The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-12-12

scen- o, spIenoor and comfort. ! had
not entered the Clermont at that time.
and no such comparison could have
struck my mind But have thought
of it since, and you, with your expert
ence, will not find it difficult to pic
ture the room where this poor wom-
an lived and worked. Bare walls, with
;ast newspaper illustration pinned
up here and there, a bed-tragically
occupied at this moment-a kitchen
stove on which a boiler, half-filled
with steaming clothes still dubbed
and foamed-an old bureau-a large
pine wardrobe against an inner door
which we later found to have been
locked for months, and the key lost
some chairs-and most pronounced OF
all, because of its position directly be-
fore the window, pine bench support
ing a wash-tub of the old sort.
LAS it was here the woman fell, this
tub naturally received the closest ex-
animation. A board projected from
It's further side, whittier it had evil
IDENTIFY been pushed by the weight OF
her falling body; and from it's top
hung a wet cloth, marking with its
lugubrious drip on the boards be-
meath the first heavy moments of ST.
lence which is the natural accompanl-
ment of so serious a survey. On the
floor to the right lay half-used cake
of soap just as It had slipped from her
hand. The window was closed, for the
temperature was at the freezing point,
but it had been found up, and it was
put up now to show the height at
which it had then stood. AS we all
took our look at the house wall oppo-
site, a sound of shouting came up
from below. A dozen children were
sliding on barrel slaves down slope
Of heaped-up snow. They had been
engaged in this sport all the afternoon
and were our witnesses later that no
Dne had made hazardous escape by
means of the ladder of the fire escape,
running, as / have said, at an almost
unattainable distance towards the left.
"And that is as far as we ever got
The coroner's jury brought i'll verdict
Of death by means of stab from some
unknown weapon in the hand OF per
son also unknown, but no weapon
was ever found, nor was it ever set
tied how the attack could have been
made or the murderer escape under
the conditions described. The woman
was poor, her friends few, and the
case seemingly inexplicable. So after
creating some excitement by its Pc
culiarities, it fell of its own weight.
But remembered it, and in many a
spare hour have tried to see my way
through the Electromagnetic it pre-
sented. But quite in vain. Today, the
road is as blind as ever, but" here
Sweetwater's face sharpened and his
eyes burned as he leaned closer and
closer to the older detective-"but
this second case, so unlike the first in
non-essentials but SO exactly like it in
iust those points which make the mys-
terry, has dropped a thread from it's
tangled skein into my hand which
may yet lead r. , the heart of both.
what this thread is? But how could
you without the one clue l have not
given you? Mr.. Gryce, the tenement
where this occurred is the same I Wis
tied the other night in search of Mr..
Brotherson. And the man character.
lied at that time by the janitor as the
best, the quietest and most respect
able tenant in the whole building, and
the one you remember whose window
opened directly opposite the spot
where this woman lay dead, was Mr..
Dunn himself, or, in other words, our
late redoubtable witness, Mr.. Orlando
Brotherson."