The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-06-21
wHYLEvER0NE WAS SUSPECTED


coroner's jury and Of the state officers
were directed towards locating the crime
on that individual. The duty Of . coro-
ner's jury IL TO inquire into meters Of
this kind, and Il il not likely then that
they would pick up any chance subject
and try to place the crime at his door.
And II 20, why should they hit upon Le-
vergne, who. after the crime was COM
mitted, was found only after diligent
search7 AZ early as Q O'Clock the next
morning it was whispered around that
Leverzne was wanted, although prob
ably not = hundred people in the city
knew him or knew Of him before Bag
well was murdered. Why was this ?
Let rs look upon the facts.
The murdered man was living with q
woman who was either his mistress or
wife, and who was known to have had a
cbeckered career. She is q woman Of
extreme passion and violent temper. She
has been known to have threatened the
life Of the deceased, and to have followed
him around with murderous weapon.
On the quiet Sunday before the eventful
night they had quarreled and quarreled
at their home. She had been looking
for him during the day. She was an in
innate Of the Leverynes. The Levergnes
are not desirable people to known fact.
It is charged that Frank Levergne was
driven from Sweet Water Lake, Dakota,
for serious crime. Levergne, who claims to
be q lsboring man when he can find any
thing to do, and with whom money has
been exceedingly scarce, leaves his home
sbont noon on Sunday. and at O'Clock
p. m. seeks the highest-priced hotel in
the city, where he has never been before.
and asks for room, the bed OF which he
apparently does not disturb, and remains
until 8 or 6 o'clock, and leaves not to re-
turn until early the next morning, when
he delivers mp the key.
While Leverene is supposed to b.
quietly sleeping in room % Of the Hotel
Yakima, the woman, who Is known as
Mrs. Bagwell, enters the hotel by the
ladies' entrance and goes upstairs. She
10 seen three times by the porter In the
Office to pass the Office stairway. After
being there fifteen minutes che leaves the
house to return shortly afterwards, and.
seeing the proprietor Of the house in the
Office, asks II she can 60 up to the parlor.
The permission is given, and again she
ascends the stairway. In one OF her
trips, probably the last, she encounters
the housekeeper, aud asks for tall lady
with gray hair whose name she does not
know, and who Is not, nor has she been,
guest Of the house within the memory
OF the housekeeper. Getting negative
answer, she asks for the toilet room and
is directed there. The toilet room adj.
joins room %. Mrs. Bagwell leaves b,
the same way she came. She has not
been gone five minutes when Levergne
also leaves by the ladies' exit.
That night, until IL 10 or IL 30 O'Clock,
LeVergne hangs around the saloons and
places frequented by Bagwell and then
disappears. The bullet OF the assassin |,
fired, and, while his victim lies welterin.
10 bis blood, the murderer runs from his
place Of concealment down the alley
back Of the Caldwell building, across the
vacant lot to the south OF the building
and across into Second street, where g
citizen is standing in his doorway.
aroused and alert through hearing the
gun report. The murderer sees the citi-
zen and for concealment covers his face
with hat Of peculiar color-a reddish
brown. Levergne wears a hat OF tina,
description.
Next morning the rife is found in the
pathway Of the murderer leading into
Second street, Several pes pie swear that
II 1t Is not Levergne's gun it is very sim
liar. The footprints of the murderer,
with the unusually broad heel. tally
closely with the shoes worn by Leveryne.
Is 1t any wonder that Frank Levergne
10 suspected Of numbering TEX" Bag
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