The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29

murderer The next morning they read that
Scotland following up which it believed
would be successful. nothing Of these state
aents the despairing paragraps anxious to whet his
readers curiosity becoming 1angud, venured to
shorty he exnad some a f saap.nng @ mo- e en- 4 @
sertOn that the Epping Forest mystery likely to
enter into phase the police being about to take
steps which were novel as they unprecedented
But fresh facts brought to light, and nothing
porter
from detectives, who by their questions
going the ground with tiresome presidency
She well they could do nothing of their own
initiative; she had told them all she knew with the
ception Of one thing and she could do
About this thing she dared not word-indeed
it was by no means certain it would have assisted them
No better solution the mys-
terry lay in the past life Of her father She had had ever
in her mind Hargrave Denton's threat she deter
mined to lose time in ascerainng what it meant.
But she would do this alone No but hers should rest
the page which, if Hargrave to be believed,
contained record of shame Least Of all would she
have conned criticised discussed by the police
Hargrave Denton had gone down to Cornwall but
there necessity to do this? Might there
not be old files Of Cornish in the British Mu
library which would tell her all wanted
know? '
So the day following her visit to Frank Holt she
tered the imposing but chilling portals of the British M
and found her way to the reading The Off
cials We're all courtesy, and her assistance
and she sitting at table with porty volume
reared up a desk front Of her.
She determined start thirty before and work
backwards and slowly she turned over the leaves going
column after column until ached and her
brain dizzy The like those Of most country
newspapers years ago. were OF enormous size and the
movement of the muscles Of her neck became after
while a painful effort See
No mention of the name of rremane did she see in
the first volume She looked it thru
another with the result and when she finished it
s found only hour raned to her before the time Of
closing She felt sick and faint and for she had
working without ntermisson since II, and it
O'Clock, but she went with her sefmposed task.
She had turned but few leaves of the fourth vol
ume when her eye caught sight OF paragraph OF rev
lines, headed "The Tremaine Case at the bottom of
column Her heart wild bound, and for
ment before her eyes Then
she summoned sufficient courage to read
."TF1E TFsENA1rSE CASE.
regret say that numerously signed petition
in favor of mitigation of the sentence Hugh
Trenane has received adverse answer. The home
secretarv has written to saw that he M tn
interfere and the law must therefore, take it's
We need not this decision has caused great dsap
pointent in Bodmin and the surrounding neghborhood
where the Of Tremaine has been familiar for
generations past 1t is felt that while the Judge
might justified in passing the sentence he did the
evidence him. real facts of the not
put forward and could the whole truth have been known
the result might have been different Great
thy is felt with Mrs Tremane and we understand some
friends raising subscription her behalf
maintain while is In prison. Mrs. Tremaine
the last surviving representatives
of old family once wealthy and of great influence in
Cornwall The Trenaines their downfall to Godfrey
Tremaine the grandfather of the unfortunate
who has been sentenced to two years imprisonment.
Godfrey Tremane in evil hour for himself and his
gambling set lost only fortune his
Cornwall and in London, where branch of the family
about fifty before Those who know the
reasons which led Hugh Tremaine to attack David Lat
timer declare that however the ofense in
the of the law absolute dscredit rests the
offender. To told the truth would involve the in
of the Of third and this Hugh
Tremaine steadfast1y refused to do
Eleanors pale cheeks slowly reganed their color
read. this all? True, her father had been in
prison. but the stigma of Imprisonment does not arise
from the incarceration within walls and submission
to prison rules the which leads to that
incarceration. galx
.And T1argrave Denton imagined could compel me
to marry him by threat of raking this old story
Perhaps he thought I should take his word there was
something in which would blacken my fathers
maybe relied the readiness Of people to believe
evil their neighbors Thirty-two years ago-maybe
Door father could have explained everything now
The little she read stimulated her curiosity. She
felt she courage with her researches Soon
she was thick of the story. Briefly speaking it
amounted this:
Mrs. Tremaine, as may be gathered from the para
graph already quoted in very circumstances.
The broad which surrounded her humble dwelling