The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21
JOHN SHERMAN IMPLICATED.
Preliminary Examination Had
Bound Over to Grand
Inquest.
AT LARGE ON BAIL.
Trial Day in the Near Future-Full
Particulars in Chapters.
AN ALLEGORY.1
By Minneapolis Detective
CHAPTER 2

had been hacked to pieces by the infuri
ated French revolutionists, now some
eighty-five years since. They found a
very expeditions way Of disposing of a
monster who had betrayed the cause of
popular liberty, and deluged Paris with
the blood of her people The beasts head
was chopped off with a keen blade, and
an even century has justified the act.
These examples of summary vengeance
visited upon the heads Of base betrayers
of the people, are the brightest gems in
the tiara which binds the brow of the
Goddess of Liberty.
But do the people want guillOtine in
the United States? If the choice were
narrowed to guillotine or Robespierre,
they should not hesitate in a choice.
When crimes far surprising in enormity
that of simple murder are committed in
the Hall of the House of Representatives
and in the Senate of the United States,
and the perpetrators are permitted to
''float around the world" it is time for the
American people to estimate the probable
cost of a first class guillotine, with all the
modern improvements. In the opinion of
vast number of very good people in this
country, one might profitably be set up
In Mansfield on the site of the haunted
well. John Sherman's head in a basket
staring him in the face" would make
fine subject for a chrome, and find a
market at dollar apiece,-the dollar
which he proclaimed from his seat in the
Senate in 1878, would float around the
world" but which never materialized.
But John Shermans head is safe. The
people forget Time and distance are po-
tent factors in dullng the memory of the
rushing, needless multitude. Even Alexis
Nevada was being forgotten except by the
vigilant detectives who had traced him to
the ground-foor office of the late Mr..
Hooper.
They remembered.
1t is their business to remember. Mem
ory hourly SpOnges off their mental slate
upon which is written a record Of dark
and lugubriOus crimes,-tO them, the Past
stands forth,-the Past is the substance
the Present is it's shadow,-its image.
But from whence arose this Washington
and Mansfield coincidence? This grim jest
of fate?
From the possibilities of the Incompre-
hensible.
The harmony of the Inscrutable was
manifest.
The people of the United States now
began to remember; the force of detect
ives,-at first but half-a-dozen,- suddenly
began to grow. Whole communities
whole states-were in the rush. In the
whirlpool of distress and suffering,-of
robberies and murders, -bankruptcy and
financial death,-the mad cry was raised
WHO MURDERED ALEXIS NEVADA?
And the echo responded:
ASK HONEST JOHN SHERMAN.
The question was accordingly so refer
red,--nO answer ever came. A criminal
can dodge under our Bill of Rights, and
claim exemptions from answering incrim-
mating questions,-and John Sherman
clamped down his jaws!
AS investigation progressed,-a the
truth travelled over the land, penetrating
the homes of our great agricultural dis
tricts,-read and conled in novels and
shanties,-and as the facts of the murder
stood out in bold relief before the great
inquest of the people, even the most
thoughtless and Indifferent remembered
and were incenSed. All determined to
take order for reparation and vengeance
swift vengeance as a last resort There
were prophets who foretold that Issacher
would still trudge on and accomplishing
ly bear his poverty and his burden, and
that the spots of blood on the moon were
an optical illusion. God grant that These
are of the lineage of false prophets who
should be fiayed alive
Let John Sherman and his unprincipled
hire!ings once put forth their puny hands
and feel of the muscles of Mr.. Issacher
an ass though he may be- We have di-
sno 1,,tk Co.,
think and talk and that they can kick
goes without saying. If his stored up
energy is extended on these lines, John
Sherman and his gang may share the fate
of the usurpers of the palace Of Ulysses
Easier would it be to chain the fires OF
Aetna than to control his wrath when
aroused. Two millions of human apes
ranging the country without shelter or
food, and tramping hand in hand with
unattainable plenty, portends a coming
physical cyclone.
The great public was not awakened toe
early-the sleep of death seemed to have
closed its eyes. 1t was now alert. Re
membrance and Association had erased
from the palimpset of the mind-film by
film-the successive traces of years of the
plans, schemes and business of daily life
in the ceaseless pursuit of ambitions and
PiOJSSeS, yCoio VI JOyS duu SOITOWS
successes and disappointments,- sand left
distinct and clear the tracery of those
past events of which the present seemed
q vague reflection or distorted dream
Mysterious chemistry of Recollection
Public llberty-fevered though it may
have been 1t was remembered,-oncec x.
listed here,-public servants had beer
trustful, capable, faithful and honest
1t was not so now,-and the fearful truth
was as manifest as the sun riding in mid.
heaven.
1t was certain the battle for life lib.
erty and the pursuit of happiness" mus,
again be fought out-more likely with
bullets than with ballots.
The spirit of John Adams was foatins
round the world in company with that O.
the murdered Alixes Nevada. Would
they ever revisit the Great Republic the,
founded? and if yea, as Messengers o.
Peace or of Vengeance
The detectives, now reinforced, upor
obtaining the facts of the Mansfield hor
ror, secretly convened at Chicago. A
trusty messenger was dispatched tt
Washington to secure the half-skeletor
exhumed at the Hooper hosiery, with in
structions to return via. Mansfield, an(
secure the half buried there No diff
ficulty was experienced at either place
in obtaining the necessary permission.
to remove the finds. Accordingly the
mart Of the human body buried at thu