The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-05-24

CAPTAIN Peter Carey. He was born IL
+S-fifty years of age. He was a mos
caring and successful seal and whale
fisher, In 1855 he commanded The
steam sealer Sea Unicorn, of Dundee
He had then had several successful
voyages in succession. md In the fol,
lowing year. 1854. he retired. After
that he travelled for some years, ant
finally he bought a small place called
Woodman's Lee. near Forest Row. ir
Sussex. There he has lived for six
years. and there he died just a week
ago today.
There wers some most singular
points about the man. In ordinary life
no was a strict Puritan-a silent
gloomy fellow. His household consisted
OF his wife. his daughter, aged
twenty, AID two female servants.
These last were continually chang
ing, for it was never a very CHEEKY sit
uation, n sometimes it became past
all bearing. The man was an inter-
mittent ~drunkard. and when he had the
lit on him he was a 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.
He was summoned once for n 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 a more dangerous nan 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 &C
count of-his sWarthy features and the
color Of his huge beard. but for the
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around him. I need not say this he
was loathed and avoided by every one
of his n~eighbors, and that I have not
heard one single word Of sorrow about
his terrible end.
You must nave read In the account
of the inquest about the mans cabin,
Mr.. Holmes, but perhaps your friend
here has not heard of It. He had u!lt
himself a wooden outhouse-he always
called 1t the 'cabin'-a few hundred
yards from his house, and 1t was here
that he slept every night. 1t was a lit
tie. single-roomed hut, sixteen feet by
ten. He kept the key in his pocket,
made his aown 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 and never opened. One Of
THESE windows was turned towards the
high road, and when the light burned
In 1t at night the ok used 10 point it
out to each other and wonder VIA
Black Peter was doing in there. That's
the window, Mr.. Holmes. which gave
US one OF the few bits of positive evil
dence that came out at the inquest.
You remember that a
named Slater, walking from Forest
Row about l o'clock in the morning
two days before the murder-stopped
as he passed the grounds and looked
at the square of light still shining
among the trees. He swears that the
shadow of a mans head turned side
avs was clearly visible on the blind,
and that his shadow was certainly not
that of Peter Carey. whom he knew
well. 1t was that of a bearoed man.
but the beard was short and bristled
forwards in a way very different from
that of the captain. So he says. but
he had beer two hours in the public
house, and it is some distance from the
road to the window. Besides. this re-
fers to the Monday. and the crime was
done upon the Wednesday.
on the Tuesday, Peter Carey was in
one OF his blacklist moods. flushed with
drink n as savage as a dangerous
wild beast. He roamed about the
house, and the women ran for it when
they heard him coming. Late in the
evening he went down to his own hut.
-hcShA - v NUN TIE morning.
his daughter, who slept with her Win
dow open. heard a nest fearful veil
from that direction, but it was no un-
usual thing for him to bawl and shout
when he was in drink, SO no notice was
taken. On rising at Z, one of the maids
noticed that the door of the hut was
open, but so great was the terror which
the man caused that 1t was midday be-
fore anyone would venture down to see
what had become of him. Peeping, into
the open door, they saw a sight which
sent them flying. with white faces. into
the village. Within an hour, I was on
the spot and had taken over the case.
wen. l have fairly steady nerves, as
you know. Mr.. Holmes, but I give you
ny WORD, that l got a shake when
put my head into that little house. RI
was droning like a harmonium with the
lies n ~bluebottles, and the floor and
walls were like a slaughter house. He
had called 1t a cabin, and a cabin it
was, sure enough, for you would have
thought that you We're In q ship. There
was a bunk at n end. a sea chest,
maps charts. .. picture of the Sea
Unicorn, a line Of logbooks on a shelf,
all exactly as one would expect to find
1t IN a captains room. And there, in
the middle of 1t. was the man himself
his face twisted like a lost soul in tor
ment, and his great brindled beard
stuck upwards in his agony. Right
through his broad breast a steel har-
poon had been driven, and it had sunk
deep into the God OF the wall behind
him. He was pinned like a beetle on a
card. Of course. he was quite dead, and
had been so from the instant that he
had uttered that last yell Of agony.
u know your methods. sir. and I APP
piled them, Before I permitted any
thing to be moved, 1 examined most
carefully the ground outside. and also
footmarks.''
Meaning that you saw none?"
II assure you. sir, that there were
none"