Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-07-01
Mystery Of the
Bayou Woods
BY WALLER KENNEDY.
Copyrights, 1905, By \ N. kellogg ssv.p.p.. @.

Copyright, lpos, BY A. N. kellogg Newspaper ca.
Each Of them separately asked mo
to tell Franklin Of his arrest so that
he could get out-for they never
doubted their chiefs ability to
free them. They did not know what
they had been arrested for. let
them infer that I would give their
messages to Franklin and then left,
satisfied that they had no communi-
cation with each other. The next
day returned, and again conversed
with them separately. told them
that Franklin was displeased with
them for some reGson--in short, that
he washed his hands of them entirely
and said that they might get out as
best they could. told Tom and his
partner that thought the charge
against them was two-fold. the at
tempted murder OF Irving Warde, and
participation In the murder of John
T. Wright; and that thought Frank
lin saw in their arrest y way to have
his crimes showed off on them, and
that he would deny all association
with them. / told the red flannel
shirt man that it had been discovered
that he had placed in young Wright's
house the pistol with which the older
Wright was killed; and that there
was strong case of circumstantial
evidence against him as the suspected
murderer. told him also that
Franklin washed his hands Of the
case, and was very well pleased to
have the crime fastened on him. I
even intimated that the colonel would
probably be the attorney to prose-
cute them. 1 assumed considerable
Indignation over the way they had
been treated by their associate and
leader in crime, and told them that
had lost all confidence in Franklin,
and would never again undertake any
transactinn with him. Each asked
my advice as to what he should do,
and I told them that the truth was
not SO bad as the case suspected
against them; advised them to tell
the truth and in this way to get even
with the man who had so shamefully
deserted them. I told Old Tom and
his pal that had no idea Irving
Warde would try to prosecute them
II they made clean breast of it; and
I easily persuaded the other rascal
that the truth was his safest course.
I believe that is all Of my story"
Fenton's testimony was the sensa-
ton of the trial, and It furnished for
many days to come the material for
Instructive editorials in the press of
the city. The cotton magnates
looked n little foolish when they
found that they had been spending
their money on detective instead
Of a great capitalist, but they soon
put aside their crestfallen air in the
admiration they felt for a man who
could do such clever work as Fenton
had accomplished. Some of the Off
GERS who had been unwittingly lend
ing themselves to the concealment Of
9 great crime kept very quiet for a
while, and tinid moral lesson was
drawn from the revelations concern
ing bossism in politics.
In the general excitement people
forgot to watch the countennnce Of
franklin, upon which a deathly pal
lor had settled. But the keen ewes
ware full Of fire. It was the supreme
moment Of his life when, the gaze
Of the court room being attracted to-
ward him. he faced it with diabolical
fury.
At this stage of the proceedings
those dispassionate individuals who
liked to analyze testimony expressed
the opinion that while it had been
well established that franklin was a
very handy, all-round scoundrel, It
had not been proved that Herbert
Wright was innocent of his father's
murder; or rather, there were NUM-
Der of apparently damning circum-
stances connecting Wright with the
crime which had not been explained
It was true 1t had been shown very
conclusively that Franklin had con-
ceiyed gigantic scheme Of robbery
with incidental murder and other
crimes for the purpose Of getting his
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