mmmmm R. Pfefferle, The Story of a Crime. IJBronm o.UBank* thick woods again, I found a bow from not be punished. I hope it will, foi JACKSON'S GREAT BATTLE. her throat on a bush, and here the earth yon are a good man, and I don't believe had been torn up and the bushes broken you knew what you were doing. Well, laeidents Recalled by Onp Who \Tu Within Sous C. H. OHADBOURN, Dealer in I was asked the other day how many down to prove a struggle. It was one coroner, have you any doubts of the of the Cans. CMbteto fi* President. A ifA cases I had known, in my long expeas which must have lasted for some time 4 prisoner's guilt?" In the morning of the preceding day flp Cor. Minn, and Centre Strs\ wasrience a detective, of innocent people and been fiercely contested, and I had che famous battle of the 8th "None, sir." being convicted and punished for the fought on the plains of Chalmette, four no sooner looked over the ground than "And you, Mr. CANNED, DRIED & GREEN miles below the city, says Charlea crimes of others? My answer was: NEW ULM, MINN. I knew that Jennie's dead body would "I have serious doubts," I replied. FRUITS, Gayarre, writing in Harper's Magazine 'Only one," and the case is well worth be found somewhere in the woods. As "What! Haven't you been listening collectionsant all business pertaining to hanking of Gen. Jackson's battle at New Orleans. relating and reading. to the locality. I soon found broken to the examination?" promptly attended to. In a bee-line the distance must Flour euid Feed twigsa bit of dress on a bushheavy I began my detective career in Canada, "But he has admitted nothing." Individual Rssponsibjtiy, have been very short between the field footprints in the rich soil, and other and in a locality where justice made "His actions bespeak his guilt as or action and the Bore plantation six STOKE,WOODEN AND WILLOW plain evidence of her being dragged or swift work of evil-doers. I had been miles above New Orleans by the windings plain as day, and we shall now take $500,000. carried along through the undergrowth of the river, lor the iurious cannonading three years in the business, and had him before the jury and press him until WAKE. Eagle Mill Co. and the discharges of musketry to a point twenty rods from the path. done some very fair work, when a very he admits the murder." NEW ULM, MINN. were prodigiously distinct. The There, in an open space not more than sensational case was put into my hands. Fr. Burg, Before Fritz was taken into the room ladies of the family, pale with the natural twenty feet square, with a thicket on Three miles from the city of where the jury was sitting and many ??M emotions of fear produced by the Manufacturers of three sides, I found the body. Decomposition lived a retired merchant name'd Grafton. spectators were assembled, Grafton was danger3 of the situation, were ROLLER FLOUR had set in, of course, and the He had a fine mansion, elegant permitted to interview him in private grouped on the broad gallery odor greeted ray nostrils before my grounds and plenty of money, but his for half an hour. When questioned before in front of the house. BY THE x* eyes made the discovery. wife was an insane patient in his own No man was visible, for the only one the jury he said: Gradual Reduction Boiler 4 who had remained at home (on achouse, Manufacturer of and Dealer in and the only child, a boy of 19, That a murder had been committed "I may be the one. I had a great count of his age) had, when the battle was half idiot. Grafton was a silent there could be no doubt. The gill lay trouble come upon me, and I don't CIGARS, bej an, ascended with slow but firm System, i partner several concerns in the city, on her back, her feet drawn up, her know what I did or where I went. If steps a flight of stairs which led to but spent four-fifths of his time at clothing badly torn and in disorder, and TOBACCOS, it was me I am sorry." the top of the portico. At every volley NEW ULM, MINNCheap home. His wife was never seen, while while one hand clinched a stout stick, On the strengh of this the coroner's ot artillery or musketry I flung the young man l.ved more like a wild the other had a dying clutch on acoit PIPES. Cash Store. myself on the floor exclaiming "Ten jury rendered a verdict that the girl animal than a human being, the greater buttonjust a match for those left on Englishmen killed'" "Twenty Englishmen Jennie came to her death at the hands Cor. Minnesota and Centre part of his time being spent in the flat on the ground'" and so on. Will Graftcn's coat. She had been of FritZj and he was taken off to jail I continued rejoicing the fancied destruction woods and fields, no matter what the streets. G$0. jSCOfte' choked to death, and was a horrible and a warrant sworn out. I felt certain of our invaders, not withstanding weather. Grafton had as coachman, sight, her eyes stood wide open, her NEW ULM, MINN. that Will Grafton had killed the g.rl, the remonstrances of my gardener, and hired man a German tongue out, and a look of agony on her and I expected to exhibit my proofs Jno. Neuman, poor mother, in whose alarm I very about 35 3 ears of age, who had been in bloated face. I examined the fingernails DEALER IN before the jury, but when I saw Grafton little participated. The battle had the country about five years when I first and found blood and flesh under DRY GOODS, take the matter into his hands I not yet ended when my grandfather saw him at the house. There were them, left there as she clawed the halfidiot's Bore came down from his post of ob- realized that he suspected and was Dealer in NOTIONS,T CAPS^, face and hand. On the ground prepared to defeat me. The son Will servation with the same measured three female servants, and one of them IDIR/ST GOODS, HAS was a tobacco-box, which he afterwards step and the same self-posession with was present during all the proceedings, GROCERIES, CROCKERY: was a girl 18 years of age named Jennie which he had ascended, and said to identified and boldly claimed. Hats, Caps, Notions, and OILS. i and wore the identical coat from which Price, whose mother was a very re(- his daughters, who anxiously interrograted A murder had been committed, and I the button had been torn. Two of the xl Groceries,' Provisions, ar This girl his looks "Dismiss your spectablejwidow the city, Also Musical Instruments had discovered the murderer but I was servants informed me that he had was allowed to go home every other Crockery and Glassware, and WHEELER & WILSON'S fears the Americans are victorious." not as enthusiastic over it as you may worn the garment right along every Saturday, and always rode in with "But, father, how do you know it'" Green, Dried and Canned Latest Improved have imagined. He was a son a millionaire, day for six months. When I saw that inquired my mother. Fritz, the coachman, as he went to Fruits* etc, etc. SEWING MACHINES. and the father would spend "You forget, my dear child." replied the verdict of the coroner's jury was a market, ran home for an hour two, and I will always take farm produce in exchange M. de Bore, with a calm smile, "that his last dollar to save him. Riches foregone conclusion, and that Fritz i then returned bv the same vehicle. It All Goods Sold at Bottom Prices. for goods, and pay the highest market price for ah I have some military experience. My control public opinion and, in some instances, would be held, I determined to hold my was reported that Fritz was in love kinds of paper rags. practiced ear has not been deceived, the verdict of juries. hand until a proper time. In my report with and jealous of her. Will Grafton, I am sure. The American guns have In connection with my store Ihaie a flrst-cla of the case to my superior I simply NEW ULM, silenced the English guns. The enemy the half idiot, had also taken a "shine" MIN27. After an examination lasting a quarter saloon furnished with a splendid billiard table and mentioned that Fritz had confessed is deteated to her, but his attentions were laughed my customers will always find good liquors and of an hour and having carefully H. E. Beussmann, These words had hardly been spoken and been placed under arrest. cigars, and every forenoon a splendid lunch. to scoin by the pretty Jennie and her gathered and preserved all possible when, in the longavenueof pecan trees companions. proofs, I set out to bring the coroner On the second day after Fritz had All goods purchased of me will be delivered t that led to the river, there appealed Dealer in Now, the'!, in the afternoon of a certain and a jury. I nad evidence enough to any part of the city free of cost. been sent to jail Grafton secured an a troop of about a hundred men rushing $teel ki\d Itor\ Wki'e Minnesota Street, New Ulm, Minn 14th of July several weighty incidents warrant me in arresting Will Grafton toward the house. interview with him on the excuse of KTE3T?7" "The English' Here come the English'" occm red. Fritz received a letter at once, but I felt that it would be providing him with a lawyer. In that in general also a special large stock was the simultaneous cry of the with a foreign postmaik, and was safer to go slow and wait for the opinion interview he secured the following Meat Market, of Caipenters' Tools and Agricultural women. M. de Bore stretched himsell very much excited. He was seen running of the jury. It was a matter of Implements. A complete stock of the written confession: up to his full height, shaded his eyes newest and bestconstiucted Guns and to the barn with the letter his two hours before the officer and his I am now quite sure that I killed the with hii hand, and, after having looked Revolvers of the most appioved patterns hand, and, ten minutes later, was jury arrived, and all had not yet viewed steadily at the advancing crowd, 31. EPPLE, Prop'r. girl. I got news in a letter which also ammunition *ind sportmen'a heaid shouting and storming to himself the body when Mr. Grafton and two said, contemptuously "These men made me lose my head, and I remember MINNESOTA S T. NEW ULM, MINN. goods of all descuptions. the English' Bah'" as if gieatly enraged and excited. The or three others arrived in an excited meeting Jennie in the woods and In connection therewith is a complete. TNewnnderstgneVicinity They came rapidly to the piazza, seivants said to each other that he state of mind and announced that Fritz, HE desires to inform the people ot Harness Shop, thinking she was to blame for all my about six feethign, on which westood, Ulm and that h6 hasreestablish must have received bad news, but none the coachman, had been captured, and troubles. I don't want to live, and I ed his meat market and Js now preapared to a' and along which ran a wooden balustrade. on nisald customes and,friends with onlydtin under the management of Hermann of them went to investigate and console had partially confessed to the deed. res hand cured meats sausages lard an shall plead guilty and ask them to M. deBoredid not understand beBt Beussmann, who will take pleasure in, him. Th news was, as you may imagine, a erythine usually kept in a fin.t-class market Tb* one word oi the language spoken by hang me. waiting upon all customers in want of highest mirket price will be paid for FAT CAT shock to me, I had not, in the fiist these unexpected visitors, whose raga-mufiin It was Jennie's day to go home, but Three days later, when I guessed that TLE, HIDES, WOOL, ETC. diiything in-ithe harness or saddlery appearance was no iecon place, heard tnat the coachman was Giafton was indisposed. Fritz suddenly EPPLE. the prisoner's despondency had vanished, line. mendation. comfort"1''if But they were bandits, suspected, although he had gone off so disappeared, and Will was not allowed ^e that they NEW and that the thought of the gallows Minn, ft 1st N. Sirs. New Ulm, Minn. it was 0 hurriedly. Mr. Grafton had utterly refused to drive the horses. The girl, would nerve him up to begin a struggle were all una.. Meat Market. H. Rudolph^ to point the finger of suspicion therefore, decided to set out on foot, for life, I paid him a visit. I had been "Who are thev and what do they that way during our talk in the morning, and take her chances of getting a lift want?" inqunei M. de Boie, surveying doing some good work in his favor. -^V but had held to the theory that them evidently with no fuendly on the road. She left at 3 o'clock in JOS. SCHNOBBICI, Prop'r., "Fritz," I said, "you read your letter eye He was informed by one of his you9" the girl had run off with some giddy MANUFACTURER OF & DEALKH TNT the afternoon, and was to return by in the barn, didn't family that they were fugitives who New Ulm, Soots and Shoes! companions to lead a less respectable Minn. noon next day. Saturday night it was "Yes." reported that the Americans had been career. His statement that Fritz was 'hscovered that Fritz had left the house "You tore it up after reading." completely routed, that they themselves probably guilty so upset me that I kept and locality, not even asking for his A large supply of fresh meats, sauage, were a portion of the defeated, "Yes I remember." Minn. & 3d N. strs., New Ulm, Minn. my proofs in my pocket and gave the wages, while Will had set off on one of and that they begged for food. The haras, lard, etc., constantly on "You were about to go for one oi jury no hint. The inquest was adjourned l)lood ran to the cheeks of the old his ei'ratic excursions, having toeen seen land. All orders from the country the horses down in the pasture. When A large assortment of men's and soldier, his eyes flashed, and he shouted until evening, and was then resumed by the cook to pack up some provis'ons. promptly attended to. you left the barn you took a halter with boys* boots and shoes, and ladies* and in French to the men "You lie' at the house, while Fritz was CASH PAID FOR HIDES. you." children's shoes constantly kept on The Americans are victorious. You present in charge of an officer. He Jennie did not return on Sunday or hand. Custom work and repairing have run away \you are cowards. "I remember." had been arrested at a town thirty Monday or Tuesday, and Grafton promptly attended to* Never shall it be -said that I gave a "You reached the lot, thew the halter miles away, and attention had been THE NEW E hospitable welcome to distardly fugitives drove into town on Wednesday and into a fence-corner, and then started off first called to him by his attempt to from the battle-field. Hence, all sent a message to her foorase. She had .4 by the old path leading to the cidermill. of you, or I will cad my negroes to commit suicide by drowning. When not been home, and an investigation revealed CITY PLANING MILL When you passed the schoolhouse drive you away." His words were charged with the murder he did not the fact that nonei her friends you were bare-headed, and you 3V not comprehended, but his mdienant deny it. When pressed to make a had seen her for two weeks. It was a wra^h was Msible and his pantomime had not been from home twenty min- confession he uttered a groan of despair MANUFACTURES ease of "mysterious disappearance," was expre&sne. utes." and replied: DOORS, WINDOW SASH, md I came into it having little doubt "I remember children shouting at Lhat it would turn out like the majority 'Maybe did, for I have been crazy The Tougliened 'Forty-Niner. me." Obtained, unl i! 1 AJI VENETIAN BLINDS, of such cases. However, when I had for four or five days. Let me go and Hir i!'II i-i ltiKlea t. lor l/O/J/fl 17 "1 have followed you down that highway In the old mining days of California, nniwiMfi! I in* I I id it i|lu i' learned that the girl -was steady as kill myself." when provisions were short in the for twelve miles. Then you turned IOULDINGS AND FRAMES mi i Hi* U*N in ii 11in*- tti 11 well as handsome, and (that everybody il W. H\ i i 1 I "il I I When searched a few shillings in Frazer River camp, it was the custom east by a red school-house, and I have /ItO/OfT 1IIM Mtl 111 Vll'lllluvi had peifect confidence in her principles, of some of the case-hardened old fellows money and a pocket-knife and other Planing, turning and all i llllt !l W !IIII-I aii'i in traced you six miles further. I can to tell stories at meal time calculated I went to the Grafton mansion to [J\//.S/-|7/\/ /i*' I articles were found on person. He *ork with rib-saw promptly showfeythe servants at the house that lor iniiln .IIMIC tt n\i^ n i tf. to destroy the appetite of the begin my searek there. This was on actual i M iit in MinroHti -i itt was free of wounds or bruises of any lift N or' you were under their eyes when the and neatly executed. more sensitive. A miner who hadThursday 'iown write to morning, and it now seemed sort, and no buttons were missing from girl left, and for an hour after. Then successfully played this game many a pretty plain that some calamity had befallen Giwnmte Fntrnt Ofrcr Washrnqtim 1) his garments. Before he was called to your letter came, and you ran to the time, paid a \isit to San Francisco, All work guaranteed. Rates reason the girL Jin an hour I learned face the jury I began to grope for the barn and read it Now, then, how and during his stay was invited to bie. all the incidents related above. Grafton cause of his flight It could not be for dinner by a clergyman. As soon as he could you have killed the girl?" C. ZELLER. Pron'r "\t was very anxious in the matter, the murder of the girl, for he was innocent. was seated at the table the miner began 3 "I don't know} but if I didn't, who SS I telling me to sjpare no expense, but to eatup everything within range KEWGQODSI LOWEST PH1CBSI It must be on account of information did?" in his usual vigorous style. His host, when I began to question Will, the received in that foreign "Whose knife is this?'* who would sooner ha\ omitted dinner young man turned on his heel and letter. I went at once to his room in 'That's William's.'* than grace before meat, endeavored 1ft walked off, *s if ttea and dumb. 1, the barn, which no one had yet examined, Henry J. Inters, "And this button?" to check his ill-time voracity by remarking- 1 however, had a chance to look over and there I found the envelope intact, coat1 "Is off his DRffllCI i- "Please wait a moment, him for a couple .of minutes, and I but ithe letter torn into twenty sir, we usually say something before I had all the proofs any lawyer would made a note af several things. A button SPECIAL fragments and flung on the floor. I we begin." "His guest, with iJhe memory Deatar in-. want (to clear Fritz. Ieoul prove that had been torn -off his coat with fiAVORllij gathered up the pieces and pasted them of the Fijazer River anti-prandial when left the house he went to the DRY GOODS, 6uch force as to tear the cloth. He anecdotes fresh in his mind, answered"Oh, together, and then had the clew to his barn, and from the barn he went in an GROCERIES, you cam say what you durn had two scratches on the right cheek PUClNjf actions. It was a letter from his opposite direction from the route the please, you can't turn my stomach." and one on. the right hand. One finof mother in Germany, and it contained NOTIONS, ETC. girl took. I .had twenty witnesses who The preacher -nearly fainted, and, alger the left hand sras tied up in a two pieces ef important news.^ First, met him here r there on the highway EXTRACTS though his gmest afterward rose to POWDCR rag, and the Gook, who tied it up for Kietling't Block, the mother, who was a widow, had for a distance of eighteen miles. Before lhigh office in the State, could never be him, told me that something had bitten been robbed .ef her every dollar by investigating convinced thaft he was not an irreclaimable leaving the jail I convinced him of NEW ULM. MDJN. him severely. in some wildcat speculation I NATURAL FRUIT savage. his innocence, and in a moment life FLAVORS LOWIY IN, on ithe advice of friends, and, secondly, It was a quarter of a na le frcm tae seemed precious to him, and he was the .girl whom Fritz expected to return house to the highway, with a carriage ready to fight for his liberty. I left MOS PERFEC MADE. The Creatures of Romance. honae and marry in a year had been toad running straight from the front him to return to police headquarters, A careful comparison of statistics wedded to another. Preparedwith strict door. This load was taken by aany of toPurity, Strength..amr but had not traversed a square when a Healthfulneefi Dr. 'sBakingPowdercontains shows, says the London ^Standard, the servants who twere going to town Fritz was made half rrazy by the noAmmonia^1116 lumorPhosphates.DT.Fnee'B runaway horse struek me down, breaking that about 87 jper cent oSc heroines Extracts,Vanilla, moo, etc, flavor deliaoosl on foot. By making a cut through the news, and his sole desire seemed to be an arm, three ribs, and fracturing (have fair brown faair, from twbich we wood they saved at least half a mile to gat out of the neighborhood as fast PRICE BAKiMQ POWDER CO., Chicago and CL Loufx, my skull. For the next four weeks 1 iiDfer that blondes are more ofte supremely in distance. The gk'l Jentie had&een as possible. The coroner, Mr. Grafton, beautiful, affectionarte, constant was delirous off and n, and my head seen to take tikis path on that Saturday, and accomplished than rbrunet and myself held an interview with was just coming back to me when I tes. Black yes are less often found and my searek lay in that direction him ^private. The coroner was an heard Fritz had been tried for the ineombmatio with a pure and virituaus The woods covered about ten acres, and ignorawuas, and he was only too glad to murder and found guilty. The news disposition than blue, or, better*till, were not undea&rushed. The path was surrender his official privileges to came to me through the cries of the violet. But green eyes-iwihich IRONtfEOTOUSTB well defined, and was a romantic walk Grafton, wko eagerly accepted them. It newsboys on the street, and I at once the Spaniards and Etalians admire for a summer's day, (the forest beiRjg was plain from the start that be meant \$&a$H$i ace signs of an intriguing nature. suffered a relapse, and this time was on alive with hares, squirrels and birds. to catch poor Fritz in the toils. Again, all .our feminine writers of the threshold of death's door for many fiction, aajd some of ora Half way through the woods the patk "How QQl you do such a horrible TONIC weeks. When I came back to myself Biascttline ones, prove tfiaab it is rare traversed a dell about a half as. acre in thing?" he asked, as we were ready to I was weak and helpless, and my memory to jgnd strength, courage or nobility extent It was while creasing, tkis that proceed. **Xeil us all about it*' would not serve me. It was on tun a nuin under 5 feet 9 inches. Harry E got my first qlew. Sereral feet to Fritz began weeping. day when I felt a desire to sit up. and Esmond was below that figure, b*ait the right of the path was Jennie'* parasol, "Did you kill Jennie because she refused when the details of the past came hie was BXY exception. Nowadays it and as I picked it up I found that to marry you? Ye*, that was the is the hero who earsa luxuriant yellow crowding into my brain, that I asked it had been badly broken. While it reason. You lay in wait for her in the bea-rd, and the villain wh.o lacerates about Fr.tz. He had been hanged the himself with a razor. Scott's was closed, as she would be likely to woods." dSsann MI weww newrarest. day before!New York Sun. flf Enmsasth* mind gentlemanly heroes were alight youths, carry it through the woods, four ribs Fritz kept up a sobbing and moaning- andaoppHsB Braia PowerBafferinjc SODA of delicate and genteel appearance, from eonplalntapecnr-_ were broken and the handle loosened, wwerin-f i We learn from a scientific journal that "B Miss Brcughton'8, and Mr. Black's, _^__ _____^_ liMtotBsJriSxirttltoditeWfc. and I felt certain that she had used it modern high explosives are now almost universally "I am sorry for you, and will do alt and Mr James Payn's are broad and HABTS&'S xxaar XQSIZEX exploded by the agency of electricity." as a weapon of defense. Fifty feet for* I can for you, but the law mnst take ite sinewy, who would scale 12 stone, and wge^iiPMdjreiiK. (Hr^ueXmr.htmMhjtmmplaSicZ There is one notable exception. Coal oil it AU attrnpts at couaterfeitins onlyadds tacftsjasm- ther on, and right off the path, I found would do for the "No. 5" of a college coarse. Perhaps the jury will say that ir__ ttfl exploded by the agency of the hired girl Or* IWWBI Liven 0.1X9- i her handbag. Across the dell, in the eight. $&'&"'"" Best inthoWorld you were crazy, and that you sho^dj MdecookitoTe./r*yCityJiriil 2*SM&S TKW. Witt* MEMCtlff M ST. 10WS, H4. w- 4r9^mm mmStm