For the ribbon had been identified as well as the stick.
Oliver Ostrander, who had accompanied his father to the scene of
crime, declared that he had observed it that very afternoon,
dangling from one end of Mr. Etheridge's watch-chain where it had
been used to fasten temporarily a broken link.
"As we go to press we hear that Judge Ostrander has been
prostrated by this blow. The deceased had been playing chess up at
his house, and in taking the short cut home had met with his
death.
"Long Bridge should be provided with lights. It is a dangerous
place for foot passengers on a dark night."
A later paragraph.
"The detectives were busy this morning, going over the whole
ground in the vicinity of the bridge.
"They were rewarded by two important discoveries. The impression
of a foot in a certain soft place halfway up the bluff; and a
small heap of fresh earth nearby which, on being dug into,
revealed the watch of the murdered man. The broken chain lay with
it.
"The footprint has been measured. It coincides exactly with the
shoe worn that night by the suspect.
"The case will be laid before the Grand Jury next week."
"The prisoner continues to deny his guilt. The story he gives out
is to the effect that he left the tavern some few minutes before
seven o'clock, to look for his child who had wandered into the
ravine. That he entered the woods from the road running by his
house, and was searching the bushes skirting the stream when he
heard little Reuther's shout from somewhere up on the bluff.
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