The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-04
DIR. BACARACS CRIME.
A Very Strange Story Of Love and
Crime.

oetiO Vic -CyCA u0us
himself down in his seat till he rested
on the small of his back, and propping
his knee against the back of the seat
IL front of him. "It was Only by acci.
dent that embraced my present trade.
That is to say" no added. rubbing off
the ashes of his cigar on the window
sill Of the car window. and replacing
the cigar in the corner Of his mouth.
If there are any accidents"
He was about thirty-five years of age,
and looked like poet. He wore a soft
felt hat and a flowing neckscarf; his
hair was wavy, and his face oval and
sallow, with fne-cut features. His
forehead was high. with bul9 ing brows
For year past, on entering the smok.
ing car of the SIS train at my suburban
station, had found him sitting in the
Same seat, and had gradually fallen
into the habit of taking my seat beside
him Thus sort of acquaintanceship
had imperceptibly grown up between
us, but our conversation had never till
newshown any symptoms of becoming
personal
~'You are fatalist. tAen?" rejoined.
I'm detective" was hin reply.
''Ah, indeed?" said 7, much more as
ttonished than I saw At to show. He
Nas not like other detectives that
knew.
'''You arc a writer, think" he went
ON. mot that see any ink-stains on
your fngers-I judge you use the type.
writer; but have observed that a Ger.
tain kind of stories interest you-fhose
Involving peculiarities of human na-
tture reasapecially-8 there are other ia
'dicaSisns. One n8 the queerext Incl.
dents in my experience was the one
which led me @toadopt my present pro-
fession; and, since you have finished
ynurnevHpaper, I'll tell it 70 you, if
you would care to hearit
lit was this way: Out in the town
where lived a few years ago, there
was a-young marrici man and his wife
by the name of-wen. say Talbot He
WIS "a Junior partner in n wholesale
business. and she wns = very pretty
woman, but of ddInxte constitution
They kept thHmElvg tn themselves
mnte1clusiye 1t al, you understand.
hut just quietand retrine. They had
nD children, and au0nalnfiveB,fha over
heard Of. They pIiH their hills every
month, and went tDchurch every Sum
day. and that was about all they did DO
that We knew of. i was called in to
prescrihefor Mrs Talbot once, for an
attack of palFftation, and found them
very-nice 7penpie They had ono sery!
ant, who cdid Gsoking and general work
for them. IHu0uld say that DR.. Barz>-
racwas their regular physician; brf he
happened tn ds eemt of town that day,
SO they fell hzxik on me. Bacarac was
quite an eminant man, though he chose
to live away from New York. The
heart was his speciality.
About a month after my visit, Mrs
Talbot was very i'll again. and from
then on, for the rest Of the summer,
Bacarac was there nearly every d1y.
He told me once it was tho most Pc
culiar case he ever saw. To make 1t
short, he did all he could for her, but
she died. Talbot was in . terrible
state about 1t; remember thinking to
myself that he was Just the fellow to
kill himself on account of it One gets
such notions about people, you know.
However, the funeral took place all
right, and though he carried on pretty
bad at the grave, he didn't throw him
self into it; he went home. and / made
up-my mind he would pull through.
noticed that when Bacarac spoke to
him At the grsve-side he gave him a
look as savage as . atiger-which wasn't
right, for Baearac had done all man
could 20 save tho woman And. in fact,
next to Talbot himself he appeared
moro affected at the funeral than any.
one. 1t had no doubt been due to him
that she survived rs long as she did.
And have reason to think that he had
made no charge for his serviceA though
he was a very high.priced man ordi.
narily.
"Wen, Talbot ,shub himself up in his
house to nurse his Rriet 1t appeared
afterward that he had dismissed his
servant the same day, intending to
leave the town. Bacarac, the next
day, went of in hurry to visit pa
tient on the other side of New York
as he told me when I happened to meet
him on the way to the station. All
wss quiet for two days after that; and
then we had sensation.
LIT seems the baker had called twice
at the house. and had got no answer
when he rang tho hcll The house ap-
peared empty. He spoke Of it here and
there. and ono thing led to another.
until the folks began to suspect some
thing wrong. Finally. they fetched the
constable and opened tho door; and
there was q sight, sure enough Tai.
bot lay dead in tho sitting-room: that
was not SO surprising; but what took
cur breath away was tho fact that the
body Of his wife lay beside him. with
nothing but adozen yards Of black csm-
brio wrapped round it
1T knocked the Wits eqs Of every.
body at fzst; but by degrees ths only
possible ipierenne was acoeptea-that
Talbot had dug her up the night after
her burssa. had breaghs her heme, and
then had stabbed himself beside her
1t was faptastic and horrible; but there
were the faets, and no other hypothesis
would fs taem There was wound
through his hsarA and esEvingknife
On the fOoS near him. Bscarao re-
turned to town the same afternoon.
and was present at the inquest Incvef
saw Q man SO broken up as he was. He
made aa examination, and testified as
to the cause of death; examined the
body also The verdict, Of course, was
suicide while temporarily insane. I
walked home with Bacarac 4 wish to
God he SAID to ME, that had never
seen either OF them. That poo- fellow
had worked himself up to believe tnat