Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-04-15

OF order Tor two bars to fail to pass one
another. Thus. in writing emphasize
a rapid writer would strike the e key
before the IL bar had fully descended.
The e bar. rising, would strike the 'i'
and carry il up again, thus doubling
the letter IL instead of writing 'iz >
The repetition of such a mistake proved
that the machine was faulty. l wrote
to DR.. Donaldson asking about the size
Of the girl and for marks whereby her
body could be recognized / used the
words size and recognize, hoping to
tempt him to repeat them in replying
ny letter Yves also worded so that he
would imagine that already suspected
some one other than himself. In his
answer l found the word recognize
and similar one, understood In both,
the double = error reappeared. Thus l
was sure of my man. When we received
the proposal that he himself should be
our ambassador, the tfick was only too
transparent. But not yet entirely salts
fed, set another trap. Isecretly placed
cyclometer Oh the Doctors carriage.
He says that tonight he drove to One
Hundred and Second street and back
here, total Of eight miles. The butler
obtained the cyclometer for me when
the carriage stopped, and it shows that
no drove less than q mile. He simply
waited at his house until the proper
time and then came over.
bravo, Mr.. Barnes" exclaimed Mr..
Mitchell. "You are certainly improv.
ing"
''But how did he get Elinora?" asked
Mr.. Gedney.
81 am afraid that your daughter is
ILL.," said Mr.. Barnes. 81 judge from
the description given by the maid that
her condition was not somnambulism,
as the doctor suggested, but that she is
suffering from an attack of catalepsy.
When he called in the morning, finding
tho maid absent and the girl still in
trance, he quickly dressed her and car
ried her down to his carriage. There
was no risk, for had he been seen,
though baked in his PURPOSE, he could
have explained that she needed fresh
air, and that he was taking her for a
drive, and, as the family physician, no |
wrong would have been apparent. I |
promised to recover your daughter and |
your money, Mr. Gedney. We will find |
the money at the Doctors Office, sup
pose" This proved true.
Mr.. Mitchell walked with Mr.. Barnes
when they left the house, and he asked:
How do you account for the singular
circumstance that prominent man like
Donaldson would stoop to such crime?"
THAT is an interesting query, re-
piled the detective. SIN the first place,
many men are honest not from any in.
herent integrity, but rather through
cowardice. They fear the law. Given
an opportunity which seems safe, they
readily follow their criminal bent Sec
ondly, abduction is rare crime for sew
eral reasons. 1t is difficult to obtain
possession of the child, it is risky to
carry on the necessary communications
which must ensue, and it is very hard
to find way of receiving the raDsom
without detection. All of these points
OhAS Aiuh oJOuEuU UOulu overcome. |
The temptation came to him during the
night after his first visit. He recognized
lhe catalepsy and knew that no resist
ance would be made to his carrying the
child off, and that she would not tell
where she had been during the trance,
9ven after her recovery The opportuni.
~ came on the following morning, when
he found the girl unguarded. He could
not resist it. He cleverly managed the
communications by telephone and by
writing with typewriter, which would
cot ordinarily have betrayed him as it
lid. Lastly, as he was commissioned to
AXE the ransom to himself, detection
eemed impossible"
"Yet despite all his cleverness, NOR
'lized Mr.. Mitchell, "the rogue made
wo fatal slips, and these brought him
lis doom. Good night, Mr.. Barnes"
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