Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-08

to grasp and comprehend what IS. alas,
so sternly true.
Yesterday, Mario Delaro. in the warm
glow of perfect. healthy manhood: to-
day, a soulless corpse. CHASTITY and
hvid!
1t took Anton some moments to re-
his first thought was to look for the
cause of this terrible spectacle
He examined the breast of the dead
man, but found no wound; then he
noticed that the blood had flowed from
beneath the left shoulder and he knew
that Mario Delaro, the beloved of all
who knew him. the man who never
feared TO face his enemy, had been
struck from behind.
He was mystifed, and the terror with
which his soul was filled prevented him
from action, so that for many moments
he knelt staring at the corpse, as
though he expected to see II come to
life.
At last, however, he awakened to the
necessity of the hour and arose to look
around. There was not a being in
sight, SO without stopping for further
reflection he FASTENED in the direction
of the cellars. the entrance to which
was scarcely stones throw from where
he stood. There he expected he would
find some one. He was not disappointed,
for two of the cellar-men soon appeared
and in a short time he had told them
the dreadful news, as well as his ex-
cited state would permit, and they all
three made their way to the victim of a
0-io q
They were all Germans and with
natural Teutonic caution each refused
to touch the corpse until some person
of authority was present One OF them
was an old man who had worked around
the vineyard and cellars for years and
the other tall, gaunt young fellow wis
was recent acq uisition to the place.
Neither of the three could advance
any reasonable theories. The old man
knew everybody for miles around, but
could not remember that Mario had an
enemy. Anton had known the dead
man for more than two years, and had
never heard bitter word spoken OF
him, while the youngest man of the
three only knew that during the short
time he had been there he had received
his pay regularly, and had heard his en-
| ployer spoken of as a good fellow.
The other two looked to Anton fol-
some suggestion, and he gave the
| only one of which he could think. II
was that the young man should make
! all haste into the town of San Paola
and inform the authorities of what had
| happened, without letting any more
| people know of it than was absolutely
| necessary.
| The messenger was hardly out of sight
| when the two watchers fell to talking
of the excellent qualities in the char.
| acter of him who had met with such &
| violent death.
| With tears in his eyes and voice
| thick with emotion, Anton told of the
| tender regard he had for his dead en-
| ployer; he mentioned the many little
kindnesses he had received from Delaro
| and said that he had seldom heard {
| harsh or unkind word from him since the
first day they had met
The old man could 60 further back
| into Mario's history than Anton, and he
| told of deeds and acts of charity which
| all redounded TO the credit of the vim
tager.
| 1t seemed as though neither Of then
would ever tire of talking about him
and when they ceased for momen-
to eulogise his character they would
| es,deavor to speculate on the probable
| cause of the murder, but no tangible
theory presented itself to either of theil
minds In the space of half an hour the
| messenger was seen returning up the
road followed by two uniformed officer:
| ~ &c 1zrli oh hn
could boast accompanied by another
man in civilians clothes.
AS they neared the spot where the
| dead man lay, they were overtaken By
doctor who had received instructions
to follow them and had done so, calling
| into service the wagon and horse of &
| grocer, with the grocer's boy for driver
The sight of these people gave AntoI
| infinite relief, and he breathed more
easily when he felt that the care of hi:
CHASTITY charge was being shared BY
! others
The first of the officers to approach the
body was the marshal He took a care.
full survey of the surroundings, bu
found nothing that aroused his curiosity
in an unusual degree; nothing that
| would serve as a clew, or indicate thai
there had been struggle. The doctor
with the assistance Of the others, ex
amined the body. and found only the
one wound Immediately below the lef
shoulder blade, though that was evident
ly very deep.
Plainly the blow had been struck by
strong arm and hand, which had no.
erred in its purpose. 1t as useless tx
surmise; there was nothing to say il
| the matter except the plain, horrible
| truth that it was cold-blooded muir
der, though whose hand had dealt the
| blow no person could imagine.
The officers noted all the particular:
which they possibly could, and the doc
tor, having taken a diagram of the ex
| act position of the body, there wa:
nothing left to do but to remove it.
They carefully carried the remains *
| the wagon and covering it up with some
empty bags the melancholy little pro
cession started for the town They had
not gone far when they were met by :
man on horseback. His appearance de
| noted that he was person of especia
| Importance in the community. He was
| tall but rather thin and had very per
ceptible stoop, although being on horse
| back it was not easily noticed Hi:
eyes were jet black and were covered
by heavy, bushy eyebrows; his beard
was carefully trimmed and his dres:
| rather too perfect for the locality.
| While the expression on his face wa:
not repulsive, it was of kind which
would cause a man to exercise extreme
care and C9utj10 in 6aa1inp with him