Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-17
WARNINGS PERIL.
By Capt. Chas. King, of the U. s. Army.
 Copyright by Lippincott.
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| niors on duty at the barracks, and | Grams face was lined with anxiety | and trouble. The formal inquest was held as the flood subsided, and the evi- | dence of the post surgeon was most | important. About the throat of the murdered man were indubitable marks of violence. The skin was torn as by | fingcr-nails the flesh bruised and dis colorcd as by fiercely-grasping fingers. But death, said the doctor, was caused | by the single stab. Driven downward | with savage force, a sharp-pointed, | two-edged, straight-bladed knife had | pierced the heart, and all was over in | an instant. One other wound there was, slashing cut across the stomach, | which had let a large amount of blood, | but might possibly not have been mor- | tai. What part the deceased had taken
 in the struggle could only be conjec- | turcd. A little fve-chambered revolver which he habitually carried was found or. the floor close at hand Two chargeS | had been recently fired, for the barrel was black with powder; but no one | had heard a shot
 The barkecpcr at the Pelican could | throw but little light on the matter. The storm had broken, he said, with sudden fury. The rain dashed in torrents against his western front, and threatened to beat in the windows. He called to two men who happened to be | seated at a table to assist him, and was busy trying to get up the shutters, when Lieut.. Doyle joined them and | rendered timely aid. He had frequently seen Doyle during the previous month. Mrs. Doyle lived in the old Lemaitre | house in the block below, and he often supplied them with whisky. They drank nothing but whisky. As they ran in the side door they were surprised to sec the lights of carriage standing | at the edge of tho banquette, and the | driver begged for shelter for his team, saying some gentlemen had gone in- | side. The barlzeeper opened q gate, and the driver put his horses under a | shed in paved court in the rear, then came in for drink. Meantime, said | the barllccpcr, whose name was | Bonclli, three gentlemen who were | laughing over their escape from the storm had ordered wine and gone into private room, Doyle with them. The only one he knew was M. Lascelles, though he had seen one of the others | frequently as he rode by, and knew him to be an officer before MT. Doyle slapped him on the back and hailed him as Sammy, old buck" or some thing like that. MT: Doyle had been drinking, and the gentleman whispered | to him not to intrude just then, and evidently wanted to get rid of him, but | M. Lascellcs, who had ordered the wine, demanded to be introduced, and would take no denial, and invited MT. l Doyle to join them, and ordered more wine. And then Bonelli saw that l Lascelles himself was excited by drink the first time he had ever noticed it in the year he had known him. The third gentleman he had never seen bu- fore, and could only say he was dark and saIlow and did not talk, except to urge the driver to make haste,-they
 must go on; but he spoke in a low tone with Mir. Lascelles as they went to the room, and presently the rain seemed to let up little, though it blew hard, and the driver went out and looked around and then returned to the private room where the gentle men were having their wine, and there was some angry talk, and he came out in a few minutes, very mad; said he wouldn't be hired to drive that party any farther, or any other party, for that matter; that no carriage could go down the levce; and then he got out
 his team and drove back to town; and
 then Bonclli could hear sounds of al- tercation in the room, and MT. Doyle's voice, very angry, and the strange gen. tleman came out, and one of the men who'd been waiting said he had a cab, if that would answer, and he'd fetch it | .sS-l.k IN.x 41,@4 1,. .1k !, Il
 1t was raining hard again, and he took
 his cab in under the shed where the
 carriage had been, and couple of sol
 diers from the barracks then came in,
 wet and cold, and begged for a drink, l and Bonelli knew one of them, called
 Dawson, and trusted him, as he often
 had done before. When Dawson heard
 Lieut.. Doyle's drunken voice he said
 there'd be trouble getting him home . and he'd better fetch Mrs. Doyle, and while he was gone Lascelles came out
 excited, and threw down a twenty
 dollar bill and ordered more Krug and
 some brandy, and there was still loud
 talk, and when Bonelli carried in the bottles Doyle was sitting back in g t chair, held down by the other officer
 who was laughing at him, but, never
 theless, had knife in hand-a long
 sharp, two-edged knife-and Doyle
 was calling him names, and was very
 drunk, and soon after they all wen
 out into the rear court, and Doyle made
 more noise, and the cab drove away F around the corner, going down tho o levee through the pouring rain, ont
 man on the box with the driver. Tha
 was the last he saw. Then Mrs. Doyl' 2 came in mad, and demanded her hus
 band, and they found him reelint
 about the dark court, swearing anC
 muttering, and Dawson and she tool him off between them. This mus D have been before eleven o'clock; ant
 that was absolutely all he knew.
 Then Mir. Allerton had told his stor.
 again, without throwing the faintes
 light on the proceedings, and the hack
 driver was found, and frankly an
 fully told his: that Lascelles and ar
 other gentleman hired him about eigh
 o'clock to drive them down to the fol
 mer's place, which they said was sever
 al squares above the barracks. H
 said that he would have to charg
 them eight dollars such a night any