The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17
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8 WIt Was the ShOCkW

Later, Hewson made a fuller confession.
In it, he explained how he first came to
mediate the crime which he afterwards
carried out with such diabolic persistence.
He had never INDUCED himself in dis
honest longings, never allowed himself to
dream Of any other life than that of daily
work in the household of which he had for
so many years been member, until the
day he was called into his masters study
on some errand or other which led him
to the desk. : A memorandum was lying
there, and as he had his glasses on, he
could not help seeing his own name among
list Of others, with the figures 81 900
against it. Now, 1t was no secret in the
house that his master was at this very
time engaged in drawing up his will.
Indeed the lawyer had been there that
very morning. Consequently, Hewson
Immediately drew the inference that
these figures represented the amount he
was to receive upon his masters death,
and slough at the moment he experienced
nothing but gratitude for the good, will
thus shown, the knowledge of what he
migt expect under certain circumstances
slowly reused in him strange ambitions and
new desires. which afterwards resolved
themselves into longings which gave him
no rest day or night. 80,
The relief from daily routine,-a little
home In country place where he could
raise vegetables and fowers,-a quiet
| smoke in the twilight on a porch all his
own.-all this would be paradise to the
tired old man, and as he dwelt upon It's
charms he became impatient at hts mas
ter's robust health, and began to note the
difference In their years-which, alas.
were entirely In his masters favor; and
to think-yes, to think-that though 1t
| would cause him regret-naturally soto
see that masters health give way, 1t
would not be so hard as this endless
counting of years nothing but disease
| could annu1 that, In short a lifetime of
/ service devoted to Mr.. Gillespie and his
sons had become as nothing In the light
of his new desires, and when the usually
healthy broker was finally seized with
some complaint which laid him on his
! back, these desires grew into hopes which
4 it was useless for him to smother, for he
| tune whether or no. and have 1t before he
was himself too old to miss its full enjoy
ment.
Meanwhile, he was much in the conid-
ence Of the family. He heard his master 8
/ symptoms discussed, and learned while
| waiting on table that Mr.. Gillespie was
/ being given doses of q certain poison az
GUS to increase. He could 80 through all
Il his duties with the utmost precision with
4 out ceasing to take In such q converse
Ition; and when In the course Of time he
heard that Mr.. Gillespie was improving
and would soon be quite we'll, he allowed
i himself to dwell upon the tempter's
whispered suggestion that three more lit
i tie drops from bottle constantly In use
by his unaster's bedside would remedy all
this. and In a safe and seemingly natural
way end the one existence which stood
between him and the money he had now
Regarded as his own,
The carrying out OF this thought was
4 w. 1hof htc ef ar was nov
4 we'll enough to be left alone at night
likewise to help himself to his own medi.
4 cine after it was once prepared for him
/ one had only to steal into the room in tht