The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-22
Strange Solution of Some Mysteries

not al that he appeared upon the sur
face. He was a man OF fierce passions
and Of q crafty mind.
his victim was q young girl belong
Ing 10 poor family IN the neighbor-
hoed, whose disappearance created i'm
mense sensation among the tOwnsfolk.
M Brace was specially active in try
Ing TO clear up the mystery. and he
was accustomed at the end of each
days work TO visit Peilly to talk the
matter over and discuss the next step
and have a game of dFaughts and q
glass or whisky with him.
One day NJ. Barace received, to his
intense surprise, a letter IN Peilly's
handwriting and bearing his signature.
1t seemed like the letter of a madman.
In II Petlly related how he had muir
dered his victim; how he had baffied
Baraoe; and made some remarks upon
that gentleman's sagacfty OF by no
means fietteFing nature.
Investigation corroborated beyond all
question the truth of the statements
made IN the letter. Yet Peilly to the
clearly proven, he confessed all-there
were details in it which. as he admit
ted, could only have been known to
himself, and the handwriting was his;
yet Petlly with his dying breath de-
clared the letter was not hisl The
most pleasible explanation suggested
appears one put forward by an emil
nent French savant, that Peilly wrote
the letter and sent 1t while in a SOM
nambuliscio state.
In case tried by Mr.. Baron Alder
son the crime was revealed, as the
prosecuting barrister declared, "by one
of those strange and unaceountable i'm
pulses which one finds taking possess
sion Of guilty persons and urging them
on to some mad step which makes flu
tile all the precautions they have taken
to defeat punishment"
In this case the accused was charged
with the murder Of an old gentleman
and Of having robbed him of his purse
and OF a peculiar ancient silver watc1
The watch the murderer hid in the
| trunk of a hollow tree and with the
money he had stolen he went abroad
to the colonies, where he prospered.
| For no less than ten years he lived in
| the colony, adding year by year to his
means. Whether during the whole Of
| that time he was haunted by the nlsm-
Org OF the old silver watch in the hol-
| low tree is unknown, but at the end Of
! that time he actually male a voyage
to England to obtain It.
| Paying stealthy visit to the scene
| OF his forgotten crime ne found the
|
| not go, however, and he took 1t TO q
| matchmaker to have it repaired, when
| it's strange make and antiquity reused
| the jewelers. curiosity. He suddenly
| recalled the fact that The old gentle
man murdered ten years since had
| been described as possessed Ct such a
watch, and communicated with the po-
lice. It led to the guilty mans convic-
ton.
! In a famous case heare at Manches-
/ ter IN 1888, before Mr.. Justice Charles
/ a pic sentiment played a strange part
A man named Gordon, a partner with
his father and brother in a furniture
| business at Manchester, one day failed
| to put IN an appear nee at thz head
| establishment. His re atives became
| oppressed with the glOomIest forebOd-
ings, and proceeding in search Of him
| visited a branch shop of theirs at
Bury, ar that time in charge of nan
| ager named Dukes.
| Dukes declared that young Mr.. Cor
don had been there ana ha7 left many
hours before. But a terrible PRESENT.
ment filled the heart of the missing
mans bro hsr that he was still! on the
premises. Dukes bale them search
the place and proceeded with The 20
| thew hal interrupted him m-placing
| some fuIuitG4e (Which he said ut lady
had that day purchased) IN p FAr- 20 he
taken away. Among the furniture vas
| 8. wardrobe, which young Gordon dis
covered was locked, and to which no
KEY was to be found. He ordered 1t to
be broken open, and discovered Inside
the body OF his brotherl he had been
murdered by Dukes!