The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-08-27
Mystery Of h
Bayou Woods
BY WALKER KENNEDY.
Copyright, 1903. by A. N. Kellogg NewspaperCo.
CHAPTER NV.-CONTINUEp.

A large number Of minor witnesses
were then examined. a letter carrier
told how he had delivered to Frank
din in person a letter bearing the Chi
ma postmark. Otto OrthalGsden, a.
little Swiss jeweler. whose shop
boosted many odd dainties in the jew
,e.ry line and who had a Partially
for articles of European make, took
the witness stand. He proved to be
a very ~methodical man, for he
brought one. of his books with him.
He examined the unidentified watch.
which was of Swiss make. and said
he had sold it to Col. James Franklin.
Then he produced his book, showing
the date of sale of every watch, with
its number, make and the name Of the
person to whom'it was soid:&@A refer
,ence to his book showed that he had
disposed Of No. 1890 of this particular
make to Franklin. The cost OF the
watch wa here also and the date of
the payment. The: unidentified pin
was then shown to him. which he
recognized. It, too, had its peculiar
tiles Of design and:spccial-make, and
his professional eye at once located
it. He declared that he had sold this
pin, Or one exactly like it, to Frank
lin
John Hauptmann. dealer in boot.
and shoes, testified hat he had Sc,
cured a small consignment of a~rctics,
the only shipment of the particular
kind he thought in the city. He had
made only three sales of this kind of
+overshoe at the time Of Wright's muir
der; one was to the mayor; the sec
ond was to the chancellor, and the
third was to Frank Hillsman. He
sold these three persons all their
shoes, and IS they wor different
numbers he had sold them different
sized a~rctics. '''''
Mrs. Herbert Wright and Mrs. An
dcrson next testified to the disap-
/pearance of the old pistol. and the
substitution OF. the new one with
which Wright was supposed to have
been killed. Mrs. Anderson ALSO told
of the visit of the mar in the red
flannel shirt. ."'
The iailer and the doctor who had
attended Herbert Wright testified to
the attempt made to poison the &C
'cused. and their suspicious that the
man in the red flannel shirt had
manipulated it.
Then, to the surprise of many per.
sons, Old Tom, whose. real nam was
Bob Hathaway, was introduced, anC
he made a clean breast of all his
workings in the case. He admitted
having been a party to h trap sci
for Irving Warde, for: which job he
and his partner were to get. a hand
some sum conditional on the success
of a certain scheme. He confessed
that Franklin had hired him for THU
purpose. He had also logged Warde':
steps on several occasions for Frank
lin.
His companion. Dick Padgett, c5n
firmed his story in all the essentia
details.
Finally the man in the red fame
shirt was put upon the witness. stand
but this time he had on a blue fame
shirt. He was a very crooked look
ing customer, but he told a remark
ably straight tale. he had done 1
great deal of work" for the colonel
The day Herbert Wright was put il
Jail the colonel hadgiven him the pis
tol which was in evidence, and hat
told him to go to Wright's house an.
substitute it for the old rusty affai
which had belonged to the prisoner
The colonel had learned from Nj
Warde that Mrs. Wright was on
visit to her husband and had sent hin
to make the substitution in her at
sence. Az he was coming out, how