Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-11

woman whose inhrS. for good should
have reached far CSC wide. What ter
rible fatality had warped her path 80
that it led through trouble to such a
piteous end?
The photographers name had been
erased and turned the card round, hop
ing to find some clew on the back, but
1t was blank. say the name had been
erased, but it had not been completely
scratched away, and there were still In
dications of print, but go trivial that 1t
seemed hopeless to expect any clew
therefrom.
My next business was at Scotland
Yard. There was just hope that Har-
riet Staples had been advertised for as
missing by her friends, and if 80 her
photograph would probably be there. !
explained my business to an official,
and we soon had before us the albums
of some years back. We went carefully
through them, comparing each one with
the photograph l had with me, but Of
the many thousands saw not one bore
any resemblance to it, and at last We
gave up the search as hopeless A
young detective helped me in my search,
and as I was about to place the picture
in my pocket he pointed to the nearly
obliterated letters at the foot.
"There's the clew, sir, take my word
for it. If you could only restore the
whole word from those fragments, you
would have it at once"
"That's all very WE'LL" said !, "but
I'm afraid it's an impossible feat"
II wouldn't be too sure Of that" he
replied. "I've known a good deal come
from slenderer hint Why not have q
few faosimiles made of them and send
them to experts?"
left the place with this suggestion
ringing in my ears. and as turned it
over in my mind it bore unexpected
fruit Capitall 1t should be as he sug-
gested, but instead Of few facsimiles
I would have hundreds Of Thousands
struck of and carried the length and
breadth of the land. How? By enlisting
the popular press in my cause.
The next day managed to obtain q
letter of introduction to the editor OF
one of those weeklies which have 30 hit
the public taste that there ia scarcely
one household in the country which
does not buy it's weekly copy. To him
I broaohed my plan. which was nothing
less than securing the services of bis
readers to aid me in my search. I asked
him to print facsimile of the almost
erased letters in his next Issue, with q
prize of ESQ for the first correct addi-
tion Of the missing portions. The ex-
citement which the murder had aroused
was still great, and the public were
following with scarcely abated interest
every fresh development Of the case.
The editor scented big increase in
his circulation if his paper became In
any way identified with the mystery
that surrounded the case. But I shrank
from exposing this last move to the
gaze of the idle and curious, 80 / stipu.
lated II For fhsspresent, at any rate,
the connection between the murder and
the problem offered to the public should
be kept a secret.
The editor was for long time un-
willing to meet my wishes, but at last
a compromise was effected, and the an
nouncement which appeared in that
weeks issue Of his paper read az fol-
lows:
FIFTY POUNDS REWARDI
In order that justice may be done to prts-
sner, now awaiting his trial, under suspicion
sf an awful crime. 1t is necessary that ths all
but obliterated words given yellow be restored.
At present all that remains is