The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-26
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AHdt Niiilt tnt HRuItS ltdptO INTO Ter
rible distinctness in the young man.
mental vision. Three thousand dollars
Why. that was the sum he had beer
told the murderer of Richard Willmartl
had gained by his crimel He held hi.
: breath and listened in horror
Three thousand dollars" the in
spectOr reiterated in IA tone of purpose
full insistence. And by a singular co.
incidence that was the exact amount
taken from the body Of Richard Will.
marth by his assassin, and by another
singular coincidence the numbers on
the large bills found in Chester Sewall 5
possession are those of which Richard
Willmarth : cashier had a memorandum
as the numbers of bills of like denomi-
nation handed by him TO his employer
ON the afternoon preceding the murder,
and by third singular coincidence the
wallet inclosing those bills in Chester
Sewall's pocket has been identified as
Richard Willmarth's wallet"
'Then, you deem him
1.-The murderer Of Richard Will
marth. -
John Latham felt as if this fearful
thing must be unreal, nightmare or
madness. Instinctively he strove TO
combat il, 10 wake himself from il by
reason.
But no, no! 1t is impossibler' he
argued in a low intense voice. HE
could never have done il. He! Why, he
was a visitor at Willmarths house;
had taken him by the hand; was en-
gagged in marriage TO his daughter. -
The big gray eyes of the inspector
flashed with sudden light. His awful
triumph as a man hunter was complete
That chance utterance had forged the
last link i'll the chain TO hold the un-
happy wretch, knotted the moose await
ing his neck. Seldom indeed could the
probable generalization of crime be so
clearly established as in Chester Sew
alls case, under this new light, for Of
course in such social intimacy he had
found IT easy TO know when it would
pay to murder his prospective father-in- |
law, and had upon that knowledge de- |
liberately planned the deed.
How John Latham got away from the |
web Of that terrible spider without him. |
self being III some incomprehensible |
way involved i'll its meshes, and how he |
reached his home after the awful revela-
ton that had been made to him, he new
or clearly knew. No doubt he and the !
inspector smiled at each other, bowed.
perhaps shook hands and said good
day, and he had gone out in quite or
binary, everyday fashion, as men Oft
times do when their mentality is tenn
porarily completely numbed But the
last thing he remembered in the inter
view was that he asked if he might not
be allowed TO see the unhappy young
man already practically doomed, TO
which the inspector grayely replied:
Tomorrow perhaps, but l must re-
fuse at present. He will have to remain
today alone with his thougi.ts. Tonight
shall probably get full confession
from him. F."
The confession was made, but hardly
in the way the inspector anticipated.
About O'Clock that evening he visited
he prisoner in his cell The Young
nan was by that time in IA nervous ard
highly agitated condition. AS yet he
lad not been permitted to know why
he petty offense for which he was ar
'ested had net already been passed upon |
II police court, why he had been trans
erred from the station house in which
he was first incarcerated to the cell at (
'ollce headquarters, why he could not
pen communication with anybody or
zee any one but his jailers, who seemed
o be mutcs when he questioned them.
Whatever tortures he suffered from the
tabs Cf his guilty conscience he man
ged 70 conceal well, maintaining "a
outrageous and even placid exterior, and ,
doubtless he did gain some confidence in ,
rs lnexperience from the length of time
Which had passed without any indica- {,
ion appearing to him that he was sus-
ected Of any graver crime than that for
which he had been arrested.
When the inspector visited him, he ,
rotested energetically against his treat ,
lent, likening himself to the martyrs ..
the inquisition, the victims of the
ouncil Of ten and the human prey Of
ne car. His nervous excitation urged
i'm 10 volubility, but the calm, stern :
elective listened TO him patiently, i'm ,
erturbably, without interruption. FL
ally he demanded:
IF | had committed technical Of !,
'nse, why did they not at once fine me :
nd be done with it?'
Sudden as lightning the gray eyes !;
urled into his bolt Of sight that seem !,
4 to dart down into his heart and cleave q
way for the appalling question.
Would you have paid il out Of the =
rice of Richard Willmarth's blood?" !.
Chester Sewall staggered backward, =
nd supporting himself by an outspread :
and against the whitewashed wall be- :
ind him stood silent, painting, with r
ne terror stricken look Of hunted !,
FEATURE in his wide dilated eyes TAX \
thus unawares with his nerves al \
eady all unstrung, he had no time to !
mink OF discrimination, if even the =
Irength for it was still i'm him, and his =
uiit was blazoned upon his counte- !;
ance.
"You had better make clean breast =
II, my lad The proof against you is :,
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