The Washington times., 1908-11-08
The Three Men Appeared as lie Opened
the Door

the Door
"Tis is the truth about what took
place at my late establishment In
Lower Abbey street I'm Dublin. Richard
CIaye, oE Jcmes Creighton, by both ~
which names / knew him. came 20 my
place one morning and said he want
ed 20 be kept quiet for a bit. and I
knew he'd been mp 20 some Of his
games. but didn't know what.
..He put ON one Of his dissuises, and
he went about Dublin for a day OF
TWO. and nobody would have known
him-he lunched at the hotel where
the robbery had been done opposite
the lady he'd robbed and Davidson
there. and they didn't know him from
Adam-he was chat clever at dis
g5ises.
"But I didn't know anything about
the diamonds. Ee never told me "a
word ON she second day, In comes a
chap with black patch over one
eve. and after a bit of fencing aoout
he tells me that his name was BaEeG-
dale ana that he and Claye had ar
ranged TO set the diamonds, and that
Claye had played a trick on him. got
them himself. and cleared out.
''Baxeadsle mad recognized him IN
my bar bv the tattoo marks ou his
wrist and 10y the short finger on one or
his bands Raxendale was so mad
with CIaye that he proposed TO me
20 go into partnership with him with
the notion Of clearing Claye out OF the
way and getting the diamonds for
ourselves
II told him Td think about it, and
I locked him uD in a private room at
the fop OF the house. with plenty II
whisky 60 make him comfortable And
there I left him, and / waited tin
CIaye comes En-. and as soon as ne
came I told him about Baxendale."
A. this point Mr. IIiIner became
little faint and was obliged to ask for
stimulaut. Tie presently recovered
himself and continued the narrative.
eft was Claye who killed Bazendale
he shot him through the brain in the
little room ar the top Of the back
stairs. Then, bit later on. Davidson
there came mquirIng about BaXendale.
and ! had 10 invent an excuse. But I
was certain that Davidson would come
back and search the house-thoUgh he
never di5-and I told CIaye that we
should have TO get Baxendale's body
OUT Of the way
I'VE carried It down 10 the bottom
cellars between US. knew OF sort
OF extra cellar beneath that where we
could put him. We got him down
there-and ali OF q sudden tt dashed
across me that II / could trap Claye
there I had hiH ard the diamonds,
too.
There wasn't anybody could live in
thar hole very long, and knew there
were swarms Of sewer rats come in
there that would have eaten a live
elephant. And so I frightened Claye
into stopping down there. saying that
the police were Al the door. and ] ran
mp and ] let the heavy naggtone down
into its socket. and there he was
Gagged"
It was necessary TO give Mr. kiineT
further stiuuIant. His memories ar
this point appeared TO be giving hin'
great deal Of trouble. But present
lv he went on
20 iidH so near him for as long as
could help. 7 kept on some time
cause. you see. I knew that rats
wouldn't eat diamonds. Al last I went.
And this Is what ] want 60 say as the
solemn truth. Tn accused Of murdes-
InS tlaye I'm as innocent Of Claye's
death as the child unborn. He killed
himself
Il swear thai the real truth is that
when I went down there 90 get the dia
uunds. which knew Ile carried about