i; 1 ?Complicated
I f.' . Case
* 1*? Km Mm Wh Aeetued o?
ftaalad Mailitil Himself
r flVntUT BAKXH 0
mk hriMrt? Pram
1 MB an HlMlMU maa. I n#T?
HIM a tftoM la my lit* neve
m AM a "-- Ml, aat 7ft I ai
la JaH aaaaaad ?t warder. Tkia ia*
aa* ha ia?liai(, far many am lain
aat au kaa aot omij baaa accused <1
hat haa haaa hanged tar murder. Ik
what la raaaackable la my caaa a tha
I am accaaed of murdering myeelf.
Perhape this laa't quite ctaar. It I
Isn't, it la aither because tha caaa la
vary complicated oaa or I am uot la
t condition at mind to make It clea
The only way to unravel tha matter a
that It can be understood la to tall th
story from the beginning.
Twelve years ago 1 came to Mertfon
a young man of twenty-fire, to look fc
a Job. 1 had. no funds, and, not ge
ting a position at once. 1 ran In debt t
my landlady. A. month passed, and
had found nothing to do M.v luudlsd
told me that, it 1 didn't U|I by lb
neat Saturday night alio would liuv
me arreated tor a comuiuu vagrant an
swindler.
That same day while walking abov
looking tor a job I met a man 011 tit
street who looked ao much like u
that 1 a tared at him aa wa pasaei
He turned and said:
"You must be a kin of mlaa. Yo
look ooough like mo to be my ow
hf?*hhr *
"What's roar umtf 1 aakad.
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"1 am Nicholas Vaa Winkle "
Wa oeuMn't traca anj relatlsaahl]
tat ha asked ma into a baar aalooi
whara va parauad that and othe
subjects. Ha was aa insinuating te
I law and ataa my confidants ao fa
that 1 laid him of my financial trot
M*. What did ha da hot whip out
aall of saw. orlop bills and Invito m
to halp myself. 1 damarrad at lnern
due obligations to a atraiigar. but b
lBHlatad and inally literally force
upon me four ton-dollar bills, aayln
that he waa sure from the Hkenee
between us we had sprung from
common stock and he didn't propo?
that any kinsman of his should suffe
ao long as he had plenty Of money,
asked bin) for his address that 1 mlgt
return the loan after getting a pos
tion. He put bis hand on my ahou
^ter ?nd said: "1 won't tell you. lei
j^fc'ou rob yourself to pay me before yo
^Kre ready." With that he went ot
somewhat suddenly and left me vcr
much surprised at all that had ex
/ curred.
/ The only thing to do was to consldt
the episode a piece of good luck, am
going to my landlady. 1 gave he
three of the btlls. keeping the othc
for current necessities, which I pu
chased Immediately.
The next day, a policeman cams t
the house and produced a warrant fc
my arrest. The charge waa passln
counterfeit money, and the accuse
was a druggist of whom 1 bad bougt
a toothbrush and from whom I ha
age for a ten dollar bill.
(mi<Vse the generosity of my ne<
Iiuav now perrscuy piai
. to me. I dlday know and don't kno'
HL now wkat to expected to gain by tb
transaction unlaas to hopad to osa m
' It tar. Mr landlady on anlag m
I - marched away by a polleemaa oade
MM a charge ef paestng counterfeit mono
MM too* tUo bills I bad given tor to to
KM bank, where ttoy war. proaonnce
I ayurloui Whan I waa brougtte npfc
j' ebtsmlsatloa totk aha and IV. Jib
| (lit appeared against me. ! 1 WIS*
g straight atery. bat wttboot effec
? Oeumwrfr.lt bllla tod been shoved lnt
leaking far the shover 1 was to)
f?r trial aid spent six weeks la Jal
tton I was triad. As there was n
err Ideate connecting me with a bib
?S ceanterfetteea. 1 waa eaqnltted an
;l ableaaad.
Bat one thought absorbed ins?to R?
t arras wtth the nun who had playe
the trick as OS that had kept ma el
? weeks In a horrible call and mine
WI ma In the pines where 1 had Intend?
to settle. I walked the streets hopln
to meet him till 1 was so weak frot
hanger that I coaldnt walk an
longer, than gave It op. Bat all tb
while I was .thinking of a plan fo
revenge. At last I concocted one tba
might catch the counterfeiter and pur
lah him for something more thai
breaking the government money laws
I went to * wood In the outskirts <
the town and to a tree pinned a plec
of paper on which I bad written in
trembling band that I was about to b
bordered by a. man wbo had force
' me to peas counterfeit money, I hat
threatened to pat the police on t
H Wm and his'gang. I described tb
man nbo had given me the .apnrlou
bills. In doing so of conrae I de
scribed, my own'Personal appearance
batl didn't cpflk for that, for I pre
posed to dls^ipear from the place am
I tramp and did nqt atop moving rntl
I bad ^ono some 1,200 fallea from tb
I town tobars f had. bad ?? mncb tr.ai
. bio. ^t tbpgnd pf my tramp I founi
and n? tba ot my 0WD mur
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ad Mt ? r b?dy. dead or alive. l?c
my mr4?r?r. Tb? police hid hd( onl
thousands of circular! giving the do
ecrlptloo bf blm that I bad written,
and It had been copied In many news
paper*.
I noticed one day on looklnc np end
dealy at mj employer that be wai
*c ratio lain* me. It bad occurred tc
me -before this that my giving a de
- ecrlptlon ef my murderer that wouM
anawer ae well for me an for blm
might lend to eerlona complication*
Indeed, after seeing the deecKptlea el
(be euppoeed murderer la the newsy*
per I bed become very aerlaee. Tb<
remit wee that when I eaw my em
ployer lochia* at ma aa If eemparlni
r me wltb the deecriptlon I termed pale
* He looked awey. and that aodad tb<
u matter, at leaat for tba Una.
y Several daya later a man came lml<
r the at or# where I worked, had eomi
if word* wltb iny employer and than, ad
it vanclag toward me. eyed ma abarply
it then ha took a printed (Up frem bit
pocket and referred^ to It, evldentl]
It comparing me wltb It At leat ba tool
a out a pair of bandcutfa. put them 01
a my wrlata and led me out ef tbi
r. atore. It didn't occur to ma to pro
o teat or to ask any questions. I knee
e I waa to be taken back to the scene o:
my former troubles to answer to thi
1. charge of haTing murdered myaelf.
>r It didn't appear to me then that 1
t- should have any trouble In ldentlfylni
0 myself. I resolved to say that 1 bat
1 succeeded In getting away from thi
y man who bad Intended to murder mi
ii and had left that part of th# countr;
e altogether. It didn't occur to me tba
tl such a story la tbe face of a cbargi
ef murder would appear pretty thin
n Tbe * rat realisation ef my danger tha
is came te me was In "hi-n with thi
iv official whe was taking me back h
I. Hertford. I teld him the aboey Jus
aa 1 have Uiu far 1*14 It bar*. Aui
u what waa bla comment T It waa this:
u "Touug mas. If 70a caat last* u;
a batter 7am tbaa that yen** hatte
ba prepared for tha warst.M
This startled ma. I had item ad 1
a mlafortuas to ba takao bask t
j, Hertford oa a case of mtotikea Idea
1. tit/ and ta ha pat to tha O?Ma of ai
r explanation, bat that I would ba llabl
1- to conviction for murdering m7 owi
j* self had appeared so monstrous that 1
1- bad not otob entered my head,
a "If 70U atn't prove an alibi," addsi
0 my keeper, "you're tone."
r- "What's an allbir I asked.
ie "Being somewhere else at the tlm
d the murder was committed."
g "But I shall prove that I am th
is man I am accused of murdering."
a He turned and regarded me with ;
ie cynical smile.
ir "See here." he said, 'Tve been mlxei
1 up with cases like yours for twent;
it years. Juries are ready to believe
1- lot of rot from a prisoner with whoc
' they sympathize, but my advice t
>t you Is not to endeavor to work off 01
u tbem uny sucb rubbish as that."
>t This frightened me. I leaned bad
y on the cushion of the seat as well ?
! my handcuffs would permit and gav
myself over to the most gloomy ri
tr flections.
! When we reached Mertford and
>r had been examined, not having an;
:r means with which to employ counse
r- I was assigned one. He came to th
Jail uud heard my explanation. Whei
0 It was finished he said that be wouli
ir not think of conducting a case on an:
X such improbable line as that and if
'r insisted on his doing so I most fio<
" another defender.
d What was I to do? All these peopl
who were used to snch cases agree*
" that 1 must not claim that 1 was my
n self. 1 asked my lawyer whom h
" thought I'd better claim to bo. H
e said that it didn't make aDy different
* what my name was. Criminals usual
* 1; had pteaty of names and used sue I
>r as were sharenieat under different cli
1 cumstanees. The only point in my fa
'* ror, be added, was that the body o
the man I had murdered had not beei
>r found. Be would make as much o
{h tide as possible and expected that hi
* #euld be would be able to pet me ot
with a sentence of Ufa Imprison men
o_ of death. ?
" Ha "ndsmsd to conmasr this quite ~i
i comfort log assure ore For myself :
tboapht tbet eren Imprisonment fe
Ufa in the case of one wba bad com
jj milled murder on himself or suicide
V it can be so construed. In rathe
,t bard lines. However. I tsM my law
d ysr that 1 wouldn't rcDtura to sugges
% Una of defense to one who knew thi
j law perfectly, end he might eoneldei
d me either deed or alive. Innocent or
murderer, as be sew fit. To this hs re
0 pUed that there had undoubtedly beet
y cases where a lawyer knew his ellenl
to be innocent, but the evidence ^hat
r been so strong against blm that bs bai
1 advised him to plead guilty and throe
himself on the mercy of the court.
n I won't go into the details of tb<
trial. My lawyer was congratulation
y himself that he would get me off wlti
p a life sentence when the police, whe
a had long suffered before the public
e for what was considered their negll
J gence in the case of my murder, by
continued digging in the wood wherr
p I had been murdered unearthed <i
p body. I learned long afterward thai
, it game from a corner of an old burial
p lot. But Ic was enough, with all the
, other convincing evidence against me,
J to hi ng me.
,j The only vIt of good Inck I hare hail
p at all has been the capture of the gang
! of couuterftiters to which my double
n belonged. I begged my counsel so bard
I to find bin. that to humor me be did
e ao. The result was the bringing into
. court the real. murderer of the man
j who was not murdered. Which of us
, would have .had to swing for the murder
if the other one had been absent
I don't know. I am going out a free
r man, and I propose to disfigure myself
, an that I will never again look like
, anybody.
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