The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-18
investigation and agreed to go back to
Waterloo without waiting for requisition
DETECTIVES AT WORK.

papers. 4ts--
DETECTIVES AT WORK.
Meantime the detectives have been at
work on the case and have found many
interesting facts concerning it,
In the first place with the box which
Mrs Hoot opened was a letter which
came by post. 1t was addressed to Hoot,
and when it was opened by his wife
it read:
Jerome, My Dear: 1 return all your
presents to me by express today. You
will know the reason why Goodbye
forever. Tab.
Tab clearly was a nickname and in
vestigation proved it was the name by
which IIoot had called Miss Abbie.. The
plan of the diabolical plotter was there
fore to send this letter to Hoot to lead
to the belief that it was the work of
Miss Vorce. That she had broken with
him and had taken this means OF re-
venging herself upon him under the ifp-,
preston that he had returned to Water
loo to his wife,
Upon this fact more than anything else
the police depend to probe the secret to
the bottom When Miss Abbie finds that
the man whom she thought loved her;
had tried to throw the suspicion of his
crime upon her shoulders to protect HIM
self she will tell all that she knows OF
Hcots movements and that when she
tells this she will furnish enough for the
police to go ahead and unravel the resi-
of the mystery. This is how they hope.
to get to the bottom of the affair.
According to the statements of the de-
tectives shortly after he had gone to Chi
cago he left that city and vent to Omaha
for a few days. While there he stopped
at the Great Western hotel, and AFTER
registering, hunted up cabinetmaker
and had him make box-the box IN
which the internal machine came. Ihls
he paid for, and was so particular aboN.
it that the cabinetmaker could not help
but remark the man, and today, If he,
saw Hoot. he would know him. Before
going Hoot told the cabinetmaker that
he might order a hundred or more o.
the boxes ii the first one succeeded.
From Omaha he went to Des MONIES
and there he went into hardware STORE
purchased the explosives after some par
gaining, and carried the>bundle away.
In purchasing the dynamite he sald tiia'
the prices were dear in Des Molnes' III
in Omaha he could get the goods cheaper,
yet he paid for the explosives at the rate
charged.
AGAIN IN CHICAGO.
After that Hoot went to Chicago again
This the tracers assert most positively,
and he began completing the machlne.
Whether or no he sent the box is mat
ter that must be proven, but the ponce
cav that can be done since the agent wilt
be used TO prove that Hoot ana no Quiet
sent the box over the express
There was reason to believe that, IN ao-
dition to the fact that Hoot wished TO We
rid of his wife, that he might De Iree e.
| marry Miss Vorce, that he would pront
financially by her death. He had, indeed
Il &c alleged tried to chloroform her IN
| Kansas CITY. and had threatened on
! number of occasions to Kill her. one hao
never paid any attention to these threats,
belie wing them to be idle. He had trleo
! TO eet her to turn part OF her properly
over to him. and had her make NE IN
surance policy she held payable to his or
der These gave a purpose to his actions
| strong enough on two scores TO lliauce
him to take her life.
When arrested here Hoot tried to ex-
olain his actions since leaving Chleago-
| He said he went to Kansas City from Cal
cage. and there he learned Of the attempt
to blow UP his wife, and his attorneys
| there advised him not to go back just
then This advice he accepted, ana wrote
To an attorney in Waterloo. From Kan
! sas CITY he went to New Orleans.
Now, I stopped in the center of the
citv." he said, land l made no attempt
at disguise, for my friends could easily
pick me out on the street. have frame
and characteristics about me that will
never be mistaken"
but your mustache Is of?
''That was a pleasure of my own s:.'
"And YOU went under the name Of How
ard?'
well, liked that name"
"And you were going to Central Amer
ica?"
Eyes, but it would have been only on a
| round trip