The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-12

Bui1Ly COn6CtuGCG OI Ib8T OI Lu6 uaUk~ mans moose, and in the house itself there was nothing to reveal the horrible tragedy that had been enacted there during her brief absence.
 Adopts Cement Artifice.
 But something had to be done with that horror in the tin box under the stairs. Crossnan told his wife that a step was needed where the back door opened on the garden. and to save money he pro- bcsed making it himself. Several bush- els of cement were bought for this pur- pose at different places. She accom- panied him on some of these trips and helped him bring the stun home. Thus he made her an unconscious accompiice in aiding him to conceal the evidence of his atrocious murder.
 When he had made a liquid mixture of the cement in the garden he told his wife to go for a walk with the boy Crossman's son by his first wife-who lived with them. When they returned the cement had disappeared. He told her that he had poured it into the tin trunk that it might be molded into the proper shape for the step.
 And he had poured it into the box until it was filled. completely covering the ghastiy object that 1t contained, and hiding 1t from the sight of anybody who might remove the lid But one precaution he had neglected. He had not first covered the bottom of the trunk with cement. If he had done this the body would have been Theoretically sealed In the cement and Croszman's guilt might never have been discovered, No. simply figuring as another case of mysterious disappearances."
 But for months the tin trunk had it's ghastly secret in the cupboard under Al 0- R~.. eka ...H ties wife No. continued to live happily with her husband. for, as she testified at the coroner's inquest, he was always kind to her. One wife at a time. how ever, would never satisfy Crossman. especially when he found himself get- ting hard up.
 Wives Nos. 6 and T.
 Then followed more matrimonial ad- vertisements, and in August of last years, as George Weston" he married Miss venables, at Richmond, making her wife No. G. Then he began living Box and Cox life. He told wife No. 6 and wife No. that he had become fore- man of a bakery and his occupation night This enabled him to spend three or four nights in the week with No. s at Richmond. and three or four at Ladysmith road house with No. {. Meanwhile No 5 lay in the tin box with the cement hardening around her. her friends wondering what had become of her.
 There was not enough money in the | Box and Cox business to suit Cross- | man. He sought another woman and easily found her. She was Miss Ann | welch. of Reading. and |, in January of this year he made her Mrs. Frank | Seaton" and wife No. 2! He obtained | her bank book. and by means of for Gery withdrew $250 of her money from | a postofice savings bank
 With amazing audacity he even | brought her once to Ladysmith road house. Urging the pretext that this woman was going to adopt his boy by | his first wife. and would not do it if | she discovered that he was married. he | induced No. to deny that she had | married him. Wife No. ' did not re- appear again until the coroner's in- quest was held and all of Crossnan's | domestic complications and villanies were laid bare.
 Tenant Becomes Suspicious.
 As sor the house fin Ladysmith road. | Crossman's need of money compelled | him to sublet the lower portion of it to a Mir and Mrs. Delf. in the early | part of the year Crossman and wife | NO q, nOWCNCts aSSAPACO lAhS AVot of the dwelling. About this time the damp, earthly odor" which No. had for some time noticed began to devel- 1 op Into something that would no long | CT justify that description. Crcssman carbolic acid. lavender water l and other perfumes on the tin box l Their effects. however, were evanes- cent. The olfactory organs of Cross mans tenant led him to the incrimI- l hating box.
 'I believe you have a dead body in l there" said Delf to Crossman.
 Crossman did not pale under the &C., cusation. With wonderful nerve" he | treated 1t as a jest and laughed at it. | He said the smell came from "size," a malodorous species of glue which paint | CTS use. and that he could soon rid the | house of 1t.
 overbold before. he became Overcau- | tious. He sought out 8 carman to ar | range for removal of the box. He in | sisted that 1t should be taken away at | night and would not disclose his own | name, nor just where 1t was to be taken. | He said he proposed to accompany the | box himself. and would direct the carman | where to deliver it. All this aroused the | carman's suspicion. While consenting | to undertake the job he arranged with | one of his mates to follow the van and | keep his eyes open and his ears alert l for evidence of anything wrong"