The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-16
PART II.
AN ORDINARY. EVERYDAY DE-
TECTINE.


Sell l-satlsfaction was ihe only strong
emotion, mat hau ever seen III S,ai
bridges face up to- that moment. That
expression had learned 10 recognize
ana ! could even draw SAFE inferences
IRON the degree OF It's manifestation.
lSut II was d new race tnat ne wore as
he stood beside the DOdy or wizard
t1aVis.' l could not read II. Yet II !
hau Deeh compelled 10 40 my pest !
should nave saiu that ne was tortured
by uesoairlhg soffoW, Whoiiy seiIsh,
absolutely unmiXed with any human
sympathy Tor the man whose aWtui ehd
We had hoth witnessed.
could really understand that the
death or my uncle was Il terrible DloW
to Stalbridge, whose dearest schemes
were dependent upon ms patron; ana
! could eNpect hothing better OF the
man than that he should think ol NM
self alone, even In the presence ot so
ierrible tragedy.
stabbed to the heart. ! cried bend-
Ing over the BODY. Who could nave
done TINS
Stalbridge motioncd toward the door.
Gel heip, ne salu hoarseiy'
Al thls moment a'poy Ill the JahltoT
employ looked into the room ana. at
the sisht or the corpse. heu III terror.
crleu OUT ai'rr MN that .he Poiise
ihust ot summoned Una, Nj. laws
no Deeh ihuturreu' hu INA. .he "S
sassiii iiau esed!eu oS 'iie wIluom' ~
Is uoup.iui Whe'ne' 'ae ',Is,''e'.u , 10y
h'alu me "',u' "s ma -, ,i;.
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,ha, on,,,,ona.I n vi.w nr tho ,.n,,rt
,n,, whinh ~ wo. NJ onca sunnoscd
,hat ~. ,,nrIe,.,. had ,.an.d
hna,i thn inni.nr coII tn some one
+o e,,n,nnu - nnliccmon from the street
and uIsn tn ,ino an anIu,ance call
hj.anwh,I. IN. clerks from th.. Union
Offices had nour.d out. and had gath
cred about the door of the room where
the body Law. | stood on the threshold
and warned everybody to keep outside
saving that nothing in the room must
be disturbed Within few minutes
a policeman arrived and took my place
at the, door, repeating the orders had
given, and backing them by the display
Of his authority.
There was only one person in the
crowd that made any trouble. lie was
a tall dark -visagrd fellow. whose ap-
pearance as we'll as his voice suggested
Italy as his native land. ] could not
fully understand what he was saying.
hut il seemed to contain an intimation
that the fate which had ov-rtaken my
uncle was just. l thought the man
a crank with anarchistic tendencies.
and paid no further attention to him.
'"rherell be central office man
down here pretty quick" said the po-
llctman. "Ivc told the janitor to tele-
phone to headquarters. We must keep
the crowd out till then"
We succeeded without difficulty. No
body was admitted but the ambulance
surgeon. who had been summoned. and
Vice President Rodney. of the Union
lines, who was too important person
10 he excluded.
Stalbridpe. meanwhile. had remained
standing like statue beside my un-
cle's dead body, gazing down at il. He
did no. move when the ambulance sur
g.on knelt to make his examination.
II was quickly done. and he disturbed
AS jitile MS p0ssible the position of the
corpse
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