Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-21

He silently accepted the unwr1tten challenge to battle and made up his mind that he would not be defeated.
 The next morning Nilus was treat ed to a sensation, the startling evil dence obtained by the authorities be- ing supplemented by an exclusive piece of news published in the Jour- nal. When Warde sat down to break fast and picked up that paper he was cold with amazement at what he read, f pr in large, glaring headlines, he saw that Herbert Wright, "stung by a guilty conscience, had endeav- ored to take his own life" The at tempt. it seemed, was discovered by the "alert and tireless jailer," who had promptly sent for a physician, and the young mans life was saved. Wright had taken morphine, but the physician, who had arrived prompt ly, administered an emetic, and so checkmated the would-be suicide.
 Warde was in despair when he read this. It was the virtual confession of guilty conscience, and it would be useless to continue his investiga- tions. As soon as he had swallowed ais breakfast he jumped on street car and went to the jail
 Wright was very glad to see him, and the jailer allowed the newspaper man and the prisoner to have an i'm terview in the rotunda of the jail.
 You have read the Journal?" said Wright, with smile.
 .'Yes, and it knocked me cold!" a
 s'But am prepared to astonish you.'
 ''What do you mean?'
 Why. that account is allie from be- ginning to end"
 "WeI, I am certainly glad to hear that''
 s'The fact is, an attempt was made here in the jail last night to poison me'
 ITO poison you'll
 Yes, to poison me. The drug was put into my food, and of course ate it. I noticed "a peculiar taste, and shortly afterward found myself grow ing very drowsy. I called for the jailer at once and told him I thought had been drugged. Fortunately he had a doctor here in five minutes who detected the evidences of morphine and immediately took steps to relieve me. The eructation was preserved and examined at my request, and the doctor found that the poison in it less than an hour.''
 Have you found the man who made this attempt?"
 'sNo, and I fear it will be impossi- ble. It was agreed by the jailer, the doctor and myself to say nothing about it until thorough investiga- tion could be made. The poison could not have, been put in accidentally by the cook, for no one else in the iail was effected. The food must have been poisoned after it was put into the bowl-my supper was sort of gruel-and it must have been done by the man who handed me my bowl. I could not tell who did this, as sew eral of the prisoners volunteer each day to act as walters
 "Of course" said Warde, 'you could not have personal enemy among these men,"
 Certainly not.''
 Ut is evident that this poisoning scheme was designed outside of the jail, and that some one of the prison CTS was bribed to slip the drug into your portion of the food.'
 Ut looks that way beyond doubt.' Irving Warde felt that the unseen antagonist was again at work He shivered when he thought of the re- sources of his adversary, who could affect the changing of the pistols in I the suburbs south of the city, and the attempted murder of a prisoner | in the jail in the northern part of 1 the town. He realized now that it was no ordinary foe that young Wright had to fight. Shrewd intelli- | gence, an abundance of money, com mand of ready tools, perfect un- scrupulousness, and murder itself were. all pitted against the man.
 The attempt on Wright's life had one reassuring quality, it convinced l Warde that the mind engineering these operations was not satisfied with the case already made out against the young man, otherwise the law might have been allowed to take it's course. There were flaws in the l evidence, fatal weaknesses which might lead to the discovery of the real criminal; and somehow the life of Herbert Wright stood in the way of the accomplishment of yelled pur- pose. The same motive which de- handed the life of John T. Wright now demanded that of his son; and Warde could not help thinking that some tremendous issue was at stake or some far-reaching programme was in jeopardy from Herbert's being alive.
 These thoughts were running rapid ly through his mind while Wright continued to discuss the affair of the night before; and finally the reporter asked:
 If you three made up your minds to keep this thing secret, how did ii leak out?"
 That I cannot say, The jailer says the only person who left the jail last night was the doctor. The doctor who was here quite early, tells 6 | ,-o+bar o,,r;oue Ta1a He eaus that al