The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14

truth. The night Waterman was tirst
to speak.
''Eph might have done it, he said.
Then he told of the monomaniac's visit
tothe Geographic station, and of the acute
stage which his maiady had reached.
Nobody else present had seen him since
the previous evening. Superintendent
Brainerd ordered a search of the lodg-
ings. Ten minutes were sufficient for a
round of the different quarters. Eph
was in none of them. The searcharn xa-
turned to the furnace, and with them
came Gerald Heath
II met Eph yonder where the paths
cross, not hundred yards from here, a
little past midnight" Gerald said. HE
was terribly excited That was after he
had tried in vain to telegraph a crazy
message. Evidently his delusion, that
his whole life was condensed into brief
space, had driven him to frenzy. He
spoke of walking to Dimmersville, but l
tried to quiet him, and he disappeared"
Dimmersville was town about ten
miles distant, in a direction opposite to
that from which the railroad had work
ed its way through the mountains. No
wire connected it with Overlook, and
there was no public road for the nearest
third of the way, although faint trail
showed the course that u few persons
had taken on foot or horseback
Very likely Eph has gone toward
Dimmersville," Brainerd argued, land
we must try to catch him.
Before the order could be specifically
given a horse and rider arose over the
edge of the level ground and came into
the midst of the assemblage. The man
in the saddle had a professional aspect,
impaired chiefly by his smoothly shaven
face In this era of mustaches hairless
visage is apt to be assigned to clergy
man, who shaves thus from motive of
propriety; an actor who does it from
necessity, or somebody who aims at
facial distinction without the features
suitable to that purpose. A countenance
of which it can only be said that it has
one nose, one mouth and two eyes, all
placed in inexpensive nenentity, and
which is dominated utterly by hair or
and around it, may be less lost to indi
viduality if entirely shaver. OF such
seemed the visage of the dark man who
calmly rode into the excitement at Over
look.
Which way have you Gomez Brain
erd asked.
From Dimmersville, was the reply
Did you see anybody on the way?"
Il started very early. Folks We're no
out Of their beds in the houses-as Ions
as there We're any houses-and that i
only for five or six miles, you know
After that-yes, did see one man. 4
cur;ously excited chap. He looked tired
out. He asked the distance 10 DINNERS
vile and whether the telegraph offic,
would be open by the time he got there
Then he skurried on before I'd half an
swered him
AL that was known of the murder wa
told to the stranger by half dozen gill
tongues, and it was explained to hin
, that ne had encountered the maniaca
! fugitive
, I knew there was something wron!
about him" said the stranger. 1T i
my business to be observant.
He dismounted and hitched his hors
to a tree. The dead body was shown {.
him. He examined it very thoroughly
All the particulars were related to hin
over and over. Then he drew Superir
| tendent Brainerd aside.
My name is Terence O'Reagan," h,
: said. and in his voice was family dis
t tinguishable the brogue of the Ian,
5 whence the O'Reagans came. II am
: government detective. have been sen
to work up evidence in the case of som
Italian counterfeiters. We had Gle,
t pointing to a sub-contractor here, tn
very man who lies there dead. Our in
/ formation was that he used some OF tn
bogus bills in paying off his gang. Mo-
it isn't going outside my mission to il
vestigate his death, if you don't object.
i would be glad to have you tax
hold of it." Brainerd replied. w
can't bring the authorities here befor
noon, at the earliest, and in the NEAR
time you can perhaps clear it all up"
The eagerly curious men had crowde
close to this brief dialogue. and ha
heard the latter part Of it. O'Reaga
became instantly an important person
age. upon whose smallest word or move
melt they hung expectantly, and NJ
body showed a keener interest tina
Gerald Heath The detective first e,
amined the body. The pockets of r;
velli's clothes contained wallet, wit
its money untouched, besides a gol
watch
80 robbery was not the object" sal
O'Reagan to Brainerd "The motive
the first thing to look for in case
murder"
: Next he found blood on the waistcoa
d great deal of it, but dried by the fl
that had burned the shoulders and heat
and in the baked cloth We're three cut
under which he exposed three ste
wounds. Strokes of a knife had,
seemed, killed the victim before he w;
thrust partially into the furnace.
70 a storm was coming to Overlook Ii
perceived, for the men were too mut
> engrossed in what lay there on II
} ground, CHASTITY and horrible, to pay al
attention to the clouding sky Gloo
u was so lit for the scene, too, that n
IL body gave thought whence it cam
; To Gerald Heath the going out of su
Il light and the settling down of dusl
u shadows seemed q mental experience
L his own. He stood bewildered tran
- fixed, vaguely conscious of peril, al
/ yet too numb to speak or stir. Detect,
u O'Reapan. STRENGTHENING nm from ov