VOL. XA .

OCEAN CITV, N. J., THCHSDaV. OKCEMIJEB 5, IXC,.

Ocean Giti} ^entinel.

ri'RUHHF.U WJ.tl.LT AT

OCEAN CITY, N J,

\o. :y».

ttirn'Hffat- Ijaw

Morgan hand,

ATTORNEY AND

COrXNKI.I^OB AT I.AW

CAPE MAY C. H., N. J.

IC. BOBISSOK, Eiildf SDi B WVtr. ,, ’ , j ""7’”'’

SCHBYiitR e. WOGDRfciUL'.

Fh\,vriatu, Druggist!. Ktn. D K J- a. WAGGON Kk"

rh> •Irian and Orngrlrtt HO, 7*1 A6BUHT AVENUE,

Pamfnrtli'sSiraiigeQse.

Kfitaurantt.

MARSHALL’S

JONATHAN HAND, Jr., DINING ROOMS

Niitnjy PuUk,

<'APK MAY <t>URT HOfHK. N- J.

No. 1321 Market Street,

T *~bTawi“h, , .v UOUGUSS

STRICTU TEMPERANCE.

MEALS TO OHliUt FROM o

l>lDiiri>, 8-j rruw.

Ladirx' Kunu wiib bomt

like ivuiforti..

PURE SPRING WATER.

0»*l:\ *1.1. RICHT.

Oo*iiijM7lloi*-at-I .n v

CAPE MAT COURT HOUSE. R. J.

Coniractora and lluihirrt. ”

S. fi. SAMPSON.

Qontraotor and guilder J .M.ii-jr i.r'.inc’Ij i.> *i—-tB

R A R D V JOSHEMI V. Ri iXD, O/A A. Ci It I, ARCHITECT, ^ 601 StnithTwenty^*cond Stn-oi CONTRACTOR AND BUJLDFR.

Or rail CHy. \. J. <'rrani. Irra, Froxrn FrnlU and Jrllira.

WrtdIM, .,,,1 Ewln, Kn,.B.i„- **«*•••» «

carpenter and builder,

NOTMIHQ SO^ O.UVS..B , - j

w AU.ACE S. RKSLE^, : G _ M0 o HE>

insurance aouvr. Architect, Builder,

4 I j harki:

I*K ACTICA I. Pil.ATKK,

Orran I'll), X. J.

PETER MURDOCH, , ■ .

GEO. A. BOURGEOIS ACTON,

COAJL. nnd'WOOI), . j n -U ^

(arpmtfrs and Bmldfrs.

OCKAM C ITY, X. J.

Ocean City, N. .1. A>r4an-fe<I ■■ M* Anbarj • III

i>. w. «AAir»s< Stoves, Heaters,Ibinges. PUMPS, SINKS, *C., Cor. Fourth Street and West Avenue, OCEAN CITY. N. J. Tie notmr ■rut •f W««* Owtln* >■

DR- J- L. PRYOR, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Orran Cllj. X. J. ^ C HUTCHINSON. M. J). I lomceopat hint. No. D91 Central Avenue OCI.AM cppv. J. Ibfi-trllt 1 < h>>^nali. I j»te «f PIiIIb. DR.WALTKR l. yerkp.s. j

DENTIST*

Tueknhcre, N. .T.

I )RS. EDWA RDS&CURRY, dentists! Phila.Ielj.hiJi. Pa, . m Platt*rnr* iual Brirt- Iji yet n.

STONEHIll & ADAMS, I'la^lrrvtig, Itangr Nrlfing. Brirk la«>iug. Ac. All M'OFk In miN«»n linn |,r<.airii)

MU. IldlW In.

OCJEAH €TTY, X'. M. H \RRY HEADLEY, OCK'AX CITV KOI Ml .. 7 1T Ambtiry Avenue. PLASTERING. BRICKLAYING OrumtBli! Work of Enrj Descrlplion. .”’ rt ,na | TRKAT.MKXT

BY

INHALATION !

Bj WILL LI8EHBEE. (O.firvliL USA. Anwrteu pron AuoeU- ■

• •HAPTEB I.

yiy-. w ts Hirau^IXion. I .m •

- <ln<n|4Hja of lb* de ■id* in on tk» 4 *0 train He hmi *>< i jf tb» train : ■ njp«t d,d o-.t ** whirb ow when b* Wft the >la- »>■ (trailjrrr to' bifa. rt»tM pa*t»^J UMd Lbr

iako ibrmwlvra felt in o* all at ttm

! id all M( a. ! in Rome, j abraJ nf m

i of S“i>b*in»>*T. jn»t J Kainfortb. that a

ntie 'it aov attain,it to o wane aw-iu my»trrt< nrb to tbo m"»»nri-riien ine of ordinary ,4a,Mir I am a rittidb** wW uiiugl-.- blit- little »

the kind that had I

!• i: «•••! my III : - :.bk M In I may add that allbougljj^v ini

d diitte* entail h the ootinde i> yean I bare

' moody at ltm,« and alk in tb- most (tran(a amw r. lU ing a |«ioler ordinary (kill, be had a i,i ekWi'b the pictnri !» fnand in that YiHn•b—an remor raid—and

ack hii faiu-y o

f«liiiB of horror anKMift th« I uiliai itanta. whirb grew in tos, tYr tm atory ►arronnding the

i wialthy Kew York t

i He

I w *7* - H* - oam.. There waa a atr-mg ra- ; It i« i eemblanc* iadween the two at ibov wrra i Uni* ,> n ; mil the non-. j its,. Sr»»ral otbrre gave their teetimony. 'T •IT*' hot no clear to the murdered man ( vv ''- : identity or bi* murderer waa uhtained. ! '"To ' d Jack iVtirn the i>arkwi»«i gauhwer, . ,b ' t ’hr e wa» the only •Or who gare any leati- : • , * i f n««i» that waa likely U, afford anything I tbiv i- iii... - ... .1 _ , . . ^ ..

tbroagh the gronuda aboold pmre to j r-irlb at me

have bad wane conneAtloo with the ni nr- T

d' l , aan thia would V»- amrtbieaa. * I K- '.aa, Pei

atrirt liejuii r was made V. aaca: Who the man waa. bat all .fforta war*

fotUe.

The mijocat c nanin.-d a whole day. hot no light araa thrown nj<« the mystery aarroaodlng th» tragedy, and the

conioer’a jory It,right in a sardh-t that » ' M thede.'eawd, wb<iae name waa unknown, j “ ,u H* had come to hi* death »ir a woood in- J u ‘ 1 " ,ural flirted by a knite in the hand* of acme | '"Only one nnknown. | fdd. blur! The|ieai-efal andqniet aillagaof May- I rareh»lj l>org. wh<*a aery natnra waa utterly ' Peie*»«r.T antagonivtic to anything awnaatmcal. \ I*””' rarely bad it» anlier dignity dugarU-d | *'* liy any nnoeual orrorrenre. and. aa may : for 1 b*' be imagined, tt^ia startling and tragic •

LEANDER S. CORSON. JLKeCHIITEOT, riATRlTOR m MR, Octtuu C ,'it _v. A’ • .1 Itsm aad apeeifleatlm* fandd

He was rial mg at tbe RedfleM Inn. whither I h.i.l is. n eailed to tee tient. and as ! waa alir.at leaving be i-atne from tbe |>ori'h where he had uttitig and lonrht-d me on tbe arm I beg ymr ^pardon—you aie Dr. Dixon. 1 i»-Iiero:" be aaid. I Uiwni Hseent. He handed u.e hi* card niid (tots] watching rue in »Hen re. "tietald ItAinti-rth." i read alond/ turning my i-je* to tb,- yonug man 'a tgre. " Yon hate heard tbe name baton ?'

be queried.

"Ye... I.nt it was many, many yean ago. While a student at tbe medical rollega in N-w York I met a Horace Rainlortb. We bucame claasmatea and warm friend-." “He ya« my father," replied tbe

young ih an.

"Is it |>"«ibleT" I mid in artfiiisbY‘« auy be waa yonr father:

He ia”

"Dead-—.lie,! in ('alcana when I waa 1S yearn of age. A wei-k laler my mother followed him to tbe grave, baring

D. GALLAGHER,

DEALER IN

FINE • • FURNITURE*

43 South Second Street, I PRACTICAL DRAUGHTSMAN. ■.■at* . ■**-■ ■•■it a. a* a. . * lOlt at*4 t e*tlr»l, Oeeww * tty, *. J.

II. STAIN TO IV N oiilrartlni; Builder

rwii-aDt:i.rni*. M*. . S. SMITH St « <

Uinlatied. I*rl«* riwMHuible.

IE6L EiTIITE ill IlflIRNGE BfiEITS. gTEEl-MnN & ENGUSH,

>■40 Aatjary Avcwae.'

V " J ' Contactors- Biiilders,

Ocean Pit J . X’. J.

OCEAN CITY. I

PAiNTiNo nr fwmucr o

Bakcrt, iirocert, tic.

JACOB SCHUFF. !

TNniONEH

| GARPCNTER ND J0B SH0P. 1

04 PAX « IT*. X, i

ISRAEL 6. ADAMS & CD. Real Estate * Insnrance J^OHaSTTS, Booms I, 4 « I, BmI EiUlc I Ui B#il4lsf. ATi^kMvtc errv, *t. j. (’■imnibadouer* of Dtmla fcr IVnc-

aylvatiia.

Money to loan on Ftart Mofigage l*ota for aale at rtoutb Atlantic«'ity

M’CLURE, HERITAGE & CO,,

'druggists and chemists BEUBNIB HOT BATHS,

112 Market Street, Pniiailelphii. tvwrdwnk between 7th and nth s**. Daaiera in Put* Drugs, (lieniiiaU, H««rd*a Patent Madkinaa, Pai«U, OiU, etc J n«w muits for aurf t.«*blng. |

Strain Fitters. Klc. pr BRYAN,

N - 1U07 Ridge Axe

PMIa4rlghla.

.VeptolmjlWto*. *••»• «-'«• TuU. W.-., tor om foi susoi of hi.'.

fir IHrnn, lative n|ion mrth. I have beard my lather ■l-eak of yon freqnently. and w h.-n 1 came to Mayburg I n—dyrd to make yoor aiijnainUnca." There w,t» wmii thing in the manner and frank, open , - tint.-nance of tb* '■ nng man that inprom-d me in biafavor on tbe instant. I held out my band. I am gletl to make y,mr arqoalstW ! an, - . " I raid, pn-wing In* band. "Not ' n.-relv I-. v ,. ar fat big waa on* at mi Warm*** Irienda. I«it hw aua,-1 think ,, , I •ball like yon." n. Thank you. Then 1 may mine and ^ ; ehat with y. n iKvaaionally V‘ be naked .. almost appealingly It ia ao atupid 1 1 Shall 1* glad to have yon come j w te-i.- ver Vou f-el Im llDed." I replied. | And a*i it tiappemd that our nrqnaint- ■*{ sure *s*iu fi|»n*»l Into tbe wannest •* j fi letadahip. He came to my ofllcs fre ■«,] ijoently. and we latwd many jdearant ** | le nt* togi tber. I waa aorprieed to And 'bat be had r< «d many odd works on " , /*■"**. . '^71., "‘'si><1r*e and rargery while tn the eaaL j lint what tmpmacd me (met •*■• bis familiarity w ith ranins and aUtruae j snl.yect.. Ail the ewlablUbed tles«J| ; of traiwreteb ntaiisiu and ocenll pblbw j ojdiy *„ii...I to t* at hi* tongne a end, j ».< be would <4t*o amil* at the abeurd j ily of them all. ' '*rfcc tbbaiaa of inrae writera are all »•” baom* remarked siniolv that

leathern va.n- . winch contained a few arth lee" of wearing apjoirel. an opera giaw. two I'rcurh novels and a small black gla-a jar <- nlaming a cdorleas liqntd. which proved to la* alcohol. lT|..u In* |e non wa« lunnda mailygold watch ami u mi inoroeco isx ketlxx-k containing e-me fsoo, m,a*)y in small bill*. It was evident th*t w batevet the motive ut the tnanlerer imd Iren it bad nottesn nau.ry. Du't who had eommtllid the died* That was tbeqneation that wa* in every body’h month, yet mine could ofl.-r • v* n a shadow of a aoAn ugly knife wound in the region of' the vi. urn’s le art told that tbe murder--ni bad dom ln« w,.rk .jnirklj and aralf. A farmer of the name ut Marks bad be«i tbe fin-t In discover the body, which was atill warm, and believing fbat life was not yet extinct be bad placed the Imdy brought it to my . flier, along with tbe leath*-rn raliee which be bad found lying in the road near at hand. Murk# ww. summoned to four the coroner at the inqnest and gavs bla testimony aa follows: "My nan..- i* Jane* Marks. 1 ax reel.i. nt of the (tats of New York, am a farmer an/l reside on a farm three mile* Jr-en Mayimig. i was in Mayborgbn tbe loth of September and remaufrd fill abont f o'clock in tbe

ing. . f then l.f tug m BftHIrfi

half mile from town and within a abort distant* of tbe large atone boose that stands near the road at that point, my burs** suddenly became frightened at something lying in tbe road ahead. 1 trnd ta pacify them, bat they only plangfd tbe more and l.f used to ad-

vance a step.

"I then dismounted from the wagon, and walking a few stepe ahead of tbe team 1 dimvirered tbe body of a man lying in tbe road. Tbe moon was shin log, bnt tbe shadows of the trees where 1 bad stopped made it quite diu-k. 1 did nut as* or bear any one neai 1 supposed at first that tbe mad was drunk, but when I took bold nl him I f-.-und fail clothing was wet. and lighting a match I discovered that my hands w.-re wet with blood. 1 aaw tbe dres-aard’» face by the light I bad - ret Seen him before. Tbe body waa ill warm. I thought that life might lag is- extinct, and 1 placed tbe body my wag. *i and drove rapidly back to town. 1 I-rough! (be body to tbe ufflor of Dr. Dix.m: also a valise which I found in the mad near where tbe deThst is all I know at tbe

circa nmtann-."

Jack Pet era, tbe old gardener at Dark "“■d Hall, in whose charge the place ad Ie*i. #..r fire years, was aummuoed ami gave his testimony. U* stalls! that be lived with bla wife !>a>kw.»4 Hall. They occopied tbe neats’ qnarten to tbe math wing of the balidiBf. He was at bums oo tbe night of S-pt. III. If. beard n<> unuaoa! Sounds. He was a little bard of bearing. The l-nildiog be ••s-upied aluod abodt •8 yaida fr- w tl.e r>*d and yard# from tl*e sj-.t when- tti had been fomid. He had come from bis work among the thrnbhrry at 6 *1 had remained ia tbe but «ot H lieu be bad cnaaed tbs lawn t.ring a my tbe b* bad left. Ha wi rrturtilug with it wbra he aaw a nu_ harrying a<-r-aa tbe lawn toward Ibr fs*nt gate. He did not recognlaa th* man. He aaw hie face in n,, m.unligbt

1 hew M

ealid with <n a:

I inter)

ciMbunL Tbe whole uunmnnity was abocke*! and indignant tbal such a deed could be perpetrated in their very midst and tbe criminal escape detection. Keenly alive Pi the ignominy ttukt the daring deed reflected upon tbe good name of the town, the mayor railed the • Connell together and offered steward of fil.OOO tar the apprehension and coo trirtion of the murderer. This action resulted in bringing aev eral diiectives to tbe place, wboat once set to work to nnravvl tbe myatery. Meantime (iboiographa of the mnrdere,! man had lieen taken, after which hi* l/dy wae embalmed and laid to rest in fbe village remeterr. On the evening of tbe third day after tbe marder 1 was sitting in my office, reflecting over tbe incident,' when my eyee bapfened to enonnter tbe valiae which had les-n found with tbe murdered mab. It lay in tbe corner of tbe room, where It had bees. left after tbe imjaeat. Mured ly a sudden Impulse. 1 took np tbe valise, and opening it began to examine tbe rooteuta, with tbe vague hope that 1 might bit upon thing overlooked by It which might furnnih a texicua affair. I find examined- the few articles of clothing fur marks, but i unld find I I ben took tbe three novels and turned the leave* carefully through each one. hoping to find a bit of writing oo aume of tbe margin*. I •at not a mark waa to bs found. Taking op tbe email black glass jar ptevionsly referred to, I removed tbe glam stopper. Apparently it contained nothing bnt abont eight canoes of alcohol. After aebort examinatioo of tbe ountanUi waa abont to replace tbe stopper when on a a turning of tbe jar a low metallic came from tbe inside. It waa evident that there waa.auTnrtbing in tbe jar, but peering in tfaroogfa tbe neck I could nee

nothing.

I then poured tbe liquid into aglaaa. and turning tbe Jar month downward something fell out upon the tab picked it np, an exclamation of iehmeut aacapicg toy lips aa I did waa a human finger! I am not a nerrona man. and being a physician and anrgeon it migbt naturally 1» eoppueed that my expenteca in the diasecting room and boepiul bad rendered me indifferent to ant fa sights, yet I must cun fees that tbe nnexpectad discovery of that bit of but

I w

hour, bnt to my bint of anyciicom arrsat. In fart, I

tbe armd hi 1« mad

very r,-tic an-med ve the right ■ bad stated tfao garde

v*r. that^Jack^Pet'

! Dark wood

had

did not speak

■ the »!ranger. Ha waa wing him I here, bat it 1.1 Ijuinoii lor p«q>la tc • grounda. B* tbougbl

The fing- r. which was the find of tbe left hand, was sms!) and shapely and w-se encircled by a plain gold ring set with a single diamond id rare brilliancy. That the finger was that of a VFSfi-, au was plainly evident by Its and shape as well a* the character of the ring It contained. Here indeed was another niystety, even ukws |wrplexing than tbe Brat, and Hie more 1 reflected over Itie mat hr the mure poraled I became, ft w«« a strange. noogh pxweeding that tbe deceawd shunld early a human finger alxuit with him in that manner, bnt tbe presence of tb- diamond ring therein: served hi Intensity tbe mystery that at

roumlid tbe wboleraffalr.

I removMl tbe nng from tb* fins lor the pori-we id discovering any i ItiaI* or inscription that migbt be* graved llwreon. hot n-uis waa ton ml. . , bad just replaced th- content* of tbe j "Tbe Marriage a Jsi. having made no further dtoouvertot. i toatmu.*! me mmutnurmuoa at a wlxm there caiwatap at mycfllcedanr. vtoha? '*■* by rwi»>iao 2:a>i, Cnswing tbe moan, I threw open tbe >* Vaaaw. over IHlu. oiaj t* Pte. shutter ami was greeted by the const* Uarlur ! I; I In (-oseqoaa bU. r th-. t , i , Hu,.- Ab-katwtor Ul ’ I waa pawing by and lost stopped tc | b*d b«*n lir.v.u U. taka teraaa in say that w* have arrested lb* n ‘ ‘

b« bs-1 seen passing through the grounds on tbe night of tbe man lev. U« bad other evidence, be asserted, which would be brought t -rward at tbe px*per tims. In spite of tbe light mannor in which yemng Rainfortb regarded tb* affair I recognised the fact that mattera arcra assuming a w-rhina oumplexiias. He •’as a comparatire stranger in Iba place. Keen I. who waa perbaps more intimately acquainted with him than any ewe in Mayburg. knew little of fate past bistory, and it was plain to see bow easily suspicion might point to him, being tbe telly atranger in tbe Tillage. Waa it really be wbtun tbe gardraier had asen at Darkwoud Hall on that fatal nigbtf If an. what errand could bars taken him thither? If* had never mentioned the matter to me. Then it waa claimed that then, were other things back at tinti which would be made known at tbs proper time It did not require tun. h reflectma for me to see that, altbough I' frit convinced of the young man a innuemoe, there migbt be woven shoot bim aoch a network of rircumvunti*! evidence aa togive him far

from its mobei Aa I walk'd on toward my office tbe anrs-rteiug intelligence I had just received gars ms ampkrfand fit rsflec- - Moo Then an.absr event bad <■centred, which, had It happened at any caber time, would have caused on -iderabte oomm.ni. The tmwtrr of Darkwood Hall. *<■ tbs tejgirt raa. bad at last coma to makv bis abode in bi* long neglected country wot tStnngearrrantabad been •c* a abont tbe place, and a young worn-