The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-12

work. OF course, there was great excite
ment in the hotel and in the entire town,
and the police made the most diligent
efforts to find some clew upon which to
act, but their efforts were entirely flu
tile, and beyond one or two suspicious
circumstances and a detention Of one or
two suspects, nothing could be done, and
the affair is now merely awaiting its own
solution, unless, by a strange fatality,
or whatever you may. call 1t, l am in
possession Of the true facts in the case.
Among the most active in the search
for the murderer was my partner, that
kind of work being in our line, and my
partner being one of the most skiltul in
such work that i have eVer. known, and
have known them all. Since the muir
der he has been devoting some or his
spare time to unraveling the case, but
entirely on the quiet, and recently he has
been giving his nights up to II. Ten DAYS
ago when l retired on Monday night at
II, left him porting over diagram , OF tme
lance marked in red ink. Al 1 o CLOCK
was awakened by a noise in my partner
room, which adjoins mine, and called 10
Receiving no answer to several calls,
l went in to see what was wrong ana
found him on his hands and knees IN ms
bed clutching the bolster under him ana
apparently choking the life out OF "
II was so ludicrous that i iaIrly snoute9,
but he kept on at his work, ana theh II
occurred TO me that he was asleep. /
soon found that he was, and, after con-
siderable shaking, ] got him awake. Then
we both had laugh over II, ana mace
him go to bed, after a lecture on nerves
and the nervous system and the necessity
of proper rest. Two nights later he was
doing the same thing again. snd 10 a hre
mide and sent him to bed before l re-
tired. t.e..
I did and he was snoring, peacefully when
I turned in. 1t was well, too, for we had
received two important commissions, ana
we needed all the strength we mad TO car
A. To a a ahOUT
Q o'clock / was awakened by heavy
weight, as / supposed, falling on me, ana
I Thought / was dreaming, but in an in
slant / knew that somebody was at my
throat and that / had some fighting TO
do or I would be a dead man. 1t was as
dark as pitch in the room, and had no
idea who my assailant was, but | did
know he had me at a great disadvantage.
and the first thing | did was to twist
my throat out of his clutches and yell
'And how i did yell; once, twice, three
times and then suddenly the hands, feel
ing for my throat, relaxed and right
over me Toms voice, stammering and
half awake, came, with: ''Wh-wh- VIII
what do you want? Is that you, Fred?
ed and began swearing at himself like a
pirate and went back to his own bed
and | heard him snoring within ten min
utes But there wasn't any snoring for
for me. 1 was doing some tall thinking.
And the conclusion of it was that my
partner is on the chase for himself in that
hotel killing. I'm sure ne Killed the man
in his sleep, and killed him because, as
it happened, the doors of the other rooms
were locked, and he simply wandered into
the first room he could get into. l know
it, but l cannot tell him my suspicious,
and 1t would do no good If 7 did, for
he doesn't know anything of K: and
there l am. Now, what would you do?
The law can't send him TO the gallows,
the penitentiary or the lunatic asylum,
for he has committed no crime, and I'll
swear he isn't crazy. So what is to be
done?
yours in grave doubt"
The Star writer is no expert in matters
of this kind, but as a suggestion he would
suggest that this peculiar somnambulist
have a time lock put on his door set to
open at 8 a. M, when everybody in the
house is up and able to defend himself.