The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-03-09

ing in, gasping. all out of breath 'along
of the Storm" she said. She had been
down the levee with Mike to find
cushion and lap-robe he dropped and
couldn't afford to lose. They never
could have found il at all but for ould
Lascelles lending them a lantern" He
wanted Mike to bring down two bot
ties of champagne he'd left here, but
it was storming so that he would not
venture again, and Lieut. Waring,
she said, was going to spend the
night with LasceIles at Beau Riv-
age; Mike couldn't drive any fur
Their down towards the barracks.
Lascelles sent word to Philippes that
he'd bring up the papers first thing in
the morning, if the storm lulled. and
Philippes went out indignant at all the
time lost, but Mike swore he'd not
drive down again for a fortune. So
the Frenchman got into the cab and
went up with him to town. The mo-
ment he was gone Mrs Doyle declared
she was dead tired, used up, and drank
huge goblets of the wine, until she
reeled off to her room, leaving an
apron behind. Then Mrs Dawson went
to her own room, after putting out the
lights, and when, two days later, she
heard the awful news of the murder,
knowing that investigation would fol-
low and she and her sins be brought to
light, she fed, for she had enough of
his money in her possession, and poor
demented Dawson, finding her gone,
followed.
Philippes' story corroborated this in
every particular. The last he saw of
the cab or of the cabman was near the
house of the hook and ladder company
east of the French market. The driver
there said his horse was dead beat and
could do no more, so Philippes went
into the market, succeeded in getting
another cab by paying a big price.
slept at Cassidy's- waited all the morn
ing about Lascelles' place, and finally.
having to return to the northeast at
once, he took the evening train on the
jackson road and never heard of the
murder until ten days after. He was
amazed at his arrest.
And then came before his examiners
a mere physical wreck-the shadow of
his former self-caught at the high
tide of a career of crime and de-
bauchery. a much less bulky party
than the truculent Jehu of Mime. Las
celles' cab, yet no less important a
witness than the same driver. He was
accompanied by priest He had been
brought hither in an ambulance from
the Hotel Dieu, where he had been
traced several days before and found
almost at deaths door. His confession
was most important of all He had
struck Lieut.. Waring as that officer
turned away from Lascelles' gate, in
tending only to down and then kick
and hammer him. but he had struck
with a lcad-loaded rubber club. and he
was Mortified to see him drop like one
dead Then he lost his nerve and drove
furiously back for Bridget Together
they returned and found Waring lying
there as he had left him on the drip
ping banquette. You've killed him.
Mike. There's only one thing 20 do. .
she said: take his watch and every
thing valuable he has, and well
throw him over on the levee- "
She herself took the knife from
/ his oyercoat pocket, lest he should
recover suddenly, and then. said the
/ driver, even as we were bending over
him there came sudden fash of light
ming, and there was Lascelles bending
over Us, demanding TO know what If
meant Then like another fash he
seemed TO realize what was up, sprang
back and drew pistol. He had caught
us IN the act. There was nothing else
to do; we both sprang upon him He
fired and hit me, but only in the arm.
and before he could pull trigger again
we both grappled him. ] seized his