The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-20

her former conclusion was only rendered
more certain, and tho calmness into
which she quickly relapsed appeared to
be the consequence of resignation to the
will Of God.
Meanwhile the officer had intimated
that the paper was to be preserved and
taken up to the Office in the morning,
with any explanation that could be Civ
en- Of it. He then went away, and late
as the hour was we resolved upon seek
ing out Mcpherson to ascertain from
his own mouth the true circumstances
connected with the finding of the ex-
traordinary paper. We accordingly
went to the Cowgate, and having found
the man, who was on the eve OF going
to bed. proceeded with our examina-
ton He adhered strictly to what he
had stated in the bailies' Office, nor had
he any more to communicate, but we
derived thus much from our visit that
we became satisfied the man was honest
and was not accessory to any trick or
deception whereby some one might have
been supposed TO have taken advantage
Of the public fermentation to infuse
new interest into what was already suf-
iiciently engfossing. Girvan took the pa
per home with him, and we parted with
tho hope Of getting some more light
next day.
The light certainly did not come, but
there was now more official inquiry as
well as energy. Girvan, at an early hour
Of the forenoon, took the blood stained
paper to the bailies' Office and found
that the assessor was so much impressed
with the strangeness Of the whole story
that he had resolved upon handing 1t
over to the fiscal Nor did he fail in
this, as soon appeared by a wall bill
which, about o'clock, glared in various
parts of the city to the effect that
whereas q paper ON which was written
the following words (quoted) had been
found on the High street Of Edinburgh.
@ reward of f6 would be given to the
person who had written the contents OF
the said paper assuming it doubtful
whether Angus Macgillivray was the
MANI, II he would come forward and
give testimony a. to the object or mean
ing thereof, or to any person who would
| give information tending to show where
the person Of Duncan Macgillivray, dea-
con Of the hammermen, could be found,
| whether dead or alive Nor did the fis-
cal limit his official duties by this proc
lamation, for about O'Clock he COM
menced q precognition of all parties who
knew anything regarding the affair,
among whom were the deaconess (who
was, in consequence of her weakness,
taken to the Office in o sedan chair,
Mra Angus Macgillivray, Mcpherson.
Girvan. myself and the individuals who
had seen the missing men ON the day Of
their disappearance
But nothing came ont Of the bill or
the precognitions tending toward any
theory sufficient to stay the mind or in
duce belief, il we except a statement
made by young man, a clerk in the
coach Office, opposite which the blood
stained paper had been found. He went
forward in the afternoon and was pre-
cognosced by the fiscal to the effect that
ON the day of the disappearance he saw
two men whom he did not know mount
the coach Just when it began to move,
and without having time to pay their
fares, which they probably calculated
upon settling at the other end Of their
journey.
One OF the men, who was stouter and
fatter than the other, got inside, and
the other, Immediately upon perceiving
the movement, sprang up behind He
observed no concert between the two,
yet he felt satisfied that the one had re-
solved to go after he saw the other about
to take his seat. 1t was only after he
heard description of the two Macgilli-
vrays that he began to think they were
the men whom he had observed When
this story came to be known, 1t was
conveniently found to agree in some re-
spects with the history Of thepaper. Az
suming that the men seen by the clerk
were really the two brothers, it seemed
probable that the deacon was he who
went inside, probably called upon to
undertake the journey OH short notice by
some business emergency, and that An
gus, who was prowling about, had seen
his brother in the act of entering the
coach, had suddenly formed resolu.
ton to dog him into the country and
there wreak his revenge at distance
from Edinburgh.
This sudden purpose seemed probable,
because IL there had been any concert
between the two to travel together
Angus would have gone inside also,
where, according to the clerks state.
ment there was plenty Of room
for him. So far ingenious and Ger.
tainly in the circumstances not improb.
able. Then, as to the paper, what more
likely than that IL should have come
with the returned coach, having been
sent by Angus when upon the eve OF
fight after committing the deed and
bearing the marks of bloody fingers? AS
for the motive for thus proclaiming his
r4villainy, the most difficult element in
the whole story, 10 might have been
Cwhat might not be when the mind i:
predisposed to find that it is0 the wild
act of n bravado, glorying, as Mrs. Mao
gillivray herself expressed it. in his re-