The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-02-20


awoke. Yet he remembered the old de-
tective's instructions to report as soon as
he had anything to tell. So he set out
and in time found Cathcart in his rooms
in Bond street, busy with papers he had
pushed aside to listen to his visitor.
When the tale was finished the old
man made no comment, but paced up
and down his room with his hands in his
vest pockets.
''My belief is that I could have yester-
day brought the murder question to an
issue, were it not for the fact that your
matter is not advanced to the stage de-
sired. I believe the germs of that I'M
finished letter and the murders are to be
found in the one condition of affairs.
II have done little in the murder case
but direct your movements. You have
Z put into my hands the material by which
lam certain that within the next twenty
fours hours could put into custody the
murderer were to devote myself to the
effort. For the past two months I have
labored hard, as hard as ever did in any
two months of my life, and"-he paused
to give effect to dis words-''nine-
tenths of that time has been devoted to
your affair. You think no fact has been
gained, presume. I know more at this
moment of your fathers life and business
than you ever did. I have made the
friendship Of your fathers executor. l
have won him as your friend, instead of
your enemy, as he has been for eight
years. have persuaded him to go to
work with a belief in your innocence.
He is conscientious man and is enthu-
siastic in his effort to repair the wrong
he has done you.
81 have examined the old books Of the
firm of which your father was so long
the head, and have run down every item
of personal expenditure I suspected
might possibly have bearing on your
affair. have turned over every scrap
Of paper in the possession of your fac
theirs executor, and I have conversed
with nearly every man yet alive with
whom your father did business. I have
found, and to great extent know, the
cause of the dissipation of your fathers
great property. The work is not COM
pleted. When you came in I was ex-
aiming reports the mail brought me,
which advance me another long step on
the way. And this moment l can &C.
count for nearly every cent, except one
block Of one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. This money was not lost in
speculations or bad investments. 1t was
actually spent, deliberately expended in
pursuance of Il deliberate intention, after
having been raised by hypothecation of
stock and securities. What was that
purpose or intention? And why so de-
liberately and persistently pursued?
have only within the hour gotten to a
point where l could pursue thai. part of
the inquiry with any degree Of intelli-
gent effort or with hope of success.
II never was engaged IL = case where
the lines cross each other in SO confusing
manner. nor did I ever have two cases
/ was working together wherein the per.
sons in each case have such strange re.
lations to each other without brnga.
the critical point of each case together.
Here is All instance. We have young
Eustace under suspicion of being il
some way connected with that murder.
believe your father, dead as he is, is in
some way connected with it. | have
reason to believe that the older Eustace
was 1T one period of his life intimately
connected with Your fathers affairs: |
AIN certain the elder Eustace iii no way
touches the Parrish murder. You per
ceive how necessary it is to maintain o
clear head and move slowly in this al
most inextricable tangle of the two
cases. Here are my instructions for your
movements: want yen to engage tie
elder Eustace in u conversation as to
your father. The way is open You
told me he had discovered great resem-
blance between your father and your
self"