The evening times., 1897-11-27


the life Of Charles Murray when, return
ing one evening frqm nard days work in
the telegraph office of his quarters in the
Grand Central Hotel, on the Isthmus oi
Panama, he observed young girl weeping
silently In a secluded corner of one of the
reception rooms impelled by an irresist
ible impulse. ne approached and offered hi.
services. Then he saw that she was very
beautiful: her face was Spanish in type,
replete with fire and expression, Will.
her eyes were blue and clear az a mountain
lake. Hcwasmadlyin in love with her before
she had Ceased telling her pathetic littl,
story.
There was nothing very novel about he
experience. She had been lired u way from
home by man much her senior, who hat
promised her marriage and luxury. She be
lieved him, and after a brief interval of
| high living and dangerous dissipa ton
he had deserted her and returned TO the
United States.
That was ten years ago. and Lizzie Nun
roe was then eighteen years old. Murray
wanted to marry her, but she declared She
wasn't good enough, and 30 they set NJ
housek eeping without the furmality Of
marriage ceremony. For year there was
no cloud upon their happiness. Lizzie was
devoted in her wifely duties to the man
who had bcfrended her, and he asked
nothing more u Fartunet han to be suffered
to end Lis ia Us in the congen,al atmospherc
OF the isthnius.
But Mrs. Murray, as she was known, be.
L., f.. . "a.
excitements Of larger and more varied
civilization, and 81, early in 1913, siurra!
yielacd at last to her continued solicitat
and returned with her to this city, with
a snug little nest egg of $4,000 in his
pocket. The pair rented and furnished al
expensive flat nj set out to enjoy the de-
lights of the great city. Murray tried hi,
hand at speculation. and was DIT first fairl,
successful.
One night on returning home. he found a
dapper little Frehchman calling upon his
wife. Sic was perfectly unconst n ined in
introducing him as Charles j. Pachin, an
old friend. Pachin knew how to make hihr
self agreca be and succeeded, at the sta IT
in winning Murray's confidence. The men
| becar. fast friends. Pachin suggest ed
schemes FOR moneymaking, which Murra :
eagerly embraced, until one morning h..
woke uF to find himself broke" as hc
expressed it. After that things went from
bad to worse. the handsome flat had to he
given up and the pretty furniture sold
Murray and his Cannon law wife rented
one little loom In Macdougal street. and he
secured a place rs conductor on the Bread
way Railroad.
Lizzie for a time endured all this vai
iantly, but one day when things were
particularly black, she yielded to Pachin's
entrcatics and went to live with him, leav
ing Murray a note in which she said
she thought they would get along better
apart. She did not say whittier she
was going, and Murray himself did not
discover his false friends treachery until
later.
Six months later he encountered Lizzie In
the street She tried to ay old him. but he
insisted upon an explanation. While she
denied her relations with Pachina, she adj
nitted she frequently saw him, and said
she had cause to believe he was the ring
leader OF a gang which was making and
passing counter rfeit money. Next dag
Pachin sourht him out and threatened him
for speaking to Lizzie. You let that girl
tichep Noh VI 4 IL iiA Nou-
Meetings. between the woman and her
old lover now became frequent. Lizzie told
Murray the secrets of the gang, and he be-
sough: her, out Of her old love for him 10
forsake Pachin and return to him. The
woman listened, and had resoly ed TO re. urn
TO Murray, when the United States secret
service police descended upon the counter
feitins gang. taking In the raid the Monroe
~ -.
Weela. Pachin immediately denounced
Murray, aud he too was arrested and held
in 81 ZOO hail, like the others.
On his t:ial in May, 1896, Murray WIS
acquitted on the testimony of Lizzie Nun
roe and Morris GCldsteln, one of the gang.
who swore that Murray had had no con
nection whatever with their schemes. Liz
zie Munroe. or Murray, who had beer, mere
ly held as witness, was also discharged,
and she and Murray Resumed their old lif.
together.
Murray worked hard to rphabilitate him
self. So well was he thought of by TreaS,i-
rer Sylvester Deming, of the Panama Rail
road Company, that despite the past thu,
latter offered him his old post on the 18th
mus. The letter conveying this offer came
TOO late, apd another got the post. Mr..
Dening, however. promised him the very
next vacancy. and he was prepa ring 20
leave the country. with the woman he still
loved, when on September Detectives
Esquirel and owen arrested him at his
home, No. 10 Jones street, on a charge OF
passing ten-dollar tounte rfett bill upon a
butcher in Hampstead, L. l.. on July 30
1897.
Murray Was taken for Identification &
Hempstead, and, according to his own be
lief, raflrGaded to prison on the strength
OF the resemblance to the photographs of
him taken n the time Of the apprehension of
the Pachin gang to a person no had visited
Hampstead that night and bought 45 cents
Worth of steak. Murray asked Permission
before the United States commissioner Z,
establish an alibi, but was not permitted.tn
do ST.. hot sent to Raymond street jail
where he has anguished, sick and despai:
Ing, e yer since.
In his wretch cell yesterday Murray
first thoughts were OF the woman he calls
Ills wife. He sOhbed as he recited her sur-
ferings since he had been taken from her.
She was sick and without food, he said.
while he. innocent of the crime imputed
to him, was Gagged without remorse, penni-
less and powerless to felp her. He could
get nobody to push his case. and had ahout
given Lp hope.
In her dingy rooEi IN the Ccrnclia street
tenement yesterday the unhappy woman
who had blasted Inc once full Of pro1,-
Use, sat in her rags sandrocked her emaciatesi
body to and fro, while she curs ell tie law.
and called upon the name Of her "CharIIe''
in endearIng terms. He was her all.