Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-08-20

simmons report was a model Of
brevity. He had given orders to shadow
the store Livingston was positive gave
refuge TO Beauehampe, with the follow
ing results:
l. The proprietor, long suspected.
proved TO be a @fenee" inside of an hour.
Brought 10 book, he was glad 20 confess
that q man had entered his house before
Livingston rushed in The man was an
artist In one sense. His name was we'll
known; numerous @fences7 knew him.
2. He had not left anything with Mr.
Sharply; he simply passed in and out OF
the house It was true, he went out
through a back window and in broad
daylight. Mr.. Sharply was not respon-
sible for that 3. The police were on
the mans track He had been traced TO
two disreputable haunts, and Simmons
confident tone and manner implied that
he would be in the hands OF the police
within twenty-fOur hours, possibly less
time
Livingston's report was equally brief
He had begun with the theater. He OBJ
tanned the addresses Of the ushers, had
seen and talked with all of them Chance
remarks made by two Of the ushers
spurred him into extraordinary en-
deEvors, all well rewarded finally; but
he had encountered numerous obstacles
and experienced many disappOintments
in his quest
All he had to begin with was a few
chance words by three men as they re-
entered the theater. He did not know
the names OF any of these men. One of
the ushers was positive he described
their ages and dress correctly, and that
ono addressed another as Harry" and
was called @Ned1 in turn.
With this slender thread to begin with
f.rFr, han EaUF 10 ID
succeeded I'm finding neither @Ned" nor
Harry" but two Of their companions,
who fully explained the origin of the re-
marks the ushers heard. They had wit
messed the recapture of an escaped luna
tic, and properly characterized the treat
ment he was subjected to as brutal in
the last degree. This man, they be-
lieved, was the man who created the dis
turbance in the theater.
There could not be any misapprehen-
sion concerning the hour.
The people in the theater-hundreds
could testify to the time the acts began,
and the duration of the entire perform
ance. From this Livingston deduced the
following, which Simmons noted care
fully by nodding at every point:
1. That the man seized on the street
and placed in q carriage, with his hands
bound behind him, about 10 o'clock, cor
tainly not later than 1915, could not
have murdered Major Dabney ten min
utes before, or a few minutes after the
next morning. .. Yet the man suspected
was seen long after that near Major
Dabney's residence. That much was
proved. 3. Simmons had satisfied him
self that the man handcuffed in the thea
ter visited two places within an hour
after he knocked the policeman down.
/. Finally, Sharply admitted a we'll
known thief had visited his place the
next morning before o'clock, which
proved cOnclusively that there were two
men who bore a striking resemblance to
each other.
"My theory" said Livingston with I'M
usual elaboration, ais this, and rll risk
all 1 have in the world on il. I'll risk
my reputation-a years salary on it.
have been mistaken throughout. 1t
wasn't Beauchampe that struck the
usher, although was so positive about
that Mt first. 1t was somebody who
looks like him. And this man is the
man who killed Dabney. But Beau
champe is the man that was so horribly
maltreated on the street, pitched into
the carriage, and is nOw-GOd only
knows where. We will have tO-we
must Simmons, search every mad-hOuse
in the State-everywhere where there is
the least likelihood OF finding him. They
might drive TO a railway station and
take Beauchampe the Lord only knows
whore. You agree with me?"
Simmons reflected perhaps a minute,
then he said in his deepest tone and with
unusual elaboration
a do. You've convinced me. It's as
plain as that clock there. There's 'dOu-
BILE in this case-nO room for doubt now.
What are you going to do nOW?"
THE first thing is to write up the af-
fair in the Record. That will be killing
two birds with one stone-iJ will supply
the evidence 1 guaranteed when 1 noti-
fed half q dozen or more responsible men
that they had best hold in their horses
for twenty-fOur hours, ard it will create
sympathy for the man maltreated. That
man is Beauchampe. The face l saw in
Sharply's window was not Beauchampe's.
You will prove that, I am confident, by
arresting the man."
an that case, them" said Simmons,
Suppose we say Wen meet-when?"
Il want to make the rounds of the
papers," Livingston answered. %Say
about twelve, or between twelve and
one"
every WE'LL" Simmons turned and
added, POSSIBLY we will have our man
by that time; at least l will try to. y
There was one thing more Livingston
deemed of equal or greater Importance
than anything he had mentioned TO
Simmons.
He resolved TO call upon Miss Beau
champe for the purpose of reassuriug
her so far as lay in his power. That
was the first duty TO be discharged, and
when they parted. Simmons to strive to
secure "his man" at the earliest mo-
ment, Livingston hailed a car and was
intent upon visiting Miss Beauchampe,
experiencing sensations wholly new to
him.
He did not pause 10 analyze his feel
ings-what young man under similar
influences does?
He was preoccupied with thought.
The car halted near him; he was in the
act of stepping aboard when he felt his
arm plucked. CHANGING at the envelope
thrust into his hand, he started, waved
a hand to the driver of the car, who
drove on, and then. looking down upon
the boy who brought him the note, Liv-
ingston for the first time observed that
he was breathless.
The note bore the well-known letter
head of the Record The envelope was
as familiar to him as the title page of
the great newspaper that employed him
"What does this mean? They have
my address" He was reading the
note. The boy interposed
"I-they did send TO your lodgings, and
and you wasn't there. That's whY-I
they asked me if 1 knew you, sir,
and-there's two others hunting you
that's why 1 run so hard, Mr.. Livings-
tOn-D
sAll right" Livingston answered, put
ting his hand in his pocket and giving
the boy a coin.
~They paid me at the Record.
"Of course; and that's my part You
can go back and tell them 1 got the
order.
He frowned as he spoke. The revul
sion of his feelings was so great that he