The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-04

footing bank, firing factory, shoot
ing a policeman, scuttling ship or
wrecking a train"
81 should have thought, Stephen, "
the old lady replied, with shake of
the head that it would have been
dreadfully nervous business. / wonder
you could sleep at night"
Never stayed awake minute" the
old man answered promptly. 81 remem-
Der perfectly well the night that /
found the weak spot in the Otis dam
and flooded the village of Ashwell,
drowning six hundred men, women and
children. took a short walk after
my work was done. then went to bed
and slept for eight hours without
dreaming"
What a bloodthirsty man you must
have been, Stephen" the old lady re-
marked in a tone of mild reproof. 81
don't think it was nice to kill off the
poor women and children like that
well, you see, Dodson was sore
about not getting the contract for the
dam; he claimed the construction was
faulty; and when. after two years. no
thing happened, he just had to have
the dam break. | made quite an ar
tistic job of it, too. But here were
coming to Herkimer. 1t was at this
point. Carrie, that l held up the Buff
not more than mile and a half east
of here-Tll show you the spot when
We reach it ditched the Albany flier
and looted the express car while the
train-crew was busy attending to the
injured. 1t was quite a miracle that
so few were killed that night-only
three or four, I think, and all of them
old people, who couldn't have lived
many years anyway"
mo one would think, marking the
levity with which you speak of these
horrible crimes, that you had as tend
er a haert as ever beat"
ooh, one can get used to anything
anything but the gauows. as my faith
er used to say. A man must live, you
know"
There is an old saving that one
should live and let live, the old lady
answered shaking her forefnger re-
provingly.
That's true" the old gentleman re-
piled "and as matter of fact, | soon
got tired of wholesale butchery. OF
course, as a pirate, 1t was often ne
cessary for my own safety to make a
ships crew walk the plank; but, after
| gave up the sea- began to turn my
attention to high-art crime.
81 found forgery more to my taste
than highway robbery; and when |
had to kill man, / always tried to do
it by some novel and ingenious meth
cd that would sharpen the wits of the
detectives working on the case. Of
course, when a burglar is cornered. he
shoots, and shoots to Kill; but al
ways tried to improve upon my meth
DDS of murder-to get away from the
old, vulgar methods of the bludgeon
the knife and the gun"
81 don't think anyone ever devised
more ingenious methods of taking lirc
than you did, Stephen" the old lady
, remarked, approyingly.
mo. Now there was that fellow
Holloway, | put him to sleep in
, room, the inside blinds of which
had securely fastened from the our
side, so that he couldn't get at tn,
, window, to open it or break a pane O
glass. in case he felt difficulty il
breathing, had the door fitted aroun,
, with air-tight strips,so that the onl
places where air could get into tn
=, room were the key hole and the trans
ON.
a when he had fallen asleep. with tn
aid of hook on the end of a stick.
4 lowered the transom, fastened it Sc
It curely; then, inserting a pump int
! the keyhole, | exhausted the air i
the room-drew it out of Holloway
lungs. too
, The doctors said he died of suffo
,r cation; but how he came to suffocat
a was mystery. They found the trans
/; ON and the window open; and tn
o cause Of HOlloway's death was neve
10 discovered"
= When we get to New York. yo
II must show me the house where tina