The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-05

''PATnER Is MURDERED IN NED"
whether Phoebe looked palor-sho is al
ways very pale-but saw In her black
eyes a look shall nayer forget. think
she began to suspect me at that mo-
ment.
PhGbe glanced back at Maria, but
she asked me another question. "Has
he had words with anybody" said she
"Only with Rufus" l said, "but Ru-
tas IL gone" Phoebe turned away from
the window to attend to Malta, and !
ran on TO the village.
A hundred people cau testify what /
did mexican tell how | called for tho
doctor and the deputy sheriff; how !
went back to my own home with the
horror.strickon crowd; how ihoY locked
In and looked at poor iathOr-but only
the doctor touched him, very carefully,
to SEQ II he were quite dead how tue
coroner came, and all the rest.
Tho pistol was in the bed beside
father, but it had not boon firnt; the
charge was still In tho barrel. 1t wRs
blood.slAinOd, and there WaRono bruiss
on fathers head which might have
been iRalctel By the pistol, used as q
club. But the wound which caused his
death was in his breast, and made evi.
IDENTIFY by some cutting instrument,
though the cut was not clean one; tho
weapon must have been dull.
They searched tho house, lost tho
murderer should be hidden away.
hoard Ruius BENEFITS name whispered
by one and another. Everybody seemsl
to know that ho and father had h ID
words the NIght before; | could not un.
dorsiand irDw, because | had ted no.
body except Phoebe Dole, who had had
no timc to s2road the nnws, and was
cure that no ono ol'o had spoken Of IT,
They looked In tho closet whore my
green silk dtota hung, aad pushed Il
aside, to be BurO nobody was concealed
behind 1t, but they did not notice any.
thing wrong about It. II was dark In
tho clo'ot, and, besides, they did not
look for anything ike that until later.
All these pnopIe--ihG deputy AhcrIG,
aud Afterwards tho high sheriff and
other oui.oi.lown officers for whom they
had sent, and tho neighborI-all hunt.
ID their own suspicion, aud that WA
Rufus Bennett. All bslieyol that hO
had como back ami killed my father.
They A.,ed all tho ihois tn that boiief.
They made him do tho deed with a
long, slender sctewhriver which lio had
recently borrowed from One Of tho
noighBora and had not returned. They
i4hdG his ingermnrka, which WerO Biill
on my fathers throat, H. tho rod prints
on the sittin2.room door. Thoy unda
sure that hO had returned and stolen
into the house by tho east phoI door,
whilO father and eat on tho doorstOpa
tho evening before; that no had hidden
himself away, perhaps IN that very
closet whUrO my drOsi hung, and inter.
wards stolen out mud killed my father
and then escaped.
ThCy worO not BlRkon whom told
thom Ihs. every deer waa boIteh md
barred that morning They themselves
found all tho windows fnslOnud down,
except u Tow which wcro opun on 40.
count Of tho heat, and avon thaAa last
w0to raised only tho width Of d sash,
and fastened with sticks, an that thoy
could bo raised no hiahcE ltnLhor was
worry cautious about fastening tlr
honao, Tor hO sometimes had consider.
RhIo Huns 81 money by him. Tho olllcatl
saw all these dllliCuliloN In tho way
but thaY lifted thUln somehow 10 thar
thHofy, ani twn hnpnty ahOrItta wore
al once sent TO npprohond Rufus.
Thoy hal not begun to au1pscl ina
then, and not thu sllghlcaL watch VIVA
k0pt Oh INV mnvaln,nla. Tho HaIal,,
bots were very kind, aud It'd evNryihnl
u help lnp, relieving mN altogether NJ
nll those last offices lin lhiq unSa mncIl
nnldpr than usual.
Az inquest Nni hold, hnl | told irre
" nIl ! know, except about lllo blood
btaing on my drcSB. / hardly knOw
why kept that back l had no feeling