The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-13
A WILL LAID PLAN
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ing 70 ped when lIukeltf IOue up uh horseback and demanded a night 8 lodging He was apparently about 6i' ty years oli. with grizzly gray black hair a fuil beard and mustache, bort sprinkled with gray He carried strap ped behind ais saddle a bundle wrap ped in paper wElch he unstrapped and brought into the house in lieu of bag gage Before going to bed he deposited with the landlord for safe keeping SIJ0 in bills. saying that be had drawn 1t from a bank in Morristown dur ing the day and had noticed at tho telers window a young man in a brown overcuat a beaver bat tan gloves and a single eyeglass-some thing unusual in Amcrica-who cast a covetous glance at the bills He had met the same man on the road and was sure the fellow was following him io rob him. For this reason be desired the landlord to put the money in his safe and give him a room which could be both locked and bolted Having seen his funds properly disposed of, he went upstairs
 The next morning about daylight a housemald who was lighting the fires saw a young man come downstairs with a paper parcel under his arm. He had on brown oyercoat beaver hat. tan gloves and a single eyeglass.
 When a guest came down to break fast he reported having heard groans in the next room, which proved to be the one occupied by the guest who had deposited the money. The landlord hurried to the room in question, found 1t locked, knocked, received no re- sponse. gained access through a win dow opening into a court and found no one there.
 That the traveller had been murdered by the man in the brown overcoat would have been accepted by every one had any plausible theory been hit upon as to what had been done with tho body. This difficulty was, however partially obviated by a porters state ment that he had met man in the hal the night before who had notified him that he would require his services ID carrying out trunk the next morning. It was assumed that the murderer had found some other means of remov- ing the trunk, which must sureIy have contained the body Cautiously enough, as soon as this phase of the mystery appeared people ceased to speculate up- on who committed the murder and be- gan to dispute upon how the trunk cou- Dlnng the body was got out of the ho. tel without attracting attention. It is not the soluble that interests people; it is the insoluble.
 There were DO organized detective agencies at that time. but the landlord of the Essex tavern could not rest con- tent with the matter unexplained SO lac offered the S75O left in bis keeping by the traveller to vhomsoever should solve the mystery. Abner Morgan a young lawyer without practice, took the matter up with a view to reapme the reward. He discovered that three weeks before Che disappearance of the stranger at the Essex tavern the cash fer of a bank in New York had default ed and run away with an the currency in the safe. some S20O01 But the traveller had come in on the road from Nforristowu. The cashier was man of Uirty-fve and sandy haired. while Che traveller was fifty and dark. The supposed murderer was very young, also dark. Morgan on account of these discrepancies gave up the theory Of the murdered traveller OF the supposed murderer being the missing cashier and turned his attention to hunting up the real cashier with a view to getting a higher reward for his capture offered by the bank.
 Hearing of a man living at Albany N. r.. who was un0ccounted for. though he did not answer the cashiers descrip- ton. Morgan went there and found one whom he watched for a time and then. taking his chances as to the man identity. arrested him on I trumped mp charge. As soon as he got his prisoner to New York be sent for the president of the bank that had been robbed. who at once identified tEe man as the miss ing cashier. though he WIS made up to look fifty instead or th.ry-fvc Then the culprit broke down and confessed.
 This was his story
 After the robbery he lay in hiding for awhile in Morristown, hut as he was in danger of discovery left the place one evening on horseback having concocted the following plan to become lost to the world; In his paper parcel he carried the bills and articles for dis gulse. Arriving at the tavern he depos- fled the S75O with the landlord intend ing to leave t there to strengthen the suspicion of murder. for he would not be suspected of leaving such a sum un- claimed if he were alive. What troU- bled him most was how to throw the police on the wrong track concerning the body. A man murdered Is not an easy thing to remove without the fact being known. Meeting the porter the night before in a dark part of the hall where he could be only dimly seen, it occurred to bim to engage the man to carry the trunk. This link in bis pion which he considered at the time the weakest, proved the strongest Having entered hls room. he waited till just be-