Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-27

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 The examinations and investigations are still proceeding in full viSor. John has engaged the best detectives that are 10 be had. and there Is little reason to fear that the burglars, if they wcro the murdcrcrs. can escape. It iS a singular circumstance, however, that aS vet no traces of the gang, later than three days before the fatal night, have been diScOv- cred in this Vicinity.>nor do the detect ives agree with our theory that the bur glaricS were the result of local enter prisa. They think they were the work of experienced and scientific profession alS and are apparently at a loss to un- der-tand why they should necilrssly have compromised themselves by staining their trail with llood. Such men kill only i'll the last extremity.
 John k restless and irritable and is constantly hAviu-, sl...ch with sne Vr other of his detectives and making ail sorts of crude and iuprartirahlr suEIes- tinnS, H. sleeps badly. he tells l.:r. and has fearful dreams He iS looking haE- gard and i'll and smokes from morning till night He will accept no advice as to the care of his health. If l can only catch the scouudrel that shot him" he says. Il don't care what becomes of me. He avoids Sintire more than ever T presume because he hates to remem- Der that he and Henry were in the posi- ton of rivals for her favor. l don't know how he would feel if he knew as much about that matter us do. do all 1 can . keep up his spirits. but nothing appCaseS him. The only medi- cine that will do me good is 10 see q hanging" he declares. But. though do not tell him so, 1t begins 10 look as if that comfort would be indefinitely post poned
 The burglars have proved an aliri. They Were captured yesterday in Chi cago. There are three of them, all known already to the police. They had in their possession some of Ihe property stolen in this n,ighborhool and have confessed the robbery. But their move 1nants since three days before the Iuur- der have been traced. and ii is pcrt> lily clear that they wG-e Il. n B-YAlo It tie time 1t was comnittcl John is thun- derstruck and bewildcrrl, and l am greatly disappointed. though l must con fess that was uu: entirely unpreplred for this turn of affairs.
 There was q strong prima fuci" prCha- bilitr that tho burglars were guilty; but. on the other hand, apart from their sup- posed presence in the neighborhood at the time. there was every reason why they should have ahstained from any capital crime If Henry had corneres1 them so that they could not escape, il would have paid them better to surren der than 10 get away by the sacrifice oi his life. and the fact that Henrys pisto 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 d. can be seen unprovoked-that is to say by some enemy who had been cherishine a grudge against him and had improved this opportunity to satisfy it.
 There was one circumstance, too which struck me at the time, but whicl I mentioned to no one. that may hay, had something to do with his being sur prised in the way he was. This circum stance was flask of brandy, nearl, empty. i'll . side pocket of his coat.
 know tha: the flask was full just befor he started for the lake, because he pro duced it i'll my room when he and Johl looked in to say goodby and took pull at it As he had already drunk gOoI deal, even for him, during the day, it i fair to surInise that he must have beel somewhat overweighted by midnight.
 John, it is true, does not seem to hav noticed anything especially distraugh in his behavior, but then John is a mal who has room in his mind for but on thing at time, and just then it was ful of burglars. Moreover, he could hay seen but little of Henry after they tool up their allotted stations in ambush Tom, the groom, would be a more ex pert witness if I chose to interrogatE } him, but I did hear him observe, as i recalling a consolatory circumstance that Master 'Enry was a-feelin mighty good the night it 'appened." It is ever - possible that he may have dropped asleep
 But these speculations are unimpor tant Since it is proved that he was no killed in the way e business" as thu detectives put it, it follows that he wag a victim to some enemy, and the nexi step is to find out who his enemies were At first sight this would not seem diff cult, for Henry was a man to make friends with everybody, and therefore his enemies should be few. But, upoT F second thought, no one can be said tC know much about Henry's real life, ana 1t Is often the good natured, easy goinI men whose enemies, when they hayl any, are the bitterest and most unrelent ing.
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