Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-03-15

cbar,. son existing curiosity which
eh.airaeterizes inhabitants ofibo I Ia.,ll
silles, leading them 10 pry inta =, H. y
private lives Of one nnatbas .l's
; shlch makes the highest triumbbs 81
journalism the discovery and pnhlio.
, a.'oh IRON ,Di day TO day Of family 20.
s . The invasions OF private and
personal life now approved n tbo III" ~
les were unknown 10 tbat ~ ~
s sI ~ which every mans house
o enongh II We're only logcabin with,
guy lock or bolt, was his castle an.
ered 70 home privacy, defended from
INVASION by universal respect for tha
u'ssheies and duties Of social lifa ~
Tor more than fifteen wears the
strangerlwho, from the address an
1is letters, had come 10 be known ne
9ohn wilson, without even Mr or
an Esq. lived IN the old house Will
the land around il went 10 waste
orush grew over the clearing. the
mountain brook wore a new eourse
ior Itself IN freshets, and covered
Mhat had been the garden behind The
mouse with a broad sheet ofsand. dry
not, and white in the summer ann
VOW We come To the mystery.
one August day Josiah Bolson n
farmer, drove up the lane between the
NAPLES 10 the door Of the old hopse
lie went by appointment 10 get
nom Mr.. Wilson some medicine
promised him for a sick horse. He
shocked but got no answer. Then
ne walked around the house. Across
the bed Of sand, on the edge OF the
brook, he saw some one living ana
called out. The motionless iigure
frightened him. He went nearer. Ii
WINS John Wilson, dead; shot through
ths breast with pistol or rifle bullet.
Josiah BOisom was a selectman. in.
telligent, Indicious. dissatisfied him
self the man was dead, past help. then
went AS fast MS his horse could carry
him for the doctor. the minister and
thrse or four VI the most intelligent
men be could pick up. In an hour or
two they reached the house
all together. and Josiah.
With much anxiety, bade them
follow In single file across the sand,
leaving footprints only where he had
before crossed il. They carried the
dead man into the house. Then they
began an examination. There we're
other footprints on the sand, which
WAS much trampled. Some Of these
were made by the boots Of the muir
densd man Others were by boots Of
"A smaller size, For a long time these
two sizes Of footprints were the only
ONES found. Al length the doctorut-
tered an exclamation. He had found
q third sort Of Footprint, clearly a
wnman's. II was small and in those
days. when shoes were mostly hand
uinde. was recognized as the print OF
what they called a city shoe
In the house there Was nothing 10
Attrncs notice. II was coniectured
that IN the night time "A man and
woman bad come, had calle'l the sol
itnry nnn otft in the moonlight, had
held nn interview ~ some kind with
him. which had ended with the pistol
shot, There wcrc .cw facts on which
20 found conjecture, The mystery of
this violent death now mHae his life
u mystery Among his effects they
found nothing 70 Indicate who he
was. aud there was therefore no one
to whom the lnrt Of his death could
liz communicated. "Sh8ll We open
the next letter which comes To him
AT the ppstutiiCeg" was a much.dis-
cussed question II was useless dis.
cussion, for. 10 increase the
mystery. no letter ever again came
addressed 20 him. How did his cor.
respondents know that he was deadg
The entire contents of the house
were cold by due process of law to
pny his funeral expenses, for be had
only a ,rile Of money in his pocket
book The minister bought the
pockct-book, and the only other
books found in the house, to wit,
small Bible, and n beautiful Antwerp
edition Of Sophocles. In the Bible he
found mn occasional marked passage
marked only with black dot 81 a
pencil on the margin. Each Of these
messages had reference TO the ingrat-
Itnde of children. The same style OF
mark directed his attention 70 pass
nups az similar character in the Greek
tragedies. In after years the people,
used 10 say that the minister found
something important in the pocket
hook about che man But this was
NOT tin after the minister was dead
ana h. had never spoken Of such ind
All this Unopened fifty years ago
How old were they whose footprints
man and woman, marked Their pres y
ence and the probable guilt Of one Or Or
both in the murder Of John Wilson,
Ar thcy living still. oldpeople, going
On heavily loaded with the weight OF
this ancient crime? Or have tney
moi the murdered man in q country
xberr mi wrongs done here are sure
10 b. rightedb by all-compelling power