THE TIMES, NEW BL00MF1ELI), TA. DECEMUKll 21, 1880.
TRACKING A CRIMINAL,
i on
Paul Webber, The Detcctlvo.
CONttNUEDi
A MOMENT, if you please," here
JTX sulJ the magistrate, wbo Was
apparently alone with his Visitor, for
the clerk had quitted the room. " I
myself felt that the police could not
hrlng suflicltfitt evidence against you to
justify me In tasulng a warrant for your
apprehension hut at the same time I
felt thitt there wre one or two strong
points In theaiiousatlons brougbtagalnst
you by the police. Were we in open
court I should warn you that whatever
you said would be taken down la evi
dence against you. Here, what you say
is quite confidential. But I am sure that
you will clear yourself so thoroughly of
the vague accusations which lie about
you, that I shall be able to assure the
Government that it would be an injus
tice to arrest you the whole resulting
in your return to society free from the
auuoyunce of a publlo examination.
Perhaps I have somewhat exceeded my
duty, but I am sure, morally, If not
technically, I am iu the right. I am
quite ready to hear what you have to
iy."
" Then may I ask for a statement of
the busts upon which I am suspected of
bavlrig murdered this young man V" ..
, " Certainly. You are named, I think,
AtiBtlu Sivory V" , , ,
' , "Yes.".
" Do you not sometimes add another
name "
" Yes-Cathc'art."
" Hut f understand you have no right
to that name!"'
" It is that of 'our estate, which has
always belonged to my family."
" That is no justification whatever.
May I ask what Is your ago V" , t
Thirty-two."
" Your profession 1"'
' I have no profession."
" How do you live, then ?"
I live tolerably." .
" I beg your pardon," said the magis
trate, sharply ; "there can be no need
for you to be facetious. Any repetition
of such conduct would compel me to
dismiss you, and issue a warrant, when
the case would be tried in open court a
shape of proceedings which would cer.
taiuly produce serious features."
- Sivory betrayed by no facial sign or
word that this rebuke moved him.
- "How do you liver1" repeated the
" Sir,',' replied Austin Sivory r in a
tone which was quite serious, " If you
mean by bow do I live, that you expect
me to reply that I hold Consols or other
value, I am afraid I must say you are
mistaken. I am bound to admit that I
have uo assured large income. Like
many other men in the fashion, I live
from day to day rich sometimes by
acclde;it, and poor generally by habit.
Sometimes I make a hundred by dab
bling hi stocks, sometimes I win on a.
horse, oftentimes I make money , on
cards for I am a clever whist player,
and we play at my club a good, deal. I
have had two thousaud pounds at com
mand one day, and nothing the next
this being the fortune of war all the
world over. Wrong, I dare say, it Is,
hut it is the truth ; and inasmuch as you
appear excusably desirous of hearing the
truth, and nothing but the truth, I have
uttered It.". , .
"Sd, ad, very sad,'slr;'and it would
damage you seriously in 'the eyes of a
jury."
"Jury!" echoed Sivory, in a tone
which defrayed much astonishment but
'no' fear, '" I sincerely jhope that in my
iase there will be no question of a jury,
for 1 am sure I shall be able to prove to
you my perfect Innocence."
"I trust so; but I may remind you
that mice before, a fit of passion on your
part led you into a police-court."
"Indeed!", '
"Yes; you recall so 'severely beating
a man, an adversary, that he was quite
disabled for some time."
" True, sir; but let me add that it was
felt that I had been cruelly provoked,
and that I had not ' intended to do so
much injury as I really accomplished."
" It woj reported at the time, that you
lived a very fevered life."
" We moat of us do, at twenty years
of age." '
" It was also said, at that time, you
were very passionate."
" That Is quite true. Unhappily for
myself, I have never been able to over
borne my naturally hot temper; my
anger carries me away before I am aware
that I am under its influence."
"You do not, then, hesitate to make
Uls admlribion, although you must
know that It would most seriously dam
age your case were you on your trial V"
?' I do not hesitate to admit Oils, sim
ply because It la the plain and absolute
, truth. I am a fiery-tempered man all
ray friends know me to be, tbls-and it
would be useless to deny it," i, i
The nntgUtrate became, alient. a Bo
touch calmness and naturalness in the
man with whom he wus conversing on
a question of life or death astounded
him, although during bis long career he
had done the battle of words with many
a clever hypocrite, with numberless
comedians.
"Either this man Is innocent," thought
the magistrate, "or Nature has provided
him with energy and lutelllgeuce in no
ordinary degree."
"And against you there is not only
the affair of the assault, but something
else to which you have not yet referred,"
he went on.
" True; and I have not yet referred to
it, because almost immediately after my
entrance you requested me to wait for
questions being asked nie, and not to
put thein myself."
" True. Then may I ask you how It
happened that you came somewhat re
cently to be mixed up in certain gain
bllng transactions over cards, at your
club?"
" I was, no doubt, mixed up In that
transaction. A young gentleman from
the country, Introduced to my club,
himself proposed to play for high stakes.
He was rather shied at, at first, hut he
was so well recommended, he seemed
desirous of playing, and he appeared to
have so much money, that some of us
were tempted Into playing with him.
He was not clever, and still he persisted
in playing. Finally, he lost over two
thousand dollars, and being unable to
pay the money, as an alternative, he
declared that cheating had been going
on. This kind of thing happens at the
clubs more than once or 'twice In the
course of a season. A man is a bad
player, and Is too proud to admit he is
not a good hand at cards, and prefers to
charge his fellow players with roguery
rather than himself with ignorance. By
these means he may get kicked, but he
justifies the non-payment of his debts of
honor; and society in general, out of
the club, look upon him rather as a
victim than a slanderer. In the partic
ular case you refer to, I was one of six
or eight gentleman accused by the
young man of cheating an accusation
he made In a letter to the club commit
tee. The committee examined the
affair, and the result of all was this
that the young man made an apology,
aud ultimately paid the money he had
lost."
" But by what means could you pos
sibly know I should ask for these
questions?"
" Because I had no doubt that where
a man has the police about him, every
apparent black point iu his character is
picked out with dead certainty. The
affair of the assault was notorious ; and
as for the card case, although it never
became public, it was much talked
about; and even now it is a scandal
which has scarcely died out.",
Austin Sivory opoke with so much
ease and qoolness, his voice was so sym
pathetic!, and he sat in his chair with so
much self-possession that he appeared
rather to be making a mere morning
call, than giving a magistrate such , a
private examination of his conduct as
should prevent his belng arrested and
publicly examined upon a charge of
murder.
Bo far, no movement or sound had
betrayed the listening preseuce of Mar
garet May ter. As she promised, she
performed. ' '
Suddenly the magistrate went to the
heart of his Inquiry. " Where did you
pass the evening of the Cth of Octo
ber ?" (The date of the assassination.)
"And you?" '
; This reply was made rapidly, in a
sharp tone of voice, but the speaker still
appeared to be perfectly calm.
The reply obviously irritated the mag
istrate, amiable as naturally he was.
He rose from his chair, and eaid, "Sir,
you forget the respect due to justice
itself, and of which I . am, at this
moment, the representative. Since my
endeavor to save you from a public
examination appears to have fulled, I
must at once give orders"
" Sir," Interrupted Austin, in a firm
voice, but with a politeness which could
not fail in calming the magistrate's irri
tation; " you have , totally mlscompre-'
bended the sense of my words. Not for
one moment did I contemplate offend
ing a gentleman like you, whose words
and manners, however severe, have
shown how considerate you can be to a
man under the shadow of an accusation
of murder. I simply wished to point but
by this question, made In opposition to
your own, how difficult it is to answer
you. You ask me suddenly, and with
out leading up to the inquiry, where
was I on a particular night. I reply,
And you ?' In fact, I am sure that any
man asked such a question, suddenly,
and without anticipation of its coming,
would be uuable to reply satisfactorily.'
" That would depend," sid the mag
lstratc, sitting down, '-upon the sort of
life any given man lives. If it is regu
lar, the question appeals to me imple
eaougn,, if, on tlie couimry, the life is
h'regular, then J am willing to admit
that probably it would lie difficult to
answer the Inquiry.". But this Inter-
change of opinion bus given, you time
for reflection, and doubtless you are now
able to answer the question."
"At least, I hope to be able to answer
the qupftf lon. Errors excepted, I dined
at Verey'c, in Jtegent Street."
"At what time did you leave that
establishment ?" '
"About eight o'clock."
" Be very careful Mr. Hlvory, for your
own sake, and be equally exact. You
say about eight ; for you see, according
to the medical examination, the assas
sination must have been committed at
about that hour."
Austin Sivory was perfectly ready
with his reply in answer to the magis
trate's question as to what hour he left
Verey's on the night of the murder,
notwithstanding the caution he had
received to be careful.
"Sir," replied Sivory, "If I had com
mltted this crime, I should have known
the hour at which I had done It, and so
then I should have said that I only left
Verey's at nine, and thereby I should
try to prove my innocence."
" But possibly, on the other side, It
might have been shown that you did
leave before nine."
" It Would be very difficult to do so,
sir, for the people who dine at Verey's
usually dine very late. It will frequent
ly happen that people will be dining
there quite as late as nine O'clock ; and
out of the half-dozen waiters, I have
little doubt three out or four would
swear I was one of the last customers to
leave the house as, In fact, .1 'very
frequently am. When I suld that I left
Verey's about eight, I was endeavoring
to be as exact as possible."
" Well, you left Verey's at eight.
Where did you then go?"
" Habitually I walk for an hour after
dinner generally, in autumn and Win
ter, when the parks are closed early,
along Piccadilly, and then back again."
" Then some of your friends probably
met you, and you chatted with ' them.
Do you remember their words ?"
Sivory very naturally reflected a few
moments, aud then he replied, "No, I
don't think I met a man I knew. I
walked up to the Park gates alone, and
returned alone, without meeting wiy
acquaintance." f
" Strange 1" replied the magnate,
"for it was a very fine evening, aijA the
streets were crowded with people, and
you were walking where most of your
friends would be found did they happen
to be out."
"Quite true; but.it is nevertheless
equally certain that I did not see upon
that particular evening, as far as my
memory serves me, any friend walking
along Piccadilly. , However, pray re
member, sir, that between eight and
nine, most men like myself are either
testing after dinner, or are visiting.
Again, if on that particular night there
happened to be a new piece produced at
one of the best theatres, that would take
off most of my friends."
"Well, after an hour's walking In
Piccadilly, where did you then go?"
" I went home for a few moments."
"According to you, it was then
nine?" . ' '
"Nlne-about."
"You live In Albany?"
"Yes."
" Did the porter see you go in ?"
"1 don't know."
" He has told the police that you did
not go home before ten."
" Nine half-past nine or ten they
are much the same for a sleepy porter
In a hot glass lodge."
1 " How came you to go home at this
time? Generally you would he dressed
for the evening before dinner, and you
Would go from the dinner-table to your
club, or elsewhere?" 1
"lean answer that question very
readily. When I dressed I put on a
light overcoat ; but the evening turned
chilly, I had gone in to change it for a
thicker one."
" Would it not have been simpler at
once to have gone to the house where
you remained all night?"
" No doubt, had I had the least knowl
edge at the time that I should have
remained there. ' The police appear to
have followed up my movements very
remarkably. But It was precisely be
cause I was about to visit at the house
in question, that I did change my over
coat; for, generally when I visit there,
1 do not leave the place until very late
perhaps two or three o'clock In the
morning." .
1 "But this exchange of coats may
suggest to my ndnd a possibility which
is by no means favorable to the supposi
tlon of your innocence."
" What possibility ?"
"That you may have changed your
overcoat iu consequence of certain spots
of blood upon the one you must have
been wearing at the time Mr. Forbes
died-spots of blood which would tell
terribly against you." !
" What apots of blood?" asked Austin
Sivory, looking in amazement at the
magistrate. ;
"Two or three. How do you explain
them away?"' t , i ' ,
.."Explain them ; away.; Are there
spots of blood on my summer overcoat ?
You must be speaking at random. Jam
sure there cannot be blood-marks upon '
my coat; how can thero be ?"
The magistrate was baffled, for the
police and magistrates know that, iu
nlnety-nlhe cases out of one hundred,
whenever a man Is guilty, directly spots
of blood are referred to, he accepts It
that they have been found, and accounts
for the stains by a bleeding at the nose,
or a cut finger.
Any such statement upon Austin's
part would have damaged him fatally in
the magistrate's Judgment; for the over
coat In question had been minutely ex
amlned even with a microscope, and no
signs of blood had been found.
As it was, Mr. Caellem came to the
conclusion that either Austin Sivory
was not guilty, or that he was one of
the cleverest defendants that had ever
appeared before him. However, he did
not for a moment abandon the endeavor
to confound the gentleman whom he
was questioning. '
He said, " I hear the police have sub
mltted the coat In question to very clev
er chemists."
" It appears to me that the taking of
my coat was a liberty ; but, on the other
hand I am not acquainted with police
and magistrates' customs."
" After remaining at home for a few
moments, you went out and visited one
Lady Pauline Darmer once a lady . of
position, but one who la now no longer
received in the society to which she was
born. You are very intimate with that
lady, are you not?"
"No; not intimate. I am an ac
quaintance merely. She sees a great;
deal of company, and I find her house
agreeable."
"Admitted; but is It such a house1
as one would not care to visit very ofteu
air"
" Perhaps so ; but I consider Lady
Pauline to have been a shamefully
slandered woman."
"At all events her husband; Mr.
Darmer, left his wife, whether rightly
or wrongly, and the Earl of 'Harrow
lelgh the Lady Pauline's father was
very glad to keep the whole business
perfectly quiet. How is it that she
keeps such a house as she does upon the
one thousand a year that Mr. Darmer
allows her?" ; ' '
" That accusation makes part of the
scandal against Lady' Pauline. Her
father's sister lives with her, and that
lady's income partially supports the
house." ' .
" Were Lady Pauline a widow, would
you propose to her?"
" Assuredly ; I am sure she Is an hon
est woman." '' ''
Sivory spoke iu a candid, friendly
voice, which certainly had its effect
With the magistrate, who, for a few
moments, forgot that he was face to face
with a man accused by the police of a
foul murder. The man's pleasant man
ners, his quiet, sweet voice; his calm,
gentle, manly way, all had their effect
upon the justice, whose face relaxed,
and upon whose lips there came, for a
moment a re-assuring smile.
The magistrate started up, and began
walking from end to end of the long
room ; Mr. Sivory at once rose when the
magistrate was no longer seated.
Suddenly the magistrate must have
remembered Margaret; and he cast his
eyes towards the room in which she was
concealed, the door of which was scarce
ly so much as on the jar. By an appar
ently accidental arrangement of the
window-light in both rooms, narrow as
was the chink, the magistrate could see
that the poor girl was on her knees that
her hands were clasped, and that she
was excessively pale. . . , ; :i
The sight of this sorrowing figure re
called the magistrate In an Instant, to a
seuse of his duty, and the necessity for
caution. . i .
He turned quickly upon Austin Sivory
and be said, " Did you know Graham
Forbes ?'? . , ... .
"Oh, yes."
" For how long?" .'., ,
" About three years.'!
, " How came you to know him ?".
A mutual friend, to whom I bad been
saylug that I wanted to venture some
money, by way of speculation, . on
'change, introduced me to Forbes who
Eeemed perfectly satisfied with the in
troduc tlon, and at once offered to become
my broker."
"Without any reference or guar
antee?" .
. I suppose my personal appearance and
behavior satisfied him. Again the
operations I required to be effective were
so small; that probably he thought no
security or guarantee would be required.
Upon settllug-day, my balance one way
or the other, was never more than from
eighty to one hundred pounds." ,
" It was sometimes more than that,"
replied the magistrate, who appeared to
be thoroughly acquainted with all the
particulars of Hlvory 's life, "and lit fact
you lost heavily." ,.
"Yes; that is quite true. At that
time I knew one of the Hub-Secretaries
of State.' He Intimated that a certain
something was to happen which would
cause the funds to fall. . I bought for a
fall. A fall did not take pluce ; and
upon the next settling-day, I wag a
loser to the extent of JEHOU." Continued
next week. .;-,
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