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« CLOSIN ner’s Jury Holds Aged Man Is Acc and Sister. ing Examination torney, and Then Filed Away. CHAPTERI, Preparing for the Inquest That Will Seal Forever the Sad Romance of Mar- garet Lynch. In the beautiful Mineola C where the criminal machinery of Nas- gau County turns its endless course, re- volving with slow, pre- cision, the musty apers tell tragic stories, each wheel separating from the rest its own allent testimony of human misery, they are now arranging to seal up for ever in the iron vault of records the crumpled papers that narrate the romance and tragedy of Margaret Lynch, daughter of Edward Lynch, & wealthy contractor, who lives at No. Mi Vernon avenue, Brooklyn. One week from to-day these papers will for the last time be brought to light when the Coroner holds his inquest into the death of the young woman who was allowed to lie for months In a negleot- 4 grave, buried under the name of “Martha Laimbeer’; buried, so the pa- pers and witnesses will tell, with the money of an old man, a white-halred father of grown-up children, who came into her life when !t was still fresh and young and blighted It forever. He also will be called before this tribunal, where he will face the father, mother and sisters of the young girl They will repeat thelr charges against him. They will listen to his merciless cross-examination by the Public Prose- cutor, and he will know when he looks into thelr eyes that they have no pity for his gray hairs; that thelr silent ne- cusations will follow him to the grave When the last line of testimony Is taken at this inquest, when the last tangled thread of mystery has been érawn out, the papers labelled with the names of “Martha Laimbeer” and *Vapgaret Lynch” will be buried in the archives of the court for the dust and mould af time to heap upon them until they are also fallen to dust. The world evil teen have done with the sensations and mysteries that were woven abont the young girl's death, and she will sleep on, forgotten, In Greenfleld Ceme- tery. emotionless CHAPTER II, The Happy Family in the Little Parish of St. John’s Church. In the little parish of St. John's Catholic Church, which is situated at Willoughby and Lewis avenues In Will- fameburg, there were few as pretty and vivacious girls as Margaret Lynch a few years ago. She was the life and spirit of many gatherings In the neigh- dorhood. They were all one happy family in that Httle parish, where no scandal had ever breathed over its members, Murgaret was one of four sisters; the eldest; the handsomest, The Lynch girls were always welcome in the cir- cle of homes they visited, and they were all that sisters should be {o one an- other, They had no secrets to come detween them, and their little love af- fairs they discussed on common ground Their father, who had prospered since his children grew up around him, e@x- tended a hospitable hand to all of his daughters’ friends, There two boys In the family, one of whom was ordained a priest. Thelr father was justly proud of them all, and his one ambition was to further their hao- piness. Outsiders sald that Margaret waa his favorite and predicted a bri'ilant marriage for her, She was tail and slender; some might have called her figure willowy, despite her 4 plumpness as she matured, Her feat~ her complexion ures were clear cut radiant and her hair dark and iriing {n wanton strand? about her neck and ears. All giris had many aultors { had her share Until Ow jr., Dewan to call fat the Lynch home, she coquetted with the others, She had never singled out any on wf them fi he and young Maun fou ‘The Maune fa liv a few doors away on Vernon 4 and the families had been fr ds for vears ‘They attended he sare hurch and a id CHAPTER III, The (Courtship and Its Bright Beginning — The Shadow That Fell Upoa It, Oswald Maune, Jr, bewar Margaret Lynch “und mas irtahip ° They both rangeme 4 humming with gosalp pour Coty ret told her girt are 1 tetigh q the little soon about the friends that G GUPTER IN ~~ LINGH IL’ STOR a Last Act Will Come When the Coro. He, Too, Will Be Called for a Search- ‘ourt-Howse, | were also Its Inquest and an used by Her Mother by the District-At- the Papers Will Be they were to have @ fine ceremony at St. John's Chureh, and, though the wedding was not to be for a year, she resided at a little sewing circle in her home and the trousseau grew rapidly. In the early months of their engage- }Ment the young couple were the gayest of the gay among their friends. Some jsaid that in an exuberance of spirits | Oswald Maune was celebrating beyond the border of discretion. Like other young men he had always taken an oc- casional glass of beer, but after his en- He gave little dinner parties at which the wine flowed too freely, Now and then he had been seen to | stagger along the street as he mt to | the Lynch home. Of a highly nervous temperament, the liquor affected hin mind rapidly and he acted and tatked extravagantly, His flancee argued and pleaded with him, but the habit grew |upon him, Finally he became ao muth a jcrealure to drink that he would visit Margaret when he was almost helpless Time and again she waa seen leading jhim to his home, endeavoring to soothe | his wild outburets and beseeching him | to drink no more. | During this trying period the roses soon vanished from the young girl's| \cheek. From a cheerful, lighthearted |voung woman she became careworn and stent. Her visits to the Maune home| were frequent, and she and her sweet-| heart's mother pli with him to- ement he began to drink recklessly. | HER — ing relatives in Kansas, He believed the story until the day he read the truth in the newspapers, CHAPTER VI. ' gether to struggle to overcome the desire that had mastered him. CHAPTER IV, | | | The Engagement’'s Tragic Ending--The Beginning of Margaret’s Intimacy with the Maunes, | ‘Then ‘there came a time when Mar-| faret Lynch never left her home, ex- | cept for an occasional visit to the | Maunes. Her friends called on her, | but could not drag her forth on any social junket or other form of amuse ment that had always been her de-| light. The shadow of a deep grief hed | settled upon her, and when it was no- tced that Oswald Maune. jr. was seen |no more in the parish there was wide | speculation over the unexplained sepa- | ration of the lovers. For months the secret remained hi4- den In the bosoms of both famille: and when it was learned that the young | man had been carried to an in- sane asylum, his reason completely de- throned from hia excesses, the ‘little congregation of St. John's Church re- celved the first shock In the develop- ment of a tragedy that has now) shrouded the entire parish In gloom. More and more frequently now Mar- garet Lynch was seen at the Maune home, She often remained there for | weeks at a time, but this was per- fectly natural, as she and the parents of her unfortyate flance shared a com- mon grief—one that had been infinitely dear to them was mentally dead and fast falling physically. The parents of the young woman thought nothing of this intimacy tha | grew up between thelr daughter and tne father and mother of Oswald Maune | 4nd when, a year ago last summer, sho told them she would spend the summer with the Maunes In Freeport, L. 1, they thought well of the plan, CHAPTER V. The Summer at the Wood- cleft Inn—An Aged Man’s Duplicity. That summer at the Woodcleft inn at Freeport closed upon Margaret Lynch and shut out of her life all fu- When she returned to her head was bowed under a | secret that streaked her halr with gray ture hope. home her and seared her features with scars of Her mother and her sisters did grief. Sada draw the story from: her they watched her grow weaker and weaker under Its weight In an outburst of hysterical she told them all. She traced the story from the day she met Os wald Maune, st. and though that story in all Its shameful details has been given to the world he has never spoken a word of dental She told of the fatherly friendship first evinced for her, drawn together by They were a common sorrow ver the affiletion of his son When the mother and sisters heard this ry they summoned Oswald Maune’ before them, and, while they stood around him tearful silence, he bowed hts head and confessed that he was the author of Margaret's anguish, He implored them never to let the world hear the secret, and they replied vat thelr burden of shame was the jest, and that they would bear it n silence. Nor did they break their silence until months after Margaret Lynenh was laid to reat In Greenfield € ty. They never even whispered a hint of the | wrong that had been done her to her When he inquired about Mar- ‘et they told him that she was yieit- In Margaret Seeks Shelter in| a New York Institution. Farly last March a young woman about ta become a mother sought shel- ter ta an institution In this city that is conducted by @ religious order of sisters, She said that she was Mar- garet Lawrence. An elderly man paid regularly, the the bila she. incurred though” he never asked to see patient he was providing for, ‘This young woman was Mar Lynch. Her child was never One ‘night she put on her hat and cloak and rushed, from the hospital. Where she went, that night will never be learned. Bhe may have wandered about the streets meditating the act she had not courage then to commit. Whether she met Oswald Maune that night only he can tell. The few days between the time she left the hospital and the finding of her body in Ureeu- field Cemetery have never been ac- counted for, How she came to Free- port, and where she spent the inter- vening days, months of patient inves- tigation have failed to reveal. Her family has voiced the belief that ehe was taken to a boarding-house near the cemetery in Freeport, and ¢ in that house she drank the acid that caused her death, That her body was carried some distance to the grave on which it lay when found Is a theory that many who have sought to Un- el the mystery advance. It Is atilt theory, however, that may never be solved. CHAPTER VII. | | She Takes Her Secret wad Her to a Suicide's Grave. | She had planned to take her life. She) | made known her intention to her mother | |in @ letter, Bhe said briefly she never | | could face the world with her secret re- | | vealed and preferred to die. She wrote |to the Slater in the hospital that had tended her praying the forgiveness of God, but declaring that only In death ‘could she find the solace she sought. When her mother and sisters read of the finding of the body of a young wo man In the Freeport graveyard, they be lieved |t was Margaret. They could no bring themselves to look upon the body them, . They thought that the tragedy had best be locked from the world In an unnamed grave and they remained stolidly silent through the months that followed. Day after day they read in the papers the story of the mystery wrapped around thelr daughter's death Then they read of the letter that was sent to Dr. J. B. Denton, the Ce physician, Inclosing $10 and asking tha a decent burial be given the body, and stating that the name of the dead woman was Martha Laimbeer, Tt has been proved that Oswald Maune wrote that letter wil! so testify at the Inquest held next week, when he will be called upon to supply the missing scenes in the tragedy oner's to be CHAPTER VIII. The Priest Reveals the Story--TheGhastly Ident- ification of the Dead. A pricat first revealed to the pt the story of Margaret Lynch's deat The priest that had been her spiritual adviser from the days of her girlhood told the secret when the family found that silence could no longer be main tained. Mra. Lynch sald that efforts were being made to shift the blame from where it justly jay She told then of a visit made by an elderly man to the Freeport Morgue. ‘Of all her friends aod relatives none saw the body of Margaret Lyneh until | she was buried in Greenfield Cawetery, — PaRTED FR " } TEMPTED: we - not given to the case t Handwriting experts MARGARET LYNCH, AND SCENES IN HER TRAGIC SZORY OF LOVE WHICH ENDED IN MURDER OR ° Love ] MARGARET LYNCH: Oswald Maune, sr, alone of all who had known her went to visit the Free- Port Morgue. Ie went there alone, and Ke he jooked upon the face that deat Facwret Wad ravaged he had to be supported from the place, and for da: afterward he was confined to_ his home, Then followed the murder mysteries with their froceeaive sensgtions and their multiplicity of theories, Hareiy a day passed that some new twist war Detectives, pro- fessional and amateur, worked down random clues. One day murder waa al- leged to have been committed, another day the murder theory was exploded and a new explanation offered for the suicide. Finally so great o noise was made about the case that the secret was brought to light. The romance, fol- lowed swiftly by tragedy, was cold But the last chapter was not related even then, Doubt was cast about the identification of the unfortunate sul- cide, The authorities felt that this doubt must be set at rest, and the mother and sisters of Margaret Lynch were called to the side of the grave to see the body taken from the ground. Few more ghastl; curred than that o at Marguret Lyne! grave. Mother 4 alsters, when they saw the body of her they had known in the fresbness and bloom of youth taken from the coffin In which it had lain for months, swooned beside It. “It Is Margaret,” sobbed the mother, jainking in a dead faint to the ground. Phat was-all the District-Attorney and Coroner could ask. No more doubt could be entertained of the identity of the dead woman, and when si was lowered into the grave again the mya- tery was lald at rest with her, CHAPTER IX, | Seeking to Build a Murder Theory on Fragile Evi- dence, | Gome faint attempts were made to revive the theory of murder, but the j evidence offered as a support were 80 scenes have 00- a few days back BLD THE GES PIS A Disappears from in Front of Po- lice Captain’s House, but Is Afterward Recovered — Slen- der Youth Had Horse. Dr. John T. Gallagher, of No, 24 Redford qvenue, was separated from his horee and bugey late last night Subsequently the horse and buggy part- ¢d company. but now all three are. re- united, ‘This ts how it happened Toward midnight the doctor, while making a professionat catt at the rest dence of Police Captain Samuel Harty at No, 1 Hooper street, left his runa- bout unguarded in the street, That it might need a guard in front of a police captain's home did not ¥ occur to him. a short time afterward, the tor came of the and bugey, worth $10 nen, out house the bad disappear Horse and Slender Youth, The p were notified and the Clymer st station sent out an alarm Around 1 A. M. Polle han, on post at the Broadway slende uth leading a har tlong Broadway in the direction of the erry. On the pollceman’s approach t ad dropped the haiter hut was aptured han M the f gra re ® Bugey in sto 18K t Williams * te GEN. WADE COMING HOME MANILA. ¢ 1M. Gen, Jas F, Wade, the ret f Philippine Divia as ae the transport. Thomas © Pend the arrival of Major-Gen. Corbia. whe ele 10 the command of the’ Divi m. Gen. Leonard ood wil conrmanding General, hes ? POLICEMEN ACTS ~ SURGEONS ORO by Truck, Has Paws Badly | Smashed—Packing-Box Was Operating Table. Nigger, ‘the Barge Office _police- men's pet dog and mascot, was run over to-day by a truck'and his fore paws badly crushed, He crawled Into the Barge Office and, lying down at the feet of Joseph Mury, his especial guar- dian, holding up the paws, told him mutely about the accident. Patrolmen Mury, Moyr and Thomp- son, assisted by several of the expres: men at the dock, improvised an oper ing table out of a packing case and, procuring antisentics and dressing ma- terials from the Marine Hospital on the floor over the Ship News Office, they dressed and bound up the dogs Afterward he was provided wit omf bed in the Biglin Express office In the Barge Office an- mployees abc in wa bu wounds where all the ¢ taking ex, place are turns hing emen and others al operation at The sight of the p tracted great int rom the large vumber of people who W ping over ) Ellis Island, afd atl were imp 1 » the intelligence shown by Nigaee who lay as sti} as though under t wh work wus rif was DRIVER'S THIGH BROKEN. HNurted from His Wagon on Central Park West. Jamer MoLaug a dr {N 4 West Sixty-eight ree wa thrown from his wagon to-day at ( tral Park West Seventy-cighth * Him thigh was fractured and he was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital. |Barge Office Mascot, Run Over prick CONFESSES To HER ‘. HER: | feeble and the fabric so brittle that it fell with ite own filmy weight. | Even to-day it was announced at the | office of District<Attorney Niemann in Mineola that new evidence had been | found thi ight form the ground for | eauing a trant in a criminal prose- jeution, When he was pressed for the | tacts, however, he admitted that the new witnesses who furnished this evi- | dence told but a weak story upon which to bulld a murder theory, An elderly woman and two boys had passed the place where Margaret Lynch's body was found only the day before its discovery and had not seen it there, though.when found the young woman had been dead several days, This and the statement of a conduétor that he noticed a young woman riding in his car and acting fn a dazed man- ner is the feeble basis offered as a | prop for the murder theory. ‘The inquest that will be held will be & mere matter of form, a technicality that, supplies a necessary cog in the law's machinery, Jt will serve again to open the wounds of grief in the boson.s of Mrs. Lynch and her daugh- ‘ters, and it will serve to add to the poignancy of Oswald Maune's suffering, and those who have seen him i say that he Is aging rapidly and under the shock of exposure, t will mark the finis to the last ter In the tr ly that wrecked a fly and revealed a girl's suicide, Ap fam~ oh fi FEEDING A DOCTOR | His Body Changed by Change in Food A convincing bit of testimony to \show what a simple change of food jcan sometimes do to end upparently incurabe disease is told in the fol- lowing article by @ Chicago physi- clan: | “The case is my own. I had been jsuffering for more than 25 years with |nervous dyspepsia, insomnia, occa- sional kidney trouble and general disturbance of my whole system. My appetite was affected and so [| lost weight and strength, but most serl- ous of all was the gradual failure of my memory, proving that my brain and nerves were not getting the proper food any more than the rest ‘of my body. P “Three times I made the journey to Carlsbad, and spent a fortune con- sulting famous physicians and spe- cialists in this country and Europe, but never got any permanent results, Mll the medicines known to sclence failed to give me even temporary re- lief in spite of the fact that | was elways exceedingly careful in my diet. I was on the verge of despair and never looked forward to being well again. One day. about two years ago, I was staying at a hotel in Minneapo- lis, accompanied by a famous Buro- pean physician, Dr. Werner, of Ber- lin, and there we noticed a new food on the menu called Grape-Nuts. Having little desire to cat, I ordered some juat to see what it looked like, and then was persviaded to try it “What | exper'enced was not short of wondertul ‘Not only did the new food taste eo good I relished it, but for the first time in many years I felt entirely free from the terrible pressure on the tomach whict | had always suffered ven after the lightest meal, ¢ return to Chicago my very first was to order Gr Nuts sent to home where th le family ¢ it thr health ahout 22 pour thia is due to the nourishing and completely haracter of this food—Gra Name given by Postum Co, Creek, Mich Get the famous little book, “The Road to Wellville,” in each pkg. my only thorough Battle DANGERS avoibeo IN OCTOE F DURING the warm summer monthe ¥ the skin has been freely throwing off the impurities of the body ia the form of perspiration. THE cool days and cooler nights of October, in a measure, stop the action of the skin. IMPURITIES which heretofore were thrown off bythe skin must. find some outlet, They should be excreted by the kidneys, AGREAT STRAIN is thus thrown upon the kidneys. They are not always prepared for this increas- ed labor, They break down. THE POISONS passing through the kidneys serve to irritate them, and this condition soon develops into serious ailments, among them Bright's Disease, THE LIVER, too, acts in sympathy with the kidneys, It becomes deranged, causing sallow skins, depression of spirits and lassi- tude, ) AN ABNORMAL CONDITION of the bowels also presents itself, Constipation and other bowel trouble result, THE blood becomes poisoned by the retained excretions. Pimples, blotches, muddy complexions are the first result and finally the whole system becom de- ranged. COLDS are very easily caught dur- ing this depleted condition of the system. 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