The Chicago Tragedy.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3308, 13 September 1889, Page 2

The Chicago Tragedy.

According to a Times telegram, some tourists, climbing amont; the rocks on the outside of the third Sisters' Island at. Niagara falls, found beweuu two rocks, near the water's <%, a soaked letter, eviduntly placed there in the hope that it would be

found. The lettor, which was taken to Superintendent Walsh, of Niagara reservation, evidently refers to C'ronin's murder. It runs as follows; "Western Hotel, Niagara Falls, May 20, 1889. .Dour Brother,-1 know that what I am about to write will drive the blood from your' heart. lam about to bring to an end all my trials and troubles. God knows that life until recently was as sweet to' me as to anyone ; but the stain of late has been to much for uie. ! I cannot go into the presence of our Holy Father with my mind so stained; I must ease my mind, Why areyou not with me, so i hat I can talk to you'l Von huve been ut true friend, and I never had more to say to you than 1 have now. What a fearful tale I could lell, but I date not put it o.n paper! For all I know, punishment willnever be meted out to me on earth for the part I took in it. You cannot imagine how 1 have been tried since I left you. May God forgive it all! When I left you I went right to Chicago, and you'can guess from reading the papers as to "C" being missing how all camo out, in ridding us of that devilish traitor and spy on our actions. Sod only knows why such a fearful chango has come over mo silica that night, I left tin city; at once (: and hurried/ hete to finish the part that' had been given me. My brain is on fire! Oh, I have waited so long for the trunk to comel Each day's delay has increased my frenzy to the highest pitch, and now I know that the plans, for all they/weie so carefully laid, must have miscarried. I dread theeonsequencees; I cannot stand it any more; I am going to cud all/, Iwailtyoii to remember I have been loyal to Ireland's cause, But now I am dick, and all •broken up. Ever since that night my sleep has been filled with feaiful dreams, and now, after removing from me everything by which -they- .can. identify me, I shall frco' myself from? any moro by suicide, which here is so easy—only a step into the swift current, and it is all done. My body instead of his shall be pickod up and hurried with the unknown dead, if ever found, Good-bye. I (Signed)Ed. 20. ! ■■ 1 Always true to Ireland .'" The word " the"beforo" trunk "is underscored. The character at the end is the lodge symbol. The letter attracts great attention. On June 'll the body of an unknown man, much decomposed, was found in the whirlpool, and buriod at Drummondvilk It was nude, excepting for a black necktie, and had evidently passed oyer the Falls. Tho interpretation giren to the letter is that is that tho I intention "vas to take Cronin'sbody'to Niagara and send it over tho Falls,

The Bravest Man at Waterloo. The Me of Wellington was once asked who, in his opinion, wis the bravest man at Waterloo, " I can't tell yon that," licsniil, "kit I can toll you of ono than whom 1 am sure thoro was uo braver." The following ' is tho story put in the words of the writer, and republished by an exoliauge : " Thero was a private in the artillery. A farmhouse, with an orchard surrounded by a thick hedge, formed a most important point in' the British position, and was ordered to be held against the enomy at any sacrifice, The hottostof the battle raged around this point, but the English behaved well and beat back the French again and again. "At last the powder and ball wero tfr found to be running short; at tho *f same timo tho hedges surrounding the orchard took fire. In themeantimo a messenger had been sent to tho rear for more powder and bull, and in a short time two loaded waggons came galloping down to the farmhouse, the gallant defenders of which wero keeping up a scanty fire through the flumes which surrounded tho post. Tho driver of the first waggon spurred his struggling horses through tho burning heat, but flames rose fiercely round and caught tho powder, sending rider, horses, and waggon in fragments-in tho air. For ono instant tho driver of tho second waggon paused, appalled by his comrade's fate; the next, observing that the flames, beaten back for a moment bytho explosion, afforded him one desperate chance, he sent his horse at the smouldering breach, and, amid the cheers of tho garrison, landed his. cargo safely within. Behind him tho flames closed up and ragod more fiercely than ever. 'I his private -, novor lived to receive the roward J which his act merited, but later in tho engagement was killed, dying with tho consciousness that ho had saved tho day.