Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-06

~ secretly removed it from the pris-
Oner's pocket"
the moon came out But it may lave
fallen on the other side of the bed. and
moved gradually toward her for half an
hour before it touched her
Thus. we do not know how long her
brother had been in the house. We do
not know that it the from. door which
the girl heard to shut 1t may have been
the library door closing behind the muir
derer. who, after quarrel with his father
had struck him down.
But the motive?"
rs there no connection between this
crime and the series of robberies that have
last year.: demanded Preble. Suppose
that the prisoner was the highwayman,
and that his father learned of it,
That is only guess
rs it? Then listen to this witness -
II was sergeant of police who took the
stand. He testified that in company with
two policemen, he had searched the Nor
riSon house
articles which the coroner would find in a
package upon his desk.
Inc coroner opened the package and
the witLess identified the contents There
were Two gold watches, some scarf pins
and other jewelry of small value and two
empty pocket books
The watches and some of the jewelrv
lad been Identified as belonging to nor
sens Wfo hd been wayiIid and robbed on
Brent road during the past year The
booty was found in a closet connecting
with VIII MorriSonS room
That '. as the substance of the sereaant,s
evidence and Preble eyed me ouestioninglv
after it had been presented
~ yoh want to know what l think vet"
s san l. "a few words will tell you / think
It's fake. It's plant. The m,,rCere
put 1t there after the crime to throw, sus
plclon upon Morrison. Look ut the stufr
Unless the thief was a lunatic would he
house? Nonsense
agree with you," said PrebIa
AS the witness left the stand, a police
man forced his way through the crowd to-
maiu US he was conducting a thin and
salloW little man, who, from the peculiar
stoop in the shoulders, the shane Of bis
bands and the stains upon them, seemed to
De cohber. Preble was evidently very
Eau Eau 10 see MIN. After motioning the cob
pler to seat, he whispered TO me:
Look a. Dunning."
. turned my gaze quickly toward tho
star Witness" He staring at the
rose from his seat 'i
Out OF the corner of my eye saw PrabIe
max a sign to the coroner. The official
rouuen knowingly. and Immediately sum
He took a number of parcels out of a haI
pds' Whlch had been guarded for him b,,
an oiiCer, ana passed them uD to the cor
o th Jnst before assuming his place in
RI a la
contained other exhibits In the "a "a "a
l strongly suspected that they might ha
booty. 'oau ropper
There was no attempt to question pro,,,
aIter the usual Introductory formula .rhe
course Of his ties timony was LEFT r. ne He
own discretion iei' " Ills
!. After the arrest of William Morrison, ~,
sne Jay following the murder, and in con-
sequence OF certain rumors relative to hi
pio1apie de1e nse, which had reached no,ics
cesa rters, l was detailed upon this
had already been gathered was I',,t mat
POSSES possessicn, and 1 obtained the custody OF
certain articles found by the police ana
ot aamo IN the Morrison house. 1
Ahohs these articles were tho oar. 30
black wood spoken of by a nra,;o nahe ot
~ n'ss; ana also the fragments found NV hi,,
III the IataI wound upon the heal oe ~
t tto rms fragment rcsernbled CLOSELY
lne exceedingly hard wood Of the cans S.
upon careful examination | disroveraS put
me material was not wood mn i'm r.
could not. therefore. kaye come frop, -. ~
ca,, e.. ' "n,Gn mad no iron about it: and.
consequently. the cane could not have haa,,
the weapon that made Inc wound ;, 'eeh
IL VIII be readily understood that Att,
teslmoly made considerable stir AZ No
Lhentloh OF any other weapon had banD
made i'll the case ar element re rr,,,. uesn
vas thus introduced. If the real weonon
had been carried away by the mur6erar -
VIII" :@rh p s, strong point for viii Morrison.
nod
been painted black. In spite of hat fnot
IL had oxi1ized considerably, showins Ihot
II ~ haa been long exposed to the action OF
the ar. L was inclined to think aIso fro..
microscopic and chemical invavti,,i - oii ~
us structure. that it had been eynosed 70
.ie medtneT. IL was not the sort of iron
1hat IS used In any implement with which
am familiar. l thought it was AaLa
from some ornamental iron work, and The
idea Of fence suggested itself to me-
ABOUT flfty yards beyond the Morrison
mousse. as one proceeds from Waverley
avenue. there is an iron fence in front ~
the grounds Of DIR. Bishop. 1t is about es
high as mans shoulde-. One end Of #
rests against the side of DR.. Bishops sta
ose; ~, "nicn projects little beyond the line
or the property as marked by the fence.
Beginning at the wall Of the stable I ex-
ahmed this fence carefully with micro
scope: l found a projecting point ON the
from the wall. where a few drops of blood
and some minute portions of the skin of
human being were adhered to the iron.
Upon measuring the projection. and
previously taken Of the wound in Douglass
Morrisons temple, 1 found an accurate
correspondence.
"On the ground beside the fence at this
point ] found confusion Of footprints.
There were three different kinds of prints
One of them corresponded with the shoes
worn by Douglass Morrison that night
The other two closely resemDled each other.
the only difference being that the light
foot In enc case showed loss of part of
the heel-one lift as shoemaker would
say. The ends Of the nails thus exposed
had made very plain marks in the soil
which is stiff clay, very well suited to
the preservation Of such Impressions.
The most accurate measurements con-
WINGED me that there was but one man
concerned In the making Of those foot
prints except Mr. Morrison. That man had
struck his heel against fagstone of the
sidewalk and had knocked OF the last lift
after which. Of course. he made a different
track.
ut was easy to see that a struggle of some
sort had taken place at that spot. In the
course Of that struggle Mr.. Morrison had