The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-11-10

It can't surpass that awful week
| When Dlcky had the measlesl
-Arna M Williams, in N. Y. Sun.
A TELL-TALE DICTIONARY
Words Painfully Marked in Bloc,
Solved a Murder Mystery.
On September II the inspector O
police at the Kensington road polio,
station was preparing to go home. i,
beng eight a. No.. and his nigh
| duty over, when he was stopped by al
| elderly woman, who rushed excited,
| into the room and cried:
20, do send some one, sir, to III
| Wernham road. MY poor old master.
| been cruelty murdered. He's lying ir
| his room in a pool Of blood like a river
| it must ave been done in the night
DO come at once, sir
On the way to Wernham road the in.
spector questioned the housekecper.
''"ho sleeps in the house besides
yourself and the old gentleman?' he
asked.
mot a blessed soul, sir" cried Mrs.
Masters. "Only me and my poor old
master. SIGH nice, regular man as
he was, comm 'one every night to lis;
tea. and always in bed by ten O clock
O, it's a cruel thing
Ibid anyone visit him last night
that you know of?'' asked the inspec-
tor.
mot that know of, sir, but to tell
carly last night, 'avin' bad alta cl< of
eadache. The old gentleman always
let 'inself in with is latchlSey, as he
naturally would. He come to bed after
I was asleep, for 1 never card i'm come
in.
Ellis supper was always laid out
ready for i'm in the dinin' room, and he
wouldn't want no waitin' on, SO there
was nothin' wrong in my bein' off to
bed as I did, 'avin', as I said, a bad
'eadache. aud bein' very subject to sick
'eadaches. which, as you may know,
Sir are very unpleasant, to say the
least OF them, and"
WAS the supper eaten?'' said the in
spector, interrupting the woman's elo-
quencc.
''Well. sir. to say the truth, I've not
thought of lookin'. Directly I see i'm
a lynn there off to the station as ard
as can go. I can't sleep in the place
tonight. That can't
BY this time they had reached the
spector and his man went in and locked
the door behind them. A knock was
heard at the door.
. Can 1 come in, sir?" said Mrs. Mas
ters.
Certainly" replied the inspector.
Open the door, Jenkins; we shall
want her, no doubt
Poor, dear man." cried the lady
lgain when she saw the body of the
I'D man. 1.-The monsters!' She burst
nto tears.
You had better go for n surgeon"
aid Mr.. Bevis to the constable. HE
'ught to see the body rs soon as pos
ible. as we shall want his report on
''While the man was gone the in
pector, accompanied by Mrs. Masters,
listed every room in the house.
was orderly and I'M
ouched.
1.-THE assassin must have left the
lace by the ordinary means Of egress.
ront door, Mrs. Masters told the in
pector, would no doubt have been uu-
olted in any case, for Mr.. Mayne cher
laster, the man who lay dead) never
olted it if he let himself in, leaving
er to do SO.
''They reached the ,dining-room and
,und that the supper had been eaten.
.maining only a small portion in the |
,mbler. The old man had evidently
ado q hearty meal and gone to his
ION.
The constable returned in half an ,
our with the divisional surgeon, Mr.
ROCKIES. That gentleman made a
i mute exarpination of the corpse, and
i'd that the cause of death was a
life wound in one of the veins of the \
Ugh. c
The old man must have bled to c
.ath. and the process of dying must a
I'VE been prolonged-he should have c
ID an opportunity of calling for help. Z
RS. Masters was certain, however, t
at he had not done so. 3
.'I'm a light sleeper, gentlemen" 4
e said, addressing the three men, e
d the slightest thing wakes me. If c
ID called out ut the door must have d
nd limits q certainty. t,
Quite So" said the surgeon. II q
We no doubt, my GOOD woman, that h
u are not at all to blame, but we y
all, of course, go further into the 81
ing at the inquest. At present there a
,ms nothing to show by whose hand a
. old man died" 4,
What's that book doing there said d
J inspector. ebruptly, pointing to | c,
which lay close to the old d
N. It was not beside him, but ON q h
Mir. just above his head. 81
= dicti0pasy 6DusSentl1s" said the Il