The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-25

of men and women, studded here and
there by rich young towns, and with mod
crate rates of transportation and mar
kets all about them, and half a dozen
railroad centers where the great trunk
lines converge, it is a wonderful state.
A cousin of mine, who had travelled
over the entire Union and finally wound
up in the West with nothing but a good
appetite out of job. said to me: will
lam. l should have stayed III Ohio. That is
the best state in the Union. Probably
should not have accumulated so much
happier"
Yesterday We saw venerable man in
irons on the train. The sheriff had him
in charge. but the criminal had a sort of
comfortable air of victory on his face. and
he did not seem to be engaged in regret
ting any past acts of his own.
l got his story from the conductor.
He had been a soldier from Western
state. He went into the war, leaving a
weeping wife at home. who sorrowed and
read the papers sadly day by day. A
neighbor named Justus, who was we'll to
do and had sent a substitute to the war,
used TO bring her the papers and war
news. and sometimes would remain by
the fireside chatting with her over the
war and how sad it was. You would have
thought to have seen him that he just
hated the war. but as a matter of fact the
war cloud had its silver lining, and he
tried TO enjoy il.
The letter of friend sort of opened the
eyes of the soldier, and he came home on
a brief furlough. He found that the truth
was really too sad to think about. He
even found Mr.. Justus' own private BRAN
dyhask in the drawer where he used 10
keep his shaving apparatus. lie did not
shoot Justus or his wife and then have to
haul them out on his farm to help
the corn crop, but after he had gone
back to his post there was wild
scream one night and pale woman
came running into a neighbours house
with streaming hair and dry blue lips
which could not speak. she said Mr..
Justus had died suddenly at her house just
after ne had taken little brandy, and the
kind neighbor was found there IN his sins
q corpse. having died IN great agony While
winding the clock.
The woman was suspected of the muir
der, and also ostracized from good society.
She was arrested but the jury disagreed.
She was very unhappy. and made even
more so by the letters and pay her nus
band sent home every month. Her emil
dren also seemed to lose confidence IN her,
and she Is in the asylum nov.
Years went by. The veteran returned.
He made a new home for his children and
succeeded in business, for everyone sym
pathized with him and sorrowed over his
disgrace.
But the avenger was on his track. IL
was difficult matter TO connect him with
the murder, but detective who got out of
employment last year found that there
was record of the purchase OF the strych-
nine a. al Ohio drug store, but not under
the soldiers name. He chung to the
clew, and in few more months found
physician who had prescribed
for man with the same assumed
name and resembling the druggists de-
scription. Finally the Old soldier was
discovered. and the druggist swore to
his identity, but the doctor was not SO
sure.
AT the trial the doctor said: "a man
resembling this one on the day and date
named came to me suffering slightly from
pleurlsy. l prescribed for him, could
not from the evidence thus far adduced
swear positively to his identity, but If he
be the man who came To me that evening
you will find Just below the left shoulder
blade porous plaster which | put on
there October 5, 1st2
The man was stripped TO the waist, and
there in the presence OF the court they
found the porous plaster. a little rayeled
around the edges, bat still adherIng 10 the
trembling wretch with damning tenacity.
Sweeping through Ohio at this swift
rate even, one sees that prosperity has
been almost uninterrupted for many years
There may have been times when some