The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-09
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A STORY OF JEALOUSY,
How the Writer of Anonymous Let
ters Was Discovered.
From the Chicago Record.

This is story of jealousy. Moreover 1t
is true. 1t is so true that certain persons
who live in a certain town in certain
western state will learn by reading it the
reason for the mysterious abandonment of
the criminal action of the state against
Drummond.
The story was told by Chicago lawyer
whose name may be called Jones. The
only other names worth considering in
the case are those of Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
and DIR. Drummond Howard was a
wealthy druggist and he had quarreled
with DrummOnd, who was a man of great
social prominence. The quarrel was bit
ter and the men became Vindictive in their
enmity.
And Drummond knew that Towards
wife was a jealous woman.
One day Howard, returning from a bus
mess trip east was met by his wife with
fearful reproaches. The druggist under
stood readily enough what that meant. For
years the thing had been growing worse
and worse. But she had never accused
him before. He was indignant and de-
manded her reasons for such conduct
Generalities, he declared, would not suf-
fice-he wanted the specific charge and her
basis for it.
He need not have been so earnest about
it. She had the reason plainly to hand.
1t was an anonymous letter which, with
great Enthusiastically, went into an al
legged history of Towards absences, and
what was really back of them. Now, to
few wives would an anonymous letter at
lacking the good fame of their husbands
be counted as worth considering. But
Mrs. Howard was exceedingly jealous,
and although Howard was able to dis
| prove the slanderous charges very readily
il made him feel none the less aggrieved.
He declared he would hunt out the au-
thor of the calumny and square accounts.
The letter itself offered little assistance,
for it was the scrawl of disguised hand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard talked the mat
ter over fully, and they tried to assist
one another to locate the guilty writer.
Before they had hit upon an idea Howard
was called away again. He came back 10
find another letter and hysterical Wl1e
awaiting him. This made him furious
He cudgleed his brain to find an enemy
capable of such base action, and like an
insDiratio the name of Drummond came
to him. He told his wife his opinion and
she assented to it. She even recoHected
that Drummond once in the days before
the quarrel had remarked to her uhat II
he wanted to punish a man particularly
he would make his wife jealous. Tnat 10
his mind would be a Keen anu nalls iial'
kind of vengeance.
TheN, MANNED. The letters continued to
come. now being received by Mrs. Howard
even when her husband was IN the Guy
Howard came home one evening, and' nnu-
ing another of the documents IN ms WIe
possession, he declared that they now hau
a chance to see if Drummond was OF was
NOT the guilty party Drummond would
hi,oseIf he ont of town, and If the sequence
of the letters was broken the thing WouIo
be plain. u,, ,,rolr
Tine sequence was, surely enough, oroK-
on and no epistoatory accusations against
the druggist came until the doctor was
back again. ..o T. CO
The only thing now was to prove 1t; %
the husband appealed to Lawyer Jones.
AZ Howard brought to the attorney the
letters which had been preserved, anu ne
insnecting them and learning oil the
Grounds for their suspicion of DrumhoHu,
CONQUERED with them in the Dellel tndl
fine physician was the guilty party;
naner he noted was OF speclai a.
There was neither water marx nol u-.i,
10 ~ Anparently the doctor had plailheu
~. 90 ro,1aign very carefully But Lawyer
Tones was considerable of an amateur ue
tective and this case moved him 10 pdttel
10 b-oi, for a convincing means OF ca'on-
iaa, tbe criminal. He took one of the sheets
ana went to a local wholesaler Vi P.pSTt'
ana succeeded in matching IL accui ~" 49,
Then he caused the paper dealeI " str,n
slender strip off the outer edge-d s'lp
s,.s,,oh WAS about one-thirty-secohd Oh an
'ncb wide at it's top and probably oIe 81
.non+b az the bottom. Every sheet was
so cut. 80, 4,oso strins and
"a mt the paper in the doctor ; ue
tben when the next letter came " ~
the strip against the edge-and tnei0 'N0
malefactor would be. - otraadv
or course, the attorney hau ar 80
spent money i'm the purchase Oh 'n' e00N
will of the doctors office BOY. 49,,
5rhis naner idea was the lawyers PIT
waite nlan. and he told nobody ABOUT 1t.
He aid not wish Howard TO know py wtn
means the villain was uncovered uhtH
the uncovering time should come TO pass
Then. with some dramatic force the us
closure should take place. me paper va
put in plain view on the doctor uesh,
for the attorney reasoned tnat y amg
stealth were attempted the clever rogue
would notice IL and would be alarmed 1
had neglected to say that a search OF
the doctors office by the gold-infected Oh
fee boy had failed to reveal any OF the
anonymous" paper. The doctor was no
such fool.
A day or two later Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard came again to the office of Attorney |
Jones. Howard, you must know, was De-
coming monomaniac on the subject OF
these letters. His inability TO get the !
proofs OF the Doctors commission OF the |
crime was burning his heart out The |
very cleverness of his enemy Infatuated /
him. The Towards brought another let
ter. Mrs. Howard handed over the pack
age comprising the whole series OF tra- |
ducing misslves thus far received The |
lawyer placed them on his desk while he
attempted to paclfy Howard and to give