Dear me; dear me; this is terri- ble, gentlemen! I wasn t `very well acquainted with my cousin, and what little` inteycourse we had was not such as to induceme. to increase it, but to think that the poor fellow was murdex-ed-upon my word, Ait s shocking. 2 "count upon your co-operation in this Vaffau'~.\- _ it i;indeed; replied my friendgl And .now., Mr. Williamson, I can 4 ` `ii&oubtedIy,. sir. To the utmost extent in my power. But I am afraid I can be of` little .assistanc.- ' V _W'ha_t-you c`an t--you` don t sure- ly 1m_a.gmg-" - II! .1 9 I visitor appeared greatly _ shgeked. n I think 3/lou may. "be of the great- gest help. to me. `You. know, I be- }_lieve, something of - your cousin's F-fear1y.1if e. Would you mind tellingl us_;wh`atver 7_you "can recqllect of it?" V "Why, 1t_'m e._see. He was rather olcgler. than :1. 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ESTABLISHED 1870 AND L_ JAIGUARY 9th, 1903` .. JV v , ._vJ,.;`V THE My mother havl married a you; man of the name of Charles W- liamson. He was very wild, and n -i too well off at that time, and hc. family was very much opposed to they match; so much so, indeed, that the young people were forced L) make it a runaway affair, and the rest of the- family never forgave her, xwr had muchwto do with her afterwar`i~x It is only common justice to my lath- er" to tell. yonj that he reformed aft~r his,;marriage, bought` a small farm. educated. both my brother and In)" self; and athis death left my, mother eomfortably off. - -However, We had never seen much ofogr cousins; but.we lived only a few .miles apart, -and I learned of some of their affairs. Some time after .this,; I `heard that `Cousin, Wil- llfam was paying very earnest atten- tions` to a young lady near at hand of . the .;n_at_nee of `Alice Morton. :\t l,.'ea`;tj"sqme4said it was William she > Z0133 t~~With,V and some asserted l - W. Thmpas; others V agam V fertam;,t:hat- it -was both That"'ws when I fst saw either them. `, 5`;;"'rHUR1 z: :`-12%.` - .4 'sud('l`e.z; _ The Stop ' this. And room tiger, very `said sc l|Th Mills, visitor girl, . She` 1` "\/Vi "Un Coven Io Pray story,` WeT{f and r which tell u Culiur numb most] many aCCL`}) the w terrib say. his xx liam for 11 om: went and Othu`. did \' busin In ma_n'y"respects the aair is, I believe, unique in the annals of Lan- adian crime; and certainly no single 'case in this country has "produced such enormous ditriculties .for' the detectives, or presented so many points of extraordinary interest to the general public. And all this ow- ing to the skill, amounting almost to genius, in one man who was -enabled to interweave about his crime a net- work of facts so misleading that, `but for one happy chance and the ad- mirable skill of the detective who re- 7 cognised the opportunity and acted| upon it, no suspicion would have arisen that a crime had `ever taken `place. bL11; T| lrzalct m_"\\.' mcmci Th tla, left 1'{{a 3 thg - thmg kin H111; 2:`-ll IIIUIII ___ , -~ '*xsEa~;vE`s&Ry. . (A. C. Smith in Canadian VM"ag azine. III J. ...'- ___-_._- A 1....` Th himl m (11 Clean uunu the |I\ living, vvha-Hi (C .\{V}3 .`\n QIHC AAnIVI Mill Iv. In an-v4 `case of the summer `of 1898. .50. in spite of. all the interviews and` ru- _sents by far the most interesting` as- :`Everyone in Ontario, presume, has heard of the famous Watkins! many eyes had, not been turned upon the blushing little city of `Wood-- stock since the well-known `Birchalli trial some eight years before; But, mdurs and facts and` stories brought to light by._the industrious little bandl of newspaper reporters, I believe that no account of the inside history of that remarkable affair has. hitherto been published. And `yet, it pre- pect of the case. ..g u o qr `she 9! .ther because the other men were` J. Summerton Mills was the man who did it, and it made his reputa- tion in one day. Before this time, he had, been employed chiey as a police detective in Toronto, in unim- portant affairs where -his ability had diicutly in asserting. itse1f;.but, ei-I elsewhere engaged, or possibly be- cause Woodstock was his birthplace, and he would be aided by certain local knowledge, the entire invest:-i gation of the Watkins affair was? `placed in his hands; and it is safe to- say that, had it been in those of any other, the startling denouement that one morning stared the country in! the face from the front page rofithel newspapers would never have taken place. ' ' 1' -.--:..- ur- 1....-A tILII\'\v Mills and I were cousins. We had! played together as children, and had, studied together at school, and so in -was with great satisfaction and de- light hat I noted the attention that thts, the rst of his great successes, aroused. } At that time I was a reporter on` The Mercury, and the Woodstock correspondent of one of the big To- ronto dailies, and it wasn t,my fault if the public did not know who was conducting the investigation, .or if they did not learn that every new and important fact that appeared was brought to light entirely throughvthe energy and sagacity of J. Summerton M ills, I -whole affair centered about `the incident recorded in the follow- ing report, which I sent to my paper on the morning of May 2nd, 1898, and which appeared in the issue. of `the following morning, under the heading, Took 5His Own Life : The body of William Watkins, a prominent citizen of Woodstock, was found in a swamp on the Norwich_ road about a mile from this city` at 1 ,4 Ev_er'y:bo_x gfMoony?: ;,.,!3rga:n .866-716`?! *9P"'-'5-""753." mind a; " `.=;_..':A., 2 I I I - U V v v v v v v . . . . _ . .. . A In` .u run. --_v_ ww-we Chartered Bank ` nitea:.,t3*.8~.5 -iii god Ireland. -= . -0 _, __4_, __.9n_I. _-I.A_. mm b e _ Hy:l;|`e u.exc`:etP)_,aa.nd at thegprincipql ft `_ ' r are negbufble to _ aAaR'IE; BARAN .` aim Iv fiaf ?s.1o,ooo.ooo % '- ;;;", % 5.0009000 A 113,000,000. a.n"e":zr1y hour this n 1c'>rnin;A A~ bot-9.` ltle labeI1ed,`Hydrocyanic `Acid, an a\cup'.<':jontai'ning a little 0f the poi`- son were found _ lying`. beside the body. Deceased left home in a bug- -.. ..I..-mo In-;lF_nae+ nlpven last nitzht`. 'DOC|y: .lJCCC'd.3Cu lcu. nuns; us a Uub igy about half.-past eleven '-las; night`, telling-his housekeeper that" he had business in Burgessville, and would itlot be back till morning, '1_`he-horse` land buggy were found half `a mile" strayed during, the night. 'Mr. Wat- lkins had lately been speculating heavily in wheat, and it is .:u' oured that he had sustained sever" losses, and this may have furnished -at mot- ive for the suicide. ~He'was forty- eight years of age, and had lived in Woodstockifor a number- of years, being `engaged -until` latterly in the coal and wood business. A year or so ago, he inherited an independent fortunte and retired. `So far as can be ascertained he leaves no immedi- ate relatives. ' `up the road, whither the animal had I wired further particulars during ?the day. As may, be imagined, tne Tevent created `some attention in lwoodstock. owing to the prominence 3of Mr, Watkins in the cxty, but It {was only in the light ot the startling subsequent events that the a{ f.1nr.' be-` came'p'articul,arly sensational. ` V T _ l;'A;1 _ - That same afternoon I met Mills walking up Wellington treet from the station, grip in hand. I have come down to hang somebody for this suicide of yours," he` explained 'gaily.. . I L VI-tuna`: rigs v-as-`mu. .4 ------.~-__.... ; The spot mentione `way out of the city, vI`Kere't .1;._-f:"\',,._o_:"- wich road`-inakes a short left to pass through a_ small swamp. Cedars "and underbrush. closely bor- der the road, quite shutting out the view. It was/1-here that the body was found lying `under a small tree, _not `twenty feet from the roadway. But so dense was the shrubbery at this point that, but for one friendly little pencil of light that pierced the foli- `age and glittered on the watch- ,cl_1airm, the body might have lain un- `discovered for days. When I visited "the spot, in duty bound, late on the morning of the second of May,ithe ;branches were pushed back, the lweeds trampled, and the," ground and roadway deep cut with foot-prints and wheel tracks. The place was a perfect quagmire from the recent `rains and, seeing nothing ofinterest, 1 I soon returned to the city. d was a-`_ 111:1; s '-iIr{-- I `-7.! ,~. , ~ 'H J `Gxxs:rr;L'gM=a;uageg was my rst intimatioh that anything was wrong, and I dare say my eyes opened wide in amazemen_t. "i`....Al.. 4-L...-.... ....u- ..n+L.i...-.. .-...-us.-. I III. L. V5 \Jll\r`1\Ll VV ILIV Ill ILIILGLMIILUIIL. "Surely there was nothing suspici- ous .iu the circumstances?" I ex- claimed, r No, not yet! I ll let you know `if anything . turns up. In the mean- while, I wish to work quietly._It is a poor hunter who begins by alarm- ing the game, you know. Besides, we must not forget thatrthis is mere- ly surmise, and the affair may be capable of a simple and innocent ex- planation. _So pleasesay nothing of `the mattervat present, and inreturn I promise that `you will be the rst to print the news_ if there be any. I The inqt1'e.s`t'hroi1.gh'te`- out nothing sensational. After the house-`keeper of the deceased and several others had identied the body,.a.~ farmer de- posed to `nding it as he was driving into town early Wednesday. m`orning- 'I:he_bottle of poison _lay on the left sxdeiof theebody, about a'fobt dist-. ant from it. The cork was lying on. the ground. The clip was on the other side as though it had `been dropped'fr_om his r1ght _Ah'and._ .. ' 1 "Not in themselves, I admit, he` ireplied, "but _we ha`ve just received: word that several checks for very! large, amounts, bearing the signature of William Watkins, were cashed this morning in Toronto. It may be nothing, of course, but it merits in- vestigation. - " (A1-ra .. - \- - .5; AAA, I Iication ? Mr. Jainieson, husband fof the house-keeper; and general servant -of the deceased, was next` .ea11ed.: He identied the- cup as one of a set in- use at the house. 1* He proved that the poison- hadjbeen _pr_oeured from _a.druggist in the jeast,ex'1d of the city with whom -the deceased had been ;in `the, habit of , dealing ; ,,VVit-T ness hadgbbnght it` hitngelf, _bar'ing A Mitten order from his master. This zhadt been about: a" week 'bfore;A De- ceased_ had? notfgiven` `him ay `ex- 'p!at(1la_t$on -._off__ the useto` whigh h`_?s,Ajn~. ` t tn'_e.f;. pumng. fso ._ pm___' ,2; }?"1;9s'had;;not:-'01:? V ` ~ 15 . L ' ' 1331 that sta.t1emn_t;V fa}? pub- at twenty.-nv,ee .minute. fpaist ten? frgigy `vlsjnt s a.- gin \ pd. '1-`n`.ey reached name 3: nag!" justj'e`n'tered; the `house _-wh en_ the; F V .de`ceas,ed" :drove around fxzom-;,.* me :; `stableitto tne`_frontj`of,th'e 'I1ot'1s`_-.,g . Wrtness and h1`s,wxfe-,b_ot`h werit- -to _the"doo'r. .Deceased said that he was leaving `for Burgessv1Il,e_and might A not be back untxl to"-morrow noon.` have` wxtness special injuncuotxs to _post two lettters that were on the` n`a 1lAta_ble,. and to tell. :Mr. Bateman ; 2 ~(la=ocal cattle dealer) _that he would be m"to.see him _d1;ring the after- noon. Did not notlce to whom the letters were` addressed. ., Deceased L-`-.._.. `I\ Lin lac-:1-u:tv'cnrv:| u:u.c|a VVUIV uuun vvvv-, ..- .--vv.. 'nad- .e\_r_e_zf `before --"to" is`? knowle `made -any attempt up n` his life. The keeper of the toll-gate ujustf out of town on .7thetNorw1ch road; testihed to havnng seen the deceased ~' pass through the gate at about quar 7- ter to elevenvon Tuesday night.. .He_. was [alone at the timeandhad made l_ some remarks about vthe fog, and saidgthat he had. to go through to Burgessville. .~Unly one `rig had gone through aftegwaras until the. early mornmg- 1n`_1t- was a young~man' named Stebbins who had dr1ven' in `the. samerdirectiondas the deceased,. -_,:_:__:_|.._ '\lT....1..I kn` uu: aaluc uucyuuu. as Luv uubvuuwuy a little after `midnight. "Would be`? ;quite possible for- anyone to pass wxthout being noticed.` if he were walkmg. ` ' 1 j'The youfxg farmer, j'ust m_ent'ioried," admitted passing south along the; . Norwich road aoout midnight] .Had-. `seen a horse and "buggy standing near- :|` Farm anfn inef, htivnnrl H19 _:wnmr_. ...-.. .. ......... ...... ....,.,,, ..-..--....-., ---..: ;a` farm gate just_ beyond the swamp.` M-tad" supposed xt belonged /to some-: one in `me nearby farmhouse. Hav- ing .v1ewed'the buggy ot the deceas- ea, sand tne `twowere undoubtedly- pheesame. Thxs completed _the eve:-. dence `and the jury almosvt immedi-` at'1y`returned a verdxct of sutcide. T l_Mil1s was not present at the in-. quest, nor was anything said there about the` checks. This appeared to me very strange. `When the Crown was in possession of evidence of` `sum'cient`~ importance to _bring a de- -tective down from ~.Toronto, why wasl it suppressed? And why did Millsi ignoreso important an, event as the[ inquest-?" Was it reasonable to sup-( pose that -he could there learn notn- mg. that would help _him in uncover- ing the events of Tuesday night? Or would he have some other weightier evidenre that he had not conded. tQ me, and that was sufficient in itself toestablish the proof of murder? ; I .I,,,;se_a};ched for hi:n_that afternoqfil in: `He was staying at a smal hotel -iiiitheveast end of the city, but had. gone out at noon and had not returned at eight o'clock in the even- _ing. r However, 1 found _him two hours later, sitting in his little up- stairs bedroom. he was in a char- acteristic attitude, his feet on the bed, and his chair tilted back again- st the wall. In his hands was the evening paper; about him. oated the savoury incense of a fragrant weed. LII. 1 You W day? I o "VVhy s tutned. . To 1e brought c the qasef i ."P:oo1(1`; I knew them yesterday, [and some others besides, I do, replied my friend, bringing! his feet _.,to the floor and assuming a. judicial ttitude. Consider the mat"- ter yourself. -How many theories do you think could explain this man's sudden death? ' ' i v---- vs-av \/BIL`-rL\J II\uh7I\l\rJo "Do you coneur with the `vex -dict ;of the Jury Certainly V not. ` Ydu believe. Watkins. was nint- `>dered, I ask incredulously. 6`? J, 1! e I can conceive `of but three. Ei- lther he met with ad accident, or he committed suicide, or he_was mur- 1 dered. ' V Exactly. Let us take them in iturn, `You will admit,'.of course, that, the first is `out of the question, for` Ht is `obviously impossible for a man `;to walk into a swamp at .midnight land take a drink of poison by acci- F dent 9 , . I Can you imagine anyone who meditates suicide going to the trou- ble of hitching up a horse on a dis- agreeable night and driving two or three miles from home to commit the deed, when he could have ac- complished the same resultwith a great deal less trobule in his own bedroom? ' ` _, - ~._H m--He may have been influen- ced by reasons of.which we are un- aware. He may have been suffering from a t ,of'tempqrary insanity, for , instance? . ` Mills smiled. . . - ' Possi_bly, he said. I am will- ing to admit that he might have had '_ some reason for so strange 3, pro- ceeding. But I have another point that Irwish to call your attention to. Did'yO}1' -'view_th`e .bOd'y? " ` _ = In . the undertaker s . rooms, yes/ : Did you` notice the-shoe_?f _ am y I paid no .partiular attention to. them. A _ .~-; > V .`i`Nori-did-Ithe 9 doi_:.tors,' nor the police; nor` the `jury; ` ..'n`or_. any _perso;n.i that, had ; ~anythihg. to 4do____w1th the - 'case.]: AnAd_,.y.e:tV,`r on .thern.%1s -j.inmi"`s - takable, ; ev1d`enc`e I that -th_1s_r_man;> did - not take `his? own {life., I _ - .`_`.`Yau ..an1az _e'. me. A " V 2 `,`rYs_~g_; 1thbI_igh,' Lats: -ianr,arfe-,1 the ..rr:swati:ps`;;w:as .:swimmi'n. in ermld : illdWit-?the*';Qt1if..?%hi`lYhisshoes ; +tgf:.tne_-sgpqg .; m. .dayIig__ ,V V lithdia ; % - U.ndoubted1y, I replied. But the jsecond? . _ ` . ,s #`.'3;d let-+-=!id Yt-3.1. A coxtfivil Mlllsr Ava9s#3s1:v.%ans1 jwn I % ; uommrnu % %A,DvAN'CE "learn all the facts _there : out that. had a be_ar1ng in I were not observed. [should I have bgen? he re-i `-`. L I at the Inquest to-i JJUVVZQBE units? I knowledge _.I u.:. 12:- [atr,"jWatkins U must" haxie - `met; his ;`i1ey : to Burgessville? 2 induced to swallow the 5 ;being offered a drink`? If . appointment `just ~. past the toll-gate - why did he say he` had business in 4_ q;';_1g_`_`fa:{mer'.;;saw',,me .`n88'S nearlys _ . hjalf, ' at j, midn1ght.7'"N'dw:_? in ._-~-order `the horse` to V have .'str,_y`e.d_~ithat fdeat shortly `after he was -las_t_' seen -fit t e toll.-gate.= How did his as- ._that time? Did he know of this jour- Or did Wat- `kins go to meet a friend? Was he 1 oisoni by Burgessville? What was this basis hess? Who was this friend? Which way; did he go after; commiting the murder? What was his motive? It a. far as we can mak e'out,.Watkin`s had no money on his person. at the time, nor -was he in the habitof carrying -large sums of money about with him. . I 1 1?I_A ---..__ .......L `-t\ `pas/\--o gsailant * happen `to? meet him just at _fcou1dn t have been robbery, for as e had an n - `| wbinnnu V. --we--vi -- -`-- M I should like veryrnuc -was important `enough to make a ;man drive " ten -miles on such a dis-. .3agreeable,nigltt- when he c_ould_ have got a train ..the -rst /thing in the -morning.` Well, well, we.shall see,.I suppose! You, who are a great whist player, know that,` when -you are puz- 'z1ed how to proceed, you play a little trump. Thiat is the way with me. When I am in diiculty, I look into a man s past history. That is as last .," resource, and frequently fa most :; fruitful one. It is our only source at 1-. present. ` r - The next morning at Mill s request I the popula- 2 3 I took the train for Burgessv'i1le. ' interviewed about half tion and succeeded, in creating a very`; considerable sensation in the village, but I wasforced to` return on the afternoon ..t;'ai_n without the vestige of a `clue. .Watkins was ape patently quiet unkown in the place. VVIAII .`:`n"c f\O1 I-un at-agnb Anna at q ni"u{'k}iow. {what this business matter was that j 4 \ 1 \ -ya1\.uu. \1uu;}. I.ul\UVVJI 111 `L116 pldc; I met Mills onxtizev street soon. af- ter I returned to Vtown,land',reported my ill success. He appeared w.orrie_d avndill at ease, and I doubted if his search had been much more profit- lzible. -However, he said little about lit until he .repaired to his bed-room. He lit a cigar and, puffing quickly Eat it, threw himself into a chair be- (side the wash-stand "on which he (tapped"rapid.ly with. his ngers. Pre- sently; throwing down his cigar in disgust, he plunged into a detailed account .of his adventures.- ,. _ , --__- V ' .._- ..~. v `vu---A ya. 1 I can do nothing, it seems, he lexclaimed. As far as I can make `out, Watkins never had a past. His was one of the most common, every- l day lives that consist of eating three square meals a day and going to bed again. Mr. a_nd"Mrs. Jamieson, who have been with him only since he re-' tired from business, know of nothing in his life that can throw a ray of light upon our case-no particular friendships, no enmities, not so much as a love affair. He had a couple: of cousins, I believe, `sons of a dead aunt,` but he never had any- thing to do with them. I understand , there was a family quarrel. over the taunt -s marriage, and that was why |his _uncle s money came to Watkins, Iwhile the two cousins were cut off without a cent. -One of them lives in Brantford, and is more or less of ablackguard from what I can make out. -He came to Woodstock yester- day to see if any money was left from `the wreck, being as he imagin- ed the next of kin. I saw him this afternoon"--an iron-gray, steely-eyed, old sinner. He could tell us some-l thing, I am sure, if he would. He insisted that.he knew nothing what- ever of his 'brother s affairs. 1- think [his reticence a trie suspicious. _ I I Could he have had a- hand in \thel o-.Gni..3 5 \J\IL :13 air? I have no reasonto believe so. -He had a brothrin Detroit, a. well- to-do mercant, ` I think that is he now, he continued, as a knock was heard at the door. I heard that he! would be ,in town to-night and left! word for 'him to come here immedi-1 ately. " } t . A note was handed to me at the Oxford requesting lpc to call at your irooms without delay. I understand you have -a communication to. make iin regard to the death.o.f my uncle. I Nnr Ava:-flu +1m+" . n.u:.-A Jum- ;u; u;5a.;u LU Luc ucaEn.qI my uncle." 1 .Not exactly that, replied =Mills. There is some very important in- formation with which, I think, `you `can supply me. `About what?_ . , . In the first place, Mr.'Wi1li'a_mson, "I think it is `only right that you Should know that `we are of the op- inion that your qousin's death was `_-net due to accident." - There entered a stout,` well-drss- ed, prosperous-look`ing gentlemen, unmistakably from the city. "He ssmed to bring an echo of the hoof- r-`-Ji-!-no-nrl cxncyno-manta ......I LL- -1-.- ....--...n.u nu unnu5 an \.\.uu U1 Lllc llUUI- clattered pavements, and_ the- clat_1g- ing rush of`trolley cars wxth him.. 12%: 5; 'i.;a"sg;1;;n"1;;n;;;'wm,} both of us, Mr. Wi11iamson- so he intr_oduced himself--proceeded to business. - ` .| Martin-OI-me P1300` "'%'*'*.'.'.,**..:& r\J PP : I n Made in many sizes and ' prices - but of only one quality-the best, bl!!! & son. LimidA o'm\u,hom'. 5 . uavl U GVVUE lllclllu ` Write to-day fora. `descriptive booklet um. Ting-` why Martn-O:-me vicinity. Pianos are.superi_cr. = . 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