The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

about it, I" said, "and if you keep your
tongue from wagging you need fear
nothing "
With this and few other hurried
words of comfort l soothed her and has
tened away
For l had interesting work on hand.
1t is not often that one may be in such
a murder as that. l ran to a livery sta
BILE, secured swift horse, mounted him
and spurred furiously for the reserva-
ton. The hack, with its generous start,
had gone far ON its way, but my horse
was nimble, and his legs felt the prick
ing of my eagerness. A few miles of
this furious pursuit brought me within
sight of the hack just as it was crossing
a dark ravine near the reservation. As
l came nearer imagined that the hack
swayed somewhat and that a fleeing
shadow escaped from it into the tree
banked farther wall of the ravine. l
certainly was not in error with regard
to the swaying, for it had reused the
dull notice of the driver. l saw him
turn, with an air of alarm in his action,
and then pull up with heavy swing
upon the reins. At this moment dashed
up and halted.
Anything the natter" / asked.
II don't know, he answered, getting
down. II felt the carriage sway and I
see that the doors wide open. Guess
my load thought he'd sobered up enough
to get out and walk without troubling
me or his pocketbook 3"
Meanwhile 1, too, had alighted. Then
l struck match, and by its light we
discovered through the open door the
load huddled confusedly on the floor
of the hack, face upward and looking
altogether vulgar, misshapen and miser-
ably unlike soldier 1t neither moved
nor spoke when we called. We hastily
clambered within and lifted him upon
the seat, but his head rolled about with
an awful looseness and freedom, and
another match disclosed a CHASTITY dead
face and wide open eyes that stared hor-
ribly at nothing.
You had better drive the body to
headquarters, . said.
Instead of following cantered back
to town, housed my horse and went
straightway to bed, and this will prove
to be the first information that was
the mysterious man on horse" whom
the coroner could never find.
About year afterward received the
following letter-which is observed to
be in fair English-from Stockholm:
DEAR SIR-For some years have been read
inU ramarlxabla rSvphOlOOica1 of11diaS
with great interest, and take the liberty to
suggest theme for your able pen. ] have
just found in library here newspaper dated
about year ago, in which is account of
the mysterious death Of a military officer in
hack.
Then followed the particulars as I
have already detailed them, and the
very theme Of post mortem revenge
which have adopted in this setting out
of facts. More extraordinary still is his
suggestion that in the dynamite explo-
sion dog or quarter of beef might as
we'll have been employed as a suicide
minded man; that, in short, the man
might not have killed himself at all,
but might have employed presump-
ton of such an occurrence to render
more effective physical persecution
ending in murder by the living man
who posed as a spirit. The letter even
suggested an arrangement with spirit
medium
The only remaining disclosure that 1
am prepared to make is that my CORE
spondent signed himself "Ramtarg, " an
odd sounding name, but for all know
it may be respectable in Sweden. -Ex-
change