The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-02-14

regular, bu6Tt1OI6s gave Ills dCC6uIIOL.
He smelled of the wineglass and re-
placed it on the table and made no
search of the room. 1t is considered
''bad form" for an amateur to offer adj
vice or suggestions to a regular" but
could not restrain myself from pointing
out the fact that the murdered man still
wore a diamond ring and pin with a
combined value of at least 5000. If rob-
berry had been the motive, why hadn't
| the robber taken these things?
''In too much of hurry Of course"
yrowled the regular"
I couldn't agree with him on that
point. Had it been a case of highway
robbery the reasoning would have held
good. The robber had entered unseen.
He had created no alarm. He had coolly
rifed all the dead mans pockets, buthad
left the most valuable plumber behind.
The regular" corroborated the doctor
as to what had inflicted the wound, but
! | disagreed with both. | had the room
alone for half an hour. The first move
I made was to pull the bureau out from
the wall. Under it I found wallet
with $3.50 in it, together with papers to
prove that it belonged to Captain Tay-
lor. In theupholstery of the sofa l found
his watch and chain.
In the slop jar, which was perfectly
dry, found a photograph torn into 20
pieces. When 1 came to fit them to-
gether, had the picture of handsome
young woman taken by photographer
in Richmond. l examined the window
sill and the bedrails and posts. In fall
ing the captain had struck the rail of the
bed and inflicted the wound. There were
bit Of blood and three or four hairs
sticking to the rail to prove it. The fact
of the door being fastened did not prove
that any one had entered by way OF the
window. but rather that some one had
left by that exit.
"Who had room Sc that night" I ask
ed the landlord.
"a young woman who had been here
two days, /" he replied after looking at the
register. ''She left by the midnight ttaln
that night. Let me see-I believe she
was waiting here for friends who were to
come on from Washington, but who dis
appointed her"
old she order any wine while here"
He called, "Frontp and we soon found
the bellboy who had taken pint of
port to her room at o'clock of the day
of the murder. Room SO adjoined room
"a of course, but there was no commu-
nicating door, nor had the captain asked
for "a. He had simply asked for room
on the second floor I carefully exam
med the windows Of both. In "a the
sash worked very easily, in Sc more diff
cult. | found by the chambermaid that
owing to lack of help neither window
had been washed for two weeks previous
to the murder. An examination of the
dust on the sashes revealed finger tips,
These imprints were exactly alike on
both sashes and were too small to have
been made by the captains fingers.
In room SO I found the wine bottle
with the contents about half finished, to-
gether with a telegram which had been
torn into bits. In three hours pasted it
together and found that it was dis
patch from Philadelphia, dated the day
of the murder and reading, 81 will be
there this evening"" It was directed tc
Mary Thornton and signed with the I'M
tial &C." This Mary Thornton had left
by the midnight train going west. She
might have purchased her ticket and Sc.
cured her sleeper down town, but
thought not. On going to the depot
found that a woman of her description
had tioketed through to Buffalo by that
train.
1 have given my line Of reasoning away
to you, but this was necessary to connect
events. AS soon as found the money
and the watch knew that it was not a
case of robbery. AS soon as found the
blood spot on the bedrail l realized that
the captain had met his death in some
other manner. While my friend the
chemist was analysing the few drops Of
wine left in the glass put my case to
gether thus: Captain Taylor was soon to
be married. There was woman in the
way-Mary Thornton. A meeting was
arranged at the hotel. The captain dis
guised himself for fear of meeting some
one who knew him. There was probably
a nnarrel when they first met. but it was
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