Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-14

| hlll, all nature seems greaSed for the occasion. Couldn't trust your son to pay 1t back. Wouldn't trust young feller as far as I could swing a bull by the tail"
 That night John Grey returned home. A short note from the presi- dent of the university had preceded him, explaining that the young man had been suspended until he should pay an extravagant debt he had con- tracted. It was not the disgrace of the affa alone that Geepened the lines on the fathers brow. More than anything 1t was the change in his sons disposition. This John Grey was the antithesis of the boy of few months since
 Late that night crowd of excited citizens awakened Valleydown in con- sternation. Boughton, the money ! lender, had been found dead in his bed,
 murdered. Circumstances showed that the obvious purpose for the deed was robbery. But the morning had a still greater shock in store. John Grey had been arrested on suspicion. The night of the deed there had been light snow. Examination revealed the fact thats foot prints led from Grey's house to Boughton's and back again to Grey's. To still further con- nrm suspicion, the police, when they l had broken into the Grey homestead, had found fifteen hundred dollars on Johns bureau.
 At the trial, a month later. the shrewd, sagacious states attorney l wove a web of damning circumstantial l evidence about the accused which the latter's counsel saw would be difficult to unthread, The attorney proved that man had been seen entering Boughton's house on the night the mur- I der had been committed. Then he pointed to the significance of the foot prints in the snow. and of the large sum of money found in Johns room. Lastly he related the young mans pc cuniary difficulties at the university. ] When the jury filed into the court room. to render its verdict, the silent spectators with difficulty caught the whisper of the trembling foreman: I Guilty of murder in the first degree D With a cry of agony, Samuel Grey arose and endeavored to speak, but the words he fain would utter died on his lips and he sank unconscious to the floor. John Grey was led back to prison, to die between sunrise and sun- set within fortnight" Sympathetic l friends conveyed the father to his home. That night consciousness re, turned and remained long enough to permit the old man to whisper to the physician at his bedside
 God knows John did not commit the murder. I went to the house that night to get money, John needed 1t sc badly. Two men rushed out and ran away. They had murdered the old man for his money, but left it, fright end by my coming. I took 1t for Johns sake and placed 1t on his bureau where he might have it in the morning. He would have paid it back some day. Consciousness fled and Samuel Grey sank into the sleep from which there is no awakening. On the death cer tifcate the physician wrote the techni cal name of a. disease which the coun try folk translated. "broken heart'' Time changes all things and today Valleydown is a city. But memory time can never change. Each day 2 bouquet is placed on the grave of Sam uel Grey by a man upon whose coun tenance suffering has wrought strange features. He is the leading physician of Valleydown.