Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-12-27

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news he had given him, he went directiy
at the statement.
vary soon Dorison's anger was lost IN
the astonishment the story gave rise W,
! and when he learned that all TINS nau
been obtained from Mr.. Eustace, 10
could not deny that it was conciusiFe.
..Now." continued Cathcart, las say
i, Is as plain as pikestaf. have fea-
soned the whole thing out TO ceftaiI
conclusion, my resoning being oaseu
unon information obtained from MI
Eustace, papers of your father l nave
had access to, confirming them by p9oiic
records and the examination OF oooAs y,
nrivate institutions, and that unnhisneo
letter. shall not waste time oy goins
over the processes, but will give you my
conclusions in the shape OF q slaVe-
ment:
when your father was twenty-ono y.
twenty-three he met Emma LudIo", q
very pretty girl, daughter OF costume Ts
of Chatham street. Ludlow was an hn'
glishman who had in his own country
been connected with family OF proml-
nence. There drifted To this country
one of the younger members OF tnal
family, named Parish, who also sd" sne
girl Emma, and desired TO marry her'
The father felt honored that one vi INC
family he had been servant ID uesileu
to marry his daughter, and, having Ino
notions OF parental authority Englisn-
men entertain and overlooking the
faults of the man Parish, which were so
great he was compelled TO leave Eng,
land, opposed your father and lorceu
the marriage with Parish. Subsequently
your father yielded to the wishes OF ms
family and married Mary Clavering'
your mother That marriage was an
exceedingly happy one, notwithstanding
the previous romance.
"Your father and mother had been
married twelve years when you were
born, the Youngest OF family OF hve'
the elder OF whom had all died. When
you were four your mother died. a
year later your father met Mrs. farlsh,
then, as he understood, and as she De-
lieyed, a chidless widow. His love re-
turned for her and he secretly married
her. Why, does not yet appear, but MS
excuse was that he was retiring from
business and did not want to announce
his second marriage until the project
was fully accomplished. After TWO
years of this sort of life, during which
two children, boy and girl, were
born, Anne and Harold Parish, the hus-
band turned up on the scene, TO separ-
ate your father and the woman. Mrs.
Parish was a good woman, and although
Parish, who seems to have been a
scamp, was paid well to keep away and
make no scandal, his wife insisted upon
an absolute severance of relations be-
tween your father and herself. In view,
however, of all that had happened your
father provided well for her and his
children. In eighteen hundred and
fifty-four he gave her the house she
lived in and was murdered in and fifty
thousand dollars, which he invested Tor
her, suppose.
THE low spirits your father showed
at that time were not due to his having
retired from business, but to this un-
fortunate complication. The children
grew, and the boy early went wrong.
Between the years he was sixteen and
nineteen he committed defalcations and
forgeries, the latter principally OF your
fathers name, which indicat.s that he
knew OF his relation to your father, and
which were paid by his 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, II
for no other reason. This used up the
property. When he died he was appeal
ing to Mr.. Eustace for assistance. When
he died the scamp Harold disappeared.
Three years ago he reappeared again
and ruined his mother by his Unsuitable
demands and"--
And" interrupted Dorison excited
ly, she is Harry Langdon, and MUIR
dered his mother and sister,
"Such would seem TO be the logical
conclusions" said the detective calmly.
A thousand questions crowded tu-
multuously upon the brain of DorisoD.
He did not know which TO ask tirst-he
wanted to ask them all at once. Finally,
he said:
But do you know all this to be
true?"
mo, not in its entirety" replied
Cathcart. "Some Of it l do know to be
true, the rest sincerely believe. 1t is
now, however, mere work Of time 10
verify everything. The mystery is
solved. The ungrateiul son is Harold
Parish, alias Harry Langdon."
but what was the cause OF the MUIR
der-that was horrible thing to do"
asked Dorison.
There 1 have proof, think, OF the
accuracy OF my theory in the beginning.
/ said the object Of the murders was not
robbery, but the possession OF docu-
ments Of value to somebody. assume
there were proofs of crime committed,
forgeries and the like, which so long as
they were held by the mother and sis
ter were protection to certain extent
to them, and a menace to him. And
perhaps, and we,will not quite know IN
I'll we force the rascal TO confession
some one pursuing him was on track OF
them and he was determined TO secure
and destroy them, and perhaps, which |
think even more probable, one other
reason, to obtain an order for large
sum, possession of which would secure
possession of the sum, which he thought
they held. OF this, however, l will not
speak at present for reasons OF my
own"
do you then think the murders were
deliberately planned?"
"No. The first, that Of the daughter,
was unpremeditated, but was done ia a
moment Of evaporation. The second
of the mother-was consequence Of the
first as matter OF self preservation"
Horrited and much excited, Dorison
was silent. His head was in whirl,
and every moment fresh thoughts, each
one coming to him as shock, occurred.
The murderer was his half brother; the
l.