The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-07-03

questions, and al iusI we got an ac-
cUrate description of what he had seen.
Why, he even described the furniture
in the room and the view from the
window
There was a man sitting at table
whom think should have known if
he hadn't been back to me, said he. My
brother was sitting opposite, and there
was some sort of document on the table
between them. My brother has grown
a beard. BY heavensp he cried sud
denly The other man was Joe YinalH
"Vinal was receiving teller of the
Dey Street bank He had been slight
ly implicated in the robbery and had
lost his place in the bank on account
of it, but had not been arrested. That
he should have joined Henry Donald
son in a far corner of the world was
not altogether favorable circum
stance, and | asked Donald why he had
said SO confidently that his brother was
all right
81 know by the look of him. he re
piled, and heard him say that he was
COnlu5 nome.
Donald pledged US all to secrecy III
this matter, and l think the promise
has been fairly well kept That after
noon Donald and made an investiga-
ton into the case of Vinal and learned
that he had left New York and that
his whereabouts were unknown. His
wife, who was a beautiful woman OF
fine descent, was living in this city, but
she had had no word of her husband
in six weeks. She told me that he had
left the city suddenly upon some mat
ter of business which she did not IN
derstand He had been in very bad
health, and she was extremely anxious
about him.
THAT was all the information that
we could get About a week later
Donald got a cable message from his
brother. 1t came from Hongkong and
was addressed to my apartments. 1t
said: Am coming home; westward.
Everything all right
by subsequent messages we traced
him to the Mediterranean and Gibral-
tar and learned what steamer was
bringing him to this country. He was
i'll Of acute gastritis when he arrived,
and l thought that we should hardly
get him off the steamer alive. But he
rallied and seemed on the road to
mend
ut appeared that he had gone from
this country to Japan and had lived in
one of the smaller cities. He brought
photographs of his abode there and of
a view from a certain window. l have
never been able to be skeptic upon
things occult since seeing that photo
graph. He told us that he had lived
almost in secret; that he had never
dared communicate with Donald for
fear that the message would fall into
wrong hands and reveal his hiding
place.
Zone day he was amazed to see Joe
Vinal at his door. How this man
traced him he never learned Vinal
was dying. Only his purpose had sup
ported him through the latter part of
the journey. He made complete rev
elation of the inner facts of the bank
robbery, in which he himself was the
principal criminal. This statement was
sworn to before the American consul,
and few days later Vinal died. Hen,
ry Donaldson went to Hongkong and
thence home, bringing the statement
which was put into the hands of the
banks officials, who used it to extort
as complete restitution as possible from
VinaPs accomplices, and the matter
was kept quiet through the usual in
fiuences except that a card was pub
lished generating Donald's brother.
He seemed to be perfectly satisfied
with this, though it was not very def
mite. Really the poor fellow was done
with earth. He died as many men and
women die who might live, but have
not the will.
'In conclusion have only this to
say: So far as we can learn Donald's
vision was perfectly accurate. 1t show
ed Vinal laying his written confession
before Henry Donaldson. But the vi
sion occurred about eight hours before
the event. | leave the explanation of
this phenomenon to any one who
llkLhS ulluSGll COllpGlcll. all llOl.
You may be disposed to suggest
that Henry Donaldson had communi-
Gated with his brother unknown to
me. In regard to this have not only
Donald's word but Henry's, and you
will bear in mind that attended Hen
ry in his last illness, so that, aside
from the lack of motive for his telling
me a falsehood, we must consider also
the respect that is usually accorded to
the statement of dying man.
Moreover, Henry could not have
communicated the fact of the confess
sion, because he knew nothing about
1t himself until some hours after 1t
was known to us. 1t must be remem-
bered also that Donald was entirely
ignorant of his brothers whereabouts
even after he had had the vision. He
had the sensation of being in that
room and of looking across the table
toward the window, and from the as
pect of the country he supposed that
the scene was in China"
fro BE Continued