Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-23

more about the period of recovery than
most hospital surgeons.
First he pulled out the doctors pocket
book, containing five $40 notes and
about $50 in smaller denominations.
These latter be put into tho oa mans
rockctbook and slipped both books into
tie doctors pocket. Then he emptied
the silver from both mems pockets and
put some of it into one of the doctors
outside coat pockets. With it he thrust
the dead mans watch and chain, car
rying off the doctors own, good deal
the more valuable of the two. The
broken pin he did not touch. The king
of the thugs had soul above remnants.
Then he seized the PROSTATE doctor by
the throat and shook him by the collar
till it gave way. then he flung him back
ward with all his might into the op-
posite corner from the corpse. He did
not care if it killed him. Another life
was nothing to him. Then he took out
his life preserver and striking his dead
victim, who had fallen on his back, a
terrific blow on the forehead, tossed the
weapon down carclessly between the
two men.
His work was DONE No one had OBJ
served the frequent flashes of that tiny
electric dark lantern, which fitted into
the hollow of his hand. He opened the
door, walked coolly down the steps and
up the street eastward until he was lost
in the darkness. The policeman on the
street was cold and had gone in some
where to warm himself. Not a soul
noticed him except the Italians. To
them he said that he was going for :
doctor. They could not understand hin
and were content that he did not asl
them for the pearl which one of then
had picked up, as it lay glistening, Wis
bic yards off, on the glare ice of Il.
sidewalk, and of which they were t
share the proceeds.
When the maid servant opened the l.
ner door of the fatal house next mornin.
with shrek of horror she ran to tell Ii
mistress that there was a murdered IN
lying between the two doors. and
other, who was dying, family calling f,
help.
The police were sent for and the tr
bodies taken to the police station, VIII
the place had been carefully SparChC
The case against the doctor was only
clear. The watch thrust hurriedly iii
his coat pocket was the murdered man
so was the pocketbook containing thc$9'
The landlady could identify these. II
own pocketbook contained nothing. Plu
der was the motive. Besides there WEI
the marks of the struggle. His bruis
neck, torn clothing, and the cut on Z
back of his head (Which had stunned HI
when he fell in the street, showed he
desperately the victim had struggl
against the irresistible odds of the |,
preserver.
The doctor was committed, as soon
he should have sufficiently recovered
leave the hospital for willful murder
1t was in vain that his club friend,
when he communicated with them, pr,
tested that his position was such as
make a murder for robbery impossib!
He must take his trial.
He had one good friend who was not
good man.
This friend, named O'Bren, persuade
him to employ rascally lawyer, said
be of great ability, but better known;
"a man with pull"
Mr.. OBrien's sagacity proved itse'
With the judge the pull" might ha
been of no avail. With the police it w
too great to be disregarded. For or
they really gave him all the help in tn
power. Through them, much as the
would have liked the credit of convit
ton. he discovered that the deadly blov
which struck the victim down from be
hind was not struck by the doctor. Fo:
the victim could not have hurled his as
sailant back and stunned him after rt-
ceiving such a blow, and it stood t,
reason that a man who was so stunned a
to be barely recovering five or six hour
after the victim, from his appearance
must have been dead, could not hay
dealt such blow while in that state
Then a minute surgical examination
showed that there was nothing in tn,
wall between the two doors which coul'
have caused such a cut as that on the
doctors head, which had been made by;
stone imbedded in the glare ice he ha
slipped upon, and further that it woulC
have been next to impossible for him t
have received blow on that part of tn
head at all by falling against vertica
wall. A broken neck or a cut nearly o.
the top of the head would have replace
the cut at the back of the head.
But the crowning piece of evidenc
came from the arrest of an Italian vii
was endeavoring to dispose of a magnii
L,, t,l,n 81 ,,-Li, tl,,
accused him of stealing, but which h
persisted, when the interpreter arrive,
had dropped from the scarf pin of gen
tleman who slipped and fell stunned !
Forty-second street in the small hours {
1891. and was carried into his house by
friend. He offered to point out his homo
and it proved to be the house in whcI
the murder was committed. He describe,
the man who fell. 1t tailed with til,
doctor. The lawyer was informed. The
broken pin had, of course, been CAREFUL,
saved. The pearl fitted exactly in Il
most unusually shaped setting, which ha
been followed or nodded to fit the ge
The identity was beyond doubt.
The Italian thought the doctor w
dead before he was carried into the hou,
So did his fellow dagoes when they we.
summoned.
After this, for clever lawyer with
pull, it was child's play to prove VIII
must have happened and had actual
happened.
The king of the thugs, so far as Il
public know, or will tell, still walks
large to follow some other wealthy vic;
into the dark death trap between theou,
end innrr street doors of his own hons,