The Russellville Democrat., 1891-05-21

Quickl I nave something 10 show youl Make no noiseln
 followed him. We both wore light slippers, and without noise entered the room Miss Merwin had occupied. He pointed to crevice, which he had evi- dently made in the partition, and look ing through 1t l saw the detective in the next apartment, kneeling by his open carpet bag, from which now protruded the identical buslzins--I could not mis- take theIn--which Miss Merwin had worn. Spread out before him he held a $5,000 bond-evidently the one which my son had given to the young ladyl
 s.You see," he whispered. Was not right? He has murdered and robbed herp'
 Low as the whisper was the man evi- dently 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 force which broke the lock and admitted him into the room He few at the man, clutched him and shook him, when the fellow drew a dirk, but in his futile struggles to use it--for I held his wrist and soon disarmed hin. his beard fell of snessss-..ls 1t was a false one, and at the same time his shirt bosom was torn away about the throat. Then both Tom and uttered a simulta- neous cry of surprise on perceiving that this pretended detective was a woman over thirty-five years of age-or, in other words, 1t was Miss Merwin herself de- prived of the cosmetics and other appli- ances 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 once. This woman suspected was in reality Mary Youngson, the murderess, for her face and height now answered to the description had of her, and we found, while looking for my sons bond in her carpet bag, some articles bearing her name, and others marked with that of her victim. In fact afterward, while ill, she confessed to being Mary Young son.
 Her motive in disguising herself was apparent. She had feared, after I dis covered the strange shortening of her stature, that l might suspect who she really was; and besides, the ruse would, she thought, enable her the better to escape from Tom and get off with his 5000. The mystery of. her having as Miss Merwin looked so much taller than she really was we found explained by her buskins, which proved, like those sometimes worn by actors on the stage, to be provided with very thick cork soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature.
 On the night she so astonished mo by the difference in her height she had, in her hurry and alarm, come up in her slippers, having forgotten to put on her buskins
 It is hardly necessary to say that the detectives warrant she had shown me was forged, written by herself; nor scarcely need it be mentioned that Tom was now disgusted with this woman and entirely cured of his infatuation.
 Subsequently she died of q malignant fever while being conveyed prisoner back to England-thus escaping the pun ishment she so richly merited for her odious crime, although there were not wanting those who stoutly maintained that the charge had by no means been conclusively brought home to her. How ever, after occupying the public mind for more than the proverbial nine days, the "Youngson Case" as it was called, gave place to a fresher sensation. Ed ward Heins in New York Press.