Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-05-20

the doctors pocket. Then he elnptied
the silver from both mems pockets ana
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, god 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 prostraae 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 OPP
posite corner from the corpse. He did
not care il 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, .
terrific blow ON the forehead, tossed the
weapon down carelessly between the
two men.
His work was done. No one haG oh
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 a
doctor. They could not understand him
and were content that he did not AJAX
them for the pearl which one of them
had picked up, as it lay glistening, visi-
BILE yards off, on the glare ice of tn.
sidewalk, and of which they were to
share the proceeds.
When the maid servant opened the in
ner door of the fatal house next morning
with a shrek of horror she ran to tell hel
mistress that there was murdered mai
lying between the two doors, and AM
other, who was dying, family calling foi
help.
The police were sent for and the tive
bodies taken to the police station, wher
the place had been carefully searched
The case against the doctor was only TO,
clear. The watch thrust hurriedly int.
his coat pocket was the murdered mans j.
so was the pocketbook containing the SEQ
The landlady could identify these. His
pocketbook contained nothing. Plum.
der was the motive Besides there Were
the marks of the struggle. His bruised
neck, torn clothing, and the cut on the
back of his head (which had stunned him
when he fell in the street. showed how
desperately the victim had struggled
against the irresistible odds of the life
preserver.
The doctor was committed, as soon as
he should have sufficiently recovered &C.
leave the hospital, for willful murder.
1t was in vain that his club friends,
when he communicated with them, pro
tested that his position was such as tt
make a murder for robbery impossible
He must take his trial.
He had one good friend who was not
good man.
This friend, named O'Brien, PERSUADE,
him to employ rascally lawyer, said t.
be of great ability, but better known az
a man with pull
Mr.. O'Brien's sagacity proved itself
With the Judge the "pull" might has
been of no avail. With the police it WI
too great to be disregarded. For ON,
they really gave him all the help in thei
power. Through them, much as they
would have liked the credit of convic-
ton, he discovered that the deadly blow
which struck the victim down from be
hind was not struck by the doctor. For
the victim could not have hurled his as
sailant back and stunned him after re-
ceiving such q blow, and it stood tc
reason that 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 have
dealt such a blow while in that state
Then "a minute surgical examination
showed that there was nothing in the
wall between the two doors which could
have caused such cut as that on the
doctors head, which had been made by &
stone imbedded in the glare ice he had
slipped upon, and further that it wouIt.
have been next to impossible for him t.
have received blow on that part of the
head at all by falling against vertica
wall. A broken neck or cut nearly or
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 wh
was endeavoring to dispose of magnifi
cent heart shaped pearl which the polio
accused him of stealing, but which b,
persisted, when the interpreter arrive
had dropped from the scarf pin of ger
sleman who slipped and fell stunned i.
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 whicl
The murder was committed. He describe
the man who fell 1t tailed with the
doctor. The lawyer was informed. The
broken pin had, of course, been carefully
saved. The pearl fitted exactly in III.
most unusually shaped setting, which ha
been followed or nodded to fit the gen.
The identity was beyond doubt.
The Italian thought the doctor wa
dead before he was carried into the house
So did his fellow dagoes when they were
summoned.
After this, for clever lawyer with
pull, it was child's play to prove what
must have happened and had actually
happened.
The king of the thugs, 50 far as the
public know, or win tell, still walks 1T
large to follow some other wealthy victim
into the dark death trap between the outer
and inner street doors Of his own house.
He may possibly have accomplices
among club waters to tell him when
lucky gambler carries off an unusually
large amount Of winnings from the card