The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-08-25
TIE Flttgst Survives.
ny j. II. Connolly.

ho'o oSCu Ills dCCOlHplce III suSi Gil
easy and profitable job. 1t is true we
are watching the old fellow, but l
may as well admit to you frankly that
there is nothing in sight as yet to
connect him personally with the muir
der. His interest clearly was in Will
mayth getting safely TO him with the
money he expected to receive. But it
is not impossible some other person
with him-might have had knowledge
of his expectation that the banker
would come up there that night with
a large sum of money in his clothes.
/ don't mind telling you confidcntially
that we know Mr.. Willmarth did have
In his possession when last seer alive
So 1000. which has disappeared"
"a pretty good haul for the thief"
"Yes. Looks so. But it will not do
him much good, / guess. l don't see
any objection to your talking with
McCatfrey, only l must request that
you will not let anybody else know
where to find him until we get
through with him. The assistance of
cur well-meaning young friends OF
the press is not desired just at pres
ent."
Mr.. Latham readily gave the desired
promise, and in return was supplied
with the address of the man he had
so persistently and vainly sought.
Mr.. Michael McCatfrey's lack of per-
sonal attractions was never more con-
spicuous than when John Latham
found him that night. His curiosity
md alarm had been wildly aroused by
Kitty's report of the extraordinary
conditions prevailing in and about the
Willmarth residence when she carried
his letter there, and he made It his
business to learn as soon as possible
what had been going on.
Get me n mornin paper, Kitty,
DEAR he cried. ''If there's any bad
luck, sure that's the likeliest place to
find out about it,"
The first bold, black headline that
caught his eye when he nerfously
clutched the paper astouhded and ter
ritied him-"Banker Will1narth Muir
dered!".
1t flashed upon him simultaneously
that his unlucky letter, having fallen
into the hands of the police, would be
certain to provoke an inquiry into his
relations with the man now dead, II
how far suspicion might attach TO
him us n party concerned in the BANK
er's untimely taking off he did not
dnre even to conjecture. or course
that latter fear had little ground, for
the very fact of his sending the letter
was in itself an evidence Of the abb
sence of guilty knowledge 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 question,
even in All incidental way.
You never know what them dirils
of laaycrs will spring on ye," he was
wont to say.
Perhaps the letter would be looked
Upon as only a shallow attempt to
manufacture circulnstantinl evidence
for the diverting of %iustitiablc suspl-
cion from him. More violent perver-
sions of fact had been known. He
would have taken to flight and disap-
pearcd for another eighteen years If
he had dared to make a move, but the
instructive sense of the BORN criminal
warned him that he could only preju-
dice his case by trying to get away,
us lie would not be allowed to escape.
Hour after hour he sat with his ell
bows on the bare table, where he had
waited and cursed the night before,
reading and rcreading the meager ac-
count Of the horrifying deed which
seemed to fascinatc his sight, taking
frequent sips from n black bottle at
his elbow t o keep his courage up, and
qunking Mt the sound Of every football
on the stairs outside for fear 1t was
the tread of an officer. At length,
worn out and dizzy from the spirits he
had drunk, he threw himself upon a
When John Latham entered they
walked him IN. and he came forth
tonzlcd pr;mv rod ev.d and tremh.
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