The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-30
AGATHA WEBS,
Powerful New Story By
ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Author 1.-The
A Powerful New Story By
KATHARINE GRE
Author of 1.-The Leavenworth case.'
Copyright. 1899, by S. S. Mcclure Coz
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP
TIERS.


Just after a ball at the Sutherland
mansion, Agatha Webb and her servant
are found dead, and Philemon Webb, Aga
tina husband who for years has peen
at the dinner table. a trace of blood or
MS sleeve points to him as the murderer.
MIR. sutherland and the local Indrshdli
tenton investigate. Agatha Weop IS
known to but few as a rich woman ne
Key to her money-draWer is found ciutcL--
ed in her hand. Young Sutherland IS NOT
to be found, and Miss Page. the niece OIL
Sutherlands housekeeper. persists III le
naming about the Webb premises ana
discovers blood on the grass. The money
drawer is found to be empty ana ToeDeiy
erland, Maynard youth, calls his iather
TO witness his determination to be pet
Ter man and promises not TO marry MlSs
rage, by whom he has been fasclnate9'
Miss Page tells Frederick that she lol-
lowed him the night of the murder ana
knew where he had secreted a thousanu
dollars. She gives him week to decide
whether to marry her or be preciaimrIisea me-
as the murderer of Agatha Webb. me
whole town is stirred up by the uoup i
murder and everyone tells OF the soou-
ness of Mrs. Webb. Six children had pee n
born TO her, and all died in infancy. ~ In, 10
learned that the money was in new pllls,
and the keeper of small store produces
one that a strange man gave him late I Ine
from, Boston and reports: Simple case i, =
Murdered for money Find the man with
a flowing beard" Suspicion falls upon
one of the zobel brothers. FREDERICK
visits the hollow tree. The money Is
gone. WattleS, Boston gambler, arrives
and demands $3.50 of Frederick in pay
ment of Il gambling debt. Frederick Sc
cures a check for the amount from Ills
father and that night as he is about 10
leave home he is stopped by MISS rage;
The label brothers are found dead OF
starvation. one of them clutching the
tell-taie loaf. the other a bio od-stained
knife. The Boston detective declares the
mystery solved, but young SWeetWater
astonishes the company by a new CHAIN
of evidence pointing to another perpetra-
tor of the terrible crime. This time ANA
bel Page is suspected. Sweetwater finds
the hidden money where he has seen MISS
Page hite it. Miss Page is confronted by
the detectives and officers and tells what
she saw the night of the murder, Fred
erick overhears the talking and joins
the group and Miss Page tells Just
enough SO that a later confession will
implicate Frederick If he refuses to marry
her. On the following day occurs the
night Mr.. Sutherland discovers Freder-
lex weeping over her grave. On the way
home he learns of the death of Philemon,
Agatha's husband. Sweetwater suspects
and follows Frederick and is thus dis
covered by Mr. Sutherland. Frederick
places a package of old letters into Agnes
HallidayS hands and his father seeks an
explanation. Agatha Webb's will Is
opened and by its terms Mr.. Sutherland is
made executor and Frederick sole heir Of
a 100000 estate. Sweetwater reasons that
Frederick is the murderer, but because
Mr.. Sutherland once saved his life. Sweet
water is unwilling to betray his sus
plans to leave home on the following
morning.