The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-04-15
BY ORVILLE GRANT

last century man alghted from the
daily mail coach before the Royal
Arms. IN Londonderry, ireland. The
porter took down a large trunk, or.
rather, ronbound box such as was
frequently used by travellers in those
days, and carried 1t into the inn,
The man was dressed in the costume
of the period beaver bat, the crown
sloping toward the top: "spiketaif
green coat. with snuff colored knee
brceches. rutied SHIRT and shoes with
silver buckles His face was Clearly
| shaven.
The stranger entered his name as Al
| gerpop Perkins and was assigned to
room No 20. on the second floor
| Drawing out his wallet he counted out
100 soveregns $500, and deposited
! them with the landlord for safe keep
| ing. He then went to bis room. order
| ing his supper to be sent up to him,
| About 10 O'Clock the same hight
| man with a fiery red beard, beaver
! bell crown hat, buff coat with now
ing skirt aud trousers. recently IN
| fashion tight to the skin and strapped
| over his instcp, entered the same inn.
gave his name as David Brough and
called for room.
81 should like my old rooms" he
said. Nos. 25 and 26."
The landlord failed to remember the
man. but. not caring to admit the fact,
told him that No 20 was occupied
but % was vacant With an express
sion OF dissatisfaction at not getting
both rooms he accepted the substitute
Then he went upstairs
Later MIR Brough in his nightsbirt |
opened his door, called porter VINO |
was passing through the hall, slipped |
half sovereign into his band and
said to him:
I'm to 90 off in the Royal mail ear
Iy in the morning and wish my trunk
to be ready to lift on to the coach
Carry it down and leave 1t IL the hall |
below. near the front door
The porter pocketed the tip. car
ried the trunk downstairs and placed
IT beside the front door. The landlord.
who was nodding behind the bar,
reused himself and asked what he was
| doing. The porter told him that
Il gentleman WHO was going early in the
| morning had ordered him to place the
trunk where it would be ready The
landlord soon after took up d candle
and went to bis rooms
| AT 8 O'Clock in the morning a milk
man. stopping at the Royal Arms to
deliver milk saw a man with red
beard emerge from the front door or
the inn carrying a heavy trunk under
fhe weight OF which he staggered and
pass down the street The milkman |
delivered the INNS morning supply OF |
milk and drove away, thinking no |
more of the matter.
At 10 o'clock the same morning |
reported 10 the landlord |
that the gentleman in 20 had not left |
bis room: that she had listened at the |
door without hearing any sound and |
she believed the room was vacant The |
landlord went 10 the room with her
knocked and receiving no reply, kick
ed open the door
The room was found vacant and IN
confusion II communicated with No,
%, that had been taken by Mr. Brough
and as no one remembered to have
seen that gentleman since the night
before the landlord tapped on the door
| between the two rooms Receiving 90
| reply. he opened the door. went into
| the room aud found that the bed bad
| not been slept in Boodstains were
| found on the towels
| Subsequently the porter told how he
had been paid a large fee by the oc
cupant of 40 25 10 carry down his
| trunk. and the landlord remembered
that No % had no luggage Then
came the mlkman and told OF having
seen man IN a bur suit carrying u
trunk out Of the inn early IN the morn
| ing Lastly the landlord remembered
that be mad a hundred soyereigns OF
| Mr. Perkins money in mis- stronghold
The case excited a great deal OF al
| lentlJu in the country roundabout
| Peculiar circumstances connected with
II contributed 10 tire The pubic curl
osity Did Mr. Brough go 10 the no
tel purpOsely to murder MIR Prrkin"
Who was Perkins. and who was
'DlOuEDF l'lI Ipl'uEb XVI u SUM- '-H'
amount TO pay fiI' for killlue q man
md forever after urIng hunted by the
| police and hauufrd rs his conscience
! lhr farorilr Theory was th1t Trough
know that prrkius had q hundred SOY
! errisuS on his person: thll IA had fol
| lowed him to the inn taken room
| communicating with Perkins room
| entered The latter during br night
murdered Perkins arkcd the pooy
! in Perkins trunk ara carried II away
the next morning Bni BrDugh was
| probably unaware that Perkins had
deposited the money with the land
lord and probably AFTER an missed
what be was after.
! Since no one knew whore Mr.
! Brough bad Gone-and there were no
| trained detectives I'm those days there
was nothing TO do Uut wait FOR IN
| formation TO come OF itself II was
| learned IN q few days that gentle
/ man carrying his own trunk outside
the city had stopped the coach going
nOrthward and been taken on The