Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-16

tionists to give & palpable illustra- tion of the effects of the demon drink.
 When the chief of police entered the place the barkeeper, MT. William Boggs, looked up, slightly alarmed. Then he seemed to reflect a moment, and the expression of alarm was suc- ceeded by one of relief. The chief had never let his eye wander from Bills face, for it was to certain ex- tent an open page when read aright. Had Boggs at once put on an air of defiance, the officer would have said: "This fellow knows all about the af- fair, but he will not tell" If he had shown signs of fear when the officer entered, and without appearing to reflect had assumed a jaunty, a sus- picious or a defiant air, the chief would have been sure that Bill had himself taken hand in the crime But when he stopped to reflect the chief knew just as we'll what was passing in the scamp's mind as if he had spoken out. If Bill had to review the recent past in order to ascertain whether there was anything for which he could be wanted, it was evil dent that he was not implicated in the murder.
 The chief told him that he and his friend wanted to warm themselves for a minute or two, asked him few questions, satisfied himself that Bill had never even heard of the trag- edy and then departed. .. opN ment to man to go out and assas- sinate his fellow man, but this time believe it plays no part in the trag- edy. Our labor Is simphfed that much; for where we have to examine the denizens of the Den as witnesses there is so much ornamental, artistic and clumsy lying done that it is al- most impossible to get the truth. Sometimes, however, those fellows have trick of telling the truth just to throw the police off the track" They now drove around the woods until they came to the roundabout path already referred to in the state- ment of Herbert Wright. The horse was hitched to a tree and the two men began to blow their way through the snow. It had melted just enough to make their footprints as distinct as If they had been drawn by an ar-l tist on paper. Suddenly Warde called attention to the fact that there were two series of footprints in the snow, and that some one elese than Wright had traversed the path. It was fur ther discovered that the footprints were pointed in opposite directions; tn other words, one of the persons had been coming to the city and the other had been going from it. It would be interesting to know who had taken the roundabout path from the city and why he had done so. It occurred at once to the two men that perhaps Wright had gone back by that route.
 This suggested an examination of the tracks, and it was immediately apparent, that they had been made by two persons, or at least by person who had worn two different kinds of shoes, for the footprints were nothing alike. It was known that Wright had made the tracks pointing to the city, but who had
 
 was easy, so the two men walked rapidly along toward the scene of the murder. This trip through the Bayou Woods was by no means inspiring. The land was locked in a settled gloom and the wind took it's way with desolate insistance through the somber trees. No noise broke the silence save such as was made by the chief and the newspaper man, in whose faces was wide dissimilarity of expression. In the eyes of the elder there was only the cold, calculated interest of a man plying his accus- toned trade, while the face of the latter quivered now and then with the novel as yet, even in his reportorial life, to leave his nerves entirely steady. They made strange con- trast walking side by side through that weird silence of snow and forest, and yet both were equally alert, equally in earnest.
 At length they came to the object of their search---the thing that had once been John T. Wright, "the Cot ton King" The dead man lay on his back, his face turned up to the sky and his staring eyes fixed upon the black branches of tree overhead. There was frozen blood in his hair, and his head rested in dark red pool that stained the snow. The off cer made as minute an examination as possible without touching the body of the dead man. Several blows had been dealt upon the head with a bud geon. There was no evidence any where of the use of pistol, though 1t was possible that an examination of the body by the coroner might re- veal pistol wounds that could not now be seen on account of the position of , the corpse. The face of the dead man had upon it look of ghastly surprise, which was presunptive evil dence that the attack had come with put any warning whatever.
 "Everything would indicate" said the officer, "that the attack had come from behind. and that Wright fell for ward, and that the murderer beat him about the head until he killed