The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-28
[ Howard Russell.

did his client Richard
Engiar should not have chance to keep his loss
MIR. EngIar" he said with the regret which a
man throws into his voice when he speaks of the
misfortune of personal enemy, 4 Informed that
you have Just been robbed of hundred thousand.
A man SO bundled up that could name nothing of
him visited me at my house just and told me
he added that you could ind him. that if you
dld md him the money would be either dissipated or
spent in conducting his defense. If you guarantee
to make effort to md him and to keep the affair
out of the hands of the state, you $25,OO0
$4,000 TO take leave I don't know whether this
told me nothing bIf JgIat e+ata md +I he TOOL he
leave. made attempt to lay hands him I
didn't to deprive YOU your chance recover
tineuishing ITSELF
There is, singularly little more to tell Englar
and his board of directors had a meeting before dav
light that morning, ascertaned the truth moved
motions and passed resolutions They resolved get
the they could they resolved that they could
afford to let $4,000 Slip through their fingers:
they resolved for the present keep the loss
ceaed from the public press and from the state They
consulted with Judge BarwOod and instructed him
communication with him. that they had taken his offer
under advsement; secretly they employed Buder-
lex MeElowd to find out what he could about the
loDDery- Judge BarWoods client did not at this time
again enter into communications with him. and
which the bank had been entered had been made by
one Cannes, with the assistance of two companions
" in detention at the time the bank was broken into
Of their whereabouts since their release nothing could
be learned
Engar said that Fuderick was as big an ass as the
cop because he could make living as a thief
The directors of the bank more consulted with
Judge BarwOOd and instructed him notify his client
If his client should again enter into communication
with him, that they accepted his offer Some DAYS
afterward they bound themselves, their heirs and
signs in a manner and form which BarwOOd thought
worth $4,000 to himself and his night visitor and in
return for the document ne paid that amount
Two nights later he going home from his Office
in the dusk when a Quavering voice demanded "a
aims The speaker a patched and battered fig
decrepit old man. wild-eyed and wild-haired.
It's only a drink I want" repeated the beggar, as
he shufHed along at BarwOOd's side You I I'm
no lar-I don't want nothin to eat. I want drink
II only costs dime, boss.
They had reached a stretch of field through which
BarwOOd wont make a short to his home
and he left the sidewalk and turned into field
path the beggar suddenly Strengthened himself
dropped the whine in his voice and tapping BarwoOd
Familiarity the shoulder said: Il say. Attorney
hand that agreement that you made for with
Engar"
A fortnight later Ruderick discharged from
the Cornve force for drunkenness and INCOMPETENCE
The expectations he had raiser when Chief
gagged him he had not fulfilled. Upon his discharge
he paid visit to Chicago, where he kept de-
post vault, in which he placed among other things
the agreement which Judge had obtained foT
his unknown client. This the finishing touch
the realization of the Great Idea.
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