The Atlanta constitution., 1900-01-15

your interview. Sounds like no'Si ECU
inc description.
Mrs. DesbrOw laughed.
1T doesn't take woman long 10 sec
the good points in another woman ) laeo-
told you she ought to have been Dea"-
tiful.' "a
Tnen the horses came to stop anu
Mrs Desprow descenued with His Lord
ship under her arm and brisbane 1oi-
lowed with the basket and the bapy.
His eyes had rested with ama%emeh'
upon the new incumbent tor the frac-
ton of a second. Tnen he lifted the Das-
ket and followed his master and mistress
up the brownstone steps as III little sur
prises of that sort were part oil tne
daily existence OF every groom VINO SerN-
ed in the best circles.
In spite OF his accurate description anu
the offer OF very liberal reward, .,l,i.a MI M
mother of the baby VINO was lVIhS
through the days IN the sun.it nursery
upstairs placIdIy indifferent To Whdt the
morrow might bring forth.
Mr. DesbrOw waxing quite con-
temptuous OF the detective ability 10
detect and the detective was waxing
wrotn with the reu-haIred G'rl VINO was
keeping him out OI ms reward so success
fully. The baby that had gwen all TINS
trouble :ilvolun.arny was growing ldttel
and prett1er every uay ahu iliS l-HoSiiiP
had almost completely transferred MS az
fections from his patrIclan mistress 10 MS
piebIan playmate.
1t is great run TO see them romp To-
getner, GEAR MRS. DesOTOw SAID one day
at the ulnner table. some evening you
really must go upstairs 10 look at them
rolling over each Olher on the Whlte Dc"i
rug"
nut Mr.. Desbrow was quite willing to
take the enchantmnts of lhe nursery dI
secondhand.
Inc Iunomlng day he made a point OF
summonng tine detective to mis- ONCE by
Ie4epnone and offered 10 double lhe re-
ward.
II you were to treble 1t l couldn't
earn it," the man answered rueiuiiy'
and L m not counted among the loois
Oh the force either. I'm inclined 10 tnink
II must nave been Jim WOODROW VIE.
''N no was JIm W OOdroWE
"a man who was kiI4ed by his wife two
months gone now and the who're 1orco oI
new loIk city ponce amt been dDle 10
spot her yet
Great heaven! A murderess?''
"LookS IKE II. \ loull ind all about IL
there" The officer land Il week-Oid paper
on the ueSk before mis- patron. Il would
nave been up win it before, but I've been
wasting Time over cold trails for the last
few days. If anything turns up you'll
near from me. Ana III you uon't hear from
me you n know I've got nothing 10 re-
port
M. Desbrow did not hear his closing
remarks. Dld not hear MIN go out. He haG
unfo4deu the paper ana was reading the
CHASTITY story of Woodrow's lie and
ueath. 1t was all there.
now tne man, Two years before. hau
married 1t pretty shop girl Margaret
Sla,er ny name. who clerked In the same
store he was moor walker for, how, soon
after his marriage his employers dlsCoV-
cred he was engaging in a regular system
of peculatlOn and dis missed LIN; now the
mars loss of reputation and work re-
suited i'm his compete moral DOWNFALL
how things had gone from bad To worse
with Kim at home; how about noon on 4
certain day nearly two months ago ne
had been found dead on the floor of ms
sitting room, everything pointing TO MS
wife as the murderer; how her blood
stained dress had been found near the
dead man; how the neighborS only TWO
nights before had heard her wish that
he was dead because he had struck her
child. now, on the morning OF the muir
der. the woman had been seen 10 leaXe
the house with the child and return WIKI
out l.. how, since the killing II had been
uttcrIv impOssible to get the slightest
cicw to her whereabouts, although tne
entire city force had been at work on the
case without resting.
curate description of the mans size
weight and general appearance, also 1I
the woman The two cuts added tOuch
Of the sensational to the account. Ihey
were pictures taken from PHOTOGRAPHS
oe Woodrow and his wife, found Dy tie
police when searching the fiat for a tran.
Mr.. Dcsbrow carried the paper noIue
wiz, him that night IL was not pleas
ant thing to do. hut after dinner nc
would read it to his WIFE and then some
final disposition must be made or the
child. ..
lie carried out his programme accurate
u, vvaitina until they had left the din
ing room for the cheerful brightness or
:ac library where Il was Mrs. Desbrow
practice to rest her pretty sNppcred leet
ON thc low brass fender before the open
fire while he posted her" on the news
she listened intently to the story Of the
Woodrow tragedy. Then she held out
her hand for the paper She was very
uale. II was a shocking novelty in her
experience TO have to take personal IN
terest in possible murdereSS- Sne
looked at the wood cut OF the suspected
woman with startled eyes.
YES. that's .he very same girl On
Willie. ISM It dreadiul?'
NV dear Alice. such things are hap
pening every day about us 1t anSers
me though. that this tragedy In low NE
should have been forced upon your a''e"-
zion" 80,
she did rot answer him. She was read
inc n certain paragraph in the ghaSLiy
story. When she looked up some or lhe
horror had faded out of her face. she
extended the paper 10 her husband with
one delicate finger pointing, 20 the para
graph she had just re-read-
..Husband that girl never did this deed
How can any one think II possible! lie
is described as almost giant. She was
n slender cniIdlike creature that boy
of ION could have overcome. lie came to
his death by the severing OF n VEN. Is
il I-kelv this big. strong man would let
a c'rl cut his throat? She never dld IL
Poor little frightened wretch. of course
she IN"
Mr. pcsbrow crumpled the paper UP and
flung il into the open fire. Its presence
i'm his home was detilement
"NIv sweet Wife We viii not discuss the
IecyaI points, nor the moral probabilities
of this case. We are only interested in