Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-08-27
CHAPTER XII.

How futile and insincere all my specu-
lations seem now! And now repentance
is as futile, however sincere II may De-
But we must not think or our sorrO"
yet The first thing 70 DO done Is 10
discover and % punish.
shall never forget that knocking az
my door. can hear it now. snail
hear II In my dreams. IL seemed to
carry A message with it before
word WAS spoken. And yet, when the
words were spoken, l could not under
stand them. They fell Ike meaningless
sounds on nv ear. And I cannot nelp
thinking that, had been we'll ana
about that night, this would not have
bapDened. he must have exposed him
self needle ssIy. He was always heed
less. confident and fearless. l remem-
Der his saying once that be bore
charmed life. A curse on all supersti-
tionsl And be those Juggling hends no
more believed who paiter with us In
double sense.
IL could not have happened earlier
than 2 o'clock 20 the morning. l must
have slept more than three hours wren
l was aroused, and when last looked
at my watch 10 was between IL and u.
IL was when Tom knocked on my door,
and be had just come from him. de
found him still warm, and he could
hardly have been dead more than half
an hour. But be was dead, and he must
have died instantly. The bullet, fired
from behind, struck him below the left
shoulder aud went through his heart
The body lay 81 the foot OF the cliff,
and from It's appearance Henry must
have been standing near It's verge when
he was struck and have fallen or been
pushed over The fall was upward or 20
feet. There were bruises on the body,
and some dirt and a small fragment OF
rock had fallen with him from above.
He must have been standing there look
ing down into the wood below when the
villain crept up behind him and fired.
The shot was so close range-not more
than s or 10 feet away. 1t seems strange
that he heard no fOOtstep. Yet II he bad
he would surely have turned round, and
then the bullet would have struck him
iu front
These points will probably be eluci-
dated az the trial, when we know whom
To try. or course there Is 40 doubt
that the murderer was one OF the bur
glars. Thus far, however, no trace Of
any burglars has been seen. Neither
John nor Tom discovered any signs OF
them, either before or after the shoot
ing. This IS the more strange because
the murder proves that they mnst
have been there. They had made
no attempt upon the house, how
ever, though they must have known
that 10 was empty, and II they
got wind Of our intention 20 capture
them, or NJ on arriving on the ground,
they discovered cur ambush, why did
they not retire az once Instead OF put
ting their neCks in q moose by a WantOn
assassination? Had there been signs
that Henry had attempted 20 arrest one
OF them and that a struggle had taken
place we might suppose that they had
shot him 90 self defense, but the indica-
tions are that he was approached una
wares. The evidence on this point
must be carefully siited. AT present it
Is perpleXiug.
The dominion OF mind over matter
can seldom have been more conclusive
~ illustrated than 10 was IN my case
when I was made 20 comprehend what
had happened. A moment before was
as helpless as any cripple can be and
suffering acute pain. Five minutes
afterwards / was beside my brothers.
dead body, quarter OF . mile away. I
have been conscious OF no pain since,
aud now the traces OF Inflammation are
gone. I have no distinct recollection
of what did, but l must havs sprung
from my chair and run az full speed, all
bandagei as I was, 30 the place whore
he lay. This indeed Is TOMS account
OF the matter.
He says that toward . i'm the morning
he heard a report as Of q pistol, but 10
was 40 some distance. and he was at first
disposed 90 think he had been mistaken.
He had for more than an hour past
given up all expectation Of the success
OF the ambush aud was beginning 20
feel somewhat sleepy. However, he
went along in the direction from which
the sound had seemed 70 come, stop
ping every now and then 90 look and
listen, but detecting nothing, and he
was Just on the point OF abandoning the
search when be saw something dark
lying near the foot OF the cliff He took
10 for small rock or fallen bOwlder,
but IS he did not remember having be-
fore noticed anything Of the kind in
the place be came nearer 70 examine.
, Until be stood within a yard OF &c no
suspicion as % what Ia really was enter
ed his mind. Then in 3 moment he
knew II was mans body, but even
then he thought OF q tramp fallen
asleep and not OF Henry or Of anyone
he knew. But when he noticed how the
hody lay-face downward, with one arm
doubled under THE recognized death,
and bending down be saw the curly hair
that could only be Henry'S. With that
ft OF the horrors took possession Of
him. BE does not know what he did,
but thinks he shouted in the dead mans
ears as n 20 awaken him from
that lrrevOcabls sleep, and he
felt for bis heart and got his
hand smeared with blood. He was
thoroughly unnamed and ran hither
aud tbither, not knowing what 70 do,
but probably hoping to meet John. At
length be reflected that be was in my
rooms, and without further delay he
made a straight line for my door.
he was aghastly-loOking object when,
the door being uniastened, babe him
come in. Ny frst Idea was that he had
himself been attacked and had barely
escaped with his life. He was white In
the face, hatless, his dress disordered
and his hand bloody. He was shaking
an over Ike a man chilled to the mar
row. and he could not command bis
tonqne 10 speak clearly. / asked him
ssvsral questions bef6Ee getting any CO.