Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-10-21

.torned him. Unless Mckufens M
sa 80 man he could have no knoWieogs o.
,hs other. I pretended TO sec vacancy.
. ~ afr ,,srtsd With nv enemy in the greaeess
1ood nature That night an attempt was
Tsds 10 bore camel ont Of my door, oo'
the Bit WIS stopped BY the sheet Ion. ,,,.
/ did not see Mcknight the neA' e.en .he
ror the next, but hs showed up on VA
third evening and exl lained that No 1 ~
han TO Nil wsukee. knew bettI. ns
had been tryipg to work ont tome ne.
man to get at me, and had spsnta Por,los,
IF tbs time at crooks raort. DO nso
hit nn,n rlan. I knew this from tne
cordisIity of his greeting. and all through
chr games I YVES wondering what scf emo
he had hi. upon. It was revealed 70 me ne
at midpiaht that very night. I had DtH
On INV door and at thst hour 1t was vlgor,
ously pulled. In cass ofmy being wanee
At the office the messenger was inst!ocVea
TO ring in certain msnnsr. AS ttls ~
not his ting waited for few minutes,
when the Tell tangled more Vigorously
than before. I slipped on my pants ano
v, Mt down and opened the slide In the
door. Mcknight stood there snd when l
asked what was wanted he replied:.
Greatly, old fellow, am sorry TO Fave
troubled you, but came TO ask your 40.
vice. Twas handed q very queer letter o..
fer HIT You, ard I want you to read IL
and tall me how t, act. I'll 20 up stairs
with you"
/ told him that one Of our men was 90
cupyipg the room with ne tfat night
and advised him to see me ut the once
next NO ming. He had planrei TO get
70 my room and pounce upon me- oot
7 suuffei tho game. BE did not show
mn sgaip. He may have believed
thst l suspected him, and was deter,
rsined to keep ont Of my way uuul
he appeared to strike the fatal blow.
Next COR 10 me, on the downtown
side. WAS a vacsnt lot. One day, week
altar seeing Mcknight, several dry goods
boxes were brought to this lot ana
piled MP in such q way IS to form 5000
hiding place next to my door. 1 scented
An IDA az Investigated, and that night,
when within square of the place. met o
couple of young fellows and offered them q
quarter to 20 and displsce the boxes, ex-
blaming that a vagrant had taken NJ MS
quarters there. They went with whoop,
and q man rushed out of hiding and ran
off. It was Mcknight.
The next day was ssnt ont OF the CITY
and was gone two weeks. Fad not been
back two hours when discovered that q
boy was dcgging me atout, He was 70
doubt in TIE pay Of Knight, who would
now be ready for some ether move. had
no sooner reached my room than / made
the difcovery that the window bars lad
been tempered with, two having feen
wrer ched ont and all loosened, 30 that Ut
tie work would remove them. That night
I sskei a friend to stay with me. While
I sent him to the room before dark made
nv usual rounds and did not turn in until
IL. If Mcknight was locking for me be
cav me. We turned ont tie gas, plfced
our rev divers at hand and sat down near
the window 10 wait. At O'Clock Nc.
Knight 81 mhed shed from the alley, en-
tered the insurance Office by hack win
dow, passed through two rooms snd sp.
peared at the window. opposite mine.
When he bad raised tie sash be pushed .
plank across tie five feet OF space and
rested the end on my window ledge. 1t
was summer evening and my Ssh was
up, but 50 quietly did the man work that
the ljghtest sleeper would have heard no
sound. He waited and Listened, and then
came across I've moved to the right aod
|, f. and he could not See us as he put his
face to the bars He must have bsen Ger
tain that was aIsep, for he began work,
and soon had an operirg by which te
coul enter.
Mcknight had come to kill me, but 1
did not thirst for his life. As he bent to
enter the window fired over his head and
uttered shout. He Strengthened MP, lost
his balance o1 the plank, swung half way
rourd, and tumbled to the ground. 1t was
only from the second story and had he
alis h.ed ON his feet he might not have been
burt. But he turned over and struck head
6rst, and never knew what hurt him, his
neck being broken by the ellison. When
he was dead he was identified as a New
Orleans crook named Red Pete, and whsn
he wrots me the letter he was in Joliet
piscn. His only weapon was knife, but
one thrust Of that would have settled me
forever.