The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-04-16

continued to discuss the affair of the
night before; and finally the reporter
asked:
If you three made up your minds
to keep this thing secret, how did it
leak out?"
That cannot say. The jailer says
the only person who left the Jail last
night was the doctor. The doctor,
who was here quite early, tells a
rather curious tale. He says that at
the nearest corner he was saluted by
a rough-looking fellow who wore a
red fanel shirt and whose face was
covered with stubble. is he dead,
doctorT asked this man. 'Who?' said
the doctor. Why, Wright. I heard
niger say that he had taken poison
No, he is not dead replied the doc
tor That was all that was said. 1t
did not occur to the doctor till after
ward that it would have been impos-
sible for any news to have got out
when all the prisoners were in their
cells and the jailer alone could have
communicated it to the outside
world
Then the Journal reporter did not
come here to get the facts?"
mo; he must have obtained them
outside of the jail"
This man in the red flannel shirt
was nothing further hoard from
him7"
Nothing. But the jailer remem-
bers that such man had applied for
admission to the Jail yesterday to see
prisoner named Billy Maloney."
Have you questioned Maloney?"
Eyes, and he tells pretty straight
story. He says that he never saw the
stranger before, and that the man
told him of friend named Bill Ma
loney, and he came to see if this was
the same fellow, but it was not. Ma
loney says the man hung around
some time talking to the prisoners,
but he did not pay any particular at
tention to him. He evidently got
hold of the name of one of the prison
ers and then carried out his scheme
with another of them, if, indeed, he
is the man who put up tbs poisoning
job"
Wright asked that Warde should
publish the facts in the Gazette and
place him right before the public, the
jailer corroborating all he had said
During the afternoon Warde ran
against John Holcombe, the city
editor of the Journal and asked him
how he got the points about the sui
: eide in Jail.
Jim laughed and said: 81 scooped
you badly on that, didn't l, old man
That item was bird"
"But / have some curiosity, Jim, to
know how you got it. Who gave II
l to your"
II can't tell you that. The party
who put me on made me promise not
: to give him away. He also made me
promise not to go to the Jail for it
r Said he thought the authorities wer'
trying to keep it dark, as it occurred
e shortly after supper, and nothing was
\ known of tat least not for publ
cation-at the station house at mid
night"
: HE made great guy Of you, who
e ever he is"
4 what do you meanF
: "Why, there is scarcely word o
o truth in his story from beginning t.
: end. The man did not try to commi
. suicide, and your report that he is no
: expected to recover is all bosh.
= found him sitting up in the jailer'
: Office smoking cigar this morning.
= 'Well, I'll be damnedl If l find on
that l have been imposed upon i
= that way I'll wiring the neck OF tina
= little skunk"
"Who is that?"
"Why-no; that won't do, Ward'
70 4 won't give him away until I've give
him chance to explain himself"
Holcombe departed in a brisk duo
&c geon and Warde sought the offic
g where he found Fenton awaiting hin
= 81 got what l wanted this mor1
- ing" he said.
y "Tell me-" said Warde.
IL sMrs. Wright said that her heare'
'e neighbor. a klnd-hearted widow
~ the name of Mrs. Anderson, had bee
u there at noon to take care OF h'
lie child while she visited her husban
IL lust as Mrs. Anderson was about
" take the child away Mrs. Wright hs
IN examined the pistol and called MT
Anderson's attention to the fact th'
Id II had not been shot off for loI
lg time. then went to see Mrs Ande
son. She remembered the pistol vel
well. and knew where it had be-
lg placed. The ivory-handled revolv
ne was not the weapon she had SCI
n there. But Mrs. Anderson had sor
to other facts. She had seen m'
coming out of the side door OF :
- Wright house and she accosted NJ
en- md told him there was no one in
lie present. He replied that he n
e. found that out and would drop
Id again when Mrs. Wright was at non
in Mrs. Anderson had thought notm
nd further of it until she was told aoo