The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-02-28


that poor creature to the station is
arrested; he came here by the train
I travelled in. He is now in this Jail.
There will be post-mortem to-day,
the inquest will be re-opened on Mon
day instead Of on Wednesday next,
and the evidence then produced will
prove his guilt and your innocence"
THANK God" calculated Geo. Caul-
field; and then he fell on his knees
beside the prison bed, and poured out
the rapture of his soul in prayer and
thanksgiving.
When he had finished that yoiceless
prayer, he sat down quietly beside his
friend to hear how the vicar had done
his work, and how completely he had
succeeded.
Cup to last night the evidence
against my gentleman was only spec
ulative," he said, when he had de-
scribed all that had happened in Briar-
gate and at Parminter; "but last night
the police contrived to bring matters
to focus. Once having got clew,
they worked marvelously well. They
got hold of half a dozen photographs
of this Mr. Foy, who had been vain
enough to get himself photographed
at different times, by all the leading
photographers of Grandchildren. Pro-
vided with these, they went the round
of the chemists shops, and found
where my gentleman had bought poi
son. They traced him from lodging
to lodging, till they found him, two
years ago, living in the outskirts of
Grandchester with weakly, nervous
wife, whose description correspondent
exactly with that of the weakly, ner
vous sister at Parminter. They OBJ
tanned a photograph Of this young wO-
man, which had been given by her as
a parting souvenir to the landlady;
and this portrait Mrs. Moff, the Par
minter char-woman, identified as a
likeness of the so-called sister. This
was bringing things to focus, wasn't
it?' inquired the vicar, giving his
young friend a ferocious dig in the
ribs.
Decidedly"
"They were brought still closer this
morning, thanks to my advertisement
for missing young woman in a Rob
Roy shawl This morning an elderly
female appears at Messrs. BrOckbank's.
solicitors-your solicitors, you know
and tells them that she keeps a small
public house in Water Lane, narrow
street leading to the river, and with
in five hundred yards of the railway
station, and to her house came young
man with an ailing young woman in a
plaid shawl-Rob Roy pattern. They
staid there two days and two nights;
and while they were there the young
woman got worse, and was so i'll that
she had to be carried to the station,
when the young man, who owned to
be her husband, took her away. He
was taking her to the seaside, he told
his landlady-the doctor having said
sea air would bring her round. The
landlady's son, who was in the iron
trade, helped to carry the poor young
woman to the station. 1t was quite
dark, and no one took much notice
of them. This is why the police could
get no information from cab men or
cab masters, you see. Now, this good
woman, the landlady, has been brought
to Milldale this morning She will see
the corpse, and she will see Mr. Foy,
and l hope she may be able to identi-
fly both. She has seen Foy's photo
graph, and recognized it, already. So
the long and the short of it is, my
dear fellow, that I think you're pref
ty comfortably out of this mess, and
1 hope you'll never do such thing
again.
The vicar affected Righteousness,
perhaps to hide the depth of his feel
ing. He loved his friend almost as
we'll as he loved his own sons, and
that is much, for the mans heart
overlooked with love.
The inquest was re-opened on Mon
day, and the evidence against CASTOR
Foy was SO complete in all it's details
that the jury had not a moments hesi-
tation in ordering the immediate re-
lease of George Caulfield, who left
Milldale by an afternoon train, and Of
ficiated at an evening service at st.
Philemon's that night. How happy
he and his mother were as they sat
side by side in the railway carriage on
the journey back to London.
81 think it will be long time be-
fore r shall care to travel at night and
alone" said the curate. "The memory