The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29

of it before. Do you know, Mr. Fountain,
there is strong resemblance between
you and Templeton?"
II have heard it noted before" said
fountain. ut is not strange; the same
blood ran in our veins"
The old man Parker had been strug-
Cling and making unintelligible sounds
in the other room.
Tom ordered the removal of the gag.
He struggled to his son.
Unhappy boyl What made you COM
NIT that crime?"
81 don't know that your hands are so
white that you can afford to throw
dirt"
"Oh, he reproaches meme"
"Reproaches you, yes. Shut up. We
played big game for big stake, and
we've lost. Well, stand game to the
last"
But this murder, boy, this murder;
that was not in the game"
NO, it wasn't" replied the son with
bitter laugh. 1T was a side issue of my
own. That man Fountain, curse him,
stole my girl from Northumberland l
had it in for him. That's all. Now that
I'm done for, I'd give every day yet
have to live to get at him once"
Marian. What Marian? The Marian
who lives in Hudson street now?"
1.-The same" said the son.
"What tangle is this?" moaned the old
man. "She has the girl Armies mother
in her keeping now, and she herself is
daughter of James Preston"
1.-The number in Hudson street, please?"
said Tom.
There's little use in concealing any
thing now. It's No. ="
"Let me handle that part of the case,
please?" asked Fountain. ''TI guarantee
to return Mrs. Templeton safely"
LAS you will" said Tom. "You will
do well to take some of the chiefs men
with you. We can spare two"
Fountain departed with them at once.
"Now, Chief" said Tom, 81 think it
would be well to take our bag of game
to the Central Office. The play is over
and the lights are out"
"The three prisoners would be far
more welcome if some one else than
ourselves were to bring Them" sardon-
ically remarked the chief.
Undoubtedly. But let us go. Hand
cuff them all together. Come, let us
set out. Shadow and one man in front.
You, 1, and another man behind"
AS they moved out in this order, dis
appointed voice commented:
''Dey only hit him onct."
At the Central Office the three prison
ers were arraigned, and Tom said briefly:
81 charge this man Parker with hav-
ing murdered Henry Holroyd Templeton
on the morning of the 18th of last Au-
gust, by his own confession.
81 charge this man, George Parker,
with having been the alder, abettor and
instigator of the abduction of Annie
and her mother, this day, by
his own confession.
81 charge this man, Scar Top Johnny,
other name to me unknown, as being the
alder and abettor of the abduction of
Annie Templeton, and of having kept her
in confinement contrary to her will"
"And l." said Chief Hanford, "charge
him with being the abductor of a child
in Hartford, and claim the reward of
50 500 offered for him."
But" said the officer, what are the
details?"
clock them up, inspector, and read
The Sol tomorrow morning." said Tom.
81 can't wait; it's after ii now, and I've
a long story to write.
Tom enjoyed his "beat" hugely, and
was for several days the hero of his
office, the wonder of his competitors, and
the envied of the detective force.
One thing, on the morning of publica-
ton, marred Toms full enjoyment. He
had announced the rescue of Mrs. Tenn
pleton without knowing it to be an alb
solute fact.
Accordingly he early sought Holbrook
to learn the result. and was told that
Fountains expedition had been crowned
with success. He had also recovered his
papers, the girl Marian having delivered
them over as the price of her liberty.
''Tom," said Holbrook, 'the regular
police had the true theory after all.
Templeton was killed under the belief
he was some one else"
"True," replied Tom; "but we caught
the murderer and they didn't; they had
no conception of the great story behind
it all. Yet, Holbrook, your theory was
not SO far wrong after all"
81
laughed Holbrook. "The motive of the
murder had nothing to do with Persons
"What queer case it wasr' COM
mented Tom. "If those two women
hadn't been conveniently abducted, we
wouldn't have hit on the murderer after
ALL To tell the truth, it was a lucky
as most great discoveries are
Then to think that Fountains chere
annie, Marian, should have turned out to
be his cousin. The sins of the father
shall be visited etc. Do you notice that
not clew proved worth a snap?"
81 say, Tom, what about the diamond
button?"
"Ah, what? How much we expected
from it, and how little came of it! Ken
Noble, the owner, says that on the night
of the murder he was passing from
Fourth avenue to Broadway, through
street, and when midway
of the Madison Square Garden man
rushed across the street, grasped him by
the arm and pulled him to the light and
then dropped it, saying, You're not the
man. Afterwards, when he found his
button gone, he thought it was rob