The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-11-17

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TRACING \ HURDERER.
4 man wasstaudinE one DAY, with
q kind @! UnoccuUiei air, lew
steps from thy door OF the telegraph
office on Second street, Sacramento
! What was remarkable about him
was laat there was nothing remark
able aJ ALTO thc casual eye. lie
WAS u man OF very ordinary ap-
. pcarance, OF ordinary size. Of o-5i-
nary complexion, with an ordinary
face and especially with am ordinary
eye lie stood with his hands idly
down in the pockets of q long, loose
coat, rs though they had dropped
there themselves and he had not
taken the trouble 20 pail them cut,
and lac seemed to be neither think
ing OF. nor caring about nor lootIu-
at anything.
4 boy messenger came tripping
out of the telegraph office. taking
TWO or three steps at once. as has
been handsomely expressed, and
happening TO see the unintcrcstud
man whom hc had seen before,
be stopped short and said
"Oh. here's one for YOU / sup
pose / might as well give i 10 YOU
here. You're Mr.. Black.
The man DID not say that ne was
or that lac was not. bat quietly
reached for the dispatch, Whicn the
boy handed him and hurried on.
Then Mr.. Black. with delibera-
ton that would have been fairly
agonizing TO any one booking over
his shoulder, unfolded the paper
and read
"MARYsyILLE, june 26, IS-.-To
Mr.. William Black, Police Depart
mcnt, Sacramento: IN atrocious
murder has Just been discovered
here. \ woman named Mrs. Wolf
was the victim. Her husband i
suspected and Is in custody, bat no
evidence againsthim. Hasten to Us
by the first boat, while all is fresh.
l.. MORTON,
Sheriff OF Iuba Co
William Black was n Sacramento
detective. and that timeundoubtedly
the most sagacious in California
The boat was to leave in little over
an hour. Nh. Black entered the tel
egraph Office and dispatched to the
sheriff OF Tuba county the words
all right.
That evening man with a red
shirt on-a man OF very ordinary
appearance-landed in Marysyille.
lie was a miner, OF course, II one
may always Judge from indications
but he had a lazy look, as if weigh
ed down by a woetul lack of energy;
and ii person might have wondered
If ever sucn . person did pluck up
courage enough to climb the Iuoua-
tain.
The same iazy-looking man later
in the evening WIS in secret commu-
nication with the sheriff and several
other officials. At what hour was
the mari-c discovered - lie in
quired
Nine O'Clock in nthcmorniag-eX-
actlv."
In what way?'
The news came through her nus
banG. He rushed excitediy into
saloon on the cl-e Of the town, say
ing that his wife was dead and that
somebody had killed her. They
had come lately from the mines,
and were living in tent of their
own, q quarter Of mile out OF
town. We viii conduct YOU to it by
and by"
y physician has made anexami-
nation ?'
Yes : a skilled one. lie says it
Is clear that the woman was mur-
dered-strangled by a pair OF coarse
hands, the marks OF which be found
on her throat"
Did he say how long she had
been dead p
Yes many hours
What does Wolf say
That he did not sleep at home.
He saws ne was drunk last night.
which / found to be too true, and
that being unable to reach home, he
Law down under a tree between here
and his home and slept soundly.
When he awokc, according to his
story. It was near nine o'clock.
Then he got up, hastened to his tent
and found his wife dead. and we
have some lear that an attempt viii
be made TO lynch him. In 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 circumstanc-
e.. His unlikely story Of having
slept out all night, when within 4
few yards Of his temporary home,
and not waking before nine
Had they quarreled p
1T is not known that they mad,
but-well, they are man and wife,
and we may safely presume that
they had.
Where thcreno traces of a strang-
cr left ?'
No
Not a thread shirt button-a
hair ?"
no"
Tracks p
NO. the ground = hard and dry
YOU know
Has any stranger been lurking