The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-12


young Englisbnan, has lost the mon
ey with which he was to pay his pass
age out to India. He lends Captain
Blaydes G35, the amount of his pass
age money, and in return gets {
worthless check, which leaves hin
penniless. He confesses his error tc
Claire Harding, his boyhood sweet
heart
Thames Edward William Dain
tree is in love with Claire.
III-Tom finds out that Captain
Blaydes is paying attention to Claire
and is to be at her house that night
He vows to have satisfaction from
Blaydes, but promises Claire that he
will not seek Blaydes for two weeks
Tom meets Blaydes a few moments
late and demands his 335.
W.-Blaydes draws a sword cane on
Tom, who smashes it with heavy
stick which he carries. Blaydes has
not the money, but gives Tom his
gold watch, and Tom signs an agree
ment to pawn the watch and give the
ticket to Blaydes. Tom leaves and
is accosted by a deformed man, who
asks the time. The next morning
Blaydes is found brutally murdered
beside the stiIe where he had been
talking to Tom.
V.-Blaydes has been robbed of ev-
erything, among which the newspapers
mention the gold watch which was
really given to Tom. Tom had stopped
for the night at the house of the man
who was driving the coach at the time
Tom met BlaydeS. He is accused by
the coachman of being the murderer
He escapes and DISCUSSES himself, but
is afraid to pawn the watch.
VI-Tom spends the night in
boathouse and next day is invited in
to the house of small fat gentleman,
the owner, who does his best to make
him feel at home. He is betrayed by
this man into the hands of the police
for the murder of Blaydes.
VII-Claire believes him guilty. Mr..
Harding hires a lawyer to see Tom.
The lawyer thinks Tom is guilty and
insults him in his cell. Tom throws
him out
VIII-Claire gets Daintree to retain
Bassett, one of the best criminal law
yers in England, to plead Toms cause.
K-Tom is held for the next Grim
inal sessions court.
X.-Claire's maid has overheard the
conversation between Claire and Tom
ON the night of the murder, when Tom
swore he would get even with Blaydes
ii he had to kill him to do it. The Z
maid compels Claire to give her some
of her Jewels as hush money
XI-Tom is convicted OF murder in
the first degree.
XII-Tom is placed in the con-
demned cell.
XIII-Toms sentence is committed
TO transportation for life. Il
XIV-Claire's engagement to Dain-
tree is announced. The latter's faith J.
or warns Claire's father against Dain-
tree. XV.-Tom, as convict in Aus
tralia, is bound out to the Sullivans, |
d peculiar and harsh family. who live
far in the interior at place dubbed
Castle Sullivan.
XVI-Tom meets the cook, Peggy
OBrien. Nat Sullivan, who is in
love with her, becomes insanely
jealous. Tom finds a man giving
stolen goods in exchange for some
liquor. Later the man is caught and
given fifty lashes. He thinks that
Tom ''peached." XVII-Nat Sullivan
is foiled by Tom in scheme by
which the latter would have been
logged. Later in the night he meets
Peggy with Nat and accuses him indi-
rectly of the trick. Peggy sides with
Tom, and Nat attempts to strike her.
Tom knocks him down.
XvIII-Tom is sentenced to fifty
Iashes. He breaks away and knocks
old man Sullivan down, but is caught
and gets hundred.
.s... .-..-s =. LED VIII be the pct
ter understood when it is explained
that the courthouse was not a house at
all. but mere ring OF weather board
huts. of which the justice room was
one. the lookup another the constables'
quarters third and a store and sta
bic fourth and fifth. The yard thus
formed was Furthermore Enclosed by n
brushwood fence. broken only between
the stables and the justice room. where
there was gate instead. and in the
very center of this open space blot
ting the edge of the deep sky and scor
Ing the dazzling earth with shadows
like scars. stood that worse than gal
lows. at which men were beaten into
brutes and hrutes into devils week
after week throughout the year.
A sergeant and two consta bles form
ed the garrison of this lodge of law !
and order il; the wilderness. The SER
geant was an emancipist. and Of the
trio only one had come to the country
ON his own account The third was
actually a convict at this very time q
and a glaring rufian into the bargain | (
Originally a butcher boy. who had 6
robbed his master IN the City road, be d
still smacked of the slaughter house /
with his raw red face and cruel eye. i.
and on this young felon devolved the 6
congenial task of administering the
lash. 4
In such hands Tom was led to the
triangles. with 4 white face. but quick S
ened eyes The ticket OF leave over
seer was also of the party. filling his 4
pipe and grinniEg to himself between
his flaming whiskerS. like man pre- 1
pared TO enjoy the thing thoroughly
The sergeant, however. made him I
stand back little. though with wink
rs he touched the culprit on the shout u