Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-03

EYES,"
@He is not finding fault with the
will, thought"
yes, he is; and there are others,
too, who find fault with it."
"Name them"
alfred Booker"
eff I mistake not he is son of the
last mentioned"
Eyes"
@Any one else?"
Eyes; Henry Booker"
Another brother of the murdered
man?"
"Yes."
"And all these persons suspect that
aul Rogers killed their relative?"
"All have expressed such suspi-
ton"
@All together?"
mo; separately"
Since when?"
"Since the body was found"
when was that?"
early this morning."
"Where?"
an Mr.. Booker's own ROOM"
"Shot, did you say?"
Eyes; through the head, and stone
dead"
Terrible! Might it not have been
euicide?"
@There seemed to be nothing to indi-
cate it"
Il will go at once to the house."
So saying, SAMSON, the celebrated
New York detective, beckoned to his
visitor to follow him and left his Office,
going down the stairs two or three at
time, land never pausing until he hailed
q Broadway stage.
"Come on" he said, sententiously,
as he entered the vehicle. "We have
no time to lose. Now give me the par
ticulars of the crime as far as you know
them"
His companion had told literally all
he knew, and no amount of skillful
pumping could elicit from him any fur
ther information.
In half an hour the train stood be-
fore the door of 391 Scott street,
stately residence to which they were
soon admitted.
On the floor in his own room, evil
IDENTIFY in exactly the same position in
which he had fallen, lay the dead body
of Abel Booker.
Near by stood the dead mans nephew
Paul Rogers.
This person was a man of twenty
i've, with dark, expressive eyes and a
manly face-such young man as one
instinctively warns up to, believes in,
and wishes "God speed
SAMSON accosted him.
"Your name, sir"
The name was given.
"You are nephew of the dead
nan's?"
Eyes"
And his expectant heir?"
The young man nodded his head.
@You we're in high power with him,
were you not?"
"Yes-I think so"
$50 I thought. And he was ever
kind and indulgent to you?"
in the extreme"
mo doubt you appreciated him
warmly?"
"No man ever loved father better"
$50 I understood. Now, give me
psrticulars-tell me concerning the
murder"
Il know little about it-nothing ex-
cept what you know already"
SAMSON stopped and examined the
body carefully.
@He was shot in the right temple,
he unused. "One fatal shot accom-
plished the assassin's purpose"
He then again faced Paul Rogers
and gazed searchingly into his eyes.
"The young man does not finch,
he thought; IF he is a murderer he is
. cool one, indeed"
@Mr. Rogers" he asked, where were
YOU when the murder was committed"
@In my bed"
@In this house?"
@Yes."
AT what time was your uncle
killed."
II do not know. Some time during
the night"
sYon do not know the hour, them"
3No; but we Judge my uncle must
have been killed late this morning, or,
1t least, not long before daylight. The
body is even now scarcely cold"
aNo one in the house heard the re-
port of the weapon, then?"
aNo; and that is the strangest thing
about it. My room is only separated
from this by partition and, as You
can see, there is q communicating
door"
The detective made an examination
of the two apartments and saw that
what the young man said was true.
He could not repress an exclamation
Of surprise.
@Ah!" he thought, at is impossible
that this young man should not have
heard the report of the weapon, if the
murder was committed in this room