The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-02

of luxury with which a little smoking
table at the detectives right hand was
laden.
DIR. Maxwell wished to speak to you,'
or rather he wishes me to do so. You
have done the best you could to staVe OH
the inevitable, and you have other
claims which entitle you to be the first
one to hear the extraordinary history of
this crime which will now be laid before
you. In the first place, your brothers
body has been found again
"Where Is it?"
"In the back room of Capt. Henry
Thompson's undertaking shop where 1t
was taken by the captain at my direc-
tion last night. You see l was strictly
within the facts when | said / did not
remove it.
Here is another fact: OF course, 1t
seemed probable when the body was
found in this town, that it had reached
here in that coffin. but that is not rue
Medical examination has shown that
Edward Ames has not been dead more
than forty-eight hours.
"Fact No. 3-The mysterious person
who conveyed the body to the old Max
Maxwell is not the man. The mans
name was Ames."
"What?'
Edward Ames. In short, he walked
there. Those rubbers We're his. There
is no possible question about it. The
prints of nails in his shoes are to be dis
cerned on the inside of the rubbers.
Now how did this extraordinary thing
happen? Why there can't be two eX-
plantations. When a dying man goes to
a Doctors house why does he do it?
Because he knows he'll die if he doesn't
get treatment. You see Ned Ames
didn't know that d. Maxwell had
moved. He went there to throw himself
| on the Doctors mercy, and ask his help.
I'd like to see you find any other eXpla-
nation.
Perhaps you'll say that he might
have been simply seeking shelter. That
won't answer He had shelter, and |
know it, | worked Horace Riddles tip
down to that He saw Eddie in the
woods. Now, man can't live outdoors
in Maine at this season of the year.
Knowing that obvious fact l asked my
self, and also several other people who
We're better informed, what shelter there
was in those woods. And ! learned
about that hut Of spruce logs which you
and your brother built so long ago, but
built SO well that it's weather-proof
yet.
Il went there and found traces of
Eddie, but / didn't find him. Then
came back to town, and on my way-it
was then evening. for had waited some
time in the hut happened to see you
coming out of the old Maxwell house.
Then | went in, and you know what
found, in the first place, that you'd en-
tered by an upstairs window, which was
wholly unnecessary, for the lock of the
front door had been picked. BY whom? ?
Why, a child could answer that ques-
tion. Your brother was an adept at
picking locks.
why did he do it? Because he'd
rung the bell and failed to find anybody
He must have supposed that DR.. Max
well was out. He couldn't wait out
there in the snow. 1t was then ten
o'clock of Thursday night. i know that
by the condition of his footprint in the
substratum which was then forming in
to ice. He preferred to wait for the
doctor inside. He picked the lock; got
into the hall; fell on the floor and died
there.
You see he'd been sick of diphtheria
in Boston. He was getting a little the
best of it when he had to skip. The ex-
ertion and exposure We're too much for
him. He was dying in that hut in the
woods and he knew it.
Now, then, If he died in the hall as
the marks in the dust show me. how did
his body get into the cellar? Why. you
carried it there. Nobody else could have
done 1t. Nobody else had any motive.
Your motive was to throw suspicion on
DIR. Maxwell. How did you know that