horrible idea.
Days passed, for we had headwinds,
which kept US off our course; but as yet
the detective had nothing to tell me,
though he said he soon might be able to
explain the whole affair.
A strange affair enough. Never before
had L such an experience, or anything
approaching to it, in any craft l COM
manded. The passengers were equally
puzzled; it was the talk of all aboard
the ship. AS for Tom, he grew paler,
thinner, wilder every day. At last, one
afternoon, when we had entered St.
Georges channel, he came up to me and
said, in a husky voice: 'Itis as thought!
Quick! have something to show you!
Make no noise!"
l followed him. We both wore light
slippers, and without noise entered the
room Miss Merwin had occupied. He
pointed to crevice, which he had evil
IDENTIFY made in the partition, and look
ing through it saw the detective in the
next apartment, kneeling by his open
carpet bag, from which now protruded
the identical buskins-I could not mis-
take them-which Miss Merwin had
worn. Spread out before him he held a
5000 bond-evidently the one which
my son had given to the young lady!
''You see," he whispered. "Was I not
right? He has murdered and robbed
herr
Low as the whisper was the man evil
IDENTIFY heard it, for he pushed the bus
kins, and after them the bond, hastily
down into the bag, which he then closed.
Before could hinder him Tom rushed
out and threw himself against the de-
tective's door with a force which broke
the lock and admitted him into the room.
He flew at the man, clutched him and
shook him, when the fellow drew dirk,
but in his futile struggles to use it-for
| held his wrist and soon disarmed him
his beard fell off, showing it was
false one, and at the same time his shirt
bosom was torn away about the throat.
Then both Tom and uttered simulta-
neous cry of surprise on perceiving that
this pretended detective was woman
over thirty-fve years of age-or, in other
words, it was Miss Merwin herself de-
1rived of the cosmetics and other appli-
lnces which had, while in the natural
attire of her sex, made her look so much |
younger than she was.
The whole truth broke upon me at |
,nce. This woman 1 suspected was in |
'eality Mary Youngson, the murderess,
or her face and height now answered to |
he description | had of her, and we
ound, while looking for my sons bond
II her carpet bag, some articles bearing
Ter name, and others marked with that
II her victim. In fact, afterward, while
Il, she confessed to being Mary Young
on.
Her motive in Disgusting herself was
pparent. She had feared, after | dis
overed the strange shortening of her
tature, that l might suspect who she
eally was; and besides, the ruse would,
he thought, enable her the better to
scape from Tom and get off with his
5000. The mystery of her having as
1iss Merwin looked so much taller than
ne really was we found explained by
er buskins, which proved, like those
worn by actors on the stage,
} be provided with very thick cork soles.
} give an appearance of elevation to the
1ature.
On the night she so astonished me by
le difference in her height she had, in
er hurry and alarm, come up in her
lppers, having forgotten to put on her
uskins.
1t is hardly necessary to say that the
electives warrant she had shown me
as forged, written by herself; nor
arcely need it be mentioned that Tom
as now disguised with this woman
Id entirely cured of his infatuation.
subsequently she died of malignant
yer while being conveyed a prisoner
sck to England-thus escaping the pun
hment she so richly merited for her
lious crime, although there were not
anting those who stoutly maintained
at the charge had by no means been
brought home to her. How
er, after occupying the public mind
T more than the proverbial nine days, !
e "Ioungson Case" as it was called, I
We place to fresher sensation. Ed {
ard Helms in New York Press. t