The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-04-09
WITNESS TO
THE DEED
BY M. QUAD
Copyright. 1914. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.

from her actions. and three mouths
after | left the hU,se she was caught
in u similar ~ofrense and owned up I"
the first theft. However. the crime
was laid OH the. and because ] maze
indignant aud perhaps %iMpudent pro
test ! was flung out Of the house 1T
hulf I'm hours notice and refused u
character. was idle for the next
three months. The first thing demand
ed when | applied for II place was a
character. Az soon as It was learned
that | had none it was useless to taIk
further. 1t was for this reason that !
finally paid a fee to an Intelligence
office In MHr:atc street and was Mt
length sent for to take Il place at yen
! eral h~ouSework. 1t was an old man
III med Dyson who wanted me. lie
was within. to take NE without a
character because he would have to
pay less wages and because. as lie
grimly asserted. there was nothing ~
ing around loose in his house for me
to steal. AS we sat face to face !
sized him up as mean and penuriOus.
but | did not see any evil In him. lie
had an aged and imiir,n wife. he told
me. and ! would be the only ervant.
1t was not for NE to pick and choose
| must have II place and hold 1t long
enough to get u character again.
went with him miles and miles ont on
the IlolbOrn road. and we ut last ;r-
rived at the ci,eapiy built and cheap
~l.: ntx,, tn >n1 IL vr,,S -
place devoid OF almost all ~cOnveniences
and had been selected for its cheap
rent. | found the old wife deaf. almost
blind and Imlsied. and it was apparent
that she had no care whatever.
soon had evidence that he was III
love with a widow in the neighbOrhood.
or mt least he desired to be free SO that
he could marry her. My natural i'm
pulse on finding ont how he felt toward
his wife was to fee the house. but l
have explained how | was situated.
In the course Of Il couple OF weeks
he declared that the cellar was full Of
rats ana gave me money and command
ed me to buy arsenic. He recommend
I'd me to go to a store miles away and
to- say that | wanted it for my COM
plexion and t. give my W name.
went to a drug store only two blocks
1 away and gave his NAME. and when he
discovered this he was highly indis-
nant for a day. and | rather expected
to he thrown out. However. in the
course Of three or four days he devei
] Oped another plan. After coaching the
: a. .sY a. l1fk mn nIO,, sx,ftI bN1N fNV
4 the first time. and she begged the tc
q get her some laudanum for toothache
q and not to mention the matter to him
It was easy to tell that she had beef
coached what to say. and | refused tt
buy the drug. A few days later as
was preparing her a soup ! had to leave
the kitchen for a minute. When | re
turned the soup was giving out 8
$ strange odor. and being satisfied thai
g. her husband had poisoned it /. o1
) course. threw 1t away. He scoldet
about my waste, but when | lookee
b him %squ0rely in the. eyes he dropped hi:
b and had no more to say.
b hhad been with the Dysons five year:
IS when the climax came. The old wo
+ man was holding her if not get
q ting better, and the husbands impa
g thence had Il savage edge to it. Thei
& bedroom was on the north side Ut tn
ID house. All along on that side was
III deep excavation for a factory.
F At 10 O'Clock Cne night | lay wonder
ing II he really meant to take her lif
"a and how he would finally accomplis
II It. when | heard IL half suppresSe
|5 scream from his room. l got softly on
T. Of bed and went to the farther dool
and. looking through II crack. l sa'
ia that the window was up and that h
stood before it with his wife in hi
arms. She was hanging on to him wit
Is tingtrs of steel and making a grea
struggle. | heard him breathing hea
lilly and snarling and growing as h
tore her fingers loose. but | did M
w know what he planned to do till OF
he sudden he staggered to the open vii
re dow and flung her out. She screame
Ut as she went to her death. and in N
oo fright | echoed the cream. remet
as Der the man rushing across the roo
~ at the. of his dashing open the door.
I" his striking NE down. and then can
'e darkness which lasted for weeks. |
had struck me with a piece of Iron al
fractured my skull He then carrie
" my body downstairs and bore 1t
w quarter OF Il mile away and flung
-. into another excavation. Before tn
=, ing me from the house he put on II
-, hat and cloak. and thus it appeared
;.h those who found my unconscious boi
next morning that | had been comil
home the night before and fallen in
the pit. As to his wife. he gave t
alarm and brought the police and ma
ing out that it was Il case Of suicide. VII
he was fast asleep. ns he claimed. $
re- mad stolen to the w'n'ow n reap
,ve to her death,