Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-23


 this must have been the transfer to the Shelby Real Estate company.
 "And what do you think of my brothers case?" asked Miriam, who had been an unmoved auditor during the preceding conversation.
 "I can't give you an opinion on it." said MT. Everett. "You know I have been in the case only a day, and have done no work on it at all. I have told Herbert to keep his mouth shut. Tomorrow we are to have an interview, and he is to give me his case"
 When MT. Everett reached his office Irving Warde was waiting for him. The lawyer had known Irving ever since he was boy and had always taken a warm personal interest in him. Whenever Irving got into any kind of a tangle he consulted MT. Ev- erett, and it was owing to these con- sultations that he managed to write correctly about some abstruse legal topics and to avoid the shoals of libel. The lawyer had the utmost confidence in the young man and knew that when he unbosomed himself frankly, but privately, no public use would ever be made of his opinions.
 ''I came to see you about the Wright ease.'' said Irving. "1 have just learned that you will defend him, and want to tell you what know"
 The lawyer expressed his willing ness to listen. Irving gave him an account of the striking incidents with which the reader has already been made familiar.
 ''Tn addition" he said, ito the un- explained features of the circumstan- tial evidence, you can readily estab- fish the fact that the pistols were changed. It is generally understood that Herbert Wright has story to tell which will place a new phase on the murder and possibly duplicate some one else. So an attempt is made to poison him. have announced my intention of working at the puzzle, and have made some important dis coveries. What is the result? I am lured into den of crime and tumble into carefully laid plan to assas- sinate me. All these things prove to my mind, MT. Everett, that there is powerful organization at work. At first the life of John T. Wright stood in the way of its accomplishing some great end. He was put out of the way, but not without some telltale evidence being left behind. Herbert Wright having in some way come across these evidences is marked for death; and the attempt made on my life satisfies me that was on the right track. Mir. Wright's death was, I am convinced, but part of some far-reaching enterprise, some great undertaking that had been planned with commercial nicety. His death was not a matter of passion, but business, and the interest that de- rnanded it now wish to close Her bert's mouth, and put period to my investigations"
 q can hardly believe it." said the lawyer. because it implies the pos session of power almost unlimited, not to speak of the money necessary to hire all the agents"
 At this juncture the door opened and Detective Fenton entered the room.
 1T am glad to find you both here," he said.
 "You've struck something new in the Wright case?" asked Irving.
 "Yes; have been discharged from the police force on account of my ac- tivity in the case"
 "How do you know that?" said Mir. Everett. Do you mean to say that the chief of police has lent himself to a plot to prevent the truth from com ing out?"
 ''Not at all. The chief is my friend, and he did not want to see me go. I have been on the force Is years and have never had a complaint lodged power to retain me than have my self"
 Perhaps it was politics?'
 Couldn't haven't been. happened to have been one of the most active supporters of the present mayor What causes you to think that your activity in the Wright case brought about your dismissal?"
 "I first asked the chief on what grounds I was retired. He replied very warmly that he had received a peremptory note from the mayor to discharge me from the service. looked up the mayor and put the same question to him. He replied that ne fault was found with me whatever, and he could give me no reason at all. Now, while the mayor controls the chief, he is in turn con- trolled by the boss"
 ''The boss?"
 "Pat Kernigan. you know; the man who can vote the sluns as he pleases, who knows every wharf rat, every den keeper and every criminal that haunts the Rest and other places of the same order, and who can make and unmake mayors, This man vir- tually appoints the police. He is shrewd enough not to abuse his pow CT. He knows that there must be good men on the force, but he draws the line at any interference with his followers. Last night Billy McGee resumed his place behind the bar at Peter's Rest, and the place is now in full blast again. This morning I saw