Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-08
TELLTALE PICTURES.
PAINTINGS THAT HAVE DONE THE
WORK OF DETECTIVES.

Artist Ens Led to the Confession OF
"a Crl,ninnl-A Portrait and IL stOlen
tia GionL Pendant.
An artist who had suddenly become
syimost famous by his production of n
painting exhibited at the Royal acad-
euly was Il day called upon by Il
zaan whose visit was productive OF the
asast extraordinary and undrcamt of
consequences
The picture represented a lonely
stretch Of beach, upon which the sea
g-as beating in long, creamy rollers. In
She foreground, bending over a dead
&sydy, was a man with n wild express
zion Oh his face and with a naked
Knife in his hand. A ships boat, evil
tlcntIy just beached, was also in the
picture, and by the side of the mur-
acrcd man was a bag Of gold. The pic
tire portrayed the advent of two cast
Always upon a friendly shore. The II
had murdered the other SO that the
treasure might be his.
The painters visitor was a gray hair
I'd, wild eyed man.
-In heavens name, sir" he gasped
Sut, "how did you learn the dreadful
story that you painted? see you know
all. ] murdered my mate Bill to get
tic money that was his. l threw his
Body into the sea. l don't know what
iIupulse led me to the Academy. The
FIRST thing I saw was your picture rep
-%resenting the scene that took place 80
gears ago"
Needless to say, the picture had been
Ehe outcome Of imagination. Yet MUIR
Ger will out, and the guilty conscience
VI the man who had killed his comrade
fer lust of gold had convinced him that
IKE painting was no coincidence. but
WIS indeed the actual portrayal of a
Siastardly and u~nwitnessed crime.
There is probably no picture better
Known in England than "The Doctor"
By Mr.. Luke Fildes, yet there are prob
ably very few people aware of the fact
tllat that selfsame masterpiece was
4lse means of bringing to light the per-
petration of a crime that would other
wise never have been known.
- * ttII OoNtCi IA Il Ia 80 pNh NpAA-
mitted suicide, and among his papers
WAS d letter which ran as follows: II
nave today seen Luke Fildes' Doctor
Tue picture represents a medical man
watching IT, the bedside Of a child. 1t
sls 30 haunted ne that | am going to
tike away my W worthless life and
Make Il confession at the same time.
When 4Arthur's'-his brother's-"boy
5ied. caHe into money that my dead
Brother had settled on him. He died
as all the world thought of acute pneu-
l1ionia. Yet his life might have been
sayed had | acted. as Fildes' Doctor Is
80 evidently doing, with the use of all
the skill that lay in my power. l has
sened tie boys end and so got the
money. | can bear it no more"
a well known artist was commission
ed to paint the portrait of a lady in eX-
zlted circles, who boosted the posses
Sinn of a most unique jewel in the
karm of a pendant. The lady was very
anxious that this heirloom should be
Excluded in her portrait. The artist, Of
eoursc, complied with her request.
Shortly AFT " the painting had been
aompletcd a caring burglary was per-
s,etrated. witt, the result that the lady
cast her heirloom, and no trace of the
thief or thieves was forthcoming.
Tears passed Ivy, and the lady gave up
MI hope Of ever seeing the precious
Aeirloom again.
Now, it so happened that the artist
WHO had painted the portrait of the
lady mentioned had occasion to travel
- India.
" In the course of his wanderincs he
came to Bombay and. as every visitor
80 that place does. strolled through the
native bazaar.
Suddenly his attention was riveted
ny Il piece of jewelry in a jewelers.
shop that seemed familiar to him. 1t
WAS a diamond and ruby pendant.
Where had he seen it before? He ran
sacked his brain, but could not remem.
her.
Hn returned to his hotel and hap
pened to take from his portfolio a
sketch of the portrait he had made
years ago of the lady with the pendant.
In a m the enigma was solved.
The piece of jewelry he had seen was
the peculiar pendant that his fair sitter
had been so anxious he should include
M his portrait.
He hurried off to the chief Of police,
md told that worthy what he suspect.
ed, namely, that the bazaar he had Wis.
5sed contained the long lost jewel of
ahe English lady. Inquiries were at
ance set IN foot with extraordinary re-
suits. The jeweler in the bazaar con.
5essed to having given years ago a
quite insignificant sun for the Jewel,
which he had bought from a stableman
IN the employ of q neighboring rajah.
The stableman was sought for. and
turned Out to be hone other than q ia.
NOUS English craftsman, who had an.
parently turned honest, but who,
nevertheless. confessed to having been
the thief OF the jewel that had been
70 ~miraculously discovered.-Pearson's
Weekly.
Trcubl S o. a,irls:or
TO benefit Others Rev j 7. ". Vernon.
Of Hartwell. Ga, writes: ''For a long time