The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-17

| Hinton went over the facts again.
'.Do you know where the youns
lady is now9?"
eyes, but I must decline to tell yor
until know your reason for asking.
'sMy reason for asking! That's sim
pie anough: 1 wish to save you from
criminal prosecution.
We gasped: "What crime has been
committed?'
ssMurder -
ssMurder - we echoed aghast.
s'The handkerchief that lay beside
the dead man is found to have beer
saturated with chloroform.
'sGood heavens, Kennel, do you
think we carry chloroform about with
u.s."
ssYou are medical students.
Hinton and 1 stared in blank be-
wilderment.
sOf course you don't believe the
Young lady committed the murder, y
Kennel said, addressing Hinton.
GLOW on earth is such thing pos
sibie? She had her wrists handcuffed,
and muff on her hands,"
$50 much the worse for you. The
man is murdered, and the respon
sibility lies upon you two young men
and that young woman. OF course
I believe in your innocence, but that
counts for nothing. Your fate will be
decided by a jury, and not by me.
Now what is the evidence that will be
laid before them? One of you is founo
in a third-clsss carriage with the dead
man, and gives up frst-class ticket
from Slovenian, the station at viii CT
the policeman got into the train with
his prisoner. The other young man
gets the young woman out ofthe train
at Chorley, pays her fare, and whisks
her out of the way in fly. A hand
kerchief saturated with chloroform is
found beside the dead man, and you
two are medical students. What is the
presumption? That you, seeing this
attractive young woman put into
third-class carriage by policeman at
Slovenian, get into the same carriage
with her. The young woman fascin'
ates you and excites your sympathy.
On nearing Chorley the policeman
dozes, and one of you, intending,
possibly, only to prolong his sleep,
applies chloroform. The effect is more
serious than you expected, and while
one saves the young lady, the other
remains with the policeman to use
such means of restoring him to life as
your experience suggests. However,
YOU had better let me see this young
woman at once. If we can prove hel
guilt
'sThen you shall not see that young
lady," cried Hinton, in fierce fury.
eff you think I'm going to get out OF
the difficulty by shifting my response
bility onto the shoulders of a woman
you are in error!"
"Then you may prepare for twenty
| years of penal servitude," said Ken
net, brutally.
In all probability we should have
got the punishment, but for an event
| that never entered into our calcula-
TONS
The young lady with the iron brace
let had assured Hinton that in three
days or four at the outside she could
clear her character if only she was Sc
cured from misrepresentation in the in,
terval. The infatuated young man
sent her to his mother at st. Adams
with touching letter that appealed
to the old lady's sympathy-of course
she regarded her son as faultless in all
things. The young lady was treated
as an honored guest. The first thing
she did was to send kilograms to Lon
don.
The old lady seems to have been as
enchanted as her son by the lady OF
the iron bracelet, and at nighttime
they separated with affectionate re-
gard.
When the servants came down in the
morning they found the street door,
which had been carefully boited over
night, open, and the plate gone.
Later they found that the lady witt
the iron bracelet was missing also.
In the evening man was arrested
on suspicion Of having committed
the burglary. AT the examination
identified him as the navy had seer
in the carriage on the morning of the
murder. He was recognized by tbs
police as one of gang who, in con-
junction with young female O.
fashionable exterior, had been con-
cerned IN series of burgiaries, fol
which the young female had beer
apprehended at Slovenian.
The lady with the iron bracelet is
still at large, and I trust my frienc
Hinton may never see her again. fo1
nothing has cured him of his folly il
regarding her as the hapless victim O.
a diabolical conspiracy.