The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-24
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mOlnef, having tOllOWeu nef daughter, SUI
prises the pair in the art galleries and take
the girl home with her.
yZE~~ CONTINUED.
1t flashed upon him instantaneously
that his unlucky letter, having faller
into the hands of the police, would be
certain to provoke an inquiry into his
relations with the man now dead, and
how far suspicion might attach to him
as a party concerned in the bankers un-
timely taking off he did not dare even
to conjecture OF course that latter fear
had little ground, for the very fact of
his sending the letter was in itself an
evidence of the absence of guilty knowl-
edge from his mind, but he did not find
content in that reasoning. There was
much in his life that he did not want
exposed to the hazards of official ques-
ton, even in an incidental way.
"You never know what them divils
of Layers will spring on ye," he was
wont TO say.
Perhaps the latter would be looked
upon as only a shallow attempt TO man
ufacture circumstantial evidence for the
diverting Of justifiable suspicion from
him. More violent perversions of fact
had been known. He would have taken
TO flight and disappeared for another rs
years if he had dared TO make move,
but the instructive sense of the born
criminal warned him that he could only
prejudice his case by trying to get
away, as he would not be allowed 10
escape.
Hour after hour he sat with his elbows
on the bare table, where he had waited
and cursed the night before, reading
and rereading the meager account of the
horrifying deed which seemed to fasci-
nate his sight, taking frequent sips
from a black bottle at his elbow to keep
his courage up, and quaking at the
sound of every football ON the stairs out
side for fear il was the tread Of an Off
Ger. AT length, worn cut and dizzy from
the spirits he had drunk he threw HIM
self upon cot in an adjoining room
and slept. When John Latham entered,
they walked him up ard he came forth
touzled gr.my, red eyed and trcr ling.
In his dcmoralized condition the old
rogue was an easy prcy for the astute
young lawyer, whose whole heart and
mental energies were enlisted in the
winning Of the case he had undertaken
'for love. Bad as the situation seem
ed TO Mr. Mccartney before, il was
worse now. The last comforting assur-
ance the black bottle had given him was
10 the effect that if forced upon the wit
ness stand ne might be able TO lie ont Of
his difficulty and continue TO hide the
real nature Of the transaction between
Dick Willmarth and himself. But that
was beyond hope now, since the facts
Were known 10 this particularly danger
Gus looking representative Of the pro-
fession for which he had the liveliest
dread And John went at him merci-
lessly, threatening criminal prosecution
for his completely in the Hall conspiracy,
throwing out dark hints Of holding him
accountable for the Willmarth murder.
promising 10 have him turned inside
out before a jury, until his old brain
fairly whirled with confusion and fear
Och! he whined, his brogue increas-
ing under the influence of his mental
perturbation. "Owld an wake as am.
ID be the death av me to be baited an
badgered by thin Layers, an made to
tell about the many years I've been be-
lmownst to the way Dick Willmarth |
robbed Abner Hall, an how I've KEEP |
the paper they draw d up an trusted wild |
me, an how I've made Dick come down |
wild it, an all that. Sure / might as
well sind for the praste at once an lie
down in me coffin.,'
If you give up that paper and make
full confession TO me now, / will en- J
gage TO protect you from prosecution in !
that affair and defend you if you are
Of planning the murder, on /
should better say when you are arrested, |
FOR of course you understand you are |
suspected now. -
III take me Bible oath / know no |
more about it than the child unborn"
We'll, we won't discuss that now.
Perhaps L can do a good deal toward di-
verting suspicion from you anyway
And / think could even keep you from
being called TO the witness stand, or if |
you have to appear there, can have it so
arranged that You will not be asked to |
ell anything more than that you had |
some business with Mr.. Willmarth, ex-
pected to see him last night, and he did
not come. But you must first clear
yourself TO me-tonight. "
II don'twant to give up the paper.
If you don't, will have it dragged
Dut OF your possession in court, and
you'll never draw breath outside Of a
prison again rs long as you live Take
your choice. You can't get away, you
know, for you are watched every min
ate by the police, and the first step you
lake to escape will be the signal for
your arrest.
"Oh, sir, are they really watchin
me2"
Yea upqn my hores: ! Sss . man