The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-03

man, and that the first story / told
was the true one" said Barker. Pin
kerton then babe him goodbye, and
went to the cell occupied BY William
and shook hands with him, advising
him also to appeal to the mercy of
the court, as all the facts concerning
his completely in the crime were
known. He said he would do SO,
the detective passed out of the Jail,
one of the best jobs in the de-
lection of crime ever done in the
state was finished, and Mr.. Pinkerton
for the first time BECAME communica-
tive and jolly. cts queer bust
ness" he said thoughtfully, sand !
sometimes feel sort of guilty when l
see how implicitly they repose conf
dence in me. My heart bled for that
poor old father yesterday, for he has
nothing now left in this world to live
for. But it's all over, and I am graf
flied beyond measure that the real
culprits are discovered. ] have taken
great interest in the case, and have
neglected my business in the city,
that would have paid five times as
much as | shall realize from this
job, for the only reason that, if sue
cessful, it's little reputation for a
fellow, and because my heart was in
it. hope the people will be salts
fed, and that l shall never have to
come on another such Grand" He
was asked the question, "What do
you think of the Bankers, Mr.. Pin
kerton, are they in your opinion
desperate men, or novices in crime?
And Mrs. Barker-what of her?"
"Xeli," said Pinkerton, "Marsh
Barker is capable of any thing in the
books in the way of crime. He can
kill man and carry him off as he
did Keith, as unconcernedly on his
shoulder as if quarter of beef. He
is cunning fellow, withal; witness
his making those tracks in the sand
in his stocking feet, for the purpose,
as he said, of misleading folks
About Bill, l think he knows less
than Marsh, but he would be clay in
his hands, and would do anything 'as
BROTHER that Marsh asked him to
do. The wife is terribly bad, too,
and even joked with me several
times during her confession about
the deeds of that terrible night.
They are hard lot, for fact"
"There is one thing-now mind
what / tell you-Bill, having once
made his confession will stick to it,
bit Marsh cont. You will have to
try him, and / will come if you need
me-"
Since "Trude" left, Marsh has
been very uneasy, refusing to talk
much, and has busted himself in writ
ing notes to Bill, and passing them
to one of the prisoners to be handed
him. This is a specimen of one of
them:
bill you will get clear. / will say don
it in self defenc but God nows we are ino-
sent as lams but we have got to lie as well as
the wimen. if we stuck to our inosents as
we are we would go for life. Just say you
don il for brother and now chew this up SO
no one will see it M. G. b."
On Thursday and Friday nights,
Marsh was terribly afraid of mob,
it having come to his ear that the
friends of Keith proposed to break
into the Jail, and hang him. it Sav-
ing been so understood by the other
prisoners, they planned together 10
frighten him by joke, and at the
proper time betrayed every evidence
of intense fear, shouting "Here they
are!" "Here's a mob!w while one of
their number Numbered at the door
as If from the outside, in an endeavor
to crush it in. Barker, who was in
an inside cell and unable to see into
the corridor, supposing the noise to
be in fact the cries of an angry mob,