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and directed them to watch every one
who hid been In any way connected
with the murdered innn. These per
sons were continually reporting clews
which turned out not to !>e clews nnd
which they Invented for the purtiose of
remaining In my pay. I f l ‘ nrker had
ever had any difficulty with any one
he had kept It to himself. That he
feared some one was evident from Ids
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 o f horror.
A few o f my nearest friends stood by
me, hut 1 knew that there were times
when some o f them shrnnk from being
seen In my company. 1 could see that
1 wns being pointed out as Thompson,
the murderer What means 1 possess
ed were gradually shrinking away un
der the expense attending m.v search
and the fnct flint 1 had given up every
other occupation
I became despond-
ent as to ever clearing myself nml
was thinking o f hiding my Identity in
a foreign land when fnte did for me
what 1 could not do for myself. A clew
was revealed to mo.
One morning the newspapers an-
nouneed that Judge Morehouse had
klllr.l a burglar In self de f ens e li.
own house. The evening pni>ers stnhvl
that the man killed was not a burglar,
hut one who had sought the life of the
Judge through revenge. Years before.
Morehouse giving n Jury Instructions
on which they were obliged to convict
a criminal accused o f defalcation, had
sentenced him to a term o f ten years
In the penitentiary. The term had ex
plred, a few months before, and the
criminal had been since looking for an
opportunity to carry out a threat he had
made to kill the Judge whom he con
sidered In port the cause o f his con
viction.
The next development edged closety
upon my case. It was that the criminal
had been flnanclnl manager o f the firm
In which Parker was a partner. At this
point I saw vindication for the. Plung
ing Into an Investigation. I unearthed
the fact that Parker had discovered the
defalcation! 1 did not learn that lie had
tnken any es|*eclal part in securing the
conviction of the defaulter, but 1 sur
ml.sod that there might have been some
thing gulling In Parker having run him
|
down and exposed him
A natural theory was that the con
vlct, having been discharged from
!
prison, had llrst 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 o f the convict’s discharge
with that o f Parker’s murder. Securing
the former record. I found that the
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murder had occurred the second night
after the convict's discharge.
Unfortunately the criminal hml been
shot dead by the Judge, so I could get
no contlrmatlon of my theory from him.
But my circumstantial evidence was so
I
strong that It was believed by all.
Every mall brought me letters of con
grntulatlon. nnd I was restored to favor
with all my friends nnd actpialntnnces
In time 1 carried my theory further
to account for Parker having called for
me to sleep In his home the nlcht lie
was killed Doubtless the rotivlet had
threatened him at the time of Ids d.~
f lt o t lo n ; but Parker had not spoken
of It. or If he had the fact had passed
into oblivion. But Parker doubtless re
membered the threat an<y knew the
date that the convict would be liber
ated This 1 surmised was the reason
he onllod upon mo for companionship.
If not for protection
Antiquity of Fishing.
Probably no branch o f Industry can
lay claim to greater antiquity than that
o f Ashing. Its origin would seem to be
coeval with the earliest efforts o f hu
man Ingenuity, for the oldest monu
ments o f antiquity show the Asherman
In full possession o f the Implements o f
his calling, nnd even those tribes of
savages which have learned neither to
keep Aocks nor to till the Aelds are
skilled In the fabrication o f the hook,
the Ash spear and the net. The earliest
civilization of the eastern Mediterra
nean wns begun with Ashing. Sidon,
which menus ’’Ashery,** was originally
a Ashing village, nml Its enterprising
Inhabitants devoted their attention
mainly to the collection o f n certain
kind o f uiollusks, from which they pre
pared the famous tyrlan purple, prized
more highly for the richness and vari
ety o f its hues than any other dye
known to the ancients.
*
huue as Marion lía ría ud, Louise de
la Ramee as Ouidn, Sarah Smith as
Heshn Stretton, Susan Warner ns Eliz
abeth Wetherell, Miss Murfree as
Charles Egbert Craddock, Alice French
ns Octave Thanet, Mrs. Elizabeth
Akers Allen as Florence Percy. Lama
C. Reddon as Howard Glyndon, Miss
Woolsey as Susan Coolidge.
As to Insults.
Tlie quotation ‘‘ No gentleman would
Insult me; none other can,” is credited
to John (Julncy Adams, who 1^ said
to have made the reply when he was
told that n man had spoken to him so
rudely that he ought to send a chal
lenge to a duel, and It is sakl also to
have been used by Senator W. H.
Seward In a debate growing out o f the
assault ui>on Senator Sumner by Pres
ton Brooks In 1850, but It Is pointed
out that the quotation
A moral, sensible, well bred man
Will not affront me, and no other can
Is to be found In William Cowper’s
“ Conversation.” —Boston Glol»e.
The Todd Hotel
Most conveniently located
Women Author's Pen Names.
Among the noted women authors
hotel in Tillomook City.
who wrote under pen names are the
following: Mrs. Mary Ann Evnns Cross
ns George Eliot. Baroness Pudevnnt
ns George Sand. Klnrn Mundt as Lou
ise Muh’.bncb, Mrs. Cralk ns Miss Mu-
lock, Charlotte Bronte ns Currer Bell,
Make theT'sld Hotel lobby youi
Emily Bronte ns Alice Bell. Mrs Sarah
rnrton ns Fanny Fern. Abigail Hamil
heft«'.quarters while in the citv
ton Podge ns Gall Hamilton, Mrs. Lip
pincott ns Grace Gx.eenwn.-vl, Mr« T«>r- T» W. TODD, Prop. Tillamook,Oregon
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