The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-14
Copyright, 1899, by 5. S. Mcclure Coz
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP
TIERS.
Author of "The Leavenworth Case

IE1kS.
Just after a ball at the Sutherland
mansion, Agatha Webb and her servant
are found dead, and Philemon webb. aga
thas husband who for years has been
growing demented. is discovered asleep
at the dinner table. A trace OF blood or
his sleeve points to him as the murderer
Mr.. Sutherland and the local marsnait
Fenton Investigate Agatha Webb Is
Known to but few as rich woman ne
Key 10 her money-drawer is found c:ulch-
ed in her hand. Young Sutherland Is nor
to be found and Miss Page. the niece OF
Sutherland's housekeeper, persists III ie
manning about the Webb premises anu
discovers blood on the grass. me money
drawer is found 10 S)e empty ard robbery
IS ADDED 70 the mystery. Frederlch SUI
efland, a WayWdrd youth, calls MS latnSF
70 witness his determination TO pc d , 9st-
Ter man and promises not TO marry MISS
Page, by whom ne has been FASCINATED.
MISS Page tells Frederick that she ioI-
lowed him the night of the murder al9
knew where he had secreted q thousaliiu
dollars. She gives him a week 10 ueclus
whether to marry her or be proclaliilsu
born to her. and all died i'm infancy. II -
learned tndt the money was IN new , ,ylli.,
and the Keeper of a small store prouuCtes
one that strange man gave MN iale IN, SLe
as the murderer OF Agatha WEBB. ne
murder and everyone tells OF the SoOu-
ness of Mrs. Webb. Six children had peS l
night OF the murder. DETECTIVE drII ,sa
from Boston and reports: Simple case,
Murdered for money. Find the man with
flowing beard" Suspicion falls upon
one of the Zobel brothers. Frederic ~
visits the hollow tree. The money -
gone. Wattles, Boston gambler, arrives
and demands $3.50 of Frederick IN pay
ment of gambling debt Frederick Sc
cures a check for the amount from MS
father and that night as he is about 10
leave home he is stopped by MISS rage;
The label brothers are found dedu oI
starvation. one of them clutchlnS the
tell-tale loaf. the other a bio od-stained
knife. The Boston detective declares the
mystery solved, but young SWeetwater
aStoniShes the company by new cnalh
or evidence pointing TO another perpetta-
tor of the terrible crime. This time ANA
Del Page Is suspected. SWeetWater mus
the hidden money where he has seen MISS
Page hide IL. Miss Page is confronted py
the detectives and officers and tells what
she saw the night of the murder treu-
erick overhears the talking and JOINS
enough that a later confession Will
implicate Frederick if he refuses to marry
her On the following day occurs the
funeral OF Agatha Webb. and late that
night Mr. Sutherland discovers Freder-
lex weeping over her grave. On the way
home he learns of the death of Philemon.
and follows Frederick and is thus dis
covered by Mr.. Sutherland. Frederick
places a package of old letters into Agnes
Halliday's hands and his father seeks an
opened and by its terms Mr.. Sutherland is
made executor and Frederick sole heir OF
n SluUVO estate. oWeelWater reasons liidl
Frederick is the murderer, but because
Mr. Sutherland once saved his life. Sweet
water is unwilling to give evidence.
In order to keep his secret. he
plans to leave home, and. in suspicious
haste. pretending to be in search of an
important witness. boards an outgoing
steamer bound for Brazil He is thrown
overheard that night and picked up at
dawn by a fishing crew which takes him
to New Bedford. Food and clothing are
given him and ne earns s. by delivering
q suspicious box, barely escaping recog-
ton by his village postmaster.