The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-09-28
TRACING A MURDERER.

from the OOOr Oh the teiegfdpn once
on Second street, Sacramento. VIVA
was remarkable about him was tina
that there was nothing remarkabl,
about him at ALTO the casual eve
He was q man of very ordinary ap
pearsnce, of ordinary size, of ordinar.
complexion, with an ordinary face
and especially with an ordinary eve
He stood with his hands idly down il
his pockets of q long. loose csst. a
though they had dropped there them
selves, and be had not taken tn.
trouble to pull them out, and he seem
ed to be neither thinking of. nor car
ing about, nor looking at anything.
A boy messenger came tripping ou1
of the telegraph office, taking two Oh
three steps ut once, as has been hand
somely expressed, and happening t.
see the unin :erested man whom hs
had seen before, he stopped snort and
said:
"Oh, here's one for you; ! suppose
that l might as we'll give 1t to you
here. You're Mr.. Black
The man did not say that he was OF
that he was not, but quietly reached
for the dispatch, which the boy hand
ed him and hurried on.
Then Mr.. Black, with a delibera
ton that would have been fairly sgon
izing to any one looking over hi:
shoulder, unfolded the paper and
read:
MARYsvILLe, June rs. 49,.
To Mr.. VIM. Black. police depart
ment. Sacramento:
An atrOciOus murder has been dis
covered here. A woman named Mrs
Wolf, was the victim. Her husband
is suspected and in custody, but nc
evidence against him. Hasten to us
by the first boat while all lie fresh.
l.. MORTON,
Sheriff of Yuba county
William Black was Sacramento de-
tective, and at that time undoubtedly
the most sagacious in California. The
boat was to leave in little over az
hour. Mr.. Black entered the tele
graph Office and dispatched to thu
sheriff of Yuba county the words al
right
That evening a man with a red
shirt on-a man of very ordinary mp
pesrance-landed in MarysviIIe. liz
was a miner, of course, if one may al.
ways judge from indications hut he
had a lazy look. as if weighed down
by a woeful lack of energy and a per
son might have wondered if ever such
a person lid pluck up courage enough
to climb the mountains.
The same lazy-looking man later in
the day was in secret communication
with the sheriff and several other offici
ais.
AT what hour was the murder dis
covered !? he asked.
Nine o'clock this morning-ex.
actly.'
In what way
The news came through her hus-
band. He rushed excitedly into a sa.
loon, on the edge of the town, saying
that his wife was dead and somebody
had killed her. They came lately
from the mines, and were living in a
tent of their own, a quarter of a mile
out OF town. We will conduct you to
it by and by
"A physician has made an examina-
tom
Yes skilled one. He says it is
clear that the woman was murdered
-strangled by a pair of course hands,
the marks of which he found on her
throat
Did he say how long she had been
dead"
Yes many hours
what does Wolf say!
That he did not sleep at home. He
says he was drunk last night, which l
found to be true. and that, being un-
able to reach home, he lay down un-
der a tree, between here aad his home
and slept soundly. When he awoke,
according to his story. it was nine
o'clock. Then he got up. FASTENED to
his tent and found his wife dead, and
We have some fear that an attempt
will be made to lynch him. Ia fact,
there is little doubt of his guilt. but
there is no positive proof, and the case
needs working up.
what makes you think he did
it"
Various suspicious circumstances.
His unlikely story of having slept
out all night, when within a few yards
of his temporary home, and not wax
ing before nine
Had they quarreled
1T is not known that they had, but
well, they we're man and wife, and
We might safely presume that they
had
Were there not traces Of a stranger
leftr
NO
Not thread-a shirt button-a
hair?
Tracks,
NO. The ground is 50 hard ami
dry. you know
Has any stranger been lurking in
that neighborhood%
No
Has any stranger been in town.
We'll We have miners down here
from the mountains every day = but it
vas none of them
Detective Black, who Wore red
shirt. was conducted to the Scene IF
the murder. He saw the body Mt the
Office of the coroner; he saw the phy.
sicisn; he saw everybody in Mays
vile he saw and talked with Wolf
three-quarters of an hour. Then he
said to the sheriff:
He didn't do il"