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The Washington times., 1905-06-11

ings are where the girl placed them on
the day she undressed and went to bed
stricken with the mortal Illness
No one is permitted to touch anything
in the room. nor will anyone be in the
lifetime OF the parents. At regular IN
tervals father and mother enter the
room to mourn for the girl ~ho had
been taken from them. The death Of
Virginia also strengthened the affection
OF the parents No~ Rosamond As a re-
suit the threats TO harm the girl fell
with double force on them For two
years Rosamond, who should be able to
have everything she craved, has been
deprived of the one thing children love
most. All freedom has been denied TO
her. Not for a moment is she permitted
out of the sight of some one of sufficient
age to protect her She is not allowed to
romp with the other children and she Is
carefully guarded on her way TO and
from school. She cannot even enter her
owl. garden to play with her pigeons ex-
cept in the presence Of an armed guard.
Before the receipt of the letters it was
the girls delight to go out driving with
her young companions in a pony cart
which her father had given to her. At
present she must go out driving either
with her parents or with a coachman.
Horseback riding. which was another of
her delights. she may not enjoy.
The restraint which is necessarily
placed on the girl seemAto have cast a
blight or her. Although she tries her
best to hide her feelings, her parents
say that occasionally they are able to see
that their daughter keeniy feels the lack
of freedom TO ronp about as she pleases.
The Washington times., 1905-06-11

ton when I looked at her and heard
that shout the first time It was His
bowels yearned." My digestive apparatus
seemed to be upset. 1 looked across
the square and the saloons were all lit
up. bunting hung from the store-sisns.
and the court house windows shore with
fire from the red lights on the curbs.
The side-streets seemed very dark.
Everywhere were peop1e-sitting in
farm-wagons. an entire family In one
pattern of checked Bingham Q could
distinguish it even in the dark; leaning
back against the store-fronts: walking
beside the band keeping step; or stand
ing on the curb and calling to me.
Is 1t him? l heard some one ask
from the front door Of Bud Frazer.s
cigar store
You bet it is answered one of tho
men near the carriage
My father put his arm about NV
shoulders as we started around the
square You can see the whole line
here, he said. I turned in my seat and
looked There must have been three
or four hundred men, Il winding column
of black figures surmounted by un-
steady, dripping lights. Its the Young
Mems Republican Club my father ex.
planned. They had instructions from
Indianapolis to meet you at the sta
tleG- You are to speak here Thursday
night The posters are up IN Ike bill
boards. l understand you are 10 go to
Marion and Independence, too. FhIlin.
my son. it makes your old father
mighty proud. -
The Washington times., 1905-06-11

Mrs. Tonkin part with her child, and
for nearly eight months she kept the
body in the room which had been occu-
pied by the little girl. The casket in
which the body lay was surrounded by
masses of fresh flowers daily, and for
hours at a time the mother would sit
weeping over her lost daughter. The
husband feared that his wife's mind
would give way, but he knew that to
separate his wife from the body of her
child meant sure collapse on the part of
the mother. The body remained in the
house until the authorities forced them
to bury it.
It was on top of the great grief that
followed the death of Virginia that the
shock of the first threatening letter
came. In it the writer demanded a sum
of money, but nothing was said of kid
mapping.
He threatened to harm the family. but
what he would do he did not say The
letter worried Mrs. Tonkin, but nc seri-
Gus alarm was felt until the first note
threatening to kidnap Rosamond ar
rived Sorrow for the dead child and
fear for the safety OF the living one
cast q shadow over the home of the
millionaire This shadow has been grow
ing darker and darker in the last two
years, and time, instead of tightening
1t. seems to have made its presence felt
more than ever. Not only has the fear
for the safety Of Rosamond increased,
but time has failed to diminish the sor-
row over the loss of Virginia. The room
which the dead child occupied is kept
exactly as 1t was on the day she died
Her dress, petticoat, bonnet and stock
The Washington times., 1905-06-11
Work of an Artist

The letters sent to the father and
mother are marVels of artistic endeav-
or Several Of them contain sketches of
the girl which strike off her features
with remarkable exactness. One of the
pictures received in New York was in
colors and showed the dresses the girl
wore one afternoon when out driving
with her mother. AT one time the Wrf-
ter OF the letters produced a long series
of pictures, which he sent at regular
intervals to the father. The picture rep
resented events the artist said would
follow the failure of the parents to send
the money demanded One sketch show
ed the girl being chloroformed, while an
other was that of a hand pointing a pis-
tol at the face of the girl A myster-
ious feature of all the communications
was that In none of them did the writer
tell where or how the money was to be
placed. After the receipt of the second
letter Mr.. Tonkin consulted the police
but nothing came of their efforts to
discover the writer. Private detectives
then were engaged, but they also were
unsuccessful. Recently Mr.. Tonkin in
duced the New York Central railroad to
lend him two expert investigators. and
they are now working on the case.
The Washington times., 1905-06-11

the civil service Putting all other
considerations aside it was evident that
for the man who sought practical sue
cess, merit alone did not weigh so heavy
in the department scales as politics
alone
Annie and 1 were not blind to the
higher consfderati lions. If there was any
self-respect in the status Of the merit
man not balanced by some credit Incl
dent 10 the political post 1 hoped to
fill. we would not change. But I could
see no reason why a political appointee
might not be a good servant OF the Gov
eminent. Mr.. Macpherson was. Colonel
Powell surely was. Nor did it follow
that any special credit lay in holding
aloof from politics. Not even the Civil
Service Commissioners did that and one
of them in particular was an avowed
partisan.
My mind was not clear on the subject
during that ride 1t was instead greatly
puzzled. And 1 think it a striking ar
raignment of conditions in the execu-
tive departments at that time that one
who made an intelligent and honest eff
fort to decide which system promised
the more advancement had to choose
politics.
The train reached Indianapolis at 6
o'clock and a change of cars took us
home by s. The excitement of the cam
paign had become so general we were
Tot surprised to see the station aglow
with red light as we reached the plat
fern. We stepped down into a crowd,
shutting and noisy and lit with the wa
vering flame of torches. We both shifted
at the cool prairie air. My father and
Mr.. Bell. smilingly benignly, pressed
past Colonel Spangfer and the rest and
took our satchels. We stepped toward
the street in single file. the crowd OPEN
ing for us. and Annie and I confused
by the lights. the little daughter S
frightened cries, the whirr of the sta
ton and the incessant yelling
A group of men 1 had grown up with
pushed against me from both sides.
dripping oil over every body and shout
ing. Hello. Phil" ''Howareyu. OF Hoss
-Gawd bless yuh' and '.How's Wash
in tn. Phil?" and slapping my Shout
ders. A band struck up out in the
street, but all we could hear of it was
the bang of cyrnbals and the bass drum
The two older men helped Annie into
the front seat of Mr.. Bells surrey and
her father taking the seat beside her.
gathered up the reins. With that my
father stepped back toward one of the
boys behind, Bob Gardner, and said over
his shoulder, It's all right, 1 guess
Then it all burst upon me. The crowd.
the lights. the band. the cheering were
for me, Every muscle in my body stiff
fened. l shut my teeth together hard.
When l tried to get into the carriage
my foot missed the step twice and
trembled so violently 1 could hardly
hold to the hickory upright.
The band began to move 10 The tap
of the drum and Mr.. Bells horse stepped
OFF. skittish. The young men With
torches fell into column of tours he
hind the carriage and began 10 keep
step to the shout:
''Tippecanoe and Schuyler. Too
My sweetheart looked back to me
from the front seat and smiled. he: eyes
glistenirg. The only Thing she could
say was "Oh. Phil-isn't this flne?' L
remember thinking Of phrase in the
Bible as exactly describing my sensa-
The Washington times., 1905-06-11
Contradictory Features Appear.

For long time the mysterious
Three" demanded that $4,000 be paid
them to keep their hands off Rosamond
Tonkin, but in the last few DAYS they
have jumped the sum to 100000 with the
added threat that it must be paid i'm
mediately. The letters say that the
detectives had better be called off ano
contain a mysterious sentence, Re
member June 10 at II M
This woman knew Of the strong af-
lection of the Tonkins for their child,
and it Is believed that because of her
enmity toward the mother she may
have conceived the fiendish s-hen.c Of
sending the letters and drawings
which resulted in the awful mental
torture of Mrs. Tonkin.
Although the detectives do not say
that the unnamed woman is RESPONSE
bic for the letters, they assert that
they have discovered certain coincf-
deDces in her movements with those
OF Mrs. Tonkin which call for an ex-
PLANTATION. When Mrs. Tonkfn and
Rosamond left Oswego six months
ago and moved to Breton Hall
Eighty-sixth street and Broadway.
New York, the woman suddenly found
that she also had business in New
York. Two weeks after Mrs. Tonl1in
left this city the woman followed and
lived four blocks from the wife of the
millionaire 1t is recalled by the de-
tectives that the first threatening let
ter received In New York arrived about
two weeks after Mrs. Tonlaa went to
Breton Hall.
One of the detectives said another
peculiar feature Of the case is that
when, three months after, Rosamond
was in Oswego a man suddenly ap-
preached her and tried to walk eff
with her; he was headed in the direc-
tion OF this woman's home when lie
was intercepted by the doorman of the
hotel.
The Washington times., 1905-06-11
Girl Under Restraint.

! Mrs. Tonkfn. who also spoke of the
| case. is of middle age. stately in appear
ance, With a mass of dark hair In a
well moduiated musical voice she told
without reserve of her worry as a re-
suit of the letters
'"The strain for the last two years
has simply been dreadful" she said.
land l feel that I cannot bear IT much
longer. Somett.-E 71E.s. he done to re-
lieve the anxiety which ] have felt. and
1t must be done soon. In the six months
that l was In New York l never LEI
Rosamond get out of my sight She has
been guarded Constantly for the last
two years. and she is never permitted
out of the view of some one who Is able.
to protect her. We have our servants
as wei as detectives watching her, but
even their vigilance does not relieve tire
strain under which l am kept constant
ly.
when ] returned 10 Oswego from
New York l brought with me new SER
wants. These have been instructed new
er 20 permi, the back doors to remain
unlocked. Rosamond is not even per-
m!tted to play in the garden alone
Some one must be with her or she can
not leave the house. Our coachman Is
armed all the time and should anyone
attempt to take her from him when ont
driving there Will be an end to the LET
tcr-writing. No one but q coward could
write the letters we have received. Tho
writer undoubtedly knows how dear The
child is to me and how worried the LET
tiers have kept me. have left the city
In order to be out of reach of the
anonymous coward, but somehow he has
always found out my whereabouts and
continued sending the letters Although
private detectives of every dissertation
The Washington times., 1905-06-11
Work of Personal Enemy?

Unfortunately, however the findings
OF the detectives do not warr;lnt the
belief in this theory, but rather iEcJ:ne
to the personal enemy theory. Tifcrs-
fore they are looking up the move
ments of a woman who may be at the
bottom OF the plot to steal the child,
or whose motive may be merely to
keep the family in a state of terror,
and thus feed fat an ancient grudge.
It is said that this woman has an
accomplice in a young man who has a
dual personality 1t is limited, too,
that this dual personality is due to
her baneful influence over him. The
man is we'll known, 1t is said, in New
York and Oswego. Under ordinary cir
cumstances this young man Is pos
sessed of charming manners, and is
the soul of honor and good fellowship
but when he is in the grasp Of the
woman, who is also young and beau
tiful. he Is capable of any crime.
The e1mity of this woman toward the
Tonkins, ii is known, began Just be-
fore the first threatening letter arrived.
When suspicion was directed toward
her the handwriting of the letters was
compared to her writing, but no resem-
blance was found. This Is the contra
dictory feature of the case the detec-
tives saying that X is hard TO believe
she would take another into the plot. al
though the fact that 4 man tried to
walk off with the girl would indicate
that II the woman is at tia bottom Of
the insidious scheme TO harass or black
mail the Tonkins she die have a con-
federate.
If sufficient evidence should develop
against the woman and her arrest fol-
low. Oswego will have a sensation sec
ond 10 none in Its history. She is Of one
of the best families in the State, al
though most OF the parents wealth was
lost about four years ago.
The Washington times., 1905-06-11

through our long absence. We delved
and span here in the East; but we were
following with loving eyes the hewing
and drawing back in Indiana.
So it was the peace of two homes
which presided over me turmoil of the
fortnight following my talk with Mr.
Drake 1t began with two days OF dis
turbapce in our new house. The rooms
were filed with the daughters little
clothes, hanging from chairs, mantels
tables, bureaus, and everything else tc
dry There was trunk tray in every
doorway. Meals were caught up. as An
ME described one-half of the culinary
process, and showed down, which was
the other half We could not have been
more upset over a tour of Europe
Once in the train we had time to re-
fleet upon the breadth of Mr.. brakes
word He had promised transportation
and good pay. In a single envelope he
mad given US two round-trip tickets tC
indianapolis, a ticket for the drawing
room of Pullman SLEEPING car, a check
for 800. and slip of blue scratch paper
OF the kind We used in the office in
scribed please receipt to Ambrose
Drake
We had abundant time to talk owe,
L
daughter slept most of the way, waking
in dreadful fright. now and then. as 8
train belched past on the other track;
but that was practically our only inter
ruptfon- Half through the night we
talked, and then way into the next day,
until we had passed Shelbyville and
were leaning against the windows. peer
Ing &c see Indianapolis as far away as
possible.
That Annie was proud ana happy
anyone could see. She leaned over
every little while to pat my knee, or
stroke my forearm. or say, I'm very
happy, dearie-" Once she told me. shv-
iy: used to imagine such a home
coming as this, Philip. You as an
officeholder going back to make
speeches and | with a little daughter
to show to our mothers
In my anxiety that my wife should
appreciate the portent of this journey
talked of little else. As a matter OF
TACT she saw it all as clearly as |.
Yet we covered the ground again and
again
had been appointed as a merit
man. ] had done merit" work. | had
relied upon merit" security to keep me
in office. And what had been the re-
suit?
The Washington times., 1905-06-11
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der the circumstances, this Is impossi-
bic, and it will remain so until the
scoundrel who has been sending the let
tiers is discovered There is something
terrifying in the feeling that you may
be stabbed in the dark We do not know
how or when the designs spoken of in
the letters may be carried out, and l do
lot feel safe to be away from Rosamond
for even single minute. II we could
only discover the writer of the letters
we would pay the $4,000 willingly for the
relief which We would feel would be
worth all of that to us.
I'm Breton Hall all the employees of
the place were told to keep a sharp
watch on Rosamond even when she was
in the lobby. But even under their
watchful care she was not permitted
outside of the door unless 1 was with
her My great hope now is that the
large reward We have offered may result
IL the discovery of the writer Of the let
ters.''
The Washington times., 1905-06-11
Continued from Fifth Page.)

into his arm chair with his feet on his
desk
Come in, young man." he called,
and messenger who was passing
turned to see who I was. Wont you
come in? What's the matter? You
look under the weather.
Il guess I am" 1 replied. II was
soaked hard enough on that examina-
ton for promotion. but I've just been
soaked harder yet" With which 1
told the story Of my -'chiefship.'
speaking of it then as 1 write of ii
now, in quotation marks.
Lord, Lord unused the old man.
IT'S a funny world, amt it? There
you are MAJ as a March hare because
you have to do the work without bein'
chief, and here I am mad as a hor-
net because / have to be chief with
out any work to do. But you know
only about half your own story The
rest of it is that Colonel Powell has
resigned. What d you think of that?
The Washington times., 1905-06-11
The Band Led the Way.

The band led the way down Liberty
street-past Or. Lewis house, with the
whole family on the porch; the Baptist
minister's house. he was a Democrat:
and the postmasters house, hung with
japanese 1anterns-to my old home
Every front room in the little, old,
brown house was yellow with the light
of oil lamps: In the doorway stood my
mother. black shadow in a rectangia
of bright light. Two or three neighbors
stepped up to the surrey as il stopped
and helped Annie. out But Bo Gardner.
who had sprung into the seat beside me
as father left it. held me in my place.
He stood still for moment, leaning
forward to be clear of the carriage top,
and then shouted: Some one stop that
music ceased and the air became
strangely empty.
Now. my friends" shouted Bo.
oratorically we will hear from the
brilliant young felIow-townsn1an we
have all gathered TO welcome tonight.
L do not need TO introduce to YOU. his
boyhood ASSOCIATES. the rising young
lawyer and official of the National Gov
eminent the Hon. Philip Schuyler
Under cover of the shouting that fol-
lowed. | stepped TO the drivers seat. L
escort as an organization of my friends.
But when | heard my voice sound
against the Wiiloughbys' barn and re-
Elected that these We're the very men
a town joke 1 whirled into a general
discussion OF the campaign issues which
nearly carried me off my feet | stop
ped, with difficulty, after about ten min
utes. If cheering counts for anything
the speech was great success
The club countermarched past the
carriage to go back to the square but
did not wait to see il. / jumped to the
ground and ran up the walk to the
group I knew would be standing on tbs
steps. As | reached it my mother step-
ped toward me and put her hands on
my shoulders.
Philip, my boy she began. Then
her voice broke and she exclaimed. with
the tears running down her checks:
Thank the dear Lord you've come homs
at lastr'