Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1901-01-18 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

CHAPTER XXIV.  The murder of the fashionable.young doctor, Felix Bingham, followed by the woman who took so shocking a manner of avenging her wrongs, was a source of possip and newspaper comment for many days to come; but gradually the excitement waned. When the public bad read all it could about the double inquests and the inevitable verdicts ; when the examination of Doctor Bingham's servants had been printed in full, a graphic description of the funeral procession that accompanied the unhappy Kate Kearney to her last resting-place had been published in full ; when the brief fact of her victim's most quiet interment bad also been noted and when the illustrated papers had printed all the photographs they could obtain, curiosity began to die down. It had been, after all, only a very ordinary story of jealousy and intrigue, and a great many people were found ready to bestow unlimited pity on the man who had suffered so untimely a fate through an infuriated woman's passion. The cause of the outrage was hinted at very distinctly, but though it was stated that the unfortunate Kearney had vowed vengeance, and carried that vengeance into effect, because her lover had boldly announced his intention of contracting a marriage with a wealthy young lady of society, this same young lady's name was, happily, not mentioned, for the very simple reason that there was no one connected with the case who could furnish the information. To the inexpressible relief of all those who now constituted themselves Cecil's protectors, no one was subpinaned to give evidence at the inquest save the dead man's servants and the people of the house where Kearney had lodged, who spoke plainly of the woman's excitement and hot anger against ,Doctor Bingham, and who proved that the attack that had ended so disastrously had been no sudden thought., lint a premeditated plan; beyond these, there were odds and ends of witnesses called—the doctor who had been hastily summoned to give aid to the wounded man, and the police officials who had been the first to reach the scene of the murder. No questions were put touching Doctor Bingham's actions on the day preceding the murden, save that, the valet told of his master's return home late in the afternoon from his usual round of professional visits, and spoke of Dr Bingham's, irritation when informed of Kate Kearney's appearance at his house. Beyond stud' conventional question ing the matter did not go, since it wit,: at once proved that the murder had been committed single-handed, and was brought about by,strong motives of jealousy and anger, increased, it was proved. by the unfortunate woman's habit of intemperance. The; inquest, therefore, occupied but a short time ; as has been said, the whole miserable story faded into that background of forgotton things winch have so large a place in the rush and stress of ,the world's working life. That it should or could not be forgotten by the handful of people who had been in a sense associated with it was, of course, an impossibility. The remembrance of so sail and ,sordid a tragedy was too terrible, too haunting, to be pushed aside. And of all those who rennantw red, the shock of Felix's sudden drath hind fallen with the most force on the young creature who bore his name, and yet there had never been for a single instant in his life the real meaning of the word.  (To be continued.)  MILTON HINDLE'S Pure Parket Teas. Most. Delicious of all teas. Your Grocer will supply you.