Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-09-26
might have kept some tobacco for his
friends


However, my friend, DR.. Watson.
knows nothing of this matter, and 1
Should be none the worse for hearing
the sequence of events once more. Just
give us some short sketches of the es-
sentials."
Stanley Hopkins drew slip of paper
from his pocket.
Il have a few dates here which will
give you the career of the dead man.
Captain Peter Carey. He was born in
'4o-ffty years of age. He was
most daring and successful seal and
whale fisher. In 1883 he commanded
the steam sealer Sea Unicorn of Dun
dee. He had then had several success
ful voyages in succession, and in the
following year, 1884, he retired. After
that he Travelled for some years, and
finally he bought small place called
Woodlands Lee, near Forest Row, in
Sussex. There he has lived for six
years, and there he died Just q week
ago today.
There We're some most singular
points about the man. In ordinary
life he was a strict Puritan-a silent
gloomy fellow. His household consist
ed of his wife. his daughter, aged
twenty, and two female servants
These last Were continually changing,
for 1t was never a CHEEKY situation, and
sometimes it became past all bearing
The man was an intermittent drunk
ard, and. when he had the fit on him he
was perfect fiend. He has been
known to drive his wife and daughter
out Of doors in the middle of the night
and fog them through the park until
the Whole village outside the gates
was aroused by their screams.
Tie was summoned once for saw
age assault upon the old vicar, who
had called upon him to demonstrate
With him upon his conduct. In short,
Mr.. Holmes, you would go far before
you found more dangerous man than
Peter Carey, and l have heard that
he bore the same character when he
commanded his ship. He was known
In the trade as Black Peter, and the
name was given him not only on ac-
count of his swarthy features and the
color OF his huge beard, but for the
humors which were the terror of all
around him. l need not say that he
was loathed and avoided by every one
Of his neighbors and that have not
heard one single word Of sorrow about
his terrible end.
You must have read in the account
OF the inquest about the mans cabin
Mr.. Holmes, but perhaps your frienc
here has not heard of it. He had bull,
a wooden outhouse-he always called
It the 'cabin'-a few hundred yards
from his house, and it was here that
ne slept every night, 1t was a little
single roomed but 16 by 10. He kept
the Key In his pocket, made his owr
bed, cleaned it himself and allowed
no other foot to cross the threshold
There are small windows on each side
Which Were covered by curtains ant
never opened. One Of these windows
was turned toward the highroad, ani
| when the light burned in it at nigh
the folk used to point it out to eacl
other aud wonder what Black Pete,
was doing in there. That's the win
dow, Mr.. Holmes, which gave as on,
of the few bits Of positive evidenc,
that came out at the inquest.
you remember that q stonemasol
named Slater, walking from Fores
Row about l',oselock in the mornin.
two days before the murder, stopped
as he passed the grounds and looked
at the square Of light still shinin,
among the trees. He swears that tn
shadow Of mans head turned side
ways was clearly Visible on the bin
and that this shadow was certainl
not that of Peter Carey, whom
knew well. 1t was that of bearde
man, but the beard was short an
bristled forward in way very dil
ferent from that Of the captain. S
be says, but he had been two hours
i the public house, and it is some dis
lance from the road to the window
Besides, this refers to the Monday, an
the crime was done upon the Wedpe.
day.
son the Tuesday Peter Carey was i
one of his blacklist moods, flushed wit
DRINK and as savage as a dangeror
wild beast He roamed about IL
house, and the women ran for it whe
they heard him coming. Late in Ii
evening he went down to his own hu
About 2 O'clock the following mornin
his daughter, who slept with her vii
dow open, heard a most fearful We
from that direction, but 1t was no III
usual thing for him to bawl and sho,
when he was IN drink, so no motto
was taken. On rising at one Of Il
maids noticed that the door Of the b,
was open, but so great was the terr'
which the man caused that 1t was mi
dag before any one would ventu
down to see what had become Of hi1
Peeping into the open door, they sa
sight which sent them flying wi
| white faces into the village. With
an hour was on the spot and hi
taken over the case.
"Well, I have fairly steady nerves,
you know, Mr.. Holmes, but give "
my word that got shake when p
my head into that little house. 1t w
, droning like harmonium with the I'll
and bluebottles. and the floor and wa
! were like a slaughter house. He hi
called it cabin, and cabin it we
9 sure enough, for you would ha
!. thought that you were IN a ship. The
, was q bunk at one end, q sea che
. maps and Charts. picture of the S
IInjoaup a lina Of loohool,s IN n she
. all exactly as one would expect to fl
1t in captains room. And there,
the middle of it, was the man himself
:. his face twisted like lost soul in tt
$ ment, and his great brindled bea
. stuck upward In bis agony. Rig
i 1, Is hnand nrf stool HI