The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-15

ter. He remained there some three or louI
y Various sft other ws seSoo 10 IN sP PSe ,o snG1' OK Pi ENGLAND q.
returning finally TO London. His circumstances
for on this second visit to London We find him
earning money by transcribinR Acts Of Parlin.
he got an engagement as. Usher at the free
grammar school of Lynn In Norfolk, where, at
spG eng bs 81 b sSV eom mShtedi' Fourteen nS WSs Srs ve"fs before.
II Is this period, between the murder and his
arrest, that has been seized on by writers OF
fiction as a period OF remorse and mental agony.
made more poignant and terrible by tho added
distrcssos Of a great passion. OF the latter no
trace is to DO found except in the scandalous
whispers Of Lynn that. accuse the usher of liy-
ing there with a young lady he described as bis
Covered to have been his mistress, scatcherd, the
rhapsodical apologist already alluded to, indig-
nantly. repudiates this anecdoto, and refutes it
than his cvor-faithfui and devoted daughter
Sally, who accompanied him through all his wan
overcome with despair that her morals forsook
her, and she became the mistress OF n gentleman
In the lotter Aram wrote describing his wan
derings he lie silent as to his daughters com
panionship; indeed. the story OF his niece at
who remembe Ills arrest and his arrival at
Knarcsborough say nothing of any companion.
borough, 81 Mt the time OF his execution.
On tho remorscful fortunes of the Aram Of
The Dream " history Is silent; such evidence
and during the time of his trial and punishment
points, not to q man OF intrinsically noble
committed under the stress of a dire temptation,
but to a cold and deliberate murderer justifying
vanity "a ty: which i does not hesitate ht"s be ss@'i SANDER
and falsehood to accomplish Its pitiful end.
There 10 not in Aram's conduct, from the
prisoner charged with murder. the slightest
evidence of any feeling Of remorso. He is calm.
by the painful circumstance of his situation;
and when. after his sentence. all hope of earthly
sablimS o IL at ,nnsn END; m ne nmbpInlant with
teen years Of absence from the scene of his
dnlled. surely they would have returned with
all their former acuteness when the hour of ex-
Study, continuous and unweariod, was always
Win n him mir in h his years Of exile. From the French
dds ee and ann Xra Py M son pGiablSn9 wi n PSS sItIs, to W ShSl,
he had completed the study OF tho last.named
language and had compared some three thou.
lents in the Latin, Greek, and other Languages.
he waa able to determine the affinity of the
BY recognizing this truth, to raise Himself from
the Ne,cgdte Calendar into every respectable
Biographical dictionary; All his papers, all tho
claim to recognition in this respect has never
His interest in botany. to which he owed
his acquaintance with his victim Clarke.
continued with him during his wander
i1gs, and in the Botanical Gardens at
tive hours. A gentleman who used sometimes
to accompany, Aram on his visits TO Chelsea re-
would remove from the path any snail or worm
f9r fear OF t%reading on it..a delightful trait.
has found smashing in a mans head quito con-
sistent with. kindness to dumb animals; people.
the lnferiority of whose natures has prevented
arc, very apt to believe that true human nature
resides only in cats and dogs.
lynn was the last resting place Of Eugene
ATam DetOfG the nnAl cAtlStrDDle. He Ia hptlp err
remembered here than anywhere else. He is
spoken nS D,o0 Os as s,,6 smilen and reserved, stray.
marshes by, the river Ouse. dressed in
q horseman's great coat, a great tapped
peculiarity-if he heard any noise behind him.
he would not merely turn his head. but swing
After Aram's arrest the headmaster of the gram
mar school recollccted meeting the usher one
night outside his bedroom door under very sus.
picious circumstances. and ever after congratu-
lated himself on a lucky escape from murder:
but the boys liked Aram very well. and he made
a good many friends among the neighboring
He was stopping one day with a DIR. Weather
head, a parson living near Lynn. 1t was a win
plants and flowers, WAS out in the garden help.
ing the doctor with his flower beds. While they
called to see the doctor, who was anxious to sell
9 horse, The dealer happened to come from
the figure Of Aram working in the gar.
den der do He lm ,hnt Liza reGSo q him and told
dealer. his business completed, returned TO
Yorkshire, and was able to tell his customers
hranl. For the moment the information was
interesting; in a month or two it became useful.
at Thistle Hill, near Knarcsborough, came
across a human skeleton. The people OF Knarcs-
m@s, E. ,S %i] hon one a. y 1Sn e. d SS / that these
had already dropped some hints as to the fate OF
Clarke; now, at the Coroner's inquest on tho
night OF the murder. liOusemhn was appre-
hended on her evidence and confronted withthe
b bHnes' win hhe Coroner, seeing NJ him pale and ,rem-
Houscman obcycd, but, to the general astonish.
ment, declared that tho bone was no more Dan
himself. he said thnt Eugene Aram had murdered
Clarke, whose bones were, not those found on
cave. There the skeleton of Clarke was un-
earthed, according to lIousemAn's indication.
Furnished With the horse dealers Information,
guiscd as Yorkshire cattle dealers.
quiries at the local inn, where they were soon
able to satisfy themselves that the man they
want and the usher at the granma schoo
standing In a corner OF the playground when he
was apPrchcndod, handcured. and, amidst the
tears OF his pupils. driven off in n chaise to
Knaresborough. with his two captors. It will lie
seen from this that he did not walk between the
graphically described In Hoods poem.
His arrival at H naresborough had been eagerly
awaited. AS he stepped from tho Chaise at the
door OF the Bell Inn the rustic crowd observed
with admiration his gcntecl suit OF clothes and
tho elegant frllls hanging from his wrists-a
very different figure to the impccunious school
master who had left them fourteen wears before.
Since then Eugene Arhm had been Cuurtcd and
respected by men who were of a position to nm
preciate the learned and ingenious scholar, who
had known nothing Of the obscure and ncfarious
past, who would have been shocked and startled
indeed to have seen the elegant frills OF the med
~itative usher trailing over the handouts.
In the parior of the inn Aram found the vicar
and n number Of local gentlemen whom the sin.
gular circumstances OF the crime and the per
sonality OF the criminal had drawn together.
hram conyersed freely and celmly with
against him. In tho midst OF his conycrsn.
tion, his wife, who had been told of her
husbands arrival, entered the room with her
children. He took no notice Of them till he had
finished his conversation with the gentry, then.
turning to her, said coldly, Well, how do YOU
dor He then asked after ouo OF his sons. an
idiot. His wife, answered that the hoy was
worse Ho told her that If she had followed his
Instructions he would have been better.
A year passed between Aram's return 10
KnarcsborOugh and his trial at York in the Au.
gust of 1853. The interval of time was occu.
pied. presumably. In some attempt to procure
such syilencp ms would ,nn virt hot h mn, -