The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-06
He Must Die.
CTeIepathic Message.)

Denver. Dec. o. Private Huckstable
Of Company j. now stationed at Grip
pie Creek. is to be shot as a spy. This
is the decision reached by Adiutant
General Sherman NJ. Bell, the leading
sOIdier-citizen of America. Gen. Ben
has had his eve on Private Huckstable
for a long time past, and convinced
himself that the militiaman was a spy
in the employ Of the strikers. Accord
ingly Gen. Bell had the private arrested
and searched. Evidence OF the most
damning character was found in the
pockets Of the accused man, among his
effects being a union card, a dime,
small cut Of plug tobacco, a two-bladed
knife, bit Of string such as might be
used to hoist a signal flag or lace a
shoe, a corkscrew, an ace Of diamonds,
q short lead pencil, three wood tooth
picks and a newspaper clipping. It was
the presence of the union card. how
ever. which determined Gen. Bell to
find the man guilty Of treason. Under
Bell. spy found guilty or giving intel
ligence To the enemy may be punished
by death, and the general strongly inti-
mated that Private Huckstabie's scalp
lock would be dangling at the belt of a
certain renowned adiutant in a week S
time. Gen Bells lust for gore, it ap-
pears, has not been entirely satisfied
by the Transfers finger sent to the
general through the untiring efforts Of
a brilliant Denver reporter a few days
since, and the general is determined
to make Private Huckstable regret that
he was found with that union card on
him. Certain writings on the card tend
TO still more strongly establish the guilt
Of Huckstable, the general says. On
the back Of the card is written in lead
pencil: Dear Fred-Can you meet me
! at the same corner Of the shafthouse
again tonight when you come off
guard2 I have something to tell you.
so don't fail, sweetheart. S. w. A. NJ
X. Your own. MINNIE.
Up. S.-ExcUse this paper. 1t is pa
pas union card, and is the only paper
I can find in the house MIN"
This, Gen. Bell says. is a cipher mes
sage. He has succeeded in transIating
the cipher, and reveals the inoendiary
] character Of the document thus:
Blood Blood! Arrange to come TO
the town pump early Thursday after
neon with your weapons and friends.
/ Use stealth. Bell must die We will
/ butcher every man, woman and child
in Colorado except the strikers. Tin
! soldiers go frsti They must be burned
in OIL We have five million tons of
/ dynamite ready to touch on. and hope
TO move Colorado south or the equatorl
/ Watch Bell, he has Richelieu skinned
Z "a ullfe as a HnlOolu mani ulalOI, ana ~
/ he gets on we shall be eXtinguished In
a BREATH Curse him. How I hate him,
/ but one cannot but admire his mighty
/ intellect, his matchless strategy, his
I splendid cOuragei But don't fail 10
( comet S1ayt Slayt Slayi BRUTUS."
j Gen. Bell believes the name Brutus
/ 20 be an assumed one, but does not
1 doubt that he VIII learn the identity OF
4 the writer Of the message. A young
/ lady called at the prison today and
| asked to see Huckstable. saying he had
/ something belonging TO her father, and
! the old man was threatening to pull
i the house down If he didn't get II back
/ pretty quick. The girl was denied per-
mission TO see the prisoner and said
she guessed II would be all off with hel
| when she went home Gen. Bell does
/ not attach any importance TO the visit
A. S. CHAPMAN. DENTIST,
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