The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-11
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters.
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Synopsis OF Preceding Chapters.
CHAPTER Thomas Erickson. a
young EnglisnEnan, 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 a
worthless check, which leaves him
penniless. He confesses lis error TO
Claire Harding, his boyhood sweet
heart.
H.-James Edward William Dain-
tree is in love with claire
IT-Tonl finds out that Captain
Blaydes is paying attention to Claire
and is to be at her house tina. 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 e35.
IV.-Blaydes draws a sword cane on
Tom. who smashes it with a 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 BIaydes. Tom leaves and
is accosted by a deformed man, who
asks the time The next morning
Blaydes is found brutally murdered
beside the stile where he had been
talking to Tom.
V.-BIaydes has been robbed of eY-
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.
VT-Tom spends the night in a
boathouse and next day is invited in
10 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.
yII-Claire believes him guilty. iIr.
Harding hires lawyer to see Tom.
The lawyer thinks Tom is guilty and
insults him in his cell. Tom throws
bin out
EIII-Claire gets Daintree TO retain
Bassett. one of the best criminal law
yers IN England. to plead Toms cause. /
IX-Tom is held for the next Grim /
inai sessions court.
N.-Ciaire'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
if he had TO kill him to do it. The
maid compels Claire to give her some
of ner jewels as hush money.
XI-Tom is convicted of murder in
the first degree.
AII-Tom Is placed in the con-
demned cell.
XIII-Tom's sentence is committed
to transportation for life.
XIV-Claire.s engagement to Dain-
Tree is announced The latter's faith
n warns Claire's father against Dain-
tree. XN-Tom, as u convict in Aus
tralia. is bound ont TO the Suligans.
4 peculiar and harsh family, who live
tar in the interior at Il place dubbed
Castle Sullivan
NVI-Tom meets the cook, Peggy
O'Brien. 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 iashes 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-
-ectly of the trick Peggy sides with
rom. and Nat attempts to strike her.
rem knocks him down.