The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-24

~ q man ana woman. The Eaan -
woman may be your daughter ~ Z. hs
Dc the woman who / have ascer+-. --i1s
Saille 70 hainhiI 70 visit Williams al ~.
sister but who, have reason hi 80 -lls
was MS wife. Williams murdered NJ
III -delpolrne on last Christmas .-..-7
Almost before he had finished sr-sy-
Ats- Mather had tainted, and il -
WITHOUT some difficulty that Mr. -yt
ahC MIS- Pickering together manae---f .
revive ner. Then he told her an az 70
Knew. weaving the tangled seTar,s i.at lle
formation together into as consiste1,. M
whole as possible. But there were y. -,
some terrible gaps TO be filled up SIN
Mind you. 1 do not believe tba+ Z.
your daughter who has been nurdarll.s
salu A!F. Lowe arguing against his an,
that his real wife who visited Nm "fao.e
al Dlnham Villa, followed him 10 IA
bourne and that when she made herseis
known TO him there. and reprOached L;l-
Tor his desertion, he took her life ann
II was a plausible hypothesis. and d.
10 ~ PfIceisss value Just then, for Il
ShdDleq Mrs. Mather TO hope. With DE-.
hopes her strength revived and. uuio-.,'
ing an old-fashiOned secretaire. she 80
out all the letters written by Emily Rr-tIIA
er since her marriage. and also 1ort-.-s.i-
OF both the bride and bridegroom Stts
a little persuasion she handed the letiars
and portraits 10 Mr.. Lowe, who desirs5
10 take them to London and get fbara1
copied, receiving in return an assursr,tt
Ihat they would be safely guarded and
given back uninjured.
Now, you must tell no one what bs,o
told YOU" said Lowe as he tool, bis
leave. It IS absolutely necessary thar
you preserve the strictest secrecy All
the old lady, terrified and full of ,-ae"a
mlsgivings, pledged herself to silence
Wnen Mr.. Lowe took his seat in th, ~,
express for London he had good reasoSS
TO congratulate himself upon his ~
work. He had succeeded beyond bis
most sanquine authorizations ana ~ ~
made his position secure by cIosine ' re-
door completely against subseouent ir
quirers Ior information: Not only had he
one living individual capable of givi-g
positive Information about the murdaras
but he had swept off all the letters and al
the portraits as Well-that is 10 SAL III
the documentary evidence and ali ~
means of Identification. After rihina tbo
treasure chamber he had locked the do5r
and left with the key in his pocket
Next morning the Argus AWAY IN o..
other side of the globe, published an IN
terview three-quarters of a column iong
with the mother of the hapless Janoa19
shire girl whose remains had been d1,
up few days before from the cenantc3
grave In the house at Windsor. 1t was fbs
hrst or series of, perhaps, the most ~
markaDle coups ever known in the his
tory of Australian journalism
Backward and forward between Lon.
don and Liverpool went the restless NJ
Lowe, collecting and piecing together IL
the travelled ends Of hearsay, all the tang.
led strands of inference, all the stray
nDres OF circumstaStial and direct egi
dence, until he had a rope that was s+roo-
enough to hang a man. And yet ne was
only at the commencement of his task
II was strange how that other women
the sister, or, more probably the Vyifs -
Williams who had visited him at RainbGi
with her four children, kept on intrudms
into Mr.. loves busy brain, ne could dn3
no trace of her wherea bouts. She ana
her four children were like so many mn
quiet ghosts that refused to be laid until
they We're avenged.
As this last thought struck him Mr.
Lowe lifted his hand to his forehead and
found found II wet, He was sweating from
A vague idea came to him. staid with
nun, and finally possessed him. He bur
RED from London to Rainhill once more
ana hunted out Ben Young, the man who
mad cemented the floors of the Kitchen
structions from Williams.
Where did you get the cement from
Sen! was the first eager question.
1t Wuf IN the cooch 'ouse," said Ben
,, 10 the coachhouse accordingly they
Went and sure enough they found there
tnIee empty barrels which had evidently
contained cement.
81, Did, you use all the cement out of the
three barrels?" asked Mr.. Lowe
Nav" said Ben Young.
How much did you use. them For
re- rs sax sake, hurry up my good man.
Ben Young collected his thoughts de-
nDerately. "A laaid doom tina stooff GOT
irri taG t sIoywn 9arls he replied with
a6oot this ere other wonn. 1t wur empty
afoor got tina job
ed Mr.. Lowe, with the ring of a Strength
ening conviction in his voice s'Tben
what what became of the cement from that
The village plasterer wagged his head
Slowly from side to side, but never a
word spake he. Mr.. Lowe might as well
nave asked him what had become Of the
SHOWS of yester-year
Then great light flashed in upon the
amateur detectives brain, illuminating
al that was black a moment before and
sllhoueting in the sharpest outrages OBJ
Jects Wnlch up to that moment had been
wrapped in darkness. When the line-Of-
battle-ship shows her mighty searchlight
every detail of the torpedo boat stands
revealed, painted in black upon disk Of
binding white.
Where the missing barrel of cement
Is tnere shall find the missing woman
also, said Mr.. Lowe, half to himself AMI
darted off to submit his ideas to Sergt.
Chipchase, the local constable with whom
ne at once concluded an offensive and de-
IensiVe alliance against the outside world.
Sergt: Chipchase laid the facts before
the district superintendent, an official
named Kelly and the digging then began
IN Dlnham Villa under Mr.. loves d.
rection, a digging the result of which
most gruesomely verified the calculations
winch that farsighted individual had
worked out. And so it was that this
Childe Roland to his Dark Tower came.
our sweating constables armed with
pickaXes carried out this strange eXhu-
nation. Under the stone floor of the
kitchen they came upon the cement from
came upon the bodies of a woman and
-FOUR children. The woman and three OF
the children had their Threats cut from
ear to ear and the fourth child had been
strangled with a piece Of clothes lina
winch was still around its neck.
MT. Lowe had an unusually interesting
cable massage to send to the Argus IN
Melbourne that afternoon, and in just
week from the day on which he received
his first Instructions he sent a complete
report of the murders which he had been
mainly instrumental in discovering, and
with which all England was ringing some
&0urs later.
When the story of the Rainhil murders
was published in the Argus alone of an
the Melbourne papers next morning, AZ
bert oliver Williams, alias Frederlck
BAILEY Deeming, was already on his way
from Southern Cross in custody. II th9
Windsor charge broke down. the Ranhul
case would hang him safely enough.
-. "Ah! Mr. Lowe, glad to see you" SAD
Supt. Shore next day. stretching out ms
hand cordially to his visitor Let me
congratulate you upon the smartest piece
Of detective work that has been done III
England for many years"
Chicago passenger say. conductor