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THE DODGE CITY TIMES.
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CIKCU.MSTASTIAL EVIDENCE.
A True Bomanre-A Girl's Love for
. Her Betrothed Braves Daiisera, Jail,
and a Weteetlve.
"Xever condemn a person, on cir
cumstantial evidence; it is unreliable,
even when the circumstances seem to
fit into each other like a couple of cog
wheels," said John T. Morns, who is
an experienced detective of Springfield,
Ohio.
Give us the story. Uncle John."
"Not long ago there resided in
rranklin County a wealthy old maid,
Mis Sabina Smith. By inheritance she
was the possessor of a largo farm, on
which was an old-fashioned, though
comfortable, dwelling-house. She was
reputed to hive a good, square bank
account."
'How old is she?"
Well, on the shady side of seventy,
but she had a weakness like all old
maids, not for kittens, poodles, or ca
naries, but for children. She had
raised several orphan girls, who are now
well settled in life. In 1865, she adopted
a six-year-old, black-eyed girl, bright
as a button, named Mollie McCann.
whose father had fallen in battle, fight
ing for his Bag and country, while her
mother, crazea wun gricr, pineu ana
faded away. Mollie soon learned to
love her now mother, and from a prat
tling maid in short clothes and pinafores
she soon bloomed forth into a gushing
school-girl, and at eighteen was the
belle of every rustic gathering the
pretty Miss Mollie McCann, over whom
the boys ra ed and the girls envied.
To all her admirers she turned a deaf
car. and, w ith a pretty toss of the head,
and merry twinklo of her, roguish eye,
bade them be off and not bother her."
"Miss Smith was sensible; knew
that Mollie would probably marry and
have a home of her own some day, so
she neither discouraged her fondness
for i-ocicty nor harj cd upon tho
miseries of wedded life in tho maiden's
car, but when Mie came back from the
State Fair at Columbus in 1S78, and told
licr adopted mother about the young
gentleman she hail met, his attentions
and good qualities. MNs Smith was not
plcaed, nor did she hesitate to frown
jiex displeasure and adviso her ward to
turn a willing ear to the many suitors
of the neighborhood instead of seeking
in far-off fields that which was nearer
home.
"lint Moliie wa; like many another,
struck on a traveling man," and she
carried on a -eiret correspondence
witlt'-llim through "a lndy friend for a
long time, until at last they were en
gaged. "Miss Smith' add Mollie' 'wcra' tlie
sole occupants of the house. 'J he bedroom-,
w ere 'four in number, two of
which were used as spare rooms, one
occupied byIiss Smith anil containing
two beds, Mollie occupying one. Miss
Smith the other. The fourth bedroom
was called Mollie1!, btrfrwpa only used
by her when kMady friendWas visiting
her. In one of these spare bedrooms
was an old-fashioned bureau and book
case conjoined, me top urawer -01
The. back part of his drawer was fitted
up with small drawers. One 'of' these
small drawers had from time immemo
rial been used as a money-drawer.- In
the rammer of 1879 the sum of 9355
was missed from the drawer; in the
summer of 1880 9200 mysteriously dis
appeared, together with a quantity of
old cold coins which had been in the
family for. over a century. On the 30th
dar of last May Miss Smith loaned to a
neighbor 9500, giving him her check
ana be signing a note in uer lavor.
leading' to the garret, the door to which
was A common trap-door, securely fas
tened by si padlock, to which was at
tached three links of a chain.
"Give me the key, I said to Miss
Smith, to that trap door up in the. attic
"'Oh. no use of looking there, the
which could be converted into a desk. I keys have been lost for over five years,
suunu one uf net uccu ujj wiciu
since. There were cobwebs on the door,
hut I noticed that over tho crack of the
door's edge they appeared to haTe
broken away, caused by the door hav
ing been recently opened. With an ax
I speedily got the door open and saw
large footprints in the dust. Uy the
aiil of a lamp I followed the course of
the tracks over the boards which lay
across the shaky rafters to thp furthest
part of the garret, where over an old
cross-Deam, nunz a piir ui om-iasa
SicKness prevented his presenting the ioned saddle-bags. Ihe dust on the
check at the bank at Columbus, and, j bags had been recently disturbed. In
learning that Miss Smith was goin to one of the pockets I found the five 9100
that city on the SOth. he requested her . bills which disappeared on the night of
to get it cashed. She did so, and re- the SOth of May, the 9355 that was
turned with Mollie about dark on that I missed in the summer of 1879, the $290
dar. bavin? the monevall in 9100-bills.
'The house was all securely Jocked
down stairs, and Miss Smith deposited
the live hundred dollars in the secretary
drawer, closed the drawer, locking it
and placing the key in the bureau
drawer beneath. She then locked the
room containing-the bureau and placed
the key under some quilts that lay in a
wardrobe in her bedroom. Before re- 1 1 talked kindly to her, told her that
tiring she locked her bedroom door and
she and Mollie retired for the night in
separate beds in the same room. The
next morning, April 1st, the neighbor
that was lost in 1880, and, better than
all. the rare old gold coins upon which
Miss Smith set such store as an heir
loom. I had found tho money, but I
found 91,200 too much. The "mystery
deepened. I resolved upon one thing,
and that was that Mollie must know
something about the money that was
hid under the carpet beneath her bed.
Miss Smith's money bad been, found,
and urged her to tell me ho w the $1,200
came under the carpet of her beJ.
"lou will not oeneve me u l ten
who had borrowed the money, having you. but if Miss Smith will go out I will
a long journey to perform, during ' explain. I put that money there; it
was my lovers, lie baa saved it out
of his wages and given it to me to
keep. I destroyed his letters, for fear
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which he exnected to make a navment
on some land purchased, called as early
as live o'clock, before Miss Smith and
Mollie had arisen.
"Awakening Mis Smith,, she- took
her kev from the wardrobe, unlocked
the bedroom, then, taking the bureau
drawer key from the under drawer of
the secretary, opened this to find the
money gone. She went down stairs;
everything was locked and bolted as
she had left it the night before.
"Who took that money?"
"That was the question that con
fronted me. There were no signs of a
burglarv;
my aunt would find it out.' There's
the story.'
" 'But how did the old lady's money
get into the garret?'
" 'She carried it there herself. She
was a somnambulist and walked in her
sleep."
"How did you prove it. Mr. Morris?
Did the old lady let you occupy the bed
room and catch her?"
Uh, no. I got tho old lady to tako
lie. mere were no signs oi a oQ- hef ghoes stockinss and place
; no lock forced; windows and i,.-w r. .1 .T.. .,.Ci.:.
doors all right. No one else in the i ' wuh ftl ead h j marked
nouseouiJuissDmiiu ana mo. ue. ioutncr foot on tmU -sbet cf paper.
urfe;wIJ'it ?C0 eamredt he i With a pair of scissors I carefuuVcut
She talked freely, said she always had th(J evJt . 0 of ,h m ladfs;oot
a presentiment that the money would which fitted exactly in the tracts in the
bostolen-infact,had a presentiment dust on ,h , bmTfU jjesiJe;J
that night but feared to tell the old tQat MoIIje's ?ootwas much smaller,
adyforfear of alarming her. I soon sh(J , rf N h d
earned that Mollie had a.key which 'ld ot fit th- tract -, abo on
fitted the bedroom containing the bu-1 &,! examination. fonnd trarcs of
reau, hence my ; suspicions were i Pnhwh in ,hafrm f ,hn ,, iw.
strengthened that Mollie bad arisen in
the night, cither unlocked the door
wun ner own kev or taxen tne one in
the wardrobe, and, securing the money.
hid it either in or out of the house
without awakening the old lady. I
finally told Mollie that I should have
to search her and make a thorough ex
amination of the house.
"'Well.' she naively remarked, 'if
you do find any money about the house
it won't prove" that I stole it, will it?'
" ' It will be prima facie evidence. I
said.
"I locked her up in her bedroom
and began a thorough search; band
boxes pried into, bureau-drawers pulled
ojit, cupboards ransacked, and finally
went through herown room. Under the
carpet under her bed I found in a com
pact wad twelve SlOO-dollar bills. Now
the total amount kown to be missing
was only SI. 015. Wheto had the $155
come? Where had the gold coins' gone
to? Wa the bureau-drawer paying In
terest on its deposit?
'Now I'm got you, Mollie," I said,'
as I confronted her"
"Mollie fainted.
"A bottle of camphor and a little
cold water brought ner speedily to,
yet shu sturdily proclaimed her inno
cence. " 'I didn't tako Mis Smith's money;
no. I did not." she convulsively ex
claimed between her sobs.
"Miss Smith would not allow me to
take her to jail, where I reasoned con
finement would soon compel her to con
fess. , -
"My work, however'was but partial
lyulone'for the gold coins hid'oot
turned up. -
"I determined that those coins must
be in the house, tndresolvedlipon a
thorough search from cellar to garret.
The cellar disclosed nothing, and at
last I stumbled upon a small stairway
night-cap, wnile Mollie wore no night
cap. So yon see I proved it by both
ends the old lady'9 head and by her
feet.. I explained all to the satisfaction
of the old lady, she paid me my money,
and I predict a wedding soon at the
Smith mansion, with Mollie McCann as
the bride." Cincinnati nquirer.
Hot Bath for Borers.
In our garden we have a dwarf-apple
tree, which, after the manner of dwarf
trees, has, many roots issuing immedi
ately at the surface. Borers have made
an attack upon this tree and the gnarly
tortuous growin aram tneso roots ana
their crowd makes it impossible to fol
low tho grubs with knife and wire with
out greatly increasing the destructive
cutting which they do with their jaws.
The tree produces apples of Summer
Rose and other sorts, so fine in quality
and quantity that .we conlil not bear to
think of surrendering" it to" these' insidi
ous miners. . i wu Instituted a regu
lar course of "siege, surrounding their
fort with a wall of Iron (a deep pan,
bottomless, and slitdown ono sido).
and, after soaking "tlie ground with
water, covered it. inside the pan, with
tough mud of potter h clay to retain
water; leaving the entrances of the
borer galleries, (shown by their thrown
out ..chips) open. A larger boiU-rof
naterwas heated, odd. when boiling hof.
poured into the pan. the half-dried bot
tom of theclay retaining ie Ibnj; enough
to reach and drotva. or, scald out the
enemy in time, ai ivijliope, to save the
tree. Old bark'andVwood will endure
sc-jlding well, as many serviceable ap-
IJiitiiuus ui it iu ueucii irces nave
proved. On them it not only clear off
boi;epv but -often corns elective instat
ing the yellows, and restoring the col
or arid luxuriance. of the foliage. Cur.
S. V. Tribune.
"Ill '1 ' !-.
PERSONAL AXB MTEB1XT. -
. Aoeil ij- iv4
Mr. Edwin Arnold, the author of
"The Light ol Asia." is very ill la Soot
land. The circulation of fiction rora the
Boston rublic Library js only f urty:thrce
per cent, of the whole.
Alexander Hi Stephens, notwith
standing the feeble condition of his
body, is actively engaged on another
work on the war, and Keeps employed
several clerks aniLstenozraphcrs. who
decline to be interviewed as to its pre
cise character.
Captain Isaac Bassett. the veteran
doorkeeper of the UnitedStates Senate,
who will complete his half century of
service in the Senate Chamber in De
cember next, U busily engaged in pre
paring his forthcoming volume entitled
"Sketches and Kemmlscenccs of the
United States Senate 1831-1841."
Mr. J. C Harris ("Uncle Kemtis")
has written a story of Southern life,
which will be ready for the printer in
the falL It will probably bo pub
lished in the Ctutury as a short serial,
and appear in book form later in tho
year. Air. Harris has written two or
three othor short stories which will ap
pear in the same volume.
The mother of "Oscar Wilde has
been, in her dxy, a distinguished
beauty and an important influence, the
former as Jane Franceses Elgee.
daughter of an Anglican clergyman in
Dublin; the latter as. "Spcrauca," the
leading poet of the "Young Ireland''
day, 1848 and thereabout. A brother of
hers was Juite Elea. of Louisiana, a
local Confederate leader and member
of tho Confederate Senate. She mar
ried Dr. Wilde, of Dublin, in 1851.
i not very prond of your prog
boo!," remarked a New Haven
HUMOROUS.
Nature keeps tho ocean tide, and
that is why it docs not run away like a
river. tf. ft, t'icn'juuu
A homely young girl has the conso
lation of knowing thatwhen she u sixty
she'll bo a pretty old girl. Boston
"Parting is such sweet sorrow,"
remarked a bald old bachelor to a
pretty girl as he told her good night.
I should smile," she replied, glancing
uKn his hairlessness and wondering
how he ever did it. SteuUnvillc Her
ald. A Rhode Island mxn called a
neighbor a "lantern-jawed cockroach."
A suit for slander resulted, and the jury
returned as follows: "Not guilty on
lantern-jawed, but wayoff on cockroach,
and we find damages in tliusum of three
cents. Detroit Free Frets.
Fond t rleniU trleil ralnlr t.; cheer hr.
To stop up tbe tears mat fast fej:
And be elalped her daughter Jtlll nearer.
And in asonx uttered farewell!
The RTOom with bis bride Imh departed.
To Journer f ar otf In rtrang-e lan Is.
And the mother cries oat. Lruken-ncarte-l
"Weill I'm glad that cirl'a o3 of raf
BaniK."
iLMt't M in.
"Tmi
ress in school,'
mother to her son who was struggling
along in grade five. "There's Charley
Smart is way ahead of you. and he isn't
as old." "I know it. Teacher said
he'd learned all there was to learn in
my room, and that left me without any
thing to learn." Guess the boy will
keep. A'cw Haven lieguttr.
Good For File.
"Say, do you know what's good
for flies?" queried a Woodward avenue
butcher as he entered a drug store the
other day.
" I guess 1 can put you tip some
thing for about a quarter," was the
Vhm thu dose was ready the butch
er was told to. pour it out on plates ahd
set them on the counter, and he hur
ried away to give it a trUL In abont,
an hour he sent for the druggist to
come. over. The 10,000 flies in the shop
bcfori? the dose wa3 fixed had been
multiplied by four.
"Great lands! but I'm being carried"
off by Hies!" exclaimed tho butcher, as
ho waved a long knife around his head,
"Well,, why doa't you get something
to lull 'cm out' ,
"Didn't I, but it hasn't tilled a
one." ,
"Of course it hasnt. Vou wanted,
something good fotflies and I gave you
clarified sirup! It's the best stuff to
draw flies and keep 'cro .contented I
ever heard of. Why didn' t yon tell me
,, ..ii . flv-.tilipr'1 .Ile'rod Fret
you wanted a fly-kilicr
tress.