New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-08-09

nave Deen very lone, since che ~,
not only dead and buried under thos1
accumulated cushions. but IN Z room
some little distance from the tele.
phone" Ys
That win do for ne" sajd ha. .'but
scarcely for those who ars pre1udtced
AGAINST You. aEvsfythins points %
ln@SpotabIy to your guilt The note
Whsch you say you wrote 20 Carmel to
- you ct The station looks very
much moro Ike, one to Mis- Cumber.
land TO mset you at the clubhousess
II was thus I llrst learned which
part OF this letter had been burned OF.
Il was the top portion. leaving the rsst
q, Rad:
Come. coma my darling. my life! She
WI forgive when ali . done. Hesitation
WI only undo u. Tonight e lo:1a I
ehAu never marry any but you. b
IT was also evident that z: had fail.
- 70 add those, expressions OF aifec.
don linked to Carmel's name which
had been in, my mind and awakened
my keenest apprehension.
otherwise" pursued Clifton. ''what
could have taken her there7 These
lines said Gomez and she went for
reasons which may be clear to you.
who were acquainted with her weak
- we'll as strong points. Went how?
No one knows. By chance or by in.
tendon on her part or yours. every
servant was out of the house BY o
o'clock. and her brother too. Only the
sister remained, the sister whom you
profess to have urged to leave the
town with you that very evening, and
she can tell US nothing-may die with
out ever being able to do so. Some
shock to her feelings-you may know
its character and you may not-drove
her from a state Of apparent health
into the widest delirium in a few
hours. 1t was not your letter-if your
story Is true about that letter-or she
would have shown its effect immedi-
ately upon receiving it-that is, in the
early evening And she did not. Hell
en-. one Of the maids, declares that she
saw her some time after you left the
house and that she wore anything but
q troubled look; that, in fact, her coun-
tenance was beaming and beautiful"
Carmel, beaming and beautiful at an
hour had supposed her suffering and
full of struggle! could not reconcile
1t with the letter she had written me.
The lawyer proceeded with his pres
entaton of my case as 1t looked to
eyes.
Miss Cumberland comes to the club
house; so do you. You have not the
keys and so 60 searching about the
building till you find an unlocked win
dow. by which you both enter. There
are those who say you purposely left
this window unfastened when you
went about the house the day before;
that you dropped the keys in her house
where they would be sure to be found
and drove down to the station and
stood about there for good half hour
IN order to divert suspicion from your.
self afterward and create an alibi in !
case 1t should be wanted I do not |
believe any of this myself. but there
are those who do. Your passion for
Carmel. while not generally known, has
not passed unsupported by your or
her intimates. and this in itself is
enough to give color to these suspi.
lions even If you had not gone so far
Is to admit its power over you and
he extremes to which you were will
ng to 60 to secure the wife you wish
d.. So much for the situation as 1t
lppears to outsiders. OF the circum-
tantial evidence which links you per-
onally to this crime we have already
poken. 1t is very strong and appar-
ntly unassailable."
Charles" I asked, chow do they
ccount for the cordial that was drunk
the two emptied glasses and the
ask which were found in the adjacent
loset?"
"It's one of the affairs conceded in.
ongruities. Miss Cumberland was a
ell known temperance woman. Had
le flask and glasses not come from
er house you would get no one to be-
eve that she had had anything to do
18th them. Have you any hint to
We on this point? 1t would be well ]
)me addition to our case" t
Coroner Perry speaks of third {
I'd unused glass which was found s
18th the flask" ventured tentatively. q
lie seemed to consider it an important q
en-" :
ut is curious circumstance. will 6
AXE a note of it. You have no sug- s
stions to offer on the subject" 7
"None." L
"rhe clew is a small one" he smiled. d
$50 is the one offered by the array
bottles found on the kitchen table,
t the latter may lead directly to the
18th. Adelaide never dug those out d
the cellar where they were locked D
I, and I'm sure I did not. Yet l y
ppose I'm given credit for doing n