Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-22

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world but this lettering, fainting girl.
But Sweetwater's hand only tighten
ed on my shoulder, while Arthur, with
an awful look at me, caught his sister
In his arms just as she fell to the
ground before the swaying multitude.
But he was not the only one to kneel
there. With a sound Of love and mis-
cry impossible to describe Zadok had
Ieaped from the box and had groveled
at those dear feet, kissing the ~insensi-
BILE hands and praying for those hut
eyes to open. Even after Arthur had
lifted her into the sleigh the man re-
manned crouching where she had fall
en- with his eyes roaming back and
forth in a sfghtless stare from her to
myself, muttering and groaning and
totally unheedful of Arthur's com
mands to mount the box and drive
home. Finally some one else stepped
from the crowd and mercifully took
the reins. 1 caught one more glimpse
of her face with Arthur's bent tender
ly over it; then the sleigh slipped away.
An officer shook Zadok by the arm
and he get up and began to move aside.
Then 1 had mind to face my own fate,
and, looking up, l met Sweetwater's
eye.
1t was quietly apologize.
Il only wished to congratulate you,"
said be, con the conclusion Of a case
in which l know you are highly in
terested." Lifting his hat, he nodded
affably and was gone before L could
recover from my stupor.
1t was for Clinton to show his In
dignation. [ was past all feeling.
Farce as an afterpiece never appealed
, to me.
Would [ have considered it farce If
l could have heard the words which
this detective was at that moment
whispering into the district attorneys
ears:
"Do you want to know who throttled
Adelaide Cumberland? 1t was not her
brother; it was not her lover; it was
her old and trusted coachman."
"Give me your reasons. They must
be excellent ones, Sweetwater, or you
would not risk making a second mis-
take in a case of this magnitude and
publicity"
"Mr. Fox, they are excellent. But
you shall judge of them. From the
moment Miss Carmel Cumberland over
threw the very foundations of our case
by her remarkable testimony L felt that
my work was only half done. 1t was a
/ strain on credulity to believe Arthur
guilty of a crime so prefaced, and the
alternative which Mr.. Moffat believed
in, which you were beginning to believe
in and perhaps are allowing yourself
to believe In ven now, never appealed
to me.
81 allude to the very natural suspf-
| cion that the act beheld by your man
Clarke was a criminal act and that
Ranelagh is the man really RESPONSE
BILE for Miss Cumberland's death. Some
instinct held me back from this con-
clusion as we'll as the lncontrovertible
fact that he could have had no hand
In carrying that piece of broken bottle
into the Cumberland stable or of drop
ping his engagement ring in the sug
gestive place where it was found.
Where, then, should I look for the IN
known, the unsupported third party?
Among the ten other persons who drop
ped something into that casket.
"Most Of these were children, but L
made the acquaintance of every one
1 spent most of my Sunday that way;
then, finding no clouded eye among
them, I began-a study of the Cumber-
land servants, naturally starting with
Zadok. For two hours I sat at his
stable fire, talking and turning him
inside out, as only we detectives know
| how. I found him actually over
whelmed with grief-not the grief of
a sane man, but. OF n In whom the
very springs of life are poisoned by
some dreadful remOrse.
"He did not know he revealed this.
He expressed himself as full of hope
that his young master would be ac-
quilted the next day. But I could see
that this prospect could eve still the
worm working at his heart and resolv-
ed to understand why. | left him os-
tensibly alone, but in reality Swallowed
him. The consequence was that IN
the evening dusk he led me to the
cemetery, where he took up his watch
at Miss Cumberland's grave, as IL it
were a Mecca and he a passionate
devotee. l could hear his grOans as
he hung to the fence and spoke softly
to the dead, and, though I was too
far away to catch a single word, l
felt confident that l had at last struck
the right track and should soon see
my way more clearly than at any
time since this bathing case opened.
"But before 1 allowed my fancy to
run away with me 1 put in an evening
of inquiry. If this man had an abso-
lutte alibi what was the use Of vast
ing effort upon him? But I could not
| find that he had, Mr.. Fox. He went
with the rest Of the servants to the
ball, which, you know, was held in
Tibbitt's hal. on Ford street, and he
was seen there later, dancing and
making merry in a way not usual to
him. But there was a space of time
dangerously tallying with that of the
tragic scene at the clubhouse when
he was not seen by any one there.
'"That piece of broken ~bottle-where
was the rest of it? Sought for almost
Immediately after the tragedy, it had
not been found at the Cumberland
place or on the golf links. 1t had been
| looked for carefully when the first
thaw came: but. though glass was pick