Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-09-18

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will up in its present FORM
How do you know these things?"
asked.
Some of the letters are not COM
plete at the top, indicating that they
| were completed on some paper that
covered the one on which the will was
drawn he replied. ''Then the glass
shows that the paper above the sig
| nature has been wet-when the thin
paper which covered the will and
| which contained the matter Simon Gil
bert thought he was signing, was re-
moved"
At ten O'Clock the next morning
Draper appeared at my Office and
| Topped into chair.
WELL demanded, what have you
| fnund?"
THAT Richard Radcliffe visited
Simon Gilbert on March II, the date
of the spurious will, and told him that
his wife was crazy to possess certain
J jeweled locket that had belonged to
her mother and that he was willing
to pay many times its intrinsic value
to crafty her wish; that Simon Gill
bert finally sold it o him for $500 and
gave bill of sale running to Mrs. Rad
cliffe, which bill of sale Radcliffe had
already prepared; that this document
had been cleverly prepared so that
| the greater part of the sheet was COW
cred with very thin paper which was
so skillfully attached that it appeared
to be part of the sheet, but which
left the place for signature below the
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| ing which contained the bill of sale
of the locket was afterward removed
and the spurious will typewriter over
| Simon Gilbert's signature by Richard
Radcliffe"
] DO you realize what you are charg-
ing? Can you substantiate these
! charges?"
Il have done so." replied Daniel
Draper, in an apologize voice.
He showed a piece of paper toward
me. 1t was written statement signed
by Radcliffe and his wife and the Bel
! dens that they had been convinced that
the will dated March II was spurious
and renouncing all rights under it.
How did you run it down so quick
! ly?" | asked, in amazement.
| vi, IL WAS all run UOWn IdSU nlglL
before l left you. All had to do was
to go to Simon Gilbert's house and
| find who had transacted business with
! him on March II. Miss Parker went
to the library and found from the
books kept by the dead man that he
had sold the locket on that date to
! Richagd Radcliffe. Miss Parker re-
membered the day Radcliffe was there.
| She was sure that Belden. the other
son-in-law, had Fever visited the house.
l went to Radcliffe's Office and asked
for private interview, pretending to
be about to enter into little specula-
ton in stocks. We were in his office
and he was called to the phone in the
outer Office. l knew he would be de-
tanned for some Misunderstanding I
had arranged with friend to call him
up at a certain time and hold him
i for five minutes. In the meantime
experimental with his typewriter,
which stood in the private Office.
wrote each letter and point on
sheet. After / went away ] made a
| careful examination of it and found
that several of the letters had the
same imperfections / had noted in
the writing of the will. Last night
went to the home of the Radcliffes and
| had a heart-to-heart talk with Rich
ard. At first he was going to thrash
me and have me thrown into the street
or arrested, but finally he broke down,
told the whole story and begged that
| l should not ruin him. He said his
wife did not know about it, nor did the
| Beldens, and that he had been driven
to the crime by some heavy losses that
rendered him desperate. L figured
that SO far as you and l were con-
cerned it was the property we were
| after for your client and not any Grim
inal prosecution that would ruin one
family and carry disgrace to several
others. So l pledged myself and you
that we would keep the secret if he
and his wife and the Beldens would
sign a remuneration of all rights under
the spurious will. We drew the state
ment and he signed it and got his wife
to sign it. Then he went to Belden's
house and came back with their sig
natures. I don't know how he got
them to sign it. That was his bust
| ness"
You did wisely" 1 said, ''but
should have thought you would rather
have had the affair made public. You
are ambitious to become detective,
and it would have given you plenty Of
advertising"
81 want to be a detective, not a
bloodhound" he replied, as he rose to
go.
The day afeer the will giving all OF
Simon Gilbert'S estate to Phoebe
Parker was probated, received bill
from Daniel Draper for 500 and 1 sent
him check at once. The next day
Phoebe Parker was married to Jack
Shirley quietly at the old Gilbert home.
: was among the half dozen guests
: present There was one wedding
present besides the one sent. 1t was
( the check l had sent Daniel Draper,
| Endorsed to the bride.
Discovery of Lost Mime
Most marvellous of all the stories
OF lost mines found again is that of
the relocating of the enormously rich
gold mine of San Luis d'Aima, in Ven.
, ezuela, south of the Orinoco river.
The mine has been lost for 81 years.
1t was worked under the auspices OF
the Capuchin monks of Catalonia. and
was the most productive gold mine
in all Spanish America The mine