Smyrna times., 1896-04-29

chop everything you've got into klndl-
ing wood but what I'll find it.
F'You fellers has got the upper hand"
he answered doggedly. Il take
heap of pride in my room and my fur
niture. It used to belong to my
mother, and she scrubbed it twice a
year and oiled in once a month, and
I've tried to do the same. You can
see Yourself it is as fine as piano finish.
She worked on it for thirty years, and
she made me promise to do the as long |
as [ live, and [ don't like to see 1t |
SCARED. When you tumble it about |
Law it on one of them thick cOmfOr-
! ters."
Do you know that made us feel aw-
full cheap? The furniture did have
| fine polish, and it wasn't dressing,
either-it was just the wood. And
still [ felt dead moral ure that he and
Mollie killed the man and his money
hid somewhere.
We next took Mollie's room, and
we treated it just the same; but we
didn't find thing except some sus-
piciOus looking ashes in the CRATE.
Whatever had been there had been
burnt in twentyfOur hours. MOll1e
said she burnt the papers from all the
rooms once a day and l guess that was
true.
We held them as long as we could.
The Swlnsens from Milwaukee came
on and helped in the search. They
offered the ten thousand reward; but
we finally gave it up. All the time l
knew in my heart that MOllle and Nell
were the guilty ones.
[ guess it was a year after that when
Ennerly brought Mollie and Neil to
the station and went back to their
room after the money, and brought the
full ten thousand, and q few dollars
over.
''HOw did you get on to it?" l
asked, feeling cheap.
He laughed and said,
$50 ask your wife. Ask her about
that queer dream she told me at my
house yesterday"
It was at dinner time, so l went
r home and asked Jennie to let me hear
[ that dream she had told at Ennerly's S
house the day before"
FThat one that scared me so badly?
Yes, [ shall never forget it.-You re
1 member l screamed out loud, and it
L made you so mad that you got up and
locked yourself in the front room, and
" slept the balance of the night on the
! lounge"
u "Well, we'll, on with the story. .
''What woke me was one man drag,
i ging another over the foot of bed
c and hitting him with hatchet. The
murdered man fell in a heap at the
foot of the bed, and a woman with long
e black hair stood with comfortable
e before her and threw it on top of the
, dying man, and she stood on one side
= of him, and the man on the other, un
U til he was still. Then they went
/ through his pockets and put him back
it on the bed. The woman dropped hel
Il handkerchief, and i'll STOPPING to get II
- caught her hair on a nail. 1t almOs
u frightened her to death, for shC
is thought for moment the dead man wa
I holding her. She tore herself ava!
:, from the nail and left a wisp of he
> hair there. Then all at once L los
u sight of her, and saw the man in an
other room, where there was som
RS nice furniture | seemed to know tina
% he had Just taken thorough bath AM
changed his clothes, burning the sui
he had first worn in the CRATE. Nov
lie he was folding paper money into httl
n wads with long threads to them, an
a. dropping them into deep holes bore
into the four heavy posts of his bed
u stead. When he had them filled up h
7u took all the long tnreadS ana Ileu IneI
t. together and poked them into th
,g holes, and then he glued on the fame
. tops. He wiped of, the glue, and rut
~ bed and polished his work until no on
Id could tell that it was fresh done. H
burnt up a handful of small bills
od Then he got two looking glasses an
:: and looked himself all over. He rul
us bed his face and hands ON the carpe
nd to take his excessively clean look OF
ok He had swept the ashes in the graf
.as into dust pan. These he examine
=: carefully and threw them from the vii
'lS dow, after turning out the gas. If yC
en- remember / tried to tell you my drea
next morning, but you stormed so tn
no never attempted to tell you a drea
,rf from that day to this"
,ot My wife had missed reading Il
To papers for about a week just at Il
he time of the murder, and as [ new
,at talk shop at home she had not heal
he the particulars of it and took her e
90 perience of second sight as an orc
mt nary dream.
IIv Ennerly was appointed Chief of ID
he tectives few months later, but
no gave me half of the ten thousand dC
lr6 lars. WGUerIey Magazine.