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


fessionals and are apparently at q loss
to understand why they should be need!
lessly have compromised themselves by
staining their trails with blood. Such
men kill only in the last extremity.
John is restless and irritable and Is
constantly having speech with one or
other of his detectives and making all
sorts OF crude and impracticable sugges-
tions. He sleeps badly, he tells me, and
has fearful dreams. He is looking bag
gard and Ill and smokes from morning
till night. He will accept no advice as
to the care Of his health. "If can
only catch the scoundrel that shot
him." he says, 81 don't care what be-
comes of me-" He avoids SInfre more
than ever-I presume because he hates
to remember that he and Henry we're
in the position Of rivals for her favor.
don't know how be would feel II he
knew as much about that matter as
do. 1 do all can to keep up his spir-
It's, but nothing appeases him. The only
medicine that will do me good Is to see
a hanging" he declares. But, though
I do not tell him so, it begins TO look as
IL that comfort would be indefinitely
postponed.
The burglars have proved an abb.
They were captured yesterday In Chi
capo. There were three OF them, all
known already to the police. They had
in their possession some Of the property
stolen in this neighborhood and have
confessed the robbery. But their move
ments since three days before the muir
der have been traced and it is perfectly
clear that they were all in Buffalo att he
time 1t was committed. John Is thun-
derstruck and bewildered, and l am
greatly disappointed, though must
confess that l was not entirely unpre-
pared for this turn Of affairs.
There was strong prima facie prob
ability that the burglars were guilty;
but, on the other hand, apart from
their supposed presence in the neigh
borhood at the time, there was every
reason why they should have ahstained
from any capital crime. II Henry had
cornered them so that they could not
escape, it would have paid them better
TO surrender than 10 get away by the
sacrifice OF his life, and the fact that
Heury's pistol was found undischarged
In his pocket is evidence the more that
he could not have put them In peril OF
either life or liberty. He was attacked
unawares, and so far as can be seen IN
provoked-that is to say, by some ene-
my who had been cherlshing grudge
against him and had improved this OPP
portunity to satisfy 1t.
There was one circumstance, too,
which struck me at the time, but which
| mentioned to no one, that may have
had something to do with his being sur
prised in the way he was. This cir
cumstance was flask Of brandy, nearly
empty, in side pocket Of his coat |
know that the flask was full just before
he started for the lake because he pro-
duced 1t in my room when he and John
looked in to say goodby and took pull
at it. As he had already drunk good
deal, even for him, during the day, it is
fair to surmise that he must have been
somewhat oveTweighted by midnight
John, it is true, does not seem to have
noticed anything especially distraught
ia his behavior, but then John is a man
who has room in his mind for but one
thing at time, but just then II was full
of burglars. Moreover, he could have
seen but little Of Henry after they took
up their allotted stations In ambush
Tom, the groom, would be more eG-
pert witness If chose TO interrogate
him, but did hear him observe, as II
recalling a consolatory circumstance,
that master 'Enry was a-feelin mighty
good the night it 'appened." 1t Is even
possible that he may have dropped asleep
But these speculatlons are unimpor-
tant. Since IL is proved that he was
not killed sin the way OF business" as
the detectives put IL, it follows that he
was a victim TO some enemy, and the
next step is to fud out who his enem-
les were. At first sight this would not
seem difficult, for Henry was a man to
make friends with everybody, and
therefore his enemies should be few.
But, upon second thought, no one can
be said TO know much about Henry's
real life, and it is often the good ma
tured, easy going men whose enemies,
when they have any, are the bitterest
and most unrelenting.
Who can say into how many desper-
ate scrapes Henry's lax ways with
women, for instance, may have led
him? Some revengeful husband or
brother may have been following him
half way round the world, waiting his
opportunity to strike his blow. Mani
testify we could hope to apprehend such
a person only by the merest chance.
he might buy a house here and settle
down tomorrow, and we should never
recognize or ever suspect him. A habit
of secrecy and reticence may be all
very well so long as man lives or gets
into no trouble, but then 1t Is liable TO
react against him. Henry has prevent
ed US from knowing how to avenge or
help him.
Meanwhile the detectives, as their
manner is, seem disposed TO exhaust
whatever material may be at hand be-
fore going on to the region OF specula-
ton. In other words, they are aiming
TO find out what Henry's relations were
with the people with whom he was In
contact here at home. This list would
include practically no one Resides
John and myself, Tom, the groom, and
Sinfire. We saw little company during
his stay with US, and that only In the
most formal way. No one expects, OF
course, that the inquiry will result In
anything. None OF the persons named
is likely to be seriously suspected OF
any share in Henry's death, but It is no
doubt right and proper that the form
of investigation should be gone through
with. II will leave the field clear for
further investigation.
John agrees with me in this, and as
soon as the idea was suggested to him
he expressed himself as anxious to
have IL carried out. "If / shot him,
l want to know IT," he said, with a
touch Of savage hhmor. You're not
I'm II. Won know. Frank" he went on;