Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-26
CHAPTER Xxx

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ing IN the grdte.
II is an old saying that il you want
anything well done you must 90 p your
self. The people who have brought me
their manuscripts have not closed up the
case % my satisfaction.
For instance. Mrs Caroline Green
knew that the man W. murdered her
brother was secreted in the closet at the
time when the officers and the servants
were In the room viewing the body, bat
she does not say 50. She even stood By
the closet door in order that the noise
she made might conceal his heavy
a woman, isn't it? A wife shielding her
husband, who has disowned her, from
tho murder Of her brother, who was
killed in her behalf, No wonder the
poor th,ng was accused of being insane.
In all my criminal experience l never
met anything exactly Ike that.
And then, again. both the hospital
steward and the keeper of the dead
house knew Of the striking resemblance
botsveen Richard Melville and Maurice
Green. IL was so great that il deceived
the mother and the family physician,
still they refer TO it very lightly.
Then why should Mrs. Caroline Green
gloss over her husbands evil temper!
Perhaps she realizes that she Is under
obligations To that same hasty temper,
for only for the faint of bad blood In the
Green family, and that cheap back
woods passion of Maurice Green, the new
Richard Melville would have walked
Melville until the end OF his days, and
there would never have been a Maurice
Green again. Only for that murder in
the coachman's room no one would have
ever known that Richard Melville was
buried in Virginia IN place of Maurice
Green. and that Maurice Green picked
up the life of Richard Melville where he
laid it down.
And / don't understand why Mrs.
Green does not explain her motive for
inducing her husband-at that time
Richard Melville-to aid her IN escaping
from the asylum Well. she can do as
she pleases, bot shall always believe
that she would have been murdered that
night II the carriage had not met With an
accident ON Twenty-third street, for he
knew that she was acquainted with all
the facts of her brothers death. The
foolish woman had used that 10 him as
an argument why he should accept her
hs.1
lied her own life.
That would have made two murders
for Mr. Maurice Green, alias Richard
Melyille-one committed TO protect his
position in the Melville family, and the
other committed TO conceal the first.
New. have consulted the prosecuting
officers of the county and half a dozen
medical experts. and without exception
all express the opinion that il would be
uselses 10 put Maurice Green ON trial for
the murder committed in the name OF
Richard Melville. Il would be, they SAY,
like trying man fJr an ofense commit
til IN his sleep or during the frenzy of a
brain fever. All accept the conclusion
arrived at. all have pledged themselves
% secrecy for Mrs. Clark Melville's sake,
and Mrs. Caroline Green has already
been released from custody / am told tina.
she went straight TO her husband at tho
Brooklyn hotel. and that he recognized
her in spite Of her faded and changed ap
pearance. II Is with him as the surgeon
predicted. His New York life is as muct
Of blank 70 him now a. bis life in Main.
was before Mrs Clark Melville Is still
IN ignorance of the true state Of affairs
she will know that the man sue has cared
for 81 unseltishly is not her son for ths
first time when she reads the history Of
my investigation In the manuscripts
have had prepared for her.
| don't ike the looks a the thinri
believe from the bottom Of my hear
that Maurice Green is responsible fol
the murder he has committed. hav'
no doubt that Maurice Green believes
himself 20 be Richard Melville. Such
eases sre, 7 am tokl. not rare in tn.
books. II il CERTAIN. too, that he wa
honest in rejecting the claims of hi
wife.
Now 10 arrange the manuscripts ans
deliver them ~ Mrs. Melville. Perhaps
I shall see Mrs. Caroline Green there I
/ 10 shall ask her TO explain her motiv'
IN leaving the asylum. already know
what her companions motive was II
taxing her away
What viii Mrs Clark Melville ssy'
There, I have seen Mrs Clark Mel
vile. and she has read the manuscripts
She now knows the truth
How dad sfe rpceive ~ Let me writ.
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When rang The bell wss told tha
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