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A Mystery
Being a Story of How a
Murder Case Was
Not Solved.
By DONALD CHAMBERL1N
My telephone bell rang and, going to I
the instrument, I took up the receiver.
"Is that you, Thompson?"
"l'es."
"I'm Parker. I wish you to come |
down and stay In the house with me
tonight I'm alone and nervous."
"Certainly, old man. What's the mat
ter with you?"
"I can't ask you to dinner, for 1 ]
haven't a servant In the house."
"Well. I'll be over about 0 o'clock.
Will that do?"
"l'es; much obliged."
Parker was the junior partner In a
largo Jewelry firm and a man who
never shrank from any duty Involving
danger. Therefore I was surprised at j
hla shrinking from sleeping In a house
alone. lie was a widower without chil
dren, and though he lived In the house
he had occupied with his wife, he took
his meals at his club, hiring no servant
except for day work. I fancied he must
be ill, or he would not have asked any
one to sleep In the house with him.
At 9 o'clock I rang his doorbell, and I
he admitted me himself. He appear
ed neither ill nor troubled. He led me
Into an apartment he used for a smok
ing room, where ho produced cigars,
and we sat dovn for a smoke. I waited
some time for aim to tell me why he
wished for some one to sleep in his
house with him, but ho did not. chat
ting on ordiiwy topics until I rose to
go to bed. The n I asked hltn what had
made him nenous.
"There Is a story connected with It
and I don't f.-el like telling It tonight."
he said. "We are all connected with
some disagreeable episode and are apt
to make too much of It Doubtless in a
few days or a few weeks 1 shall think
nothing of the one in which 1 nm con
cerned. Why take up n lot of time
going over It with you. especially since
It would be unpleasant for me to do
so?"
I excused hltn and went to my room, i
having told him that 1 must be up ear- |
ly in the morning and off, for my time j
for going to business was 7 o'clock. I
while he did not need to do so till a
o'clock. I bade hini good night, telling
him that if he should be wakeful to
come luto my room for a chat, ne
said he expected to sleep soundly, and
with that we parted.
In the morning I went out, treading
softly that I might not awaken my
friend, and emerged from the front
door before most persons were stirring.
A milkman drove up at the time and
can-led a bottle of milk to a rear door,
ne looked at me. and I spoke to him,
expressing surprise that he should
leave milk at a house where no uieals
were served, whereupon he told me
that Mr. Parker drank a quart of milk
every day at home.
by telephone to ask him if ho required !
m.v services again, but there was no I
response to the call. I thought nothing |
of this, for there was no one besides |
himself to answer, and 1 presumed he I
was not at home. Several days passed, i
and I heard nothing from him. Then
on taking up my morning paper I saw
under large headlines a statement that i
he had been found murdered In his bed.
The man who left the milk at his back
door, seeing that the bottles remained
unemptied where he had left them, no
tified a neighbor, who broke into the
house and found Tarker stabbed to the
heart. A loaded revolver was under
his pillow that had not been used.
Horrified, 1 started Immediately to go
to the house where the murder had
been committed. On the way I met the
milkman In company with a police
man. On seeing me the former said
something to the policeman, wldch 1
did not hear, and the two stopped be
fore me,
"You're wanted at inspector O'Con
nor's office," said the policeuiau.
"I'm going to the house of a friend of !
mine who has been murdered. I'll call i
later at the Inspector's office."
"You'll have to go with me now,"
was the reply.
Then for the first time It dawned
upon me that I was under arrest for
Parker's murder; that he had been
killed the night I had slept at his
I house; that the milkman had seen me
coming out the morning after the mur- i
I der had been committed. The situatiou
flashed upon me and the danger In
which it placed me. 1 am sure I turned
pale, and I felt my legs tremble be
neath me.
J Not a human being knew of my hav
| Ing been called upon by I'arker to stay
I at his house the night he was mur
dered. I had been seen leaving it early
in the morning of the murder. There
had not been another person In the
house during the night than myself
except the murderer. What a pity 1
had not Insisted on Parker's telling
me the story connected with his ob
jecting to sleep In the house alonel
The circumstance attending my being
there, together with the revolver found
under his pillow, made It plain as the
sun in heaven that he had feared some
enemy. But all this was a blank to the
rest of the world. An explanation made
in n courtroom unsupported by a sin
gle clew pointing In the same direc
tion would be set down as a fabrica
tion. However, since I hnd been a
friend of Parker, since my reputation
was good, since 1 could not see how
*ny motive on my part for the crime
could be adduced, I hoped that common
sense on the part of those by whom I
would bo judged would fiiivo me. But
the case went to trial nevertheless.
It Is astonishing how In such cases
so much may bo made of bo little.
Parker's wife before Bhe married Par
ker had been a flame of mine, but he
had known all about It, and we had
often spoken of It during his wife's
lifetime. The prosecuting attorney got
hold of this Intimacy and built up on
it a theory of motive for the murder,
handling it so plausibly that it had a
marked effect not only on the Jury, but
on the spectators and those who fol
lowed the trial in the newspapers.
lie pictured the volcano of Jealousy
that had smouldered In my breast till
the opportunity came, when 1 could
strike for revenge. So graphic, eo pic
turesque was his description of my
condition that he almost convinced me.
Tiie pistol found under Parker's pil
low should have confirmed my evi
dence, for I was put on the stand In
my own defense, but the prosecuting
attorney claimed that I had placed It
there for that express purpose. Ho
even attempted to prove that the pis
tol had belonged to me and brought
forth n witness who swore that he had
seen It in my possession. This was a
clincher on his theory and naturally
turned many against mo who had pre
viously believed In my Innocence.
llowever, it was impossible to convict
me on such evidence. At the conclu
sion of the trial the Judge virtually
directed the jury to acquit me. Never
theless they wrangled over my case for
two days, then reported that they could
not agree. I was iinaily discharged with
the understanding that I would not
again be tried, but in the eyes of the
public X was a condemned murderer.
The object of my life now became
the finding of Parker's murderer. But
where should I look for him? My coun
sel had made inquiries that might lead
to any one who had a grudge against
Parker and had failed completely. But
there was no reason why 1 should not
go on hunting. I secured access to
Parker's papers and spent hours in
careful examination of them. Not a
word in them gave the slightest clew
to any enemy. The police had ex
hausted the matter of evidence of any
tracks the murderer might have left
t'r'iind him at Parker's house. lie had
not even left a footprint
1 hired detectives to work with me
and directed them to watch every one
who had been in any way connected
with the murdered man. These per
sons were continually reporting clews
which turned out not to be clews and
which they Invented for the purpose of
remaining in niv pay. If Parker had
ever had any dllllenlty with any one
he had kept it to himself. That he
feared some one was evident from his
having called upon me to remain one
night at his house and that he had told
me there was a story connected with
his having done so.
Meanwhile I lived a life of horror.
A few of my nearest friends stood by
me. but I knew that there were times
when gome of them shrank from being
seen in my company. I could see thai
I was being pointed ont as Thompson,
the murderer. What means 1 possess
ed were gradually shrinking away un
der the expense attending my search
and the fact that I had given up every
other occupation. I became despond
ent as to ever clearing myself and
was thinking of hiding my identity In
a foreign land when fate did for me
what I could not do for myself. A clew
was revealed to me.
\J UD UiUlUUih ..v.
nouiiced that Juilgo Morehouse had
billed n burglar In self defense In his
own house. The evening papers stated
that the man killed was not a burglar,
but one who had sought the life of the
Judge through revenge. Years before,
Morehouse glvtng a Jury Instructions
on which they were obliged to convict
n criminal accused of defalcation, had
sentenced him to a term of ten years
in tiie penitentiary. The term had ex
pired a few months before, and the
criminal had been since looking for an
opportunity to carry outn threat he had
made to kill the judge whom he con
sidered in part the cause of his con
viction.
The next development edged closely
upon my case. It was that the criminal
had been financial manager of the firm
in which Parker was a partner. At this
point I saw vindication for me. Plung
ing into an Investigation, 1 unearthed
the fact that Parker had discovered the
defalcation. 1 did not learn that he had
taken any esjtecial part in securing the
conviction of the defaulter, but I sur
mised that there might have been some
thing galling in Parker having run him
down and exposed him.
A natural theory was that the con
vict. having bccu discharged from
prison, had first killed Parker, then
waited for the murder to blow over be
fore attempting to kill the Judge. An
important point with me was to com
pare the date of the convict's discharge
with that of Parker's murder. Securing
the former record, I found that the
murder had occurred the second night
after the convict's discharge.
Unfortunately the criminal had been
shot dead by the judge, so I could get
no confirmation of my theory from him.
But my circumstantial evidence was so
strong that It was believed by all
Every mail brought me letters of con
gratulation, and 1 was restored to favor
with all my friends and acquaintances.
In time I carried my theory further
to account for Parker having called for
me to sleep In his home the night he
was killed. Doubtless the convict had
threatened him at the time of his de
falcation: but Parker had not spoken
of it or If he had the fact had passed
Into oblivion. But Parker doubtless re
membered the threat and knew the
date that the convict would be liber
ated. This I surmised was the reason
he called upon me for companionship,
if not for protection.
'HOIIIE ill GETS
TINE PIOTUOES
Dawson News: C. C. Gaisford, of
the Silver Pox Moving Picture coin
pan. who has been in Dawson sev
eial davs, taking pictures, will leave
on the White Horse far the coast.
He has secured a fine string of jjic
turcs while here, including those of
the largest gold dredges and hy
diaulic works in the world, a pan
orama of Dawson City and the chief
goldh earing creeks,- waterfront,
stre-vt. and other scenes; (Klondike
oat fields gardens and the like;
Dawson Girl Guides in drills; Yu
kon Indians; baseball game under
the midnight sun, and many others.
Ho also got a grand panorama of
the midnight sun kicking up the
clouds as "it plowed through the
heavens above the Arctic circle ex
actly at midnight while the big Sun
n^rs' excursion from the south was
there.
Sounded Like a Reproof.
A lady in passing up a church aisle
caught hor dress on a corner of a pew
and tore it As the process of tear
ing was very audible to the congrega
tion the feelings of the lady may be
imagined when at that moment the
clergyman began the service by read
lug the sentence:
"Rend your hearts and not your gar
ments."
Sour Grapes.
"The man I marry must have com
mon sense," she said haughtily.
"He won't." replied he bitterly.—
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Skagway, Alaska, July 8, 1915.
The Daily Alaskan.
lika'way, Alaska.
Geutlemon:
For the publicity so freely given
by you iii connection with the vari
ous events of the .'ndcpendsnce Day
celebration held in Skagway, on
Saturday, the th-rd day cf July, the
executive committee having charge
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A. C. BI.ANCHARD,
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