The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-08
A MYSTERY REVEALED.

In compliance with the old detectives
request Dorison appeared in the evening
A single glance informed him that the old
man was IN q happy humor.
81 received note from you In the early
afternoon" said Dorison, ''but all of it
could understand was that you desired to
see me this evening. And here I am"
"Ycu are not quick Of comprehension. [
meant your case is as plain as a pipestaff.
You had, or have, a brother-the latter
think"
Dorison stared in establishment at the
detective, his anger rising at the same
time. However much he had in his own
heart condemned his father for the charge
which for eight years had embittered his
life, he was not willing others should cast
reflections upon him.
But Cathcart was not a man to regard
the emotions of others, and though, doubt
less, he perceived the anger of the young
man, without preface, apology or effort to
soften the news he had given him he went
directly at the statement
Very soon Dorison's anger was lost in
the establishment the story gave rise to,
and when he learned that all this had been
obtained from Mr.. Eustace, he could not
deny that 1t was conclusive.
aY,lG
is as plain as pikestaff. / have reasoned
the whole thing out 10 certain conclusion,
my reasoning beng based upon informa-
ton obtained from MIR. Eustace, papers of
your father l have had access to, confirm
ing them by public records md the ex-
animation of books Of private institutions,
and that unfinished letter. / shall not
waste time by going over the processes,
but will give you my conclusions in the
shape of q statements
when your father was twenty-one or
twenty-three he met Emma Ludlow, very
pretty girl, daughter of a costumer of
Chatham street. Ludlow was an English
man, who had In his own country been
connected with family Of prominence.
There drlfted to this country one of the
younger members Of that family, named
Parish, who also saw the girl Emma, and
desired to marry her. The father felt
honored that one Of the family he had been
servant In desired to marry his
daughter, and, having the notions
OF parental authority Englishmen
entertain aud overlooking the faults
OF the man Parish, which were SO great
he was compelled to leave England, opposed
your father and forced the marriage with
Parish. subsequently your father yielded
to the wishes Of his family and married
Mary Clayerlng, your mother. That mar.
riage was an exceedingly happy one, not
previous romance.
Your father and mother had been mar
ried twelve years when you were born, the
youngest OF family Of five, the elder of
whom had all died. When you were four
your mother died. A year later your father
met Mrs. Parish, then, as he understood
and she believed, q ohildless widow. His
love returned for her and he secretly mar
ried her. Why, does not yet appear but
his excuse was that he was retiring from
business and did not want to announce his
second marriage until that project was
accomplished. After two years of this sort
of life, during whseh two children. q how
and girl, were born, Anne and Harold Far
lsh, the husband turned I'D on the
scene, to separate your father and
the woman. Mrs; Parish was a good
woman, and although Parish, who
seems TO have been q scamp, was paid well
TO keep away and make no scandal, his
Vile insisted upon an absolute severance
OF relations between your father and her
sell In view, however, of all that had
happened your father provided well for her
ana his children. In 1854 he gave her the
house she lived and was murdered in and
S5O,OOO. which he invested for her. sup
pose.
The low spirits your father showed at
that time were not due to his having re-
tired from business, but to this unfortu-
nate complication. The children grew, and
the boy early went wrong. Between the
years he was sixteen and nineteen he com
United defalcations and forgeries, the lat
ter principally Of your fathers name. which
indicated that he knew of his relation
to your father, and which were
paid by bis father and yours, and as
well much more money to save him
from punishment-foolishly, to be sure.
but compelled TO it to save the good name
Of the woman, the mother, if for no other
raQG0n nn no
be died he was appealing to Mr.. Eustace
for assistance. When he died the scamp
Harold disappeared. Three years ago he
reappesred and ruined his mother by his in
satiable demands and"
land" interrupted Dorrison, excitedly,
ne is Harry Langdon and murdered his
mother and sister,"
such would seem to be the logical con-
clusion," said the detective calmly.
A thousand questions crowded tumultu-
ously upon the brain of Dorison. He did
not know which to ask first--he wanted to
ask them all at once. Finally he said:
But do you know all this TO be true!n
No, not in its entirety" replied Cath
cart "Some OF it do know to be true.
the rest sincerely believe. 1t is now,
however, mere work of time to verify
everything. The mystery is solved. The
uugrateful son Is Harold Parish. alias
Harry Langdon.''
bub Wnat was the cause OF the murder
that was horrible thing to dor' asked
Dorison.
There have proof, think, of the ac-
curacy Of my theory in the beginning. I
said the object of the murders was not rob
berry, but the possession of documents of
value TO somebody. l assume they were
proofs OF crimes committed, forgeries and
lhe like, which, SO long as they were held
oy the mother and sister, were q protection
TO certain extent to them, and q menace
TO him. And perhaps-and we will not
quite know till we force the rascal to con-
1esslon-some one pursuing him was on
track OF them and be was determined to
secure and destroy them, and perhaps,
which L think even more probable, one
other reason, to obtain an order for a large
sum, which he thought they held. Of this.
however, will not speak at present for
reasons of my own.''
"Do you then think the murders were
deliberately plsnnedan
mo. The first that of the daughter
was unprecedented, but was done IN a
moment OF evaporation. The second
OF the mother-was consequence of the
first as matter of self preservation
Horrihed and much excited Dorison
was silent. His head was in whirl and
every moment fresh thoughts, each one
coming to him as a shock, occurred. The
murderer wss his half brother: the beast
Harry Langdon, was his half brother
The same blood coursed in their veins
The passions and emotions which possessed