The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-09-24

FOR the letter which you say will give
us full insight into your wife's crime.
Do you remember what occurred on
the bridge at Georgetown just before
you came into town that night?"
He shook his head.
did you meet any one thereT
Il do not know"
Can you remember your state of
mind?"
II was facing the future
and what did you see in the fu-
ture?"
death. Death for her and death for
me! A crime was on her soul, and she
must die; and if she, then myself.
knew no other course. l could not
summon the police, point out my bride
of a fortnightand, with the declaration
that she had been betrayed into killing
a man, coldly deliver her up to justice.
Neither could live at her side know
ing the guilty secret which parted us,
or live anywhere in the world under
this same consciousness. Therefore, |
meant to kill myself before another
sun rose. But she was more deeply
stricken with a sense of her own guilt
than / realized When l returned
home for the pistol which was to end
our common misery l found that she
had taken her punishment into hel
c%n hands. This strangely affected
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me, but when I found that, in do
ing this, she had remembered that
should have to face the world after sh,
was gone and so left a few lines TO
me to show in explanation of her act
my revolt against her received a checl
which the reading. of her letter onl,
increased. But the lines she thu
wrote and left were not true lines
All her heart was minaand If it was
wicked heart she has atoned"-
He paused, quite overcome. Other
among us were overcome, too, but onl
for moment The following remar
from the district attorney soon recalle
r us to the practical aspects Of the case
"You have accounted for many fac
. not hitherto understood. But there
, still very important one which ne
, Their yourself nor Miss futile has y
made plain. There was a candle {
n the scene of crime. 1t was out Wit
J this officer arrived here. There W
4 also one found burning in the upstai
r room. aside from the one sou profes
q eddy used in your tour 4 inspecti
II there. Whence came those candle
4 And did your wife blow out the 0
4 in the library herself previous to t
II shooting, or was 1t blown out art
n ward and by other lips?"
n "These are questions which, as ha
m already said, l have no means OF
N swering," repeated Mr.. jeffrey. 1T
~ courage which brought her here NJ
a have led her to supply herself W
At light, and, hard as it is to conceive,
40 may even have found nerve to blow
" the light before she lifted the pistol
r. her breast"
To- The district attorney and the ma
looked unconvinced, and the lat
turning toward Miss futile, asked
90 she had any remark to make on
he subject.
or But she could only repeat Mr..
nv frey's statement.
Sc "These are questions / cannot
he swer either. l have said that l stop
cd at the library door, which means tn
q saw nothing of what passed within
.en Here the major asked where
~, Jeffrey's letter was to be found.
was Mr.. Jeffrey who replied:
SEARCH in my room for book
or an outside cover of paper still OF
nst You will probably find it ON my ia
The inner cover is red Bring
book here. Our secret is hidden in
,ad Durbin disappeared on this errar