The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-09-14

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Spouse to my inquiry he explained that
he referred to George Sanborn, fiance
of Miss Harland, who had been visit
ing in the house for a week or more.
is this a case of jealousyT' I asked
I don't know what it is" said he
This man Eldred lived in the house;
but, according to all accounts, Mrs.
Harland and her daughter scarcely
knew him"
Didn't he eat with themF'
mo; he took his meals at restau-
rants. He goes away early in the
morning and gets home late at night
You can know how little he mlngles
with the family when l tell you that
Sanb0rn has been here more than a
week and has seen EldraI only once
before this morning and has never
spoken to him. I got that from San
born and from both The women.
could tell by the way Slub0rn talked
that he had no feeling in regard to
Eldred one way or another. He looked
upon him as a stranger"
who else lived in the h0use?"
Nobody except an old woman who
was the COOK, and she'd gone to church
when the thing happened"
As to the details of the occurrence, it
| appeared from the poilceman's story
that Mr.. SanbOrn was sitting on the
veranda about half past 10 o'clock
when he heard a loud sound which
seemed to come from within the house
/ He did not know what it was but felt
an indefinite anxiety. He entered the
| hall and went through to the kitchen
where he found Mrs Harland and En-
lily and asked them whether they had
heard anything. They replied that they
had and that they thought the noise
| might have been in Mr.. Eldred's room.
Mrs. Uarland called to him from the
| lower hall, but he did not answer.
Eventually they all three went up and
found the young man lying on the floor
| of a very small room adjoining his
bedroom and used by him for writing
1t contained only a fat topped table
and a chair.
\ revolver was lying on the floor of
Eldred's chamber. The weapon belong
ed to the young man himself, as Mrs.
Harland had told the officer She had
seen it two or three times while at
tending to his room.
When I had heard this story I was
about to enter the house, but at that
moment Mrs. Harland and Emily ap-
peared, accompanied by Dr. Burrell. 1
perceived that there was some differ
enCe Of opinion between Emily and the
physician. The man seemed to have
been urging some course of action. to
which the girl would not agree. As
for Mrs. Harland, she was obviously
distressed and nervous to the last limit
of her self control.
l was not long in doubt about the
subject Of discussion in that little
group, At the very earliest opportu,
nifty Emily Harland disclosed it to me
though, of course, without a hint that
it had been in dispute The point was
that she had not been in the kitchen
when Eldred was shot, but, according
to her own story, on the roof of the
veranda, in the chair which l had no
ticed. She told me plainly that Mr.
SanbOrn had misStated the facts in his
first account of the occurrence because
he believe that Miss Harland would be
liable to unjust suspicion if it were
known that she was not in view OF
either himself or Mrs Harland wher
! tbn GI,it,1a yr-aS cor,,,,,i++oJ
At this Dr. Burrell came forward
with his idea of the affair He began
by scouting the notion that the re
porters would do Miss Harland any
injustice just because she was no
with her mother. To all intents an(
purposes Mr.. Eldred was a strange
to Miss Harland, and
81 beg your pardon" the girl inter
rupted in firm tone Il do not re
gard Mr.. Eldred as a stranger pre-
fer to speak of him as my friend"
quite So" said the doctor smoothly
Mr. Eldred was a very fine fellow
I've no doubt 1t is the more obliga
tory upon us all to clear up the puzzl
of this assault"
Then he proceeded to tell me a tai
which was truly important and inter
esting. 1t appeared that an unknown
man envelOped in an atmosphere o
mystery had called at the house OF
Thursday afternoon and had inquiries
for Mr.. Eldred. When informed tina
he was not at home the man had dc
parted hastily without explaining hi
errand, but Mrs. Harland, who had re
sponded to his ring on the occasion o
? his call, had seen him hanging abou
the house on Friday and Saturday aft
ernoons.
Mrs. Harland, now in tears, support
ed the doctors story with her falterin
e. testimony She added that on one o
t the rare occasions when she had see
Mr.. Eldred he had called her to hi
/ room and had shown her a scrap o
} newspaper bearing several portraits Q
5 men. He had asked if she recognize
! any of the pictures, and she had immt
= diately pointed out one of them.
That's the man who called to Sc
= you yesterday afternoon" she had sale
= Eldred had seemed disappointed an