The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-26

mystery ended suddenly forever What
that mystery was never would be
known now-ah, but it most certainly
would be knOwni The doctor would
tell it in palliation Of-palliatiOn? Yes.
or justification, what might seem JUS
LITIGATION to him. For there was but
one explanation of that murder. The
evidence all pointed TO 1.-THE locked
doors, the key whose hiding place
could be known only to an inmate of
the house the professional knots, the
chloroform, the large number of valu-
ables left untouched. and the few
taken as if to send suspicion astray,
the absence of footprints in the snow,
the couples attitude toward each
other, and, above all, the great secret
of the enstrangement. There was no
plainly in the circumstances as if il
had been carefully set down in black
and white. Driven to desperation by
the misery into which she had plunged
him. and most likely unhinged in mind,
he had done this terrible thing. And
this was the end of him as for her?
What a finish for a career that had be-
gun and for twenty years continued so
brilliantly.
DR. Furnivall was eating his break
fast when the news of the crime, cou-
pied with the request from the prison
that he would call upon him, was
brought by an officer of the police sta
ton, and a few minutes later he sat
face to face with the man he so highly
honored for his early achievements,
and whose domestic tragedy had long
been known to him in the version cur
rent in the profession. He found him,
as reported, an old man in appearance.
M in haa I'd x1-l1f q
stoop in his shoulders as of care a
trembling hand and the pallid. wrin-
killed. skin of fast approaching decrepi-
tude. The eyes, however, were I'M
dinmed. Black, steady, full of fire,
they might have been those of a per-
son of so but. hidden behind gold
trimmed speCtacles. and their power
somewhat yelled in addition by Gu
riously puffed lids, which gave him
the appearance of usually booking
downward, they took nothing from the
effect of age, unless one looked directly
into them.
Il requested you TO CALL DR.. Furni-
vail" he began, speaking evenly, as if
it were matter of every day business,
because | have heard of your notable
successes along the lines of hypnotism.
and in the interests of Justice" He
paused. and then asked abruptly. do
you believe 1 am guilty?"
''No." said DR.. Furnivall at once.
And added: II may say that 1 know
you are innocent"
Your reasons?" The question shot
out in the tones of an alert man of af-
fairs, and the black eyes examined DR..
Furnivalrs face with suddenly awak-
ened interest.
Because YOU are not bungler. Ac-
cording to the story the officer told
me on the way, here, every sign points
to you. and you only. II you had COM
mitted the crime it would not be so.
Not single sign would indicate your
hand i'm the tragedy. Besides. had il
been in you to do it at all YOU would
have done it years ago. quietly and
skillfully"
All" the old man exclaimed. ut
really seems as if others might have
thought of that But no natter What
wished to say is this: / have no no
ton who the criminal is not the least
But that woman at the house, Mrs
Partridge, may be able to tell some
thing if you can make her talk There
was some bond between my wife and
her 1 don't know its nature. but it
was very strong. They used to weep in
each others arms every day, / should
think, beginning some five years ago.