Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-12-19

doctor arrived the coldness Of thu body
and the rigor mortis were symptoms
quite compatible with death in the man
ner the tall passenger related. The Bit
ter coldness of the night, gaid DR.. Tru-
fit, would have led him to expect similar
appearances about the corpse even had
he arrived considerably earlier. Nor
did the doctors inspection of the scene
where the mutilated body had been
found suggest to him any want of rec
onciliation between that which he saw
and that which he had been told by Mr.
Gresswell. He saw no occasion, he
said, to conduct any necropsy before
the coroner's inquest was held.
Mr.. Yorke rapidly wrote out a guard
ed report of the incidents of the night,
scrubbed letter of instructions to
colleague in London, and prepared the
packet containing the two manuscripts
for carriage by the next train. His next
step was to telegraph toSuperintendent
James, the head of the railway COM
pany's police, to send down his
smartest detective. Upon the ar
rival of Inspector Waring events
began to move rapidly. Gress-
well, truculent and abusive, was ar
rested; the coroner was communicated
with, and post nortem examination
was ordered. The inspector, like the
journalist, felt confident that he was
upon the trail of diabolical murder.
But both, as events proved, were
wrong. They had discovered crime,
but it was not murder, as the post NOR
tenn examination subsequently proved
by showing that death had been due to
natural causes. The whole story came
out when the guard was arrested.
"Murder!" he repeated, wildly, when
the charge was made in the station
masters Office ut the terminus. mo,
before God, it wasn't murder. I'll make
clean breast of it, but don't think for
q moment that it was murder. Yes, I
know that what l am saying will be
taken down as evidence against me, and
I'm content it should be so. Listenl
Gresswell has been the curse of my ex-
istence. l once placed myself in his
power by a foolish act which committed
at his instigation. i have never since
been able to escape from him. dare
say l cut a pretty contemplate figure,
a hulking great chap like me trying to
lay the blame off on to an insignificant
looking fop like him. But he's got the
brain power, and he's got the whip
hand over me. He has always made one
feel that l might as well try and run an
express from London to Glasgow safely
with the signals against me all the way
as try and cut myself adrift from him.
gave him the slip in Brisbane, came to
England, and had worked faithfully
for the company and forgotten his evil
face almost, until one day met him near
the Elephant and Castle. 1 haven't
known a happy moment since. Gaol
will be relief, so long as it helps me to
keep out of his way. He was at me for
weeks before he could get me to consent
to go in for this thing with him. He
lent me book-I forget the title now,
but I've got it at home with his name in
it, to prove what say. 1t was about a
murder, and the agony of the murderer
when he came to dispose of the body.
He could not hit upon a satisfactory
way of getting rid of the corpse, and his
victim, who had never harmed him
when living, had his revenge when dead
by sending the murderer crazy. Gress-
well used to discuss this story with me-
He brought every conversation round
to the one topic, the stupidity of the
murderer in not seeing that the corpse.
so far from being in the way, was really
a valuable possession. He illustrated
this by saying that his wife was dying
rapidly, that he expected to maks
thousands out of her body. How? !
asked; and he went on to explain that
if he threw the body out of the train, and
proved that she fell out through the
company's negligence, there would be-
grand haul for compensation, to say
nothing of the sums to be got out of the
weekly papers which issue railway in
surance coupons. resented being
asked to join in this scheme. I told him
it filled me with horror. But he talked
me down. 1t was not SO much the
share of the gain he promised me. On
my oath it wasn't. But he seems to
have control over me. can't explain
it, but if he wanted to make me put my
arm on the line in front of a goods
train, believe he could do it. He said
there was nothing horrible in the affair,
that 1 was as sentimental as school
Cir, and them as far as the mutilation Ct
the body was concerned, his wife had al
ways intended to leave her corpse to
some hospital for the dissecting-room.
In short, the villain! he got me to agree
to be party to his scheme, and then he
hurried me along so fast that l could
never put the brake on. He got me to
explain spots where there were no
dwellings, and therefore no doctors, he
got me to lock the carriage for him, and
to give him the signal when the up ex-
press was approaching, and he got me
to prove that the carriage door was not
secured through negligence on the part
of the company's servants. He drilled
me thoroughly, and-well, you know
what's happened. Black and White.
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