The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-29
THE FILIGREE BALL
Being Full and True Account Of the Solution Of
the Mystery Concerning the jeffrey Moore Affair.
By ANNA KATHERINE GREEN
Author Of The Leavenworth Case ETC. T B Ma ayr a.

acknowledged visit the candles which had
been afterward discovered there? No.
He had had time to think since his hest
tating and unsatisfactory replies Of the
day before, and he was now in position
to say that while he distinctly remem-
bered buying candles on his way to the
Moore house, he had not found them in
his pocket on getting there and had been.
obliged to make use Of the matches he,
always carried on his person in order to
find his way to the upstairs room where
he felt positive he would find candle.
This gave the coroner an opportunity to
ask:
And why did you expect to find a
candle there?"
The answer astonished me and. have
no doubt, many others.
1t was the room in which my wife
had dressed for the ceremony. It had not
been disturbed since that time. My wife
had little ways Of her own: one was to
complete her toilet by using curling iron
on little lock she wore over her temple.
When at home she heated this curling
iron In the gas jet, but there being no
gas IN the Moore house. / naturally con-
cluded that she had made use of a candle,
as the curl had been noticeable under her
VEIL"
Oh, the WEAKNESS in his tone! I could
scarcely interpret it. Was he talking by
rote, or was. he utterly done with life
and all its interests? No one besides my
self seemed to note this strange passivity.
To the masses he was no longer a suffer-
Ing man. but an individual from whom
information was to be got. The next
question was a vital one
He had accounted for. one candle in the
house; could he account for the one found
In the tun1bler or for the one lying
crushed and battered on the closet hoor?
He could not.
And now we all observed change Of
direction in the inquiry: Witnesses were
summoned to corroborate Mr.. Jeffrey's
statements. statements which it seemed
to be the coroner's present wish to esta b.
llsh. First came the grocer who had sold
Mr.. JEFFREY the candles. He acknoWl-
edged, much to Jinny's discomfort, that
an hour after Mr.. Jeffrey had left the store
ne had found on the counter the package
which that gentleman had forgotten
TO take Poor, jimmy had not stayed long
enough to hear his story out The grocer
hnlshed his testimon by saying that i'm
mediately upon his discovery he. had sent
the candles to Mr.. Jeffrey's house.
This the coroner caused to- be, empha-
sized to such an extent that we were all
convinced Of its Importance But as vet
his purpose was not evident save to those
myself
The other witnesses were men IRON,
Raucher's, who had acted as walters AT
the time of the marriage. One of them
testified that Immediately on Miss Moores
arrival he had been sent for a candle and
box OF matches. The other, that he had
corrled up to her room a large Candida
Drum from tho drawing-room mantel A
pair OF curling tongs taken from the dress
ing table Of this room was next pro
duced, together with other articles of tot
let use which had been allowed to remain
there uncared for. tho they were of solid
silver and Of beautiful design.
The next witness was a member of Mr.
Jeffrey's own household Chloe was he,
name and her good black face worked
doiefully as she admitted that the pack
age of candles which the grocer boy HAD
left on the kitchen table, with the rest
OF the groceries on the morning Of that
dreadful day when 'Missus'' killed her
SELF, was not to be found when she cams
to put the things away. She had looked
and looked for it, but it was not there.
Go be continued .to-morrow.)