THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH SECOND PART. PAGES 9 TO 12. IXOW FIRST ISERIESOFSHORT STORIES 1 By J. Marsden Sutcliffe, ENTITLED S&DHE KOMAMJE OF M JBeiso Passages ijt the Expebiencb BER, Formerly General Manager of ALL SIGHTS Tiis Way of Hie World. COXCIATDED. in. In the summer of 1857 all England was plunged into the wildest state of excitement and alarm by the tidings that certain Sepoy regiments had mutinied and our Indian em pire was in danger. There was only one man in England, probably, to whom that grieyons disaster came as welcome news. That man was Pierce "Wharton, to whom, indeed, the national calamity offered an un expected respite from the danger that threatened. The th, after receiving orders to return home, had been detained to assist in quelling the mutiny, and "Wharton was inclined to back out of Dr. "Westlake's plan for raising the wind, trusting to the chances- of war for escape, from his dilemma. Xowndes might be shot; a hundred things might happen to give him final release from the hateful presence of black care which oc cupied his waking thoughts and menaced him in nightly visions. But "Westlake, for reasons best known to himself, had grown too enamored of his plan to withdrawfrom it at the last moment. "Besides." he said to "Wharton, "even if it were safe to count on the chance of Lowndes falling, he may make a will. He has a sis ter, you know, married to Slingsby, the barrister, and a tribe of nephews and nieces. Suppose he leaves everything to Mrs. Slingsby, or her children, who will be any better off? Lowndes might show yon some mercy, but Slingsby wouldn't" "Wharton acknowledged that this reason ing was irresistible. And so the plan went on. "Wharton was at Gorlington when the news of the outbreak of the mutiny arrived, and there this conversation took place. He bad gone down to Norfolk in accordance with an agreement made on the occasion of his visit there in March, taking with him his wife nd daughter. Outside the grounds of the Eetreat. and communicating with it by a door through the garden, there stands a compactly built cottage of six rooms. This cottage was part of the Eetreat estate, and stood facing the sea. It had not been occupied since Dr. "Westlake purchased the practice, but after Wbarton'b visit in March the cottage was put into repair and plainly furnished as a summer residence for Mrs. "Wharton, her husband and little Marcia. They had been down in Norfolk a week, and already the health-giving breezes that blow in summer on that charming coast had visibly improved Mrs. "Wharton's health. She spent most of her time in the garden fronting the sea, reclining in an invalid chair, employed upon her embroidery; while little Marcia, a child of 6, sat play ing at ber feet. A handsome woman was Mrs. "Wharton, as the rustics were heard to say, who passed that way. She was like ber brother, with jet black hair, and a fair complexion, with the faintest sus picion of color in her cheeks, though the sardonic expression which marred Mark Westlake's beauty was wholly absent from her lovely face. Bound her month rested a smile of winning sweetness; while her white shapely hands were cast in a mold that Canova would have delighted to model. Her graceful shoulders and well-developed figure, half revealed through the light airy dress of gauzy texture that she wore during those hot sunny days, were in keeping with her regal style'ol beauty. Like her brother, she was a woman of almost iron will when occasion arose for her to put forth her power, as the look of resolution in her gray eyes denoted; endowed, too, with remarkable self-possession. A woman to keep her own confidence and endnre bravely in spite of moral racks and thumb-screws. "Was she in her husband's and brother's confidences when the great scheme was. afoot? Alice Wharton was the soul of honor, and the plot that her husband and brother were engaged in weaving was not of & nature that could safely be communicated to a woman like her. Though some nine years younger than Westlake and "Wharton, she would have lashed both men with her fine seorn and put them to confusion, if they bad dared to make her their confidante in their guilty coptederacy. If the truth was known Pierce "Wharton stood in greater dread of his wife coming to know the du plicity and fraud he had practiced on Major Lowndes than of the prison bars that must be his fate if ever the secret were dragged to light The end of. July was come, and the time drew near when the scheme resolved upon was to be put into execution. It was a broiling hot day, just the day, "Westlake thought, for the business on which he was bent Mrs. Wharton was reclining as usual in her invalid chair after lunch, in the cot tage garden fronting the sea, chatting to the two men in that "soft voice" which seemed to lend a greater charm to her conversation, and which Shakespeare tells us "is an excel lent thing in woman," when Howgate burst in at the gate hastily and beckoned the doc tor. ""What is the matter now?" the physician said. "There is something wrontr with Mason. sir," said Howeate, "he appears to have a. Etna ot At. .mason was one 01 tne lunatic patients, and Dr. Westlake hurried away immediately. "What a harassing life of it poor Mark has," Mrs. Wharton remarked to her hus band, as the doctor went away. I often wish he had chosen some other branch of medical science tor bis specialty." "Chacun a son gout," remarked Wharton. "It is sot a walk for a man whose nerves are not of castiron; but for my part I think there is nothing more interesting than the study of mental disease to a man who is cut out lor it" "Perhaps so, but for all that I wish Mark was not a lunacy doctor. It is very pleasant here in this delightful summer weather; but fancy, what it must be like to be shut up in that, gloomy barracks through the long months of winter, with not a living soul near to communicate with, except those poor lunatics and their keepers. How the wind must howl round the place, too." "It is not very cheerful, certainly," re marked Wharton. "I don't think I told you. dear, that there was a frightful storm raging one night when I was down here last Marfi nil, what with the howling of the wind outside and the mad yells of some cf those poor wretches within, a win 01 sleep was not to be had; at least not by me. Next morning Mark told me he hadn't heard a sound, which shows that use is everything." "There is something in that, no doubt," Mrs. Wharton answered, "but it does not touch my argument It seems to me that whatever be the fascinations of the life to a man like Mark, that it requires the com pensation of cheerful society. Now there is no society in the place sale you call ,Howgate societv. I mesa b society of caltured person's. Without that it appears 'tome'that aman mustcrow hard, if even PUBLISHED. INSURANCE OFFICE, of Me. AUGUSTUS WILLIAM WEB- the Universal Insurance Company. RESERVED. the best feelings of his nature do not become warped and embrutalized. Don't you think Pierce," she continued, after Wharton had received this remark in silence, "that Mark is getting jnst a little hard?" "He is a dear, good fellow," Wharton answered, with a gusn of feeling. "Well, I, as his sister, am likely to be lieve that, hut you do not answer my ques tion. Don't you think that this life,cut off from all hnmanizing society, is making him hard? Not to me or you of course, and least of all to little Marcia, of whom he is passionately fond. But isn't there a some thing that is quite different from what it used to be? I fear I don't express myself well; but that is because the thing I mean is so intangible, like the atmosphere; yet like the atmosphere it is there. Don't you think so? "I thint you are troubling yourself quite uselessly, Alice. Mark is different lrom other men. He is what we call sui generis. I don't mean to dispute that he is wonder fully absorbed in his profession, lives for it one might sav, and that makes him natural ly very self-inclosed, and to that extent what you call hard." "That is scarcely mv meaning," Mrs. Wharton answered. "I feel as if my broth er was not' morally as good a man as he used to be, nor as he promised to be when he was at Harrow, though I was only a little thing then and perhaps not competent to judge of a boy's character." "Oh, none of us are as good as we were when we were schoolboys, if it comes to that," said Wharton, with a laugh. "Don't you set up for a cynic, Pierce, it does not become you," said Mrs. Wharton, with a tone of offense in her voice. Her husband's reply grated on the finer sensi bilities of the woman. After this the conversation drifted away to lighter topics, and an hour slipped by since Howgate summoned the doctor. "I think I shall go and see what has be come of Mark," said Wharton, rising with a yawn. Just then Howgate reappeared, saying, "The doctor would like to see vou in his room if you arc at liberty, Mr. Wharton." Wharton went "How is your patient, Howgate?" aske d Mrs. Wharton, detaining the man by a gesture. "He is all right again now. ma'am," Howgate replied. "The attack has passed off." When Wharton reached the doctor's room Westlake saluted him in his gayest manner. "Well, old lellow, the time has come when you must die." Pierce "Wharton started back in alarm. "Something entirely unexpected has hap pened that will agree with our plans most admirably." And then the doctor entered into a long explanation, to show that an unlooked-for event had indeed occurred that promised well for the scheme. "You see how it is, Wharton," he con cluded. "Nothing could have been better than this, it we had prayed for it So make up ycur mind; yflu mutt die to-nigbtv" Wharton's brow grew black as thunder, but he uttered no word of protest. There was a merry dinner party in the doctor's dining room that night. Mrs. Whar ton was wheeled irorn the cottage to the lie treat, bringing Marcia with her, who was allowed to sit up for a treat. The doctor surpassed himself for the brightness of his wit, and Mrs. Wharton, unsuspecting of the sword that was hanging over her, took up the game of repartee, while Marcia clapped her hands with glee, and Wharton himself, who had grown wonderfully taci turn since the interview with the doctor in his room, caught the prevailing infection and laughed joyously. Immediately after dinner Mrs. Wharton was wheeled oack to the cottage, taking Marcia with her. "It is time that Marcia was in bed," she said. Late at night the chnrch clock at Gor lington had struck 10 long ago the doctor paid a hurried visit to the cottage. Mrs. Wharton had retired for the night, bnt when she heard her brother knock at the bedroom door she gave him permission to enter. "Don't be alarmed, Alice," the doctor said. "Pierce has met with an accident. It is not very serious. But we are going to bring him upstairs and put him to bed in the next room; and I thought it best to come and explain matters, so that you need not worry yourself at the noisa in carrying him upstairs, or wonder at his absence. "Mark, you are not deceiving me?" ex claimed Mrs. Wharton, with alarm. "When did I ever deceive my sister?" was the diplomatic reply. The doctor, though looking thoughtful, was nevertheless cheerful, and Mrs. Whar ton fell back on her pillow contented. But as she lay awake and heard the noise that was made in carrying the burden upstairs her fears again took alarm, and it needed all the doctor's powers of persuasion to in dnce his sister to accept his assurances that the sick man would be all right in the morning. Mrs. Wharton was pacified at last, but could not sleep, and when morning came she was unable to rise. One ot her periodic attacks of nervous debility prostrated her the result ot the injury to her spine acting in combination with the night's agitation. Languid though she was wjth suffering, she insisted upon seeing her brother, and when the doctor entered, her apartment she fixed her gaze very steadily upon his face and demanded to know how her husband was. The doctor, seeing the effect of the preced ing night's agitation, and judging that with a nature like Mrs. Wharton's suspense was the creater of two evils, told her quietly that Wharton was dead. There was no weepinir. The newly-made widow was too stunned lor tears. A shiver convulsed her frame, shaking the bed on which she was lying, and that, was all. In a few moments she gathered conrage to ask: "This is appallingly sudden, what has he died from?" "Cerebral apoplexy. You see," the doc tor went on to explain, "he would take those long walks in the sun, and yesterday was the hottest day we have had. The sun was too mnch for him, and that and the hearty dinner he ate last evening produced the mischief." "When did he die?" "Last night He was dead when I came to you, but I would not tell you then, lest the shocking news should disturb your rest" "I must see him before he is buried," said Mrs Wharton, after a long time, in which she lay thinking and endeavoring, though with indifferent snecess, to realize her great calamity. "I would advise yon not," -tlie doctor returned promptly. "You see he has died in the fulness of life, as it were, and besides his face is very much distorted. Greater changes will supervene in the next 24 hours, If the weather continues as it is at present, and you are not in a fit condition to rise to day. Take my advice, Alice, cultivate the memory ot your husband's living presence, and do not spoil that by seeing hins so sadly changed." After more conversation the funeral was fixed to take place in Gorlington church ran) on the following Monday. Dr. West lake had informed bis sister of her widow hood on Wednesday. ', PITTSBURG, "On Monday a funeral train wended its way from the cottage, alone the cliffs, to Gorlington. It was a simple train, con sisting of a hearse and one mourning coach. There were only two mourners: the widow, whose strength had returned to her, and who was learning to face her loss in a courageous spirit, though now, her tears flowed freely, and her brother. Doctor West lake. As the mourners retired from the church yard, a knot ot villagers, who had been looking on, rnshed to the side of the grave, and looking down on the polished oak cof fin, read the simple inscription on the brass shield: PlSBCK Whabton, DIED July 30, 1S57; AGED 37 Tears. IV. Dr. Westlake, having disposed of his brother-in-law, lost no time in pursuing his scheme to the end. After the interment he produced a will in which a life interest in the estate of Pierce Wharton was left to his widow. The prop erty was bequeathed to Marcia, in the event of her mother's death, and Mrs. Wharton was named as sole executrix of the will. But there was a further clause that practically gave to Dr. Westlake su preme control over the estate. This clause appointed Mark Westlake, in conjunction with the widow, trustee for the estate, and the wording at this point was singular and prolix. It counselled Mrs. Wharton, rather need lessly, to confide entirely in Mark West lakes judgment in all things. It took knowledge of some real or imaginary indis position on Westlake's part to undertake the responsibilities of a trusteeship, and im plored him to lay aside his objections on this head, and to act in accordance with the testator's wishes for the sake of their former friendship and their near relation ship. Owing to the state of Mrs. Wharton's health, Mark Westlake virtually wielded all the power. His sister was simply called upon to act as the sign-manual to register his decisions. But with the entire confi dence which she reposed in her brother, that did not matter from her point of view. It left, however, Mark Westlake a free hand to do as he pleased, which was perhaps what was meant under all this palaver. The will had been prepared at Norwich during Wharton's visit to Norfolk in the spring. It was proved without delay, and all necessary steps were hurried through with dispatch. At the first meeting ot the directors of the Universal in September, a claim duly authenticated was laid before the board by Mr. WeDber, for the pavment of 10,000 on a policy executed on the life of Pierce Wharton in the month of April, 1857. Mr. Webber in laying the necessary docu ments before his board informed them that he thought the death occurring so soon after the execution of the policy and the large sum at stake were elements of suspicion. He had accordingly dispatched their private inquiry agent, Mr. Doggett, to Gorlington to make inquiries. He produced that officer's report which ended by declaring that no ground of suspicion existed in the matter. The Universal intimated to the firm of solicitors employed by Mrs. Wharton under her brother s directions, that the claim was admitted, and would be met at the expiration of the usual period. But the matter was not allowed to rest there. It turned out that several other offices had been "badly hit" by the early de mise of Mr. Wharton, and after a careful comparison of notes had taken place be tween the offices affected, it was discovered that eight other offices had been induced to issue policies on the life of Mr. Wharton in, the months of April and May, and the total sums insured for amounted to no less than 30,000. This was what Doggett called "a face." There could be no doubt in the judgment of persons most -competent to form an opinion, that the companies were the intended vic tims of a cleverly-constructed fraud. There was nothing very out of ehe way in the fact that a rising young stockbroker in the city should insure his life for 210,000, but30,000 was another matter. The Universal, though the heaviest suf ferer by the fraud, if fraud had been perpe trated.'was indisposed to stir in the affair unless the suspicions entertained by the other offices received some degree of corrob oration. This seemed hardly possible in the face of Doggett's report, which recorded that every thing in connection with the death and burial of Mr. Wharton had been en regie. When the Star and Garter suggested that it might prove to be a case of sham burial they were laughed to scorn, Doggett had inter viewed the undertaker, who provided the coffin, and the men who screwed the body down. There was no room for doubt that a genuine interment had taken place. The notion that the deceased might have met withoul plav was even less tenable. Who was to benefit by so great a crime? Dr. Westlake? The doctor was a specialist of the highest repute, whose own honor was not even called in question when one of his patients fell a victim to Howgate's brutali ty. On the face of the will the doctor de rived no benefit from the death of his rela tive. Besides that the terms on which he had lived with the deceased were shown to be of unusual affection. Suspicion was born solely out of two facts; the suddenness of the death after effecting the insurances, and the large amonnt at stake, much larger than anything the posi tion or circumstances of the deceased seemed to warrant But afterilong delay the Uni versal reluctantly gave way to the prevail ing wish that some steps shonld be taken to set the matter at rest, and agreed to fall in with any agreement that might be come to. Application was made to the Home Sec retary for an order for the exhumation of the body, and this was granted after a fur ther period of delay, and the Coroner for the district was communicated with. In addi tion to the legal representatives of the vari ous offices, Mr. Doggett was sent down to watch the progress of the inquiry. The body was exhumed and independent medical testimony was forthcoming to show that the deceased had died from natural causes. The, post mortem appearances cor responded with Dr. Westlake's certificate that death had resulted from "cerebral apo plexy." The time was not expired when payment of claims must be made, but the offices in terested felt that after the scandal they had raised the best thing to do was to back out of a false position with the best grace pos sible. -The .money was paid over immediately SATURDAY,' MARCH after the abortive inquiry before the Coro ner, and Pierce Wharton's le,gal representa tive became possessed of the sum ot 30,0001 At Christmas there .was a new prac titioner at the Eetreat, who has since added to the fame of that establishment by his hu mane and successful treatment of the un happy victims of mental disease. Dr. Westlake, it was rumored, had taken a foreign practice, and his widowed sister, with her daughter, had accompanied him. The mutiny was crushed at last and order and security reigned throughout our Indian possessions. Major Lowndes, no longer major, bnt Colonel Lowndes, now returned with his regiment to receive the honor of knighthood at the hands of his sovereign for gallantry and devotion, and still higher military honors were in store for him. Sir Charles Lowndes, as we must now call him, "bore his blushing honors thick upon him" with the modesty that sits so well on a truly Brave man. He returned to England bringing a young wife with him the rich widow pf a Calcutta merchant barely ont of her teens. His small savings, J that had proved too severe a test for Pierce Wharton's honesty, were a trivial matter to him, now that he had married the lady who was reputed to be the richest woman in Hindustan. But he learned from Slingsby, who had risen to be Q. C, that a commu nication had been received from Dr. West lake informing him that among his brother-in-law's effects was a statement that a certain sum just realized on Major Lown des's shares was to be banked in his name in the Bank of England. Dr. Westlake stated that he had carried out the instruc tion which his brother-in-law had not lived to carry out for himself. So Sir Charles re ceived his money without the slightest sus picion of the true circumstances. Two years later the Universal suffered heavily by a succession of fires that occurred in the United States, one of which, at the least, was believed to bean incendiary char acter. Mr. Doggett was sent over to consult with the New York police and investigate. The day after his arrival Doggett had just turned into Wall street when he ran plump against Pierce Wharton in the flesh. The detective kept his head, wisely refusing to regard Mr. Pierce Wharton as an appa rition from the other world, and betrayed no sign of recognition. Doggett was familiar with Wharton's face in old city days before the latter's voluntary exile. There was no mistaking the man, although he had shaved off his mustache and culti- vated a tuft on bis chin, American fashion. The detective tracked his man to his home, and discovered that the soi-disacc Pierce Wharton was now known ay Penryn Wendover, a famous speculator who lived in magnificent style on Fifth avenue. Satis fied that Mr. Penryn Wendover would be found when wanted, Doggett swore a private information before a New York magistrate, and having transmitted this 'to Europe, waited instructions, and went about the business that had taken him to the States and so opportunely thrown him in Pierce Wharton's path. Doggett soon concluded his business, and then set to work to ferret out all he could about Mr. Wendover's movements since he set foot in the New World. Tracing Mr. Wendover's history backward he found that he had left Liverpool under his present alias on the 3d of August, 1857, two days before his dead body was supposed to have been committed to the grave in Gorlington Churchyard. If a bombshell had suddenly burst in Mr. Webber's room it would scarcelv have cre ated more astonishment, though it would have inflicted more damage than was expe rienced at the Universal when Doggett's communication arrived. The matter was at once placed in the hands of Mr. Reginald Levi, the most famous criminal lawyer of those days. Mr. Levi took Doggett's view, that as Mr. Penryn Wendover was living in sublime unconsciousness of the sword of Damocles that was hanging over his head, it would be a pity to disturb him until matters were in train to warrant his arrest. '.'Let us first of all find the whereabouts of the other man, whose legal offense is more serious than Wharton's," he said. "With out Westlake we can do nothing against Wharton, for Wharton has made no false declarations, received no money wrongfully that we shall be able to trace, nor done any of the score of other acts which the more ac tive criminal of the two has committed. When we get Westlake we can make good our case against Wharton for conspiracy at least, but without Westlake I fear there is nothing to be done." A detective was dispatched from Scotland Yard to trace out Westlake, and a letter was written to Doggett, commending his discretion and instructing him to "lie low" and keep on the qui vive. Only on Mr. Penryn Wendover showing symptoms of flight was he to proclaim his identity and call in the assistance of the New York police. The magistrate at the Mansion House consented to hear an important ap plication from Mr. Levi in private, and at its close granted a warrant for Pierce Wharton's arrest This warrant was en closed in the communication to Doggett, with strict instructions not to use it until further instructed unless he saw need to avail himself of the extradition treaty. Either France or Germany offered the best field to an English specialist in mental diseases. Sims, the Scotland Yark detect ive, crossed by the next boat to Ostend, and making the best of his way to Berlin put himself in communication with the Berlin fiolice. but nothing was known of Dr. West ake there. Leaving instructions wherebv the name of everv lunacy specialist and his antecedents should be traced throughout the minor German States, Sims hastened to Paris, resolved that if he did not unearth Mark Westlake there, he would travel with all speed to Vienna. At Paris, Sims found what he wanted. A reference to the directories showed that Dr. Westlake had a large private establishment for the treatment of the insane, on the out skirts of Marseilles. A telegram to the head of the police in Marseilles soon brought back a message that Dr. Westlake was still resident there. Sims returned at once to London, and after another private interview with the magistrate at the Man sion House, a warrant was issued against Mark Westlake on a series of charges. The execution of the warrant, which was en trusted into the hands of Sims, was delayed until Doggett could be communicated with. Instructions were now sent to Doggett to act immediately, but to time the arrest so that information would reach Europe by steamer leaving New York before the steam, er on which Doggett proposed forget out 23, 1889. These instructions were carried out to the letter. There was something intensely dramatic in the situation of these men reposing in a false security and pursuing their several avocations, one in the extreme South of Prance and the other in the greatest com mercial city of the New World, all uncon scious that at a moment that might now be fixed with precision discovery and arrest would come upon -them both with the startling suddenness of a bolt out of the blue. At last word came from Doggett. The arrest had been effected, and though some 'formalities remained to be gone through he expected to leave with his prisoner five days later. In anticipation of news from Doggett, Detective Sims nad been sent down to Dover in readiness for the signal. The signal was given in one word: "Act." Sims took the next boat for Calais, ar rested his prisoner ontheqnay atMarseilles, and returned to Paris in time to catch the night mail, arriving with Mark Westlake in good time on the morning following the night which had seen Doggett arrive in London from Liverpool with Pierce Wharton. The prisoners were brought up at the Mansion House, and after a brief outline of the case had been given by counsel, a re mand was granted. Sir Charles Lowndes read an account of the'proceedings before the magistrate with undisguised horror.and after paying a visit to Newgate, where he was received with abund ant expressions of grief by Wharton and cynical mockery by Westlake, he visited Mr. Webber at the Universal. The gallant soldier, scarcely able to keep back his tears, told Mr. Webber the story of the youthful friendship at Harrow, and how on the night before they parted and went their several ways in the world, they had each vowed to help the other at his need, and that in ful fillment of that vow, he had cometo in duce the office to take a merciful view of the case, offering not only to make good the losses endured by the companies, but any sum, even to half his fortune, it the offense could be condoned. Mr. Webber could not help being touched at the brave soldier's devotion to his friends, and the noble offer he had made to avert from the companions of his boyhood the consequences of their crime. But it was not to be as he wished. As delicately as he could, Mr. Webber tried to bring Sir Charles to look at the matter from the stand point of, inexorable public duty; but Sir Charles went away sorrowful, "and brave man though he was and is, he murmured aloud that in his case, at least, the claims of an old friendship, refused to take sec ond place to any other consideration. And nobly did he redeem his word. The prisoners were committed for trial in due course, and the matter came on for hear ing before one of Her Majesty's judges at the Central Criminal Court, where a formi dable bill of indictment was preferred against both prisoners. But that against Dr. Westlake was the more formidable of the two. That both prisoners were guilty of daring fraud was beyond all question. But their respective sh'ares in the crime were different" The inception of the crime was due to the more powerful and fertile brain of Westlake, and this was assumed, though it could not be proved by the Crown. Whar ton's share in the proceeds of the lraud was larger than that of Westlake's, and his need in the first instance had led to the in vention of the plan. But neither of these facts were known to the Crown. Both men held their mouths closed to the last Whar ton's share was limited to the more passive act of flight and sharing of the proceeds. Westlake provided the dead body which was substituted for the living body of Wharton. He signed the false certificate that Pierce Wharton had died from cerebral apoplexy. He' gave perjured testimony at the inquest held later. He misled Mrs. Wharton, and made her the unconscious instrument of .cBecting a great villainy. Jle. "nsedTfer as the mechanical recipient 0? the money puiu over uy mc waiuiuiw uuiues. He was the master spirit .and the active agent of the -plot, and on him the stern hand or the law fell heaviest The case for the Crown against Wharton was weaker than it deserved to be. He was found guilty of conspiracv only, and was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. The jury contented themselves with re turning a verdict on three counts of the indictment against Westlake, who was sen tenced to three several terms of five, seven and eight years' penal servitude. The sen tences were cumulative: Sir Charles Lowndes interested himself after the trial, but in vain, to secure an abatement of punishment. Having failed in his attempt he frequently visited both convicts in the penal settlements to which they were sent Wharton's health broke down at Dart moor, and when it became clear that his life was to be measured by days rather than weeks, the order came for his release, and he was removed to Bournemouth by his constant friend, and nursed by him with more than the fidelity of a soldier and the tenderness of a woman, through the last stages of consumption. Into Sir Charles Lowndes ear Wharton poured forth the whole story of his temptation and fall. When the hero of the Mutiny learned that it was to make good a wrong done to himself that Wharton and Westlake had sinned to gether his anguish was inexpressible. "Could you not have trusted me to for give?" the brave warrior cried, whil the tears coursed down his cheeks. "What were my paltry earnings compared wtth the ruin of your life?" "I know now that I could have trusted you. I was a fool to have doubted it," was the broken reply that came from Wharton's dying lips. And with this avowal of the stuff of which his friendship was made, the soldier had to be content Soon after this Wharton died. He lies buried in the cemetery at Bournemouth, where the breath of the pine woods is wafted along with the salt air of the summer sea. Westlake, torn away from the pursuits he had followed with too little scruple, was unable to endure the strain of the monot ony of prison life. His mind gave way, and he was removed to Broadmoor. There he was pronounced incurable; and then Sir Charles a intercessions for Westlake's re lease prevailed with the Government, and the once brilliant scientist was taken care of by his old .Harrow friend. Various re treats were tried for him, but his restless ness and violence increased until the exper iment was made of his removal to. Gorling ton, where the famous specialist in mental disease wore his life away, a hopeless im becile, in a more or less restful calm within the walls where he wrung many a secret from nature by means it would be too curi ous to speculate upon, and upon the scene where the great fraud was planned, and, in part, executed. Mason did not recover from the attack, as stated by Howgate. His death from cere bral apoplexy at the critical moment, though wholly unexpected by the conspira tors, materially advanced the Success with which they executed their plot The suc cess of the scheme was largely contributed to by the indifference of Mason's friends to to his fate. It is needless to say that How gate was in the secret, for without his con nivance the continued presence ot Whar ton at the Eetreat until the time came for him to escape in diguise to Liverpool would have been almost impossible. And what of Mrs. Wharton and Marcia? By what means Mrs. Wharton was Induced to overlook the cruel deception that had been practiced upon her, and to join her husband in New York is entirely unknown. When the conspiracy was brought to light the blow killed her. She died before ber husband reached Liverpool, of the malady that had long threatened her, her death hastened, no doubt, by the shock of discov ing that she, a woman of blameless honor, should be so nearly related to men who could stoop to deeds so shameful. Sir Charles Lowndes, after the trial, crossed the Atlantic in search of Marcia, and it was owing to his thoughtfulness that Wharton's last hours were cheered by the pretence o his 'child. To Marcia hehasbeen more than a father; for has he not given to her his own name, and taken her to his bosom bis own ewe lamb, "shorn" of both parents, "shorn" too by disgrace in which she had no share, to whom the wind indeed needed to be "tem pered I" The gallant soldier is childless, and Marcia is "to him as a daughter." When Doggett was told that Sir Charles had offered even to the halt of his fortune if the charge could be withdrawn against Wharton and Westlake he quaintly re marked; "AM Wharton offered me the whole of his fortune if I would give him 24 hours' start, and he had made 'a big pile' over there in a short time." Which suggests how rarely men think of restitution as a matter of right and dnty; only as a bribe to purchase immunity from terror and escape from impending punish ment Wharton was in a position to have restored the whole amonnt of the fraud, and more. Public companies know how to give a kindly welcome to repentant sinners who come with a restitution in their hands. One more remark of Doggett's. "If Westlake had taken another name, like his friend Pierce Wharton Penryn Wendover did, Sims might have been looking over the Continent for him till the Crock of doom. And if I had not gone to Wall street ex cited by curiosity mainly, for I had no bus iness in that quarter I guess Mr. Wend over would be speculating still, and this great insurance frand would never have come to light Chance eh? Boshl" "It is just the way of the world," said Mr. Webber, musing over the issues of the romantic friendship begun in the old Har row days. "As Cowley says: There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.' " The End. Next Sntnrdav, DOCTOR JACQCEFS SECRET. PI ADA DCI I C cft abright descrip OLHtlM DCLLC tionof the affectionate parting of ex-President Cleveland and his wife, relates an anecdote of General Sherman and speaks of Hew York restaurant methods in to-morrow's Dispatch. To-Dav's Trial List. Criminal Court Commonwealth v William Welsh, Edward Donning, James Craig, Mary Cain, Ida PInme. The grand jury returned the following true bills: William HcAndrews, Michael Biggins, robbery; William Madden, F. B. Reynolds, Jacob iletz, larceny and receiving stolen eoocls; A. B. Minch, embezzlement; W. L. Ralston, fraudulently making and uttering a written instrument; Charles Mnnroe, felonious assault and battery; William Brown, alias "William McCrady, larceny and aggravated as sault and battery: John Murray, William Mah neke, James Bodgers, ass-iult ana battery; J. F. Venn, misdemeanor: J. R. Mallett, Thomas Welch, adultcryf Oliver Force, Finey Guckert, selling lottery tickets. The following bills were ignored: Louis Diehl, Nicholas Altmeyer. keeping a gamblng honsc; William Clark; Jacob Uudinsky. keep ing a bawdy honse; Charles Genis, Charles Hendricks, A. Wirth, Alonzo Wirth. Christ. Herald, Henry Rose, conspiracy: John Hoff man, Alex. Craig, false pretenseL. H. Walter, embezzlement: V. H. Lewis, misdemeanor: Mary Welsh, alias Mary O'Brien, larceny and receiving stolen goods; Sfary Ann Ford.larceny by bailee; Thomas Biggerstaff, receiving stolen Roods; Alex. Bovard. Frank Waeinsky, aggra vated assault and battery: Caroline Measmer, assault and battery; William, alias Kit, Carson, cruelty to animals. INDIAN FIGHTING S&SFS & Frontier are vividly described in to-morrow's Dispatch by Captain Charles King, who re lates the story of a wild ride with Buffalo Bill in pursuit of the Sioux. Dress nnd Wrap Trimming'. As the spring season approaches every lady and dressmaker is interested in what will be worn. New York leading the American fashion has decreed that the fol lowing shall be used: Persian bands in all colorings (prices ranging from 25 cts. to $4 per yd,); flannel embroidered bands, appliquebraids--with tinsel effects, steel bands and ornaments, crochet and jet com bination gimps and ornaments to match; pattern braid gimps, black and colored, fine jet trimmings, fringes, headings, ornament and leaf gimps, illuminated ornament gimps, plain silk gimps and headings (prices ranging from 15c up), beaded gren adines and nets for wraps, girdles in all colors, gold and silver soutaches and braids, binding braids, etc. These, with a full line of silk bindings, dress linings, buttons, dircctoire and smaller shapes, and everything connected with dress trimmings, can be procured at the lowest prices in the citv, and in greatest variety, at Kosenbaum & Co.'s, 27 Fifth avenue and 510 to 514 Market st. ThS Questions Worthy of Consideration Ad dressed Church, and school committees, and per sons building generally. Shall we continue in the old rut and plaster our ceilings and walls with the same old mud we have been patching all our lives, simply because it is cheap? Or shall we use wood, which we know will warp, shrink and burn, and furnish lodgment for all manners of in sects? Or shall we use our own brains and a little common sense, and adopt the patent metal ceilings, manufactured by A. Nor throp & Co., and secure olean ceilings, dura ble ceilings, artistic and attractive ceilings that are not easily damaged by either leak age of water, or jarring and vibration of buildings? Send stamp for our new cata logue of designs, or call and see our new offices at cor. Twenty-third and Mary sts., Pittsburg, S. S., before you decide these questions. A. Noethkop & Co. EOD B. & B. "For Saturday's sales ladies cotton ribbed vests," 15c, 20c, 25c and 50c. Compare them with any in this market Boggs & BtJHIi. English Neckwear Display In our men's department all day till 9 P. IT. You are invited. Jos. Hokne & Co.'s Penn Avenue 8tores.. As Good ns Candy. Marvin's new cocoanut caramel maca roons are delicious dainties, and are just what you want to eat with your dessert. Ask your grocer for them. its B. &B. 100 dozen fine gauze balbriggan stockings 20c a pair; compares with 25c stockings. Booas & Buhl, Allegheny. Gents' Gold and silver Watches, Also gold-filled cases, nickel watches, etc., fine jewelry, chains, charms, secret society pins and charms, K. T. and 32 charms. All at reduced prices. Will re move April 1 to 420 Smithfield st tts Jas. McKee, Jeweler. Men's Cotton Half Hose IS Cents to Finest Spring weights plain colors, balbriggan and fancy stripes. Largest assortment Joa. Hoehe & Co.'s Penn Avenue Stores. B. &B. Those 50-cent striped flannelette skirts are a special bargain extra width. Ask for them. Boggs & Buhl. Tatloe-made stockinette and corkscrew jackets; over 100 styles; cheapest at Bosen baum & Co.'s. B.&B. A linen's vinnfln vat 1Ra Ta! mtA a1ba aiauj u aMii m as uciu oviu stop- where at 20 and 25 cents. Our price for this Saturday's sales 15 cents, Booos & Buhl. English Neckwear Display In our men's department all day till 9 P. M. You are invited. Jos. Hoene '& Co.'s Penn Avenue Stores. REAL ESTATE SAVINGS BANK, U31., 401 SmltUOeld Street, cor. Fourth ATenue. Capital, $100,000. Surplus, $38,000. Deposits of $1 and upward received and interest allowed at & per cent. xxs HAD 'TO ACQUIT HER. A Well-Defended Mother pf Four Children No Seller of Beer. MRS.CHRISTIN A H0FFS EAST CASE, In Which a Heal German Swears He Cant Tell the Taste of lager. TWOFAlLUfiES A5D OTHER C0UET KEWS The ease of Christina Hoff.the widow from, Elizabeth township, who was charged with selling liquor in a prohibitory district, came up before Judge Magee, yesterday. Mrs. Hoff is the woman who created such a favorable impression on the Court and sev eral of the attorneys the other day, and her acquittal was almost a foregone conclusion. She had been released on her own recog nizance by Judge Magee; but she was in court early yesterday morning with her four small children. Attorneys Montooth and Moore appeared for the woman, and succeeded in securing her acquittal. Probably the most amusing part of the case was the examination of one of the witnesses for the Commonwealth. He was Henry Becker, and he testified to hav ing bought a bottle of something that was marked "'birch beer." Mr. Porter Wasn't it really lager beer? Mr. Becker I don't know. Mr. Porter You know the difference be tween lager and birch beer? Mr. Becker No, sir. Mr. Porter Where were you born? Mr. Becker In Germany. Mrs. Hoff's testimony was the 6nly evi dence offered for the defense. She said she had never sold anything bnt soft drinks; but that a boarder in the honse usually kept a jug of whisky, and sometimes gave some to his friends. ,Iu charging the jury Judge Magee said it was dangerous for any one to manufacture lager beer, label it'birch beer and impose upon a poor widow, who was doing what all mothers do gathering her children about her and trying to support them. He said the only way they could convict her would be on the assumption that she had sold whiskjr belonging to the boarder. The jury was only out about ten minutes, and as Mrs. Hoff left the court, the specta tors handed her money in amounts rang ing from 10 cents to half a dollar. EXECUTIONS FOR OVEE $45,000 Cause the Sbnttlns Up shop of Mantel and Brewers' Supply Dealers. The store of L. H. Smith, the dealer in mantels, on Sixth street, was closed yester day by the Sheriff, on executions issued against him aggregating $26,829 22. The execntions were for the following sums: L. G. McCauley, $15,18689; Maria E. Veech, $5,193 33, and Mrs. Jane Sheppard, $6, 449 10. The Sheriff also took possession of the St Julien Brewery, in Allegheny, owned by John J. O'Eeilly, dealer in brewers' sup plies, with offices in the Schmidt building, against whom executions had been issued for $18,500 16. The executions were: Ed ward Frauenheim, $5,520; TJ". G. Williams, $4,055 16, and Frauenheim & Vilsack, $8, 925. . - Mr. O'Eeilly, it is stated, said that, when the old St. Julien Brewery Company failed, he indorsed about $35,000 of its paper. Since then he has been paying on principal and interest, and would Save, continued to pay, but for the stagnation in business caused by the Brooks bill and the prohibitory amend ment agitation. Tjlnes From Lesal Qnnrters. Ik tbe libel suit of John 3. Edear against the Penny Press Company yesterday a compulsory non-suit was entered against tbe plainuif. Georgk Sellers yesterday entered suit against Michael Gardner for $20,000 damages for f also arrest for "perjury and illegal voting." John C. McLaughlin yesterday filed a bill in equity against Moses A. Michaels and wife, on account of the transfer of an electric coal mining machine, in the patent of which both were interested. A petition was filed in the Orphans' Court yesterday by Mary L. McCrae, asking that trustees be appointed for tbe estate of Mar garet Marshall, who has been missing tor a year. The estate is valued at $3,000. The suit of Philip J. Ulrica, against the city of Pittsburg is on trial before Judge Ewing. The case is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Viewers in awarding damages caused by the widening of a street In the Thirty-second ward. A bill In equity was filed yesterday by Thomas, James A., Sarah K. and Ann McFar land against the Ohio Connecting Railway Company to prevent the defendants from tak ing 100 feet width through plaintiffs' property on Brunot's Island, Ninth ward, Allegheny, in stead ot the 60 feet allowed by law. Judge Achesox. in tbe United States Court yesterday, granted a preliminary injunction In the case ot Henry W. Putnam and Carl Hutter against tbe Keystone Bottle Stopper Company, restraining tho defendant from manufacturing a bottle stopper which the plaintiffs claimed was an infringement on their patent: A COMPULSORY nonsuit was entered yester day in the suit of Sheriff McCandleas, f or nse of David R. Mclntyre. against J. H. McKen ney, an action on a Sheriff's sale. The Sheriff bad knocked down a piece of property to Mc Kenney, who afterward refused to take it, and suit was brought to compel him to do so. A charter for the Pittsburg, Fairport and Northwestern Bock Company was filed in the Recorder's office yesterday. The company is formed for the purpose of maintaining a storage yard in Pittsburg. The capital stock is 550,000, divided into 1,000 shares. The directors are Henry W. Oliver, C I). Fraser, John E. McDonald. John Donaldson and A. . Ander son. Judge Colller yesterday .held an Inquest on the sanity of Mrs. Rachael Powell, and she was declared a lunatic Mrs. Powell is 71 years of age. and has been insane since January 1, 1889. Her only estate Is a pension of $12 a month drawn as the widow of John Powell, who was a soldier in the Warof 1812. Mrs. Mrs. Martha E. Hauck, of Allegheny, her daughter, was appointed to take charge of ber. Chief Elliot, of the Department of Chari ties, yesterday entered suit for the city against Ella McTiernan. commissioner of James Mc Tiernan, to recover 53,330 71 for tbe keeping of James McTiernan since April, 1871. when he was declared a lunatic and committed to Dix mont at tbe expense of tbe city, as having no estate. Since then he has become possessed of $6,000 and an estate bringing' him $30 per month, which is m charge of Ella McTiernan. A charter for the Turtle Creek Valley Electric Light Company was filed in the Re corder's office yesterday. The company was formed for tbe purpose of operating an electric light plant in North Versailles, Patton, Brad dock and Wilkins townships. The capital stock is $50,000, divided into 1,000 shares at $50 a share. The directors are Allen Matthews, Frank Wilcox, Edwin C. Little, Walter D. Up tegraff and Charles C. Wolfe. Judge Stowe yesterday handed down an opinion in the case of A Filiman against Rosa Hall, a suit to obtain judgment on a note for $2,000 given Filiman bv the defendant as se curity for going ber bail. Rose jumped ber ball, and Fillmanlaims that he was put to the expense of $800 in searching for her. Of this amount $250 was for detectives' services and $200 attorneys' fees. Jndge Stowe holds the amount paid the detectives was excessive, but as it was paid in good fait lit shonld stand. Tbe attorneys' fees were not excessive, but Fillman's personal expenses were not allowed. The suit of James M. Chadwick against Pew, Emerson & Co.. Limited, the Penn Fuel Company and the Philadelphia Company for damages for a right of way taken through his farm for a pipe line, was concluded yesterday. A non-suit was taken as to tbe Penn Fuel Com pany and tbe Philadelphia Company, and a verdict was rendered for tbe defendant as re gards Pew, Emerson & Co. An agreement be tween Chadwick and Pew, Emerson & Co., with reference to tbe right of way, was produced, but Chadwick denied that he bad ever signed it. He said he had signed a receipt, bat no agreement. The jury, however, dee&M against him. , f , jk , -v. i J .. .,&,'- Jps. ':
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