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Show WAS HANGED BY TELESCOPE. Strange Mysteries That Have Been Solved by Towerful But Unseen Un-seen Eye. That "murder will out" Is an adage thit has been proted time and again no one will question Many and mtalerlous arc the wa)s with which murderers hate been detected de-tected None of them more curious, howeter, than the powerful, all-seeing eje of the telescope, through whose agency guilty criminals hate been discovered and ccintlcted and hanged One of the moat reinarkible cases where a telescope figured In the detection de-tection ot n murdcier occuued not ninny months ago The scene of the crime lay In the Alps, where lorty peaks and perpctunl snows havo been muto witnesses lo so many tragedle" Hut once In a while the ugly facts will leak out, nnd the use in point was a partlcularl) "cold-blooded" murder A scoundrelly ndtenturer, one of those h ItiHftnmn Vi.tmnt, Mnr1. who make n trade of murder, and choose their victims for preference from nmong the opposite sex, wedded a joung und fairly well-to-do bride, got her to settle all hei atallable proper!) upon him Insured her life heat lis In his own fat or, took her on n honeymoon honey-moon trip to the r.ngndlne, and deliberately delib-erately pushed her over a precipice Of course, the murdcier was careful to give the alarm at once on returning to his hotel, nnd wns loud In his lamentations la-mentations for the souug wife he had lost so that no susplilon was aroused at the time and In the Immediate neighborhood t'ortunatel) however, the murdered girl had n brother who had been devoted de-voted to her, nnd who had from the first mistrusted the man she had mited Certain circumstances coming to his knowledge, he Journcsod secretl)', nnd In disguise, to the neighborhood where the tragedy had taken plnce, and, nfter long and clahoiate search he succeeded In discovering nearly ten miles away from tho actual scene of the crime, and nn the opposlto side of the mountain fiom the hotel whence the murderer and his victim hnd set out on their fatal fa-tal climb, a shepherd who had seen tluough his glass the whole hideous proceeding. The evidence thus gathered sealed tho prisoner's fate when It came tn be tendered ten-dered In court, for the details of the murder as sworn to by tho principal witness, the shepherd lid to wit, corresponded cor-responded In every particular with those observed and recorded by the officers In tho course ot their experiments experi-ments with the lay figures. There was executed In the Transvaal a month ago n sunendeied Hoer one of the tery few who, since the declaration declara-tion ot peace, have been visited with the death penall) for aits committed during the war. No one will deny, however, that this ono richly deserted his fate Pretending Pretend-ing that he desired to surrender, ho dcco)cd a Hrltlsh officer to within r,o )ards or so of whero he was sitting and then suddenly stiatihed up it line from the long grass at his feet and shot him dead, , The perpetrator of this murder Imagined, Im-agined, doubtless, that he lould do as he did with Impunity. He hid previously previ-ously sianned the veldt, east, west, north und south, and he was quite sure that, sivc only his already doomed victim and himself, there was no one within sight or hearing. Hut ho had forgotten the range of tho modern field telescope. I-rnin n rlhitnlit Iconic a solitary ve dette suw through his tell-tL'i' glass every detail of tho tragedy: saw and unpercelved, crept up near enough to wheic the murderer was rifling the pockets nt his victim to be able at a later date to swear to his Identity. That the telescopo has discovered other tragedies that occur In the course of human experience beside murders Is proved by tho fails of tho following stoi) The world would havo known nothing noth-ing af a great ocean tragedy that occurred oc-curred off tho coast of Dover, some few )cars ago, had not the eyo nt a single watcher on the great chalk illffs above been solo witness of the terrible event. It was op a 1'hrlstniaa night, a furious furi-ous gale was raging, and there was lit tlo lo tempt anyone out of doors Yet one old gentleman braved tho fury of the elements and, with glass under Ills arm (he was a retired sea captain), set out, as had been his wont etery evening even-ing for )cnrs. for u stroll to the bluff headland known as Shakespeare's cliff When about half way there he believed be-lieved he heard a gun tiled somewhere lu the channel, but was not sure lleach-Ing lleach-Ing the summit, he scanned the tumbling tum-bling wnsto Of wateis with moro thun ordinary cine. At llrst nothing was tlslble. Then the moon peeped out from behind a cloud, and. ringed In by his telescope as In a picture frame, he beheld n shin laboilng It wns a big ship, and crowded with huiu.cn beings. Tor less than a minute the watiher had her In view; then she threw her stern high In the air. hei bows dipped, and slowl) but surely she settled down und was gone. Ihe man with tho telescopo rubbed Ida c)cs Was It n dieam? :o, there certainly had been a ship, und now there was none When he tame to tell his tale the next day not a solitary soul believed hint "He was giuwlng old," Ills hearers said to ono another, anj tapped theli heads significantly. Nor was It till months nfteiwnrd when tho non-arilval of the lllervle Cattle nt Adelaide caused Inquires In-quires to be made, that It was known for certain that his was the onl) e)e that had beheld tho tuigedy of that stately vessel's unhappy fate Anolhei tiagedy of the Alps was witnessed wit-nessed In tho tillage of Chamonla, at tho foot of Mont IHaiic by u man, who, duiliur tho summer months, makes a business of enabling tourists to mi-inn mi-inn through powerful telesropes the piogresa und movements of climbers on tho mountains. Harly ono morning n few months ago one of these was scanning the summit of Mont lllance when he was nmnzed to see two men running at full speed down the steep snow slopo of tho i oln du Dome. Within a few minutes the foremost ot Ihe twain fell headlong Into n cievasse, to be followed almost Immediately Imme-diately by his companion, bubsequenl Investigation proved that tho supposed suicides were n guide and tt iwrler, tespeillvely, who had attempted at-tempted the asicnt the day before, accompanied ac-companied by two young Henchmen. A tenlllc storm had come on, the tourists tour-ists had perished from cold and fa-tlgue fa-tlgue and their companions rendep-d tempoiarlly Insane by their sufferings, had started to late down tho (llant of the Alps inuc.li as children '.un from tho top to tin bottom of a sand hllloik Watchers tluough telesiopcs amid the Inner mountain silltudes of Hvy'tMi. land are ued to strange sights. Hlool-curdling Hlool-curdling stories uie current of men, u)e and women, loo, decoyed Into these liy fastnesses and deliberately inurdered-nushed inurdered-nushed Into ft ircvasse und abandoned to their fate, or left to die of exposure on some wind-swept, Inaccessible pis- UItUla doubtful, though, w bother there Is un single one among the long 1st if telescopic ally revealed tragedies that ", lo hfiniatlo Intensity with that which was seen by Ihe Jluaslan tleneral lUdetsk). early I'l Jnuar). 1878. while u. J - -'. sweeping with a powerful mllltnr) tele scopo the exit from the Si hlpka Pass He was expecting ao battalions of Infantr) armed, alert and vigorous Instead there debouched from amid the lc) Halkan fsetnesa a few score strange looking figures, who stumbled and staggered like drunken men as the) walked nnd waved their inns stiff!) In wild, unmeaning gestuies to their comrades below. liven as ho looked some of them fell to rle no more and only little clouds of rentiers powdetel snow ascending like columns of smoke In the thin, cleai nlr, marked where the) still struggled feebl) Then the horror of the thing began to occur to him. While he stood theie, warml) comfortable In the moie moderate mod-erate temperature of tho plains, men were being fiozeu to death befoie bis eves, high up In tho mountains Philadelphia Phila-delphia Press. |