St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-08-09

(The pages which follow are from Miss
Fairbanks Journal, begun after the con-
clu,jou of the notes already given to the
reader)
Wednesday night have resolved to
record carefully each day the progress
! make In nus examination Of the house
! began to-day at the bottom that is,
with the room least likely to contain any
clue the paroP took chalk line and
yard stick and divided the floor into
square yards and every one of these
squares | examined on my hands and
knees found in this way literally moth
irS on the carpet but dust, lint, two com
mon white pins and three inches of blue
sewing silk.
At last ! got the dust-pan and brush,
and yard by yard swept the floor | tool;
the swocpings in a white pasteboard
box on into the yard in the strong sun
light and examined them. There was
nothing but dust and lint and five inches
OF brown WOODEN thread Violently
rayeliug from some dress material The
blue silk and the brown thread are the
only possible clues which | have found
to-day, and they are hardly possible.
Rufus wife can probably account for
them. have written to her about them.
Nobody has come to the house all day.
| went down TO the store this afternoon
TO get some necessary provisions, and
people stopped talking when came in.
The clerk took my money as if 1t were
poison.
Thursday night.-To-day have search
ed the Sittingroom, out Of which my
fathers bedroom opens | found two
bloody footprints on the carpet which no
one has noticed before perhaps because
the carpet itself is red and white. used
n microscope which | had in my school
work. The footprints, which are close
to the bedroom door, pointing out into
the sitting room. are both from the right
foot; one is brighter than the other, but
both are faint. The foot was evidently
either bare or clad only in stocking
the prints are so widely spread. They are
wider than my fathers shoes tried
one in the brightest print.
| found nothing else new In the sitting
room. The bloodstains on the doors
which have been already noted are still
enete iHvS Ia" io' peen washed away
nio' ~ 1 U,'ei VI ',Ie sheriff. ana next by
hiiHe; "'Se s'"'hS are OF Two Kinds;
one LOOKS look, as Il maze ny bloody gar
IN ~, ~ USING "E"'l,S' IT. 'he olher'
si"u'u say was iiade III the hfst place
by the grasp of Il bloody hand and then
brushed over with cloth. There are
none of these marks upon the door lead
Ing into the front entry and the chinn
.io''l' ne emma cloSe' Is really pan
~ "'""uEH use II only ior my best
u',,'S anu preserves
flday night To-day ! searched the
closet one OF the shelves, which is
ABOUT as nigh as my shoulders, was
bIoodstalhcd. 1t looked to me AZ If the
murderer might have caught hold Of II
to steady himself Did he turn faint,
hli"r ms dreadful deedt Some tumblers
OF Jelly were ranged on that shelf ana
they had not been disturbed, There was
only that bloody clutch on the edge.
| found on this closet door. under the
shelves, as if it had been rolled there by
careless foot, button, evidently from
a mans clothing. ii is an ordinary black
euamclcd metal trousers button; it had
evidently been worn off and clumsily
sewn on again, for quantity of stout
white thread is still clinging to if. This
button must have belonged either to A
single man or to one with an idle wife.
If one black button has been sewn on
with white thread another is likely TO be.
] may Ice wrong, but regard this hutton
as clue.
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