The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-06-04
MYSTERY OF THE
e AYOU WOODS
cOpyrIght, 1905, BY A. N kellogg Newspaper Co.
By WALKER REMEDY.

found; the establishment was giving
place to an intense interest. Fen
tons voice reached even the hallway
beyond the wide doors. The crowd
lost not one syllable of his story.
Very WELL sir. Ny connection
with the case began when [ received
the pawn tickets found on the per-
son of Herbert Wright, the prisoner
at the bar. When / discovered that
young Wright had pawned a number
of articles which had been taken from
the body Of his father, was strongly
confident that he was the murderer.
IL seemed to me impossible to evade
the conclusive evidence of guilt But
when | went to Wright's house to
look for his pistol I accidentally dis
covered that it had been taken away
and very pretty revolver with an
empty barrel had been placed in its
stead. | thought the case over this
way: This pistol thus substituted
tells the story of the crime. 1t an
nounces its responsibility for the
murder of John T. Wright. It's pres
ence here is intended TO implicate
Herbert Wright in the crime and to
shield the real murderer. l became
at once satisfied that we of the po-
lice force had been way off the track,
and | proceeded to thorough inves-
tigation of the case. AS soon as | was
employed by Mr.. Everett l took steps
tn nd % oil ha
startling things that had happened to
those of us who had manifested an
undue interest in the crime. Herbert
Wright had narrowly escaped death
from poisoning; Irving Warde had
come near being assassinated, and /
had been dropped from the police
force. My own case being the sim
plest 1 sought to unravel it first.
The first substantial discovery
made was that Pat Kernigan was a
stakeholder in the Shelby County
Real Estate & Investment company
Then letter of inquiry to friend
in Denver showed that he was also
stakeholder in the Diamond Mining
company. Consequently he was a
man whom James Franklin would be
likely to control. In order to satisfy
myself l went to Kernigan. He's a
! politician, as everybody knows, and
likes to keep on good terms with all
men, and he told me quietly that Col
Franklin had requested my dismissal
and the appointment of my successor
and that he was under such obliga-
ton to the colonel that he could not
refuse to use what little influence he
had with the mayor. l then went to
Col. Franklin and asked him why he
had requested Kernigan to bring
about my dismissal. Well, by playing
one against the other l secured the
information 1 desired-namely, thai
Col. Franklin was at the bottom OF
my dismissal, and that it was all OF
account of my distasteful activity il
the Wright case. From that time OF
Col Franklin played very important
part in all my considerations; anC
every effort of mine was directed to
ward unmaking him.
There was plenty of hard work o.
a pretty character to do. For in
stance, | went to every shoe store il
the city in search of pair of arctic'
of particularly broad and square
toed make, but only at Hauptmann'
could find them. Having settled thi
point had no trouble in ascertainint
that a pair of these arctics had gon
to the office of Col. Franklin. Thei
| took that unidentified watch ant
went from jewelry store to jewelr.
store until at last l was fortunat
enough to find the man who had sol'
It. Again / ran across Col. FRANKLIN
as the purchaser. The unidentitie
diamond pin was also traced to him
A good deal of minor information wa
incidentally picked up, which ha
been found to fit in the case. pal
a visit to Uncle Dick Norris, an
again crossed the trail of Franklin
learning that he had been in tn
BAYOU woods on the day of the mui
der. In the meanwhile l studied a
odd times the lives and careers
Old Tom, Bob Padgett and the re
| flannel Sn1rD man, anu iSdihSu VIC
all of them were in communicate
with the man whose presence SCENE
to pervade the case from end to enc
Having gathered a great deal
evidence here and done all that coul
be done for the time, it was decide
that should go to Colorado and I'm
out the actual facts about the mil
ing tract. ] made my way TO III
mine adjoining the Wright tract, an
? there | found horde Of miners wal
ing hungrily for the signal TO begl
work in the new field. A great ston
wedge which marked one of the boul
DIARIES Of the tract had, by some "a
heAyal centuries ago, been thrul
T straight across the vein Of gold. Tn
doubly rich vein, IL had been fonn
extended into the Wright tract q
J gold hunters told me that u vi
, probably the most valuable piece
p land IN the state, and that u won
make It's owners fabulously rich